Noob questions while waiting for Dom3

[MaxWilson]

Note also that "weak" mages can sometimes still cast really cool spells, but those spells are usually found at very high research levels. For instance, 2 path levels of Death (commonly abbreviated D2) don't let you do very much normally, but there's a nifty little spell called Disintegrate at Alteration-8 which costs only 10 fatigue and forces any other unit to save-or-die. Another is Frozen Heart, which any W1 (Water-1) mage can cast and which inflicts 9 points or so of damage on any unit in range, ignoring Protection. I think this one also comes somewhere in the Alteration tree.

To reiterate: powerful spells usually require lots of path levels on the caster and lots of research, but sometimes they only require one of the two.

-Max

[rdonj]

Actually, I have a bit of a noob question. Astral healing, is it a one shot spell as it looks like, or is it a persistent spell that heals all your units every turn? I've never actually used it because if it really is the former that doesn't seem very useful to me.

[Omnirizon]

well I always assumed the former, but if it was a persistant spell than it could actually made to be useful, but maybe at an increased cost.

[llamabeast]

I'm fairly sure it's the former.

[MaxWilson]

Astral Healing is only useful in roughly the same way that Sermon of Courage is: you only make morale checks when you take more than half as many "wounds" in a unit as there are units, and a "wound" only counts if it drops a given unit below 80% health. Thus, Astral Healing can boost units taking arrow fire back up above 80% and prevent them routing, as well as helping them survive a bit more.

Very situational, but I guess it could help under heavy arrow fire or BEs like Fire Storm. I've never used it.

-Max

[rdonj]

Hmm, that's a bit frustrating. Thanks for all the quick responses though

[vfb]

You can use it to heal a diseased army at the beginning of a battle. It doesn't remove their afflictions of course, but it will bring them back up in HP. You can also script it if you know you are casting a BE or BF spell that will hurt (but probably not kill) your own units.

[Gandalf Parker]

Isnt it also handy to bolster a starving army at the beginning of combat?