Guide: MA Man - Making the best of a bad deal

[RadicalTurnip]

Originally Posted by Finalgenesis

Elixir does the same thing boots of youth do, eg. freeze aging (they have the same effect tag), although you need to equip this before you get diseased from old age. The 2nd life effect is a seperate effect on the elixir.

From what I understand burden of time bypasses boots of youth, and therefore by extension probably bypasses elixir too, take this as an educated guess though.

I've done a decent amount of testing, and while boots of youth may be negated by burden of time; healing (like the fairy queen) units are not. In a MP game I had the chalice and GoH control, so I casted BoT. It turned out that my mages outside my capital (where the chalice was) were dieing too quickly, so I summoned some fairy queens and did some healing, which worked fine. I'm not 100%, but even with GoH and the Chalice, my capital may have needed a fairy-queen or two as well.

Obviously, this isn't much of a strategy to use 95% of the time, but I had good gem control and I had seen that they took the death scale, so I wanted to crush their economy and kill some mages...I ended up winning the game, so meh.