Might & Magic X: Legacy

Got my Runepriests promotion, game just got a ton easier. First they don't get resisted as much now they're GM fire, so that's really good, and they're also hitting a lot harder as expected. The GM Fire spell is ok, kinda, it's basically like sparks but obviously a ton stronger, it crits for 1400 with GM focus+fire, which is pretty hilarious but the mana cost means unless you're hitting 5+targets it's pretty shit.

The thing though that's really OP is the Runelord Fire Rune skill that you get. Reading the description it looks fairly unimpressive, but it's not just a one tile rune, it's a 3tiles width(basically one tile then all the adjacent tiles to it). It drops it 1tile forward(so not in front of you, but the one after) so it has a fairly large reach, then it stays for 3turns and does firebolt damage to everything in it every turn. Better, they STACK. I have 2runepriests, I can drop 2 runes, then mobs take damage twice per turn. But even better? They stack from the same rune priests too. You can stack 4(I think by the time you cast 6 the first one disapear before dealing dmg) which is hilarious damage. Know when the bosses start like 2rounds away from you before moving in? They reach melee range they're almost already dead from standing in all the runes lol. The only, and massive downside is the rune isn't usable in melee range, because if a mob is in front it'll cast the rune on it instead of behind the mob. That means YOU are in the rune aoe, so you take like 200dmg per turn for 3turns, generally die especially if you cast 2. But eh, can fireball, firebolt or fireburst anyway so no big deal.

So what happens now is I just stack the ground shit and mobs tend to die trying to reach me. Like I'll spam fire runes then once mobs are one round from melee my druid lays down a poison cloud and my freemage a cyclone(soon thunderstorm) and just keep going like that spamming aoes everywhere. It's pretty hilarious to see an entire room of blackguards shit dying before they even take a swing at me. Oh and when they do? +27armor stoneskin and 16% damage reduction liquid membrane(not GM water yet, expect it to be 20+% when I get that), so they do no damage. The minotaur boss took a swing at my freemage and crit him for 43. That's the freemage too, the weakest of my 4chars, my 2runepriests have shields and 40+ armor and my druid has a staff with a block attempt and 40armor from the unbreakable.

Anyway it's going nicely now, but fuck the start of act3 was rough with all casters, I couldn't kill anything easily it was just resists everywhere, plus pretty much every mob has either fire, air or earth resistance, meaning one of my char was always useless.

Vaclav_sl said:

Really, the fire rune is setting two tiles out for you? Was doing 1 out for me almost all the time.... which sucked eating the damage.

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As I said, it only does that if there's nothing blocking it, as in, no monster in melee range. You have to cast it while mobs are still running towards you, otherwise yeah you cast it under them and you kill yourself. Just try it in town or whatever, cast it and you'll see it casts one tile away.


And Amadeus, [] for spoiler tags, and I figured them out myself. A bunch I just ran there to check the name, others can be found in the books you have. Hardest one for me was the lastest.

The elementals guard content for later, there's no reason to kill them, you can't open the doors behind them anyway. This will happen a lot in act2, if you run into mobs that just straight up rape you, they're simply part of later content so you'll have to come back later.

Crone_sl said:

Is Nature and Holy = Earth and Light? I dont' see Nature or Holy schools in my skill trees. Just wondering for clarification.

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Yeah well it's earth and light but often make the mistake and I'm sure others do too.

I'd still take Bladedancer over Ranger, I've done Ranger with the same idea of being able to master earth, but I didn't even bother putting more than 1point, I leveled dodge instead(which arguably wasn't really needed either). Thing is the ranger special ability is complete shit, while the bladedancer one can be alright if you give the +5mana/+1spirit pots to your bladedancer and the passive one is sometimes nice. In terms of healing, since regen doesn't stack, you really only need one and anyone can cast it, it's not even needed either you could use group heal from light instead. The only thing you want from a secondary healer is a strong enough heal that you can always get your healer back up if he gets hit hard, and regeneration is awful for this, better get expert light on any other char that can.

But yeah you can make a ranger work, as a melee. Ranged is still completely awful. To be honest I think you should be able to do ranged dmg even in "melee" range, casters don't have any issue and the advantage of being able to shoot a couple tiles away is of very little importance when you're being swarmed by groups of 8-10mobs in endgame, plus the fact you can't block with a bow, seems balanced enough for 100% damage all the time, not sure why they went with such a harsh penalty.

Well I forgot what the DW GM bonus is, but iirc it wasn't that good, it's not like GM Two handed which is really strong so you'd always want it if possible(which sadly means you can only play barb, which severely limits your weapon options). It's weird they went with some of the choices they did. At the very least and I've seen that mentionned on the boards, when you promote a class it should get better. For example promoting a merc to windsword would give you GM sword/DW/2H instead of just master. Or it could just be the base, remove maces or whatever. Makes no sense a class named windSWORDS can't GM swords.

But yeah there's a lot of stuff missing. You can't GM axe, DW or 2H, you can't GM sword+2H but you can GM it with DW on bladedancer, you can't GM mace+DW.