Ooh, ooh, new info on patch page!

[konming]

They are fire based, so anything immune to fire won't be affected. Fire drake has this ability for ages, and no one thinks too highly of it.

[rdonj]

That's because fire drakes cost a lot of gems, and losing that many gems isn't fun. But I think they're underrated, personally. Look at it this way, what if all Aka-oni could cast the fireball spell, for no fatigue, 3 times in every battle. Would that be fair?

Personally I would favor the precision boost. They would be pretty worthwhile with a bit better precision without being 25 gold mini-mages with limited immortality.

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by rdonj

Personally I would favor the precision boost. They would be pretty worthwhile with a bit better precision without being 25 gold mini-mages with limited immortality.

Recruitable anywhere, at that. I think Yomi could use a boost but making Throw Flames AoE would be huge. I should probably do it for the AI in my games, though, just for fun and flavor. I already gave them furs to boost their Prot to 10 (and Encumbrance to 5).

-Max

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by MaxWilson

Recruitable anywhere, at that. I think Yomi could use a boost but making Throw Flames AoE would be huge. I should probably do it for the AI in my games, though, just for fun and flavor. I already gave them furs to boost their Prot to 10 (and Encumbrance to 5).

-Max

IIRC they are already AoE. I was just advocating making the AoE larger. This is one of the reasons that I think Yomi is advocated to be played wrong. Even so, yomi still has mage path problems. Aka... switch yomi's national mage to a2, or give them a demonic precision spell equivalent to windguide.. and you'd see a quantum improvement.

[rdonj]

No, they're not naturally AoE, they're just 8 ap damage to a single target. They would, however, be far better if they could reliably get precision increasing spells cast on them. So making Dai Oni have a higher chace at A2 or the national precision spell could be useful. But I'm almost not sure it's worth it for only three shots anyway.