Are there any good Mari Players out there?

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Spacepain:
On the idea of pure or near pure flaggellents, is that a strategy that will work through out a game.

No. But it is a strategy that will get you to the next part of the game, and they'll always retain a role as cannon fodder. Sooner or later, however, you'll want to take advantage of the elbow room you carved out with the blood flagellants to fund a more serious weapons program for building more useful, nondisposable combatants to go with your rabble. Given your pyrocentric design, this looks like it will be Fire Kings, possibly Arch Devils if you can get blood flowing. The Fire Kings look like your most readily obvious bet, and it doesn't hurt that if you want to branch out beyond Fire and Astral to any real extent, you'll probably need Acashic Record to get that gem income going. Both of these options are down the Conjuration path. Something to shoot for, I guess.