Paralyze vs Stellar Cascades

[Shardphoenix]

How does the priest spell Word of Power compare to these?

It`s like paralyse with AoE 1 and needs holy4 priest. It probably means, that nobody in your empire can cast it without some serious boosting (communions, PotS, Sword of (In)Justice).

[samoht]

Originally Posted by Shardphoenix

It`s like paralyse with AoE 1 and needs holy4 priest. It probably means, that nobody in your empire can cast it without some serious boosting (communions, PotS, Sword of (In)Justice).

But were I able to use it, would it be worth scripting before I reached stellar cascade and paralyze in my research?

[bbz]

Originally Posted by samoht

But were I able to use it, would it be worth scripting before I reached stellar cascade and paralyze in my research?

Against high HP SC's (with some regen) then yea, against anything else smite should be better.

[samoht]

Please poke holes in this if I'm totally off base or just talkin crazy, but it could work as a poor man's paralyze or stellar cascade if you had enough priests that also had a point in astral, and then you could set enough of them to communion slave to boost the holy levels of the masters to H4, and script WoP for them.

Thats assuming you hadn't yet researched far enough, but for some reason had the critical mass of astral mages/priests located together.

Seeing as how WoP is zero fatigue, would that ever be worth doing instead of stellar cascade of paralyze? The communion masters could essentially keep that up all battle without causing any fatigue to anybody.

[Shangrila00]

Priest masters would still cause the basic encumbrance fatigue to each slave per casting. The big issue is that WoP is H4 while paralyze is S2, so with the same communion boost/base power, Paralyze will have +1 penetration. Also paralyze takes something out of the battle completely with a successful hit, WoP has a much shorter duration so you better be able to kill whatever you paralyze before it wakes up.

That said, if you have powerful priests with astral, yeah WoP spamming can be quite useful even after you get paralyze in CBM due to the aoe 1 that got added.