Guide: Beginner's guide to Lanka

[ano]

I'm not a very experienced bloodnation player Ano but I usually think that blood nations get quite a lot of options only researching in blood.. some globals, strong summons etc. They certainly have less reason to research conjuration for example so them needing more research isn't that clear to me. Then again I'd never take drain if I can prevent it anyway.

Conjuration is not limited with summons. There're some spells there that you won't find in any other school, Earth attack, Manifestation and Ghost riders being the most obvious examples (Mictlan can cast horrors but it is hard to do for Lanka). There're other examples, of course. Probably, you don't want to rush into tartarians with a blood nation but there're very useful spells in each school which you should have in your disposal in the late game. You should never be satisfied with blood only if you're a blood nation. Also, you definitely want those pretty unique artifacts and many, many other things. Of course you can live without them but it is always better to live with them and have your troops in major battle buffed not only with Fog Warriors but also Will of the Fates from the Sword of Aurgelmer. Why not?