What am I supposed to do with Shamen?

[Blitz]

You speak as if Sauromancers came with a guaranteed astral or nature pick.

There's a 1 in 8 chance, I've had games where I've waited until far into the midgame before getting a mage with the appropriate skill. In fact, there's an extremely small chance that you may NEVER get an astral mage. Sure, eventually you are probably going to get one... but it's not guaranteed by any stretch of the imagination.

Additionally, neither the keeper or sauromancer will ever be a decent communion slave, be able to cast healing light or contact couatil. The keeper does nothing that your sauromancers could not already do.. save banish and build temples.

Unfortunately all those nice things that you can now do with the keeper were things you could already do with either a heriodule or a saromancer.

You tell me how that is misleading. You tell me how your keeper is going to forge astral items. The fact that the Sauromancer has a random pick is irrelevant. He always had a random pick. The point is that the keeper is less useful than the shaman. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.

[ June 22, 2004, 00:44: Message edited by: Blitz ]