Wishing for an SC?

[Wish]

crone with cap+ring of wiz+ring of sorc+ring of wiz+ring of sorc can do it with astral 4. course thats capitalizing on the bug where you can double up on items as long as you have something in between.


also master enslave+vortex doesn't alwayws work (if your mage thinks they will win, given the troops they nabbed, they won't cast vortex.)

[UncleYee]

I grant that a crone or a master lich could wish for Power, but how effective would the resulting unit be? Relative to say a Cyclops, who has better stats out of the box (100 pearls really being all I want to spend here) than the crone after one or even two (or three?) wishes for power. (100 for crone, + empower from S0, + 100 more per Power wish (each subsequent one being only half effective). That's an awful lot of pearls).

Maybe wishing for a unit is so wasteful that it's not worth considering unless you're just messing around. But that seraph is tempting. And I'm still keen on the gorgon.

[Huzurdaddi]

I thought a given unit could only wish for power once ...

[Shovah32]

Nope, i think it has a slightly higher effect the first time though.
A seraph is a great unit to wish for with awe, flying, fireshield, 3 100% resistances, passive effect of eye shield, great basic stats and F4A4S4H4 when gift of reasoned. Also sacred.

[Meglobob]

Shovah32 said:
Nope, i think it has a slightly higher effect the first time though.
A seraph is a great unit to wish for with awe, flying, fireshield, 3 100% resistances, passive effect of eye shield, great basic stats and F4A4S4H4 when gift of reasoned. Also sacred.

Isn't it vunerable to magic duel? A real killer that a couple of low level astral mages could get lucky...but everything has a weak spot, I suppose.

[Shovah32]

Well its S4, easily boosted to S5 with the skullcap you'll probably give himso not THAT vunerable.

[Wish]

not to mention the angel is pretty close to being able to wish for power itself

(especially if you wish for the robe of the sorceress, to add to your astral boosting items in a way that does not horror mark.)

[quantum_mechani]

Shovah32 said:
Well its S4, easily boosted to S5 with the skullcap you'll probably give himso not THAT vunerable.

Booster items don't count for the purposes of magic duel.

[HoneyBadger]

Gorgon *might* be worth it right out of the box. Carrion Dragon or Ancient Kraken are formidable, although I would hesitate to use them without a good strategy in place.
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