A Poisoner's Guide to LA Pythium

[Cheezeninja]

Not actually proposing it as a serious strategy, but does the death of each hydra head provoke a curse attempt from a B9 bless?

[Twan]

The only time I tried LAP I took A7/E6 and rather recommand it.

The titan start with these path, so you can have decent income and magic scales (ie order 3, growth 1, misf 2, magic 1) taking a low dominion (4) with a dormant titan (or a stronger dominion with an imprisoned one).

Then the bless is excellent for both hydras and mages, and the paths allow your pretender to forge hammers and boosters, protect even more hydras against arrow with storm etc, and use the terrific rain of stones.

[Aezeal]

Twan I was just about to try something like that.. E4 or 6 and A somewhere highish since every arrow turned is good.. 8 or 9 might be a bit high since there are no spells to cast with that requirement I think.. shock resistance might be nice though. but maybe a bit expensive to do it just for that.

[Ironhawk]

Yeah that bless would work well. Tho why A7 instead of A6 is puzzling. Whatever bless you take you definitely want Earth because its vital to keep your Hydras fighting but also sweet for the hordes of sacred mages that LA Pyth has.

[Ironhawk]

So, I was wondering about something the other day....

Does the increased affliction chance of a death bless carry over into the poison damage from Foul Vapors?? I *believe* that with direct damage spells like Earthquak or Rain of Stones, it does. But Foul Vapors has sort of indirect damage in that it poisons the units and then the poison does the damage.

Does anyone know?

[MaxWilson]

I know a death bless increases the affliction chance for Flame Storm--I tested that one extensively last year. It's possible that Foul Vapors is different because it's poison, but it won't be because it's a BE.

Edit: My suspicion is that every damage source has some kind of pointer back to its origin, and that's why D blessings work on spells. I know that KO was surprised to learn about this effect. Anyway, that makes me suspect that poison is probably no different, and that Foul Vapors will benefit from D blessings.

-Max

[LDiCesare]

I want to point out serpent acolytes, with 50% poison resistance, are the cheapest commanders for hydra armies. They can cast resist poison and get 100% PR before being hurt by their pets, and bless them on the following round.
If you're short on money, you can afford one of the dorks instead of a serpent priest if that means one more hydra that turn.

[Ironhawk]

Nope, you cant use Acolytes in this way. Mages refuse to cast Poison Resistance on themselves if they are already at 50% or above poison resistance. Additionally, spells which confer poison resistance (like Serpent's Blessing) have no effect on units with 50% resistance already.