Rage box vs dragon

[Metroplex]

I loved the rage box, specially Reaper...
The dragon is not that useless though, it had some useful abilities that I used a lot.

[Zechnophobe]

The dragon is much more rounded. You only ever use the same abilities with the Chest no matter the class.
I like that fiery phantoms are a warriors toy, ball lightning and mana accelerator for a mage, egg for doing CRAZY STUPID shit without losses, etc etc. Dig is nifty.

Also, dragon has a lot more tactical options. Well placed pushes, blocking a space with an egg, granting one more move. It is much more interesting than the chest.

Like previously said, the only thing I miss is glot's armor. That was a powerful, and unique effect.

[Metroplex]

Zechnophobe, you should try your tactical genius againt the Disciples 3 AI on hard mode...

[Razorflame]

@ metro

i already doing it
on hard it still too easy

the only impossible that was really hard
was on warlords battlecry (the rts version)
the turn based was easy

furthermore how the hell can techo say a dragon is more rounded?

lol

the most used dragon ability is the treasure chest
second is most likely the mana accelerator

and after it's just extra rage spending on the kick and dive
and for warrior maybe the phantoms

but either way

i bet you were using more skills from the rage box than the dragon

dragon is so useless

[Zechnophobe]

Kick, Dive, Phantom, Chest, Accelerator.

Okay, so what'd you use in the chest? Probably about 4 abilities, and only because each rage spirit had multi-turn rests.

[clinek]

neither one is truly better... they are matched to the games difficulty. Sure there are pros and cons to both. Rage box definitely had a much cooler look to it. I mean come on, the grim reaper vs a baby dragon. There were 4 different spirits in the box which allowed for a guaranteed rage (spell?) to be used each round. On the other hand, the wait time was really shitty for the box. If you wanted to use black hole, you would have to wait how many rounds before you could use the danm thing again. They are all pretty much the same though when it comes down to it. Time back was really useful but now we have a spell for it. I kinda agree with zechnophobe though, ball of lightning is much better than sould drain in every way. It hits three rounds in a row. The only problem i have with it is it doesn't allow you to pick the unit you want it to attack. Fiery phantoms is better than black hole because it does more damage. Underground blades and volcanoe are about even and most of the other skills are equally useful as thier counterparts. Box of rage is cooler, but the dragon is probably more useful altogether. Glots armor would be nice though.

[Zechnophobe]

Ok, I completely agree that the graphics for the Chest were better. Black hole had some seriously cool looking effects. Fiery Phantoms just doesn't stack up with it.

Hmm, it occurs to me that I wish the dragon also had the 'fast animation' for his abilities. Remember how the chest had two different ones for each ability, one longer than the other that showed the first time you used the ability, and like every 5th time after that, and one where the spirit basically shows up for half a sec and then does his thing?

It'd be nice to save some time on all those hunts and mana accelerators.