3 bogarus questions

[VedalkenBear]

Originally Posted by KissBlade

You /must/ get early evocation. The Conjurations are nice but they're more of a luxury since Bogarus with even a SC pretender will have a hard time opposing any real armies of any sort. The problem with those conjurations is that they are abominable on mage time. Startets to cast one lady midday is blech.

Oh, I don't doubt this in the least for MP. However, I don't think my post gave anything but a SP perspective. I will say that if I don't go with a Rainbow Pretender, I generally go with a Father of Winter (either a 'safe' SC with good scales or A/W/E/N with poorer scales).

Also, I don't recall offhand, but what's the requirements for, er, wow, the Lightning BE (Heavenly Wrath)? While the Gamayun has limited slots, she can get all the way up to 4A easily (5A if you score the Tome of High Magic or Ring of Wizardry). She's also Lightning-Immune, so can run around cackling madly in the midst of BE Lightning damage.

Another amusing thing about the Gamayun is that she has exactly the slots required to be able to cast Wrath of God.

Kuritza: The reason I consider the Gamayun is that she flies, and she has Magic Leadership. Both are needed to make full use out of the early national summons that Bogarus has.