Bladewind/Gift of Heaven/Falling Frost questions

[Corwin]

Anyway, it looks like nobody know for sure the answer to the question of if Arrow Fend (air shield) works vs Bladewind or not - all this is just a guestwork on our part. We need somebody to run a real test. Any volonteers?

Also my Mistform question still stands - is manual wrong when it says 25HP, rather than 25% of HPs?

[mivayan]

Bladewind - Shields and etherealness helps, so air shield *probably* does. But needs to be tested to know.

Each of the 3 rocks from Gifts from heaven is AoE 1, which means it always hits unless specially specified. Manual doesn't say 'mundane', so ethereal doesn't help. Prot helps in theory (yay, only 125 in stead of 150 damage).

Falling frost - dunno how good defence is. Cold resistance helps against it but not against the evoc7, W2 spell Ice strike.

[UninspiredName]

In the massive battles where Blade Wind is truly worthwhile, it's precision is usually enough to get the job done. As for fatigue cost, I mostly meant that it mimicked a volley of 50 archers. Even in skirmishes it usually lands a lot of hits, and because they're all at once it will sometimes force a morale check. Then you need to factor in the amount of afflictions the spell will dole out early enough for it to matter somewhat.

Of course, this is only my experience with Blade Wind. I once used six mages and that spell to decimate Jomon's forces, (Standard Samurai) so it can't be that useless in Late Age.

[Corwin]

Bump - still looking for Arrow Fend and Mistform answers.