Orcs on the March thread

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by atlatea

Yeah, orc chieftain and ogre proves to be two of scrounger's most annoying stacks (besides shamans and goblin poison axe). Luckily the battle arena is not flat normal arena, so that chieftain can be blocked (at least that happens in my case).

Scrounger indeed love to kill rune mage, whenever astral attack come, it always aimed to rune mage, what a weird and annoying orc. I guess most if not all players need to reload againts scrounger.

I got an easy no loss win yet very long battle in tower last fight. I just use black dragons and few gizmos. I'm too afraid to use full army, because i can't imagine how powerful caretaker's geyser with such a very high int and insane amount of mana.

Scrounger and caretaker are easily the hardest battles of all.

Yeah, someone (maybe it was you) that taught me how to use Gizmo!

I don't remember or think Caretaker ever uses Geyser, at least he didn't use it against me.

However, I never did like the armies they gave me.

Most are waay too fragile to take care of, so a no-loss with the care taker is pretty annoying. I feel like I have no choice but to go rune mage, but after your Gizmo + Black Dragon tip, sounds like I have another way to win it.

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Ugh, now I remember why I felt so strongly about the Defense stat not affecting abilities like Dancing Axes.

17 Shaman used Dancing Axes on my Cyclops

Dancing Axes does 20-25 Magical Damage, has an Attack Rating of 23, my Cyclops has a Defense of 73.

At about 50 difference in Attack/Defense, I should have taken about 37% damage, or a 63% reduction in damage. I took 429 Damage.

17*(20-25) = 340-425 damage. Funny, since I have 3% magical resistance. So I clearly took nearly full damage (if anything, I took more).

I felt it has always been this way with Shaman in AP, because they would always hunt my beloved Trolls and kill... kill kill.

I am beginning to believe CERTAIN abilities always bypass the Defense stat, but others do not?

Or can someone explain to me why this is the case if the abilities are affected by the Defense stat?