Beating down the Undead

Valandil · #1 October 6th, 2007, 12:40 AM

Actually, you can do this:

Ctissian saurolich (for example).

D10. Scepter of dark regency, crystal shield, jade mask, robe of the magi, ring of sorc, ring of wiz, cast power of the spheres.

You are D20. undead mastery gives about 5 fatigue.

Nikolai · #2 October 6th, 2007, 12:50 AM

Well, sometimes, AI will refuse to cast. It thinks enemy is not worth it, and it can be VERY wrong. Sometimes, AI finds no target. I just watched a battle, wraith lord with D10 was scripted for shadow blast, there were targets in range, he decided to cast "raise dead". He was right in particular, cause enemy was beated, so maybe your caster thought Undead Mastery was not effective?

OmikronWarrior · #3 October 6th, 2007, 01:51 AM

Question about Solar Brilliance, how worried should I be about the Blindness thing. For example, does Blindness mean no more spellcasting? How about my troops? How vulnerable are they to the blindness affliction? I can put together a communion no problem, the question is keeping them safe and useful.

Jazzepi · #4 October 6th, 2007, 03:08 AM

Blindness has no effect on casting besides the fact that you will no longer be able to hit with spells that have percision less than 100. You can still hit with ones like soul slay, paralyze, and horror mark. You can also cast spells like Swarm, Relief, Rain, stuff that doesn't rely on them targeting anything.

I'm sure you still could cast stuff like blade wind, but your derivation would be *so bad* you wouldn't want to bother with it.

Lastly, if you have mages with darkvision 100, I believe they can cast normally even while blind. I'm not 100% sure on this, so you'd have to test it first. You can also heal afflictions such as blindness after a big battle, but that's time consuming and probably not pratical without gift of health up.

Jazzepi

Cor2 · #5 October 6th, 2007, 04:15 AM

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Jazzepi said:

Lastly, if you have mages with darkvision 100, I believe they can cast normally even while blind. I'm not 100% sure on this, so you'd have to test it first.Jazzepi

I am pretty sure it does ot work that way, and if it does its a bug. In real life cats have darkvision, but if you pluck out thier eyes they are blinder than bats.

Kristoffer O · #6 October 6th, 2007, 04:51 AM

Darkvision 100 should not give blind sight. There is however a 'blind' flag that meant the unit doesn't use sight to orientate itself (some r'lyeh monsters etc).

Jazzepi · #7 October 6th, 2007, 05:07 AM

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Kristoffer O said:
Darkvision 100 should not give blind sight. There is however a 'blind' flag that meant the unit doesn't use sight to orientate itself (some r'lyeh monsters etc).

Sorry, this is what I was thinking of. I think the statue pretender has this, where you can give her two eyes and it turns her blind, but it doesn't matter. Does that sound right?

Jazzepi