I disagree that Dryads are so great. I use primarily ranged units and I found that I can usually kill the enemy with magic/ranged attacks. On the off occasion that a unit manages to cross the battlefield it is met with ice thorns or the ice ball which will give me the one extra turn to kill him. A unit like archmages can shock enemies often enough while attacking and doing damage to make him more valuable. Plus archmages have 90 hp so they won't die from a giant's stomp or a necromancer's attack. (i just got resurrect in the elf land so i was using inquisitor + gift until now...).
When the computer controls dryads it wastes several turns. they cast sleep & thorns, and only 1 or 2 of my guys are sleepable and the thorns get killed right away with fire rain, (kills 1000-1400 thorns with my lvl 25 warrior with max chaos magic).
Point is... dragons are nice because they are tough and fast, but dryads are not as mobile and and lose a few here and there too easily. So they aren't worth an artifact slot that could benefit my overall strategy instead of one unit only. (not worth sprites or lake faeries either).
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