Feeble mind not healing?

JonBrave · #1 February 19th, 2012, 04:40 PM

Just a real quickie: have been trying to get my Arco priestess to heal a (astral) Golem I have. He got feeble-minded mind hunting. She hasn't had any success. Is there something about him (lifeless? mindless?) that means she may as well be p****ng in the wind? Or do I just need to persist?

Bwaha · #2 February 19th, 2012, 04:55 PM

Dude you have the perfect Golem...

Boots of speed, lead shield, Stymphalian wings, ect...

I like the horror hat myself.

But now he's not able to be hunted...

Party on, don't heal it...

What's your starting magic resist right now?

JonBrave · #3 February 19th, 2012, 05:14 PM

Err, 15 MR at present.
But I want him healed! Was quite happy with him as he was. I was assuming priestesses would heal after mind hunt.

JonBrave · #4 February 19th, 2012, 05:21 PM

Hang on! You're not saying, or are you, that Golem's MR is preventing him getting healed??

Bwaha · #5 February 19th, 2012, 05:41 PM

No, I'm saying gild the lilly...

You have a SC of the eye-watering type...

It can't be dueled...

Why do you want to heal it???

Legendary League · #6 February 19th, 2012, 08:27 PM

Note to self, construct a golem, have it mindhunt a known astral province, kit it out, ??? profit.

shatner · #7 February 19th, 2012, 11:49 PM

The heal skill only affects living, non-old creatures (i.e. not undead, not demon, not lifeless). Golems are lifeless, so no healing. The only options available for healing a golem is the chalice (an artifact which heals units in the province of the guy holding it) and the global spell Gift of Health (which affects all units in friendly dominion.

Knai · #8 February 20th, 2012, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Legendary League

Note to self, construct a golem, have it mindhunt a known astral province, kit it out, ??? profit.

I'm surprised I haven't heard of this tactic before. It seems so obvious, in retrospect. That said, I haven't tested the affect of Magic Duel on creatures that one had astral but lost it via feebleminding, so it might not actually help meaningfully.

Bwaha · #9 February 20th, 2012, 10:43 AM

Well shatter deals with golems quite fine, so it's a one trick pony...

SCs used to be the bomb in dom2.

Now they have to travel in groups to work well...

Knai · #10 February 20th, 2012, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Bwaha

Well shatter deals with golems quite fine, so it's a one trick pony...

SCs used to be the bomb in dom2.

Now they have to travel in groups to work well...

That's ridiculous. Individual SCs can carve right through armies, provided that said armies don't have SCs of their own coming with them, or mages scripted to screw SCs right over. Moreover, shatter tends not to work as well as it seems like it should, as anything you are likely to use it on is probably going to cut you apart first - unless you have a Troll King or similar use it, which brings me back to the enemy SC caveat. Then there's the matter of PD - a decent SC can cut down 125 PD without difficulty, which means that the mere presence of SCs is one of the preventative measures that prevents players from spending a huge amount of money on PD.