proposed death curse change

[JimMorrison]

A9 Blessing - Charge Body?

N9 Blessing - Poison Weapons

B9 Blessing - Additional Attack : Bite - 12 NSA AP, +1Att, -1Def


Was toying with suggesting Poison Weapons for the B9, or maybe even Partial Lifedrain. Don't think that'll fly any higher than Blood Vengeance though.

[Wrana]

An enhance-precision effect for high Air bless looks promising. Charge body isn't bad also, but such an effect is niche and the niche is quite different from missile-protection one which is present. Another alternative could be some damage enhancement for missile weapons only.
As for Nature I disagree with JimMorrison: there MUST be a bless which makes sacred units berserk!

[rdonj]

Personally I kind of like the air shield bless, I don't think it's nearly as niche as some people do. Also, I still think the idea of a precision bless is too good for sacred mages and not useful enough to sacred troops. With a precision bless you would see lots of E/A blessed mages raining down highly accurate destruction and you would pay for it. Depending on what the other bless effect was on air you could also have fairly solid melee sacreds with such a bless (especially if it kept the air shield around).

And I don't see how a charge body bless is that niche, at least if you changed the shock resistance to work like the air shield bless currently does. Because it would be pretty useful of your sacreds to die and do armor negating damage to an enemy thug/sc. Even without the shock resist though it would be good for low armor/prot/survivability sacreds to ruin someone's day. For example, something like a battle vestal or jaguar warrior with w9/a9. This would work best if they kept the air shield bless though.

What if berserk was moved to blood instead of nature, and nature got something like 25% resist all elements? Or mr- (or maybe str...) negatable tangle vines when attacked in melee? I don't know about the air bless, I'm reasonably happy with it personally. Though more for air shield than shock resist. Maybe it wouldn't be too bad if the 9 bless gave a minor mirror image?

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by rdonj

...Maybe it wouldn't be too bad if the 9 bless gave a minor mirror image?

Ohhh, I like that one too.

And I kind of thought that Berserk might work well on the B9, but I had to go with the fun Bite attack. BLOOD!

[Dectilon]

Wouldn't Mirror Image be too strong? (And a serious blow to game performance? ) Air and Blood are pretty powerful schools, and air shield is probably pretty good to have in LA games. I mean, blessed armored troops immune to crossbow fire? That's pretty near

[JimMorrison]

Mirror Image would be slightly more effective than Twist Fate in melee, and ineffective against missiles or spells. I think that implies it would actually be an excellent companion to Air Shield, and would make A9/S9 an interesting choice for sheer staying power.

[rdonj]

If I'm not mistaken, vans, tir na n'og, eriu etc all have mirror image from glamour, so it wouldn't be any worse than fighting them.

[Tifone]

I think glamour is one thing and mirror image another, but maybe I'm wrong?

(If so, Mirror imaged twisted fated glamoured vans = )

[Dectilon]

Originally Posted by rdonj

If I'm not mistaken, vans, tir na n'og, eriu etc all have mirror image from glamour, so it wouldn't be any worse than fighting them.

*Fights som Vanir*

*Loses badly*

Your point being? : D

[mivayan]

Originally Posted by rdonj

Even without the shock resist though it would be good for low armor/prot/survivability sacreds to ruin someone's day. For example, something like a battle vestal or jaguar warrior with w9/a9. This would work best if they kept the air shield bless though.

Charge body without shock resistance is FUNNY. Suicide-bless ftw! And yes, would restrict the equipment choices of enemy thugs.