Rune Mages: So ridiculous...

[Dragnipurake]

Originally Posted by namad

I reckon the devs just aren't aware players would ever think to split troops, because for any unit besides a rune mage its basically pointless to waste your leadership on smaller stacks of units when you could have bigger stacks? so in their testing they never caught the rune mage problem whereby 1rune mage is as powerful as 30?

I used to split stacks of Inquisitors as well to take advantage of Holy Rage in order to spam Dragon abilities early on for AP. I also split Beholders to get more enemy units stunned. I'm sure there are other instances where splitting is optimal (basically to take advantage of abilities that don't scale with leadership). For instance I'm considering splitting Warrior Maidens since their Call of Vahalla ability seems to scale a little too well (Unit-based rather than HP-based) when it comes to ressing Lvl 4 creatures.

[camelotcrusade]

Hmm. I didn't think phantoms had any abilities. So I'm not sure the paladin-rune mage trick would work since your first phantom wouldn't be able to do anything but move and attack. Has anybody actually pulled it off?

And speaking of ridiculous, how about a tricked-out ice ball (with max creator, max level and good intellect). Roll (or teleport) it in the middle of the enemies and they obsess over it while barely hurting it. Add max level avenging angel for extra lols.

[namad]

Originally Posted by camelotcrusade

Hmm. I didn't think phantoms had any abilities. So I'm not sure the paladin-rune mage trick would work since your first phantom wouldn't be able to do anything but move and attack. Has anybody actually pulled it off?

And speaking of ridiculous, how about a tricked-out ice ball (with max creator, max level and good intellect). Roll (or teleport) it in the middle of the enemies and they obsess over it while barely hurting it. Add max level avenging angel for extra lols.

phantoms do have abilities, it does work, it is nuts

[camelotcrusade]

Originally Posted by namad

phantoms do have abilities, it does work, it is nuts

Thanks for clearing that up. Did they tweak the power of phantom in the patch, or is it still maxed with only one unit?