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Old February 13th, 2012, 01:40 PM

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Default Re: Bug with phenix pyre ?

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Not a bug - working as designed. The Phoenix Pyre blast is an explosion, not a fire. It does physical damage.

You might be able to take solace from the fact that you are hardly the first person to learn this the hard (but spectacular to watch) way.
Basically everyone learns this the hard way. It's a miserable spell if you aren't careful, but if you set things up properly it is absolutely wonderful.
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Old February 14th, 2012, 09:51 AM

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Basically everyone learns this the hard way. It's a miserable spell if you aren't careful, but if you set things up properly it is absolutely wonderful.
Everybody's favourite when used in conjunction with with the Boots of Calius the druid on an SC.

My absolutely favourite use was on a LA Ermor Master Lich pretender wearing cheap defensive equipment (standard MR, luck, and reinvigoration), that had wished once for power and thus had decent combat stats, when I unleashed him on major attacking army that apart from ~1500 normal troops had SC, thug, priest, and mage support (~90 commanders total), a large portion of the attacking army being living and regenerating from blessing.

Invulnerability, Soul Drain, Phoenix Pyre, Elemental Fortitude, Summon Earthpower, SPELLS.

The Master Lich ended up wiping out ~80% of the opposing army including most of the SCs and commanders at the cost of 7 afflictions.

...Much better than the time I lost a small army of fire casting mages whom the AI chose of its own free will to cast Phoenix Pyre. The agony!
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Old February 14th, 2012, 10:37 PM

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It synchronizes quite well with Soul Drain, really. Soul Drain is one of the more effective re-invigoration methods, and re-invigoration is pretty much key.

Which reminds me: Does the medallion of vengeance trigger every time you die, if you also have Phoenix Pyre up? If it does, it could work quite well.
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Which reminds me: Does the medallion of vengeance trigger every time you die, if you also have Phoenix Pyre up? If it does, it could work quite well.
Good question ! if both stack it can be very handy
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