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Old May 16th, 2008, 01:00 PM

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Default Re: Shattered Soul for tartarians. Do tell !

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You better start coming up with good ideas very quickly if you want the Tartarian-replacement to appear in the upcoming patch...
I don't remember saying that there is nothing that would work or nothing that I would like.

My imagination is somewhat limited but the beings I'd like to see would be :
- demonic beings and angels with random paths and about the same power as tartarians. Of course, they should be notably less powerful than current unique angelic beings and demons(boosting current unique beings could solve the problem).
- ancient nature beings, treeants maybe ? Basically, it would be a powered up version of the ivy king that can stand toe to toe to tartarians in term of power. Mostly nature with minor air / water / earth.
- ancient animals. Much like the bull pretender except any animal could be chosen.
- Pureblood vampire. Basically a vampire that has grown so strong that its powers just go beyond what a normal human can think of. Check the powers of Alucard in the Hellsing manga if you want to see what kind of power I'm thinking about. He basically can transform into a 50 foot-tall monster with multiple eyes and appendages that regenerates as long as blood is available nearby.
- major elementals. Basically a less powerful version of elemental kings and queens.

I think that random magic path, a large size and large amount of hp (for the angels above : astral / air being main, then nature / water minor) and some special caracteristics (for the angels above : flying, ethereal, awe) would differentiate them from tartarians. Probably make them overpowered too. For demons I was thinking fire / blood as main, some could fly, have differing number of arms and legs and heads, a tail (or more) and random "demon-like" powers like fear, spreading disease, randomly deciding to kill your own troops on a whim, spreading corruption (may randomly transform a mere human into a demon). For nature I was thinking that base regeneration should be high, as would be multiple attacks and they should have very large amount of HP. They should also spawn large amounts of "plant monster" (I don't like that name).
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I think you get the idea for other monsters.

If you ask me for more I'll just get a look at the monster manual for D&D and beings from books and movies I like and dig up the largest and most powerful stuff there. I've got no doubt that KO and others have loads of powerful monster that they'd like to use as SC in dominions too. I'd also multiply the number of less powerful summons.

That would however ask a lot of work ! If I had skill at balancing and at drawing I'd make mods, but I have next to no skill in those.
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Old May 16th, 2008, 01:28 PM
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Default Re: Shattered Soul for tartarians. Do tell !

Ancient Treants already exist in the Treelords, they could use a boost, like becoming more mobile, but they're unique so they wouldn't solve the problem.

Elemental Princes and/or Princesses would work, but obviously they wouldn't have random paths.

Legendary animals would be nice, especially if they were also available from Transformation. Great Bulls, Sons of Fenrer, perhaps Even Greater Eagles (Storm Birds?), Great Bears similar to Bogarus summon...
They wouldn't be SCs if they were normal animals, but if they were embodiments of the elements (similar to Fall Bears, Summer Lions etc) they could be very powerful indeed. Ethereal, great stats, probably immunity to one and resistance to other element(s)... There could be more than the four basic ones, for magic combinations (e.g. Nature /Blood). They could even be Nature summons, if the emphasis is on their animal part instead of their elemental part.
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