u/loopuleasa

1. Grab thaumaturgy
2. Grab daylight magic (or build many mage guilds for +1 spell levels)
3. Learn Radiant Armor eventually
4. Manually upgrade thick hide and optical illusion and radiant armor in observatory
5. Have a phoenix in your army for max initiative to cast spells first
6. Enter combat
7. Cast Radiant Armor and Thick Hide (or optical illusion if enemy is heavy ranged)
8. You now have 70% damage reduction (which means 333% effective HP)
9. Bonus: Grab defense on the map for more damage reduction (it scales well)
10. If your opponent does not have max rank Wean, win the game

EDIT: The damage reduction is multiplicative, which is closer to 2.5x effective HP, but still pretty damn good

And it is a TIER 3 spell! (meaning 4 turn cooldown timer)

Right now the only counterplay is to have max level Inner Light to dispel Twilight, or to not invest much into ranged units at all.

You CANNOT wait out the spell. The fight will be over.

Twilight is the strongest debuff in the game by far, in normal mid to lategame one cast of twilight and your ranged stack damage goes to zero for 7+ turns (longer than the duration of the fight)

Right now it scales as such:

• Default Twilight: 1 turn
• Spell level 2+ Twilight: 2 turns
• 7 Spell Power Hero + Twilight: 3 turns
• 13 Spell Power Hero + Twilight: 4 turns
• 19 Spell Power Hero + Twilight: 5 turns
• 25 Spell Power Hero + Twilight: 6 turns
• ...

You see what I mean?

Every 6 turns +1 duration is too much scaling, it needs to be every 12 spellpower, at least

Proposed new scaling:

• Default Twilight: 1 turn
• Spell level 2+ Twilight: 2 turns
• 13 Spell Power Hero + Twilight: 3 turns
• 25 Spell Power Hero + Twilight: 4 turns
• 37 Spell Power Hero + Twilight: 5 turns
• 49 Spell Power Hero + Twilight: 6 turns
• ...

Looking at the numbers honestly, it looks broken even at 12 spellpower lol

Heroes would still hit insane duration twilights, but at least now they will need to be Magic heroes, not Might heroes.

40% damage reduction is insane

but for ALL YOUR ARMY??

this is the strongest buff in this game by far

its purpose and thematic is to be the giga tank spell for ONE tank (your power stack)

It is Radiant Armor not Radiant Armors (plural)

Maybe make the upgrade path 30-40-50 damage reduction instead

Anyone know them off the top of their head?

Do they exist on a wiki page?

maybe they should be a separate wiki page too

Talking about effects like the Scouting tier 2 subskill

https://preview.redd.it/se3gw3im4v0h1.png?width=330&format=png&auto=webp&s=9a3701600fd926d8842a858ac500a5ab56ffcf49

Basically:

- Hero starts with 175 move points

- Movement on road: 7 move points

- Movement on dirt road: 8 move points

- Movement on native terrain: 10 points

- Movement on non native terrain: 14 points

- Movement on non native terrain with Pathfinding: 12 (the above 4 points penalty is halved). That means you move 15% better off-road.

- Moving diagonally for all above scenarios is +40% move cost on top

- Terrain is considered native if your hero is native

- Terrain is also considered native if your entire army is native

Each ground has a certain color theme belonging to each of the 6 factions.

No more twilight for your opponent