paladins were always awful...
the fixed healing ability is a) his ultimate final ability and b) useless in a no-loss run... that's right the skald's ultimate ability does LITERALLY NOTHING AT ALL in a no loss run! in fact... his ability is only really at all useful if you get OBLITERATE! which if you're doing that a lot... well it's not good!
edda? at level 2 when I first got edda it was absolutely useless, the drawbacks often outweighed the bonuses, now maybe at level 40 or something edda will rock? who knows? I don't know exactly how it scales... I'd say the paladin got ONE BUFF, the one BUFF HE ABSOLUTELY NEEDED! he has the highest leadership now, but his abilities are still the WORST ABILITIES...
you can't possibly sit there with a straight face and tell me that the spirit tree isn't still the worst tree of the three, at least now they're admitting the spirit tree is the worst, and so it's balanced by having the best leadership, seems fair to me! edda and rez after battle ultimate? don't hold a candle to alchemy+high magic! now the might tree might seem a bit weak, but... in this game... the rage system has been... UPGRADED! you have 3-5 separate rage rest cooldown timers that work simultanously now as well as improved rage bonus skills, even if the non-rage related might skills are a bit lax...
it seems like they're really focused the three classes well this time around between rage/magic/and weird gimmicks but at least your leadership rocks?
whereas before it was might/redmage/magic which was just a less well defined split... I never found rage abilities in the might tree all that key in the first 2.5 games in the series... heck... in crossworlds my mage had some fairly good rage abilities that didn't feel like I needed the might tree!!!!
using awaken dragon PLUS another spell every turn? (thanks to high magic?) makes up for a lot of the missing rage abilities from the might tree in older games? I wonder is awaken dragon even still in wotn? it seemed a bit op...
although really big question is.... can you still use guard droids+repair droids+SACRIFICE to reproduce infinitely many troops in your army? mid-battle, nearly endlessly, not only allowing you to rez, but to grow entire stacks of troops you didn't have enough of to begin with? that was CRAZY OP is that still in?
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