Shattered Kingdoms

I can wtfown anyone with my necromancer given enough preperation.

If I get an order all bash pally off before a pally get his spam BoG off I can win...

...but if they get that BoG delf;BoG delf off before hand I'm dead.

Eighter way...elf pally or delf necro...it's one command and the other -is- dead.

If the pally is 2nd rank and flying, and you aren't eth...

The necro dies anyway.

I've seen a ton of hellions keep people from fleeing, with dominate.

Hellions get a one hit kill ability, I really don't want them to be able to keep anyone from fleeing.

You can do the same thing with an atyrros - and any dominate that could actually taunt and is found to be useful and reliable seems to very quickly be wimped. Like the quicklings, for example.



I've seen BoG one hit kill a delf more than once.

EDIT: Granted, it hasn't happened RECENTLY though, to my knowledge.

Maybe a delf necro with like 10 CON and no resists.

It really just all comes down to resists, any intelligent player will -always- have their gear enchanted. If they don't have enchanted gear, sure a BoG will wreck delves, but so will magma spray, petrification, FoD, color spray, acid blast, basically any spell out there.

It really just comes down to being prepared vs not being prepared and expecting the same results. I can point out an example that too this day still bugs me.

Sarukayn summon killed Terramos way back when I played Sorrinius, and of course we had both of the transport rings. So I get a little group together, and we enter the ring, teleporting us immediately to Sarukayn who didn't know what the rings did. I had time for one spell before he fled, I obviously casted BoG, he's a drow, and a sorc at that, I thought it was a sure thing it'd hit him for some massive damage, and the nimbus would fire preventing him from fleeing.

Nope, he had spent time enchanting his gear, and saved vs the spell just fine.

Don't want to get raped? BoG or otherwise? Enchant your loot.

EDIT: On the flip side of that are elves, with their weakness to negative energy. FoD is meant to one shot people elves or not. BoG simple has a chance of doing enough damage to one shot a low HP deep-elf. I'd rather be weak against BoG, and just have to be wary about one class, than guard against anyone who can use staves or scrolls.

Just wait until the BoG staffs of doom!

There actually used to be one. The staff of blinding light used to be a BoG staff, it was later wimped to spear of faith.

The wand for it is uber enough as it doesn't start combat, so it draws the fight so you can kill a deepie then go report them!

Sounds like a bug.