buggy blade wind?

SurvivalistMerc · #1 March 7th, 2004, 02:02 AM

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Yes...I do think Ulm and Abyssia are meant to be played with eye-enhanced mages. That's how I always play them. Try that if you haven't and vive la difference!

Pocus · #2 March 7th, 2004, 08:08 AM

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Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
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Yes...I do think Ulm and Abyssia are meant to be played with eye-enhanced mages. That's how I always play them. Try that if you haven't and vive la difference!

Its rather weird to think that to have a fireball-caster mage perform correctly his job, one must pay him an air item. IMO spells like firebal, magmabolt, etc. should be somehow of use, even with unenhanced mage. A 200 gp salamander with prec 7 is an absolute waste on a battlefield, so in essence his fire-2 profeciency is only of use for rituals.

Pocus · #3 March 7th, 2004, 08:10 AM

Fear my awesome 380 gp Anathemant Dragon, that cant hit an elephant juste before them!

Ah, I now understand their use : they make the enemy die by laughing frantically.

Graeme Dice · #4 March 7th, 2004, 08:17 AM

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Its rather weird to think that to have a fireball-caster mage perform correctly his job, one must pay him an air item. IMO spells like firebal, magmabolt, etc. should be somehow of use, even with unenhanced mage.

This is especially true when you consider the number of ways to make fire magic even less useful. Storms, mist, and cold provinces for example.

Nagot Gick Fel · #5 March 7th, 2004, 08:57 AM

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Fear my awesome 380 gp Anathemant Dragon, that cant hit an elephant juste before them!

Ah, I now understand their use : they make the enemy die by laughing frantically.

And what about a Medusa killing herself with her own Blade Wind?

PDF · #6 March 7th, 2004, 11:40 AM

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Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
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Yes...I do think Ulm and Abyssia are meant to be played with eye-enhanced mages. That's how I always play them. Try that if you haven't and vive la difference!

No, I don't think they were *meant* to be weak and unbalanced *unless* you succeed in finding indy/mercs Air mages ..

I agree that they *perform better* this way, but that's very different.
What happens is that Fire and Earth magic are underpowered to their frequent (crappy) precision-based combat damage spells, and that it is counterbalanced if/when you get Air items.

Pocus · #7 March 8th, 2004, 02:14 AM

perhaps some of us should take the burden of putting up a mod which alters by some points nearly all non-area evocation spells?

I'm unsure I can take the gauntlet though...