phenix pyre

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally Posted by Knai

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!