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Thallasmourne
Tavern Dweller
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posted April 14, 2025 03:51 PM |
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Grails ideas:
1) Castle
Grail gives constant +3 morale to all player's units unstead of +2. Moreover, player's morale can't go lower than +1 no matter what.
Why: This change is aimed to make such a hard thing to get (Grail) viable enough to at least consider its installation in Castle in comparison to just finding Pendant of Courage.
2) Rampart
Same as Castle, but it's a Luck bonus instead of Morale.
Why: same reason as stated in Castle.
3) Tower
Let it keep its "map hack" but instead of very situational Knowledge Siege bonus, make it so that if the Grail is installed in Tower, every hero visiting a Mages Guild is offered to buy an "upgraded" Spell Book which makes all spells cheaper (let the devs decide actual mana discount). BUT there is only ONE special Spell Book available, so player should choose a recipient wisely.
4) Dungeon
Option 1: If the Grail is installed in Dungeon, every hero visiting a Mages Guild is offered to buy an "upgraded" Spell Book which makes all spells ignore any kind of magic immunity.
Option 2: "upgraded" Spell Book allows random uncontrollable double casts from a strict list of minor spells (for balance sake). All uncontrollable casts are mana-free.
For example: A hero chooses to cast an Implosion on enemy unit, then automatically and uncontrollably casts Bless on their random ally unit or Weakness on random enemy unit.
In any of these 2 options there is only ONE special Spell Book available, so player should choose a recipient wisely.
5) Stronghold
The Grail offers a bonus which allows to boost your Offense and Archery skills beyond normal restrictions (basically works like Soul Prison). Let the devs decide how strong that bonus should be (from +5% to 10% or more).
6) Fortress
Same as Stronghold, but with Armorer and Interference instead of Offense and Archery. Let the devs decide how strong that bonus should be (from +5% to 10% or more).
Why: Changes of these towns' grails are aimed to replace insanely situational Siege bonuses, which are outdated from my humble point of view, while a half of other towns get much more flexible bonuses.
7) Inferno
Grail boosts demonology allowing Pit Lords to raise demons from enemy corpses too. Let the devs decide if any necessary balance tweaks are needed in this case. I believe demon raising from enemy corpses should be x1.5-x2 weaker than normal demon farming formula.
Why: From my humble point of view, original Grail tried to boost demonology too, though it was designed for quite long game sessions to accumulate its effect. My variant is a speed-up option.
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SirIronfist
Known Hero
King of the ogres
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posted April 16, 2025 06:58 PM |
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Wouldn't it be a great idea to have some sort of a yearly map making contest? The reward for the best three maps could be for them to become part of the HoTa canon. They could even get their own little icon in the map menu. I feel like there's a lot of wasted potential in the map making space, where so many people are silently creating things that end up disappearing among thousands of other maps in various archives.
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Syth1984
Adventuring Hero
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posted April 17, 2025 07:40 AM |
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Neutral Creature Resistance: Neutral creature clearance is a bit dull and not risky at the moment. And almost always you have better outcomes than auto combat. With increasing difficulty level neutral creatures should have neutral resistance added to their stats.
at Hard Difficulty [+%5 resistance]
at Expert Difficulty [+%10 resistance]
at Impossible Difficulty [+%15 resistance]
This would cut down mass spell usage and reliance of some overpowered tactics. Imagine 1 of out of 6 blind spells you cast is a misfire. Or 1 stack does not get mass slowed down out of 6 stacks. You would have to adapt to changing situations which should be what a strategy game all about. There would be more risks involved in fighting or not fighting.
It could be toggle on/off at the start of the game which wouldn't bother other players if they don't want this extra thing like tournament rules.
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MattII
Legendary Hero
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posted April 17, 2025 08:40 AM |
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Grell said:
Or instead, the mass spells could work with a radius area. Similar as Berserk or Inferno works.
Basic: target 1 unit.
Advanced: All creatures in a 3 hex radius affected.
Expert: All creatures in a 4 hex radius affected.
With this, even tactis would have a different aproach in the strategy of the battles.
Berserk is a single-stack spell, and Inferno is a damage spell, so neither quite fits the bill. A way it could be done would be to make all such spells single target only, but allow the player to cast them 2/3/4 times per round for Basic/Advanced/Expert proficiency in that school. You could also make it so that Sorcery allows you to cast them an extra 1/2/3 times per round as well.
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MurlocAggroB
Known Hero
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posted April 17, 2025 05:39 PM |
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MattII said:
Berserk is a single-stack spell
Berserk becomes an AOE spell at advanced or expert level.
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Phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted April 17, 2025 07:04 PM |
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Yep and that's the best and only real reason to choose Fire Magic.
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gnollking
Supreme Hero
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posted April 17, 2025 07:14 PM |
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Phoenix4ever said:
Yep and that's the best and only real reason to choose Fire Magic.
Mass Curse is also excellent.
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Rimgrabber
Promising
Famous Hero
Voice in Gelu's Head
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posted April 17, 2025 07:25 PM |
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Mass curse is good but it's definitely the weakest of the level 1 mass spells. Which is a pretty common theme of fire magic. It's nice to have but it's pretty rare for it to be preferable to air or water magic.
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MattII
Legendary Hero
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posted April 17, 2025 10:44 PM |
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MurlocAggroB said:
Berserk becomes an AOE spell at advanced or expert level.
Ah, okay. Still, this isn't really ideal for most mass spells, as it would undoubtedly affect both your own and enemy units at the same time.
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LordCameron
Famous Hero
Veteran of the Succession Wars
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posted April 18, 2025 06:50 AM |
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SirIronfist said:
Wouldn't it be a great idea to have some sort of a yearly map making contest? The reward for the best three maps could be for them to become part of the HoTa canon. They could even get their own little icon in the map menu. I feel like there's a lot of wasted potential in the map making space, where so many people are silently creating things that end up disappearing among thousands of other maps in various archives.
Could just cut out the middle man and put gnoll king's maps in.
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