Suicide Casters...
Well, I thought everybody knew that "Rain of Stones" is a powerful tool against Caelian Mages. Everyone, but a single of my own high seraphs, who thus killed all his fellow friends to claim the victory of his battle alone! Why? What are the criteria for earth mages do cast Rain of Stones?
That reckless seraph started out with A4W3E4 (Staff of elemental mastery, earth boots, Random Pick = Earth, +1 Earth empowerment), he also carried quite a few earth gems and a crystal matrix (with 4 communion slaves present). The script was something like "Quickness", "Summon Earthpower", "Invulnerability", "Living Earth" and "Petrify".
The enemy consisted of a couple of sages and abysian warlocks, having a boatload of slaves (the enemy was staling for some turns).
I guess that Rain of Storms made some sense, since there were more unprotected enemies (blood slaves) than friends on the battlefield (some expensively equipped high seraphs who were not bothered to cast mistform by their script and a few caelian archers), while the caster itself (and the communion slaves) were protected by Invulnerability...
What can be done to prevent these sad scenes?
Rigidly counting earth gems? Would bringing more weakly protected friendly troops help as well? Would mistform help? Or is it just plain stupid to mix earth casters?
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