Could u stop Gorgon?

[TirAsleen]

astral image=mirror image. i sometimes confuse words here.

Other buffs: quicken self and personal regeneration.

[Edi]

TirAsleen said:

Dust to Dustslightly off topic but gorgon could use it too): In my test i used 5 mages with 3 in death magic path scripted casting "dust to dust" several times. Ghost king was scripted to cast mistform, astral image and other buffs. dust to dust did no damage at all and this after 10 castings directly on the ghost king. It might eventually hit the ghost king, but it did deal never damage, all it did was to kill mirror image. After that mistform protected ghost king against exactly 1 hit, dealing 1damage. So Mistform was gone too. And finally Ghost king was hit big time by dust to dust for full damage. This is what is saw in the combat screen. I did not run 10 battles like this, but the results speak for itself. Or can a unit be so lucky to survive 10 dust to dust from close range? The mages just stood in front of him and its area damage too. So please consider this. The ghosts that travels with the ghost king come in handy too. Gorgon seems very vulnerable to Life Drain. So with ghosts he can certainly kill her if she is not stuffed with the best items in the game.

Let's review the basics here:

Dust to Dust deals physical NON-MAGICAL damage to undead creatures. Etherealness protects against non-magical damage, ergo Dust to Dust cast against a GK misses totally 75% of the time. So only 25% of DtD will hit at all and deal varying amounts of damage. Read the spell description, it says DtD causes damage against undead, but rarely affects ethereal undead creatures.

[TirAsleen]

Dust to Dust, Description:

The Mage destroys undead beings by unraveling the magic that holds them together. The Spell affects all undead in a small area. Neither magic resistence nor armor offer any protection from this spell.

Thats all there to read. I wonder why you have a different Description?

[Edi]

Hmm, I must have confused that with Wither Bones. My mistake. Hard to check since I don't have Dom3 at work. Sorry. Still, it could be that it deals non-magical damage, in which case ethereality would protect against it. I don't know.

EDIT: Or confused it with maggots. Which spell affected demons? Was it maggots or something else?

[Reverend Zombie]

I thought Maggots was especially for undead. Dunno about Wither Bones.

[Nick_K]

AFAIK neither maggots nor wither bones nor dust to dust affect demons

(edit)
Oh, unless it's changed since Doms2 dust to dust almost certainly doesn't do physical damage. I remember well an AI caster zapping a square of 6 shade hounds with the spell and killing them all outright. That would be extremely unlikely to happen if there was only a 1/4 chance of each hound being affected.

Not sure why we're talking about dust-to-dust here though. The gorgon isn't undead is she?

[TirAsleen]

No, but she could use that spell against undead pretenders that would be good to kill her.

[Reverend Zombie]

Edi said:


Read the spell description, it says DtD causes damage against undead, but rarely affects ethereal undead creatures.

That sounds like the description for Maggots.