Our beloved Pretenders!

JimMorrison · #1 July 30th, 2008, 01:05 AM

Hmmmm, strange. I have never actually played a game with a dragon pretender, but I've tested builds with them in the Pretender Creator, and everything seems normal. Where is this -2 calculated? I understand that they are weaker magically in their dragon form, but you buy paths for their "human" form, and it seems that's what determines their bless. I could be wrong, but that's what I always thought I was seeing.

SlipperyJim · #2 July 30th, 2008, 10:40 AM

I think that's Max's point. You'd buy your paths (and therefore your blesses) as if the pretender started with E1W1. However, during game play, the pretender's actual magic skills would be two or three points higher than that. You'd get powerful magic skills on the pretender without a cheap level-nine bless....

JimMorrison · #3 July 30th, 2008, 05:22 PM

Well I think that would cause other problems though. If you got a bonus +3W for casting, and you did go for the W9 blessing for example, then for those points you get a 12W caster, before boosters. Some spells scale incredibly well with magic level, and also you get very nice bonuses to global casting.

But I guess just to clarify, you're suggesting some sort of second shape for them? The same as the first shape, but more magically inclined?

MaxWilson · #4 July 30th, 2008, 05:43 PM

No, you'd give the magicboost to their only shape. The dragon is weird in that is has BOTH a secondshape and negative magicboost in that secondshape.

-Max