Father Illearth/Lord of Banefire - why?

geo981010 · #1 February 13th, 2004, 03:54 PM

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Originally posted by Nagot Gick Fel:
Still addicted to FIs, George?

With the amount of snow we've gotten this winter, it's pretty much my only chance to remind me what the ground looks like!

Zurai · #2 February 13th, 2004, 04:40 PM

Yeah, my mistake - I forgot about Demon Knights, which are good, and I wasn't thinking of items at all due to my newbieness. Still, 3B4E is pretty difficult to come by outside of a pretender or a lot of empowering. I'd just like to see something "special" to them like the other Elemental Royalty have. Illearth has nothing and Anthrax only has the Banefire shield, which isn't really that impressive. IIRC he has to be *hit* for the shield to fire off, which means he's taking damage which isn't something you want to happen outside of berserkers.

Hmm. Berserking Lord of Banefire. That might be interesting....

Endoperez · #3 February 13th, 2004, 08:26 PM

Remember that you don't need BBBBEEE, only EE with Earth boots (EE mage can forge) and that there are many blood-enchancing items in there... Brazen Vessel and Blood thorn come to mind (20 slaves each. There is more expensive Armor of the souls (40 slaves) that also raises the blood mage's power. With those items, you only need EEBB on a mage for summon, and a mage with BBB to forge those empowering items. Also, when you remember that Blood and Earth can forge the before-mentioned Blood Stone, one earth is enough. So in fact, you need a mage with two blood and one earth, plus a blood mage. Or then any mage with EB and some 30 slaves for empowering.

Sure, that is lots of work, but only 110 slaves, and any that are needed to summon your Father Illearth. As you will propably want to give him a shield, he can use Blood Thorn as a one-handed life-draining weapon.

Anthrax is much harder, but can be done. Besides, have you seen that DF skull that boosts fire magic by one? It's awesome!

Hupsistakeikkaa, this became quite a long post...

In short: in fact it is not that hard to take EB -mage to EEEBBBB needed to summon Father Illearth, if you already have a blood mage.

Zurai · #4 February 13th, 2004, 10:10 PM

My point is though that producing what, 5 items JUST to summon Father Illearth is more than a little extravagant because he does nothing signifigant. He's just a big guy with hard skin. If you have earth magic, you can build lots of big guys with hard skin by going up Construction.

Now, if he did something like summoned corrupted earth elementals, or had some kind of blood vengeance effect on him (hey, he IS tainted with blood magic and craves blood now...) then maybe it'd be worth all that effort. Otherwise I'd rather cast Demon Knights or Infernal Crusades.

Or maybe he could get, say, 1 blood slave/turn... after all, people sacrificed blood to him, that's how he got corrupted. It's not like that would be horribly overpowered, especially since he's unique.

Nagot Gick Fel · #5 February 13th, 2004, 10:38 PM

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Originally posted by Zurai:
My point is though that producing what, 5 items JUST to summon Father Illearth is more than a little extravagant

Except of course you never forge these items JUST for that.

Zurai · #6 February 13th, 2004, 11:13 PM

What else are you going to do with a BBBEEEE mage? There are only two Blood/Earth items, neither of which require the full amount, Bind Demon Knight only takes BBEE, and you need another two levels of B to cast Infernal Crusade, which essentially limits it to your pretender or FI. I guess that's a use for him, but seems kind of ... meh. Oh well.

Nagot Gick Fel · #7 February 13th, 2004, 11:39 PM

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Originally posted by Zurai:
What else are you going to do with a BBBEEEE mage?

Err? Your concern was about the usefulness of the items required to summon the FI ("JUST for that?"), and I replied that these items have other uses. This doesn't mean they have to be used on the FI.

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There are only two Blood/Earth items, neither of which require the full amount, Bind Demon Knight only takes BBEE, and you need another two levels of B to cast Infernal Crusade, which essentially limits it to your pretender or FI. I guess that's a use for him, but seems kind of ... meh. Oh well.

Obviously the best use for the FI is as a fully-decked supercombattant (or as a support mage for Weapons of Sharpness or such if you can't equip him properly yet).