Holy Pyre and Fire Resistant Demons

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Vynd:
On the other hand, I think it would be a mistake to change the spell so that its damage type is holy, or something like that. Because it ought to be possible for a non-demonic/undead unit with fire resistance to be able to protect themselves. The spell would definitely be too strong if there was no way for anyone to resist it, even if most units did not take triple damage.

Any non-undead, non-demonic unit with 100% fire resistance would be immune to damage from the spell, because the added 'holy' damage only happens to undead / demonic, just as right now the triple fire damage only happens to them.

Currently, it's always possible to do damage to undead, no matter their stats, equipment, spells, and magic resistance, albeit you need death magic to do it - Dust to Dust and Wither Bones. But demons, especially commanders w/ equipment, are easy to make immune to virtually everything except spells which require a failed magic resistance check, which they rarely fail with MRs of 18+.