Falling frost vs. AI hordes

rdonj · #6 October 28th, 2010, 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by krpeters

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Originally Posted by rdonj

Mmm... falling fires, mediocre? I'm playing a game right now where one fire mage has killed over 70 enemy soldiers over just two battles just casting those, fireballs and incinerates. The visual results on the battlefield weren't stunning, but the numbers were actually pretty good. If you say about 30 enemy casualties per mage, 3 mages is nearly 100 dead enemy soldiers. Not bad, I'd say.

I'm going to guess that the "one mage" isn't a 150 gold Witch Hunter that first cast Phoenix Power, then cast falling fires three times before exhausting out? Because that's my typical result, which is more like 15 enemy fatalities per battle. Nice, admittedly, but not great.

Now if you're using a 320 gold MA Anathemant Dragon, or better yet, a 440 gold Anointed of Rhuax, yeah, I can see you laying down some serious damage... but note you're paying a lot more for it.

That's an f3 mage with phoenix power. F2's aren't quite as good, no. But if you can get up to f4, they tend to cause a LOT of casualties. And at 30 casualties per battle, they only need to survive two battles to pay themselves back. You also can't underestimate the power of momentum.