The war wouldn't be over until one is thoroughly beaten. Topfeeding on bigger kingdoms to get to some NW ratio autowin would be a terrible mechanic. You have to beat them down to win, if you can't do that then you aren't really winning yet.
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OK the game mechanic changes are good
personalities are OK except sage is now almost useless, cant run extreme without cost reduction might as well remove extreme from the game. Do they even get some free books ???? nerfed to much on that note i could careless about plauge when i can just remove it casting NB.
Cleric is ugly as well do something to boast it up perhaps give it a BE bonus.
Race changes however, are the worst i have ever seen playing this game and i been playing for a very long time.
Humans are basically an old gnome with tog how ugly.
Dwarfs are still to Nerfed take away the credit raze thing and boost its BE nobody cares about free razing it not very important especially in a war. In addition, the food 50% consumption penalty makes having a nice build with it very hard and only 10% BE bonus a horrible set up. The instant spell thing can be taken away make it more like it used to be give it back 7\4 leets so it can have its advantage and compete with orcs and undead's like it used to.
Avians are also to nerfed boost their dspec or give it more defense on the leets or some other bonus.
Leet points are all out of wack you got a bunch races with 10-11 and 12 points and avian being weakest with 9. even them out give a boost to all of them rather then nerf.
or Watch the world be Undead\Orc\Elf and TM's
I think the changes are good, I could play any of these races.
I like the revisions overall, but I think orcs are slightly OP and sage is slightly UP by losing the point cost reduction. I also think humans should have more attack power. They look too much like halflings now.
I assume when it says a war win awards free building credits equal to the total of your current unbuilt acres, that includes the land currently out with armies at war end that returns home immediately?
"-50% Combat Instant Spell Damage and Sabotage Damage" means that an Orc has -50% defensive wpa (this will make orc very weak in war)? Or how does this works?
Avian is too slow now in my opinion considering weak defense of his elite which make him too easy to be ambushed.
Humans should be called gnome.
Moving chastity back to Undead it's not really good. It was fine to go with mystic, I think. Give UD some other spell, maybe WS from Humans or NM from Elf and give to Human/Elf another spell (QF, Vermin)
Also: "+50% Spell Duration" in case of NM will affect the duration of re-training?
Not much of the major changes in the next age are within my flavoured taste, but I am really glad and grateful that the uniques of the races can stay the same at last.
The feeling that the development team gave me from the two changes made, is their determination to make the next age, an age full of spells and ops flying all around in wars lol!! It is quite funny just to imagine how fierce the wars the next age will be, I am sure many will have a taste of surprise from it. The number in percentage does give a great and huge range of benefit but no one would actually know how it become until we test it out, so I do support this revision 2 changes but except for one race, the Elfs.
In overall, Avian may have 40% thievery damage but they lost -10% speed and a -10% gain and also the Clear Sight spell, so it makes them look weaker but after have a look at their elites, 7/2 is not bad as well.
Dwarf is a well defended A/M, with the aid of Clear Sight spells it naturally makes them invulnerable to runes stolen strategy if they add in good amount of WTs. A 30% spell damage given to them naturally encourage the Dwarf players to go for Wpa build and this makes them less vulnerable to chain strategy since a mage can counter chain by Land Lust when they reach a low acre. So here I think the value of the elites should be nerfed a bit or the Avians would seem naturally weaker if compared to the Dwarfs.
Elfs as usual I do not encourage the gift of Nightmare spell for them. Personally I have seen a top kd using Faeries team comes along with their Nightmare strategy, and even with only 3 mana per tick and 5 off spec, they have already owned a lot of kds so easily like a piece of cake.
But the focus of this point is still about the Nightmare spell. If the spell are as strong as before as I recognised it, it is unimaginably scary.
The lost of Clear Sight spells doesn't really make it a penalty because of numbers. I would take an example of this.
If a kd only have a few Elfs naturally just stealing their runes would solve the problem of the fear from Nightmare. But, how are you suppose to counter them when it comes with a kd of Elfs? It doesn't need to be a full kd of Elfs, just half of them Elfs and another half of them a race which have good advantage in thievery damage so they can steal runes effectively to provide to the Elfs. You can't expect to be able to steal every Elfs runes, and with +30% Wpa and 5 mana/tick with Mystic, that makes them unimaginable scary in wars. Except the race Faeries I really dont think any races else will be able to withstand the Elfs in wars.
We have to put in mind too a mage is capable to counter chain strategy as well by Land Lusting.
The roles of Faeries has been enhanced more with having both Wpa Tpa bonus as well as spell/ops damage together. I meant wow, the next age is truely undoubted an age for the thieves and mages.
While Halfling doesn't have much to say since majorities of it uniques stay the same the next age.
Human, this race I believe is a new experimental and tryout for the development team. Giving a bonus in both t/m damages, the population and the elites value give me a feeling they looks like a Hafling but actually they dont, they have tree of gold and fountain of knowledge and they get the War Spoil spell as well. The many ways of this race to be able to play different roles are largely possible.
Orcs losses the penalty of -25% Wpa and Tpa and a better defence in magical area with the gift of Reflect Magic. This makes them less vulnerable from t/m damage. The feeling is to provide this race especially to the pure attackers lovers.
Undeads.... is a lol for the next age. If I am not mistaken, this should be the weakest race among others all.
A -50% offence losses will limit the reach of an amount their elites counts since when your elites grows in numbers, the losses follow greater in numbers but the spec convertion stay the same. So that means your offence will stay the same as well, a cap in offence Opa value. So it doesn't give much benefit in this area. As well as they do not enjoy any t/m offence capability like the Avians or Dwarfs, yet they do not enjoy the benefit of Reflect Magic like the Orcs, so naturally the only benefits I could see from this race, is only their Plague and no food needed.
These are my 2 cents, hope it helps, thanks.
And again, thanks the development team for keeping the uniques of the races for us. :)
At first glance, these changes just reflect pointlessness of playing hybrid, dw/hu/av/hf are just so fragile, who is AV gonna NS??, AVs will get NSed by fearies and halfers and halfers will be FBed and MSed to death. Feary is the only race with no drawbacks to its role, remove it and the hybrid will rule.
I like the changes...I like Avian/Warrior (Edit: and be a A/T) but not sure if I'm crazy.
@Bishop: Any ideea what means "Enhanced Conquest range"? Cause if lets me to cq larger ppl OOW is useless, better switch back to old Enhanced CQ at any time (or only at war) or give some extra OME for the attacker in case of CQ (+5-10% OME when performing a CQ) and let Warrior have no limit for cq OOW