Pythium's Magery

[Trumanator]

What would be the optimal bless for the angels? I have played Pythium only rarely and don't recall what sort of stats they have. I have seen some hints that earth and nature blesses are good, but I would like to know more specifically what some different bless advantages would be.

[OmikronWarrior]

Originally Posted by Trumanator

What would be the optimal bless for the angels? I have played Pythium only rarely and don't recall what sort of stats they have. I have seen some hints that earth and nature blesses are good, but I would like to know more specifically what some different bless advantages would be.

The question isn't what's a good bless for angels, but should you even develop a bless strategy around angels? The answer is no. The earliest you can summon them is Conjuration-6 to get the Harbringer (A3H2 @ 25 pearls). Then you're going to want some Construction and Alteration to help them work as thugs. Angels are essentially a sideshow for Pythium (I'm actually working on a guide for them that I'll finish as soon as I wrap some games up with them). The real story and aresenal a Pythium player should focus on is Theurgs and communions, which are all sacred and benefit greatly from even a small Earth Bless (which incidently helps out Angels as well). Also, Pythium has some bad magic diversity and could really use a rainbow... and positive scales to boom with... and an awake SC for expansion... and production to build Principe with... you get the idea. I'd start with Growth-3 to keep my Theurgs alive and some Earth to revig my Communions.

On a somewhat unrelated note, does anyone have an opion on the viability of casting Thetis's blessing the same turn as numerous Arch Theurgs teleport into water provinces to take on some PD single handedly?

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by OmikronWarrior

On a somewhat unrelated note, does anyone have an opion on the viability of casting Thetis's blessing the same turn as numerous Arch Theurgs teleport into water provinces to take on some PD single handedly?

I'm thinking that if you try to tele on the same turn you cast Thetis, they'll all need water breathing items anyways, because the global hasn't succeeded yet.


As to the rest, I'd think that unless you were going with an awake pretender, you could just go a straight E9 and call it good, as far as global, full game benefit. If you wanted an awake pretender, going E4 at least should be worth it, and if you were going to do E4/N? then it may be worth pushing from N2 to N4, just to leverage the self buffing into a better bless, if you can afford it.

There are plenty of other things you can do to enhance angels (and/or sacred mages), but those are likely the two routes most applicable to MP, most others would just be fun to play with in SP a bit (like a W9/E4 or something).

Well, S9/E4 if you wanted an Imprisoned Oracle, could be a pretty cost effective and versatile MP pretender - as long as you aren't one who is highly reliant on the awake SC.