SCs and Afflictions

[vfb]

Sounds to me like you've got a pretty good handle on how it works!

By the time afflictions start to pile up, it's possible you could craft some items that counter the worst aspects of your ailments. Reinvigoration to counter chest wounds, flight if you've been crippled, etc.

You could also use an immortal god (or one that recuperates), since all immortals recuperate.

Or use a god that very rarely gets afflicted. High protection and high HP help, and the more you regenerate, the less chance you have of acquiring an affliction. Stay away from lizard provinces so you don't get cursed. And anything that stops damage helps of course, such as a pendant of luck, as does mistform, body ethereal, etc.

[SlipperyJim]

As vfb wrote, you've got a pretty good handle on how afflictions work. AFAICT, afflictions were designed for precisely the purpose that we find so annoying. In other words, afflictions are a counter to having one uber-unit that smashes the entire map. You can still build the uber-unit if you really want to do so, but afflictions will limit its usefulness sooner or later.

You did forget one method of healing afflictions: Faery Queen. She's a non-unique Nature summon, so any nation with decent Nature magic can get a few of them. If you don't have decent Nature magic on your national mages ... um ... hope for good luck with an independent mage?

Also, someone once made a mod that gave all Pretenders the "Recuperation" advantage. If you use that mod, you can at least have an un-afflicted demigod....

[Endovior]

Cool, had hoped I wasn't missing anything too obvious. Figured there was some sort of summon with healing, but I don't have all the lists memorized yet; I'll keep it in mind for the future.

Beyond that, are there actually any Immortal Pretenders that are viable as an SC? I've only seen Immortal on mage-types like the Lich and Phoenix, not the map-clearing giant monsters like the Cyclops and Wyrm. Not to discount the Immortal magi, of course, but that's a weapon whose usefulness is slanted more towards the late game, with rather limited out-of-the-box power. And on a related note, there aren't any sneaky roundabout ways of gaining Immortal, are there?

[Epaminondas]

Originally Posted by SlipperyJim

As vfb wrote, you've got a pretty good handle on how afflictions work. AFAICT, afflictions were designed for precisely the purpose that we find so annoying. In other words, afflictions are a counter to having one uber-unit that smashes the entire map. You can still build the uber-unit if you really want to do so, but afflictions will limit its usefulness sooner or later.

You did forget one method of healing afflictions: Faery Queen. She's a non-unique Nature summon, so any nation with decent Nature magic can get a few of them. If you don't have decent Nature magic on your national mages ... um ... hope for good luck with an independent mage?

Also, someone once made a mod that gave all Pretenders the "Recuperation" advantage. If you use that mod, you can at least have an un-afflicted demigod....

You beat me to it. Faery Queen works for every nation--though depending on where you set the Magic Research at, getting to her could be time-consuming.