Time for a poll. (The subject is abuse)

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Kuritza said:
You dont get it. Its not shock immunity combined with wrathful skies. Its AQ combined with a mage scripted to cast WS and retreat. See? Now there's just a very hard to kill SC on the battlefield, and no way to end Wrathful Skies.
Now if it was AQ herself who has cast the spell, she'd get lots of fatique and probably die. Had the mage stayed, well, there's a fat chance you'd get him too. But with AQ and a retreating mage its a win-win, unless your enemy gets a lucky soulslay or something. Too cheap.

Okay, now that's more or less complete bull.

First, Wrathful Skies isn't really powerful. It hits random squares on the battlefield. For it to have a "good" effect, the enemy army has to be quite large and consist of not too powerful units. Best when you can easily hold them at bay, e.g. in a castle storming when you can hold the entrance with blockers. In short, an enemy army that is subject to suffer non-trivial losses from WS is one that any SC would eat for breakfast, anyway.

Second, the air queen hardly needs a supporting mage that retreats from the battlefield. Give her an air booster and a couple of gems and she can cast it without breaking a sweat. A5, 2 gems, that means 3 extra gems for reducing fatigue off a 200 fatigue spell. But even without extra gems: If you build SCs like I do, then you'll make sure that their reinvigoration is higher than their encumberance so that they can fight until the end of time instead of getting overwhelmed due to fatigue at some point. Since the AQs have zero base encumberance that's quite easy to do. So, if the AQ can cast Wrathful Skies itself without the need for a retreating support mage, where is the problem? That a good, fully decked out SC is hard to beat in time? That's nothing new.