Inner Furnace - another lie our manuals have told?

BesucherXia · #1 December 28th, 2008, 10:00 AM

I knew it from the manual since long before that this spell must penetrate MR to work, but today I also found by chance that all indy units are candidates to this spell's effect as well.

Luckily that was not a decisive battle using hundreds of archers guarding some VIPs but a small SP game. But I still found it very odd and a great hamper for its use. Would you think it another bug or just throw our manuals away?
(Hmmm... I mean if you don't like your manuals any more, feel free to send it to me.)

Sombre · #2 December 28th, 2008, 10:08 AM

It's not really a bug. It's made to work on all friendly units. I guess it doesn't fit the description exactly.

thejeff · #3 January 3rd, 2009, 04:44 PM

Does it actually have the MR roll? I was playing around with Abysia recently and all the units I checked had the boost. Including Devils and others with decent MR. I wasn't specifically looking for the mr, so I could have missed it.

chrispedersen · #4 January 3rd, 2009, 06:09 PM

I think this is a reoccurence of a bug.

A few patches back, Abysias Inner furnace spell affected all units.
It was posted as a bug, with discussion as I recall.

Patch came out, and it only affected abysian national troops.

I seem to recall this, as I was playing abysia in a game when the patch came out and I was using this particular feature.

Militia are much more interesting when they are flaming molotovs.

I'd buglist discuss it and see what happens.

thejeff · #5 January 3rd, 2009, 06:27 PM

I thought it just boosted anything with a heat aura, instead of just Abysians as the description claims. Does it really affect everything?

BesucherXia · #6 January 3rd, 2009, 06:50 PM

I am pretty sure it affects every friendly units, given the mr roll is passed.
In my game two militias got heat aura as well.

Sombre · #7 January 3rd, 2009, 07:30 PM

Pretty sure the Furnace working on even enemy units was a cbm bug, not a vanilla one.

thejeff · #8 January 3rd, 2009, 07:52 PM

I just checked a battle in a cbm game. It did affect all friendly units.
No enemy ones though.

One casting seemed to affect everyone, though. Even all the high mr summons and mages. At least in CBM, I don't think there's an MR check. Certainly not an easily resisted one.

vfb · #9 January 3rd, 2009, 08:48 PM

I saw it resisted by some friendly MR10 units when I tested it. Cannot remember if the test game was CBM or not though.

lch · #10 January 4th, 2009, 10:36 AM

I always thought it worked like thejeff wrote, and would only affect units with a heat aura. Huh...