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Old January 6th, 2004, 05:51 PM

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Default Re: What are the strongest summons?

If I remember the numbers right, the chances of getting feebleminded during a Void Gate summing are as follows:

Cthugal the Stargazer: 2%
Starspawn priest: 5%
Starspawn mage: (err, not sure here . . . was it 25%?)
Any other Astral mage: 75%

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Old January 6th, 2004, 10:32 PM
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Default Re: What are the strongest summons?

[quote]Originally posted by Taqwus:
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The priestly starspawns have the best chance of getting stuff without getting feebleminded, IIRC. The national hero Cthgul the Stargazer has an even better chance than your average priestly starspawn, but you get at most one... Astral magic matters too, I think.

Give 'em good guards, because the more successful summons they pull off, the better chance they have of getting fun monsters, and good bodyguards makes it more likely they'll live that long.
Ritual of Returning is better than bodyguards when you learn it. Starspawn priest are beefy enough to survive whatever the Gate summons throw at them, and once they get hit, they're back at your capital the next month, ready to summon more things.
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Well, not quite EVERYTHING - but I've only had a horror attack once.

Ugh. Horrors. Ugh.
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Experimenting Last night, it seemed to me that Wailing Ladies make a good chassis for assassins. Granted, only Ermor gets 'em...
...but they're stealthy (+0 only), ethereal, unholy, zero-enc, undead scary units with a length-6 area-1 save-or-die wailing attack, and they have all the usual equipment slots. Give one some armor (even a Marble Breastplate will help enormously), a Black Heart, perhaps boots of quickness and a luck charm, and go a-caroling.
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