Maybe the Dark Sister and Efreets, to some extent.
Digging can be had from paws as well. Anyway, steel heads are less about damage and more about protection. Sound is the third or fourth most commonly resisted damage type, so not ideal for offense.
What would you do with one?
Indeed, it appears there's a MER discord that's... largely not about MER?
And Old Huntsman is quite alive if not terribly kicking. Sure, but you run into those a lot. And the steel head is almost custom-tailored for the big fights with the King and the Archmage.
The Phoenix is physical?
Guess I need to go and take another look at the critter...That's a sizeable assumption. And do you mean solo, or with minions? Because a lone mid-sized dragon isn't going to be very tanky.
I don't think it's terribly different there. The Final Battle is more of an endurance contest if you're not relying on the Army. I have some small plans to make it a little harder than it currently is, like letting your current knight level up (or pick a random max-level knight if you lack one) and take a whack at you.
While you're right from a strictly simulationist POV, this would lead to further stat inflation. The dragon is perfectly capable of soloing a lot of fights as it is right now. The size limit is more about how many body parts you can have, not their size. You grow bigger, you grow more paws instead of bigger paws, etc.
Physical/fire to be exact. If it were to become the probable magic/fire then players wouldn't need two kinds of head min-maxing for the end-game but considering the general direction of the game I doubt things are going to become easier for players.The Phoenix is physical?
Don't treants also do physical damage? Not that they're terribly hard or anything.
Medium-sized dragon is not a tank, true. Monstrous and up sure, but if you're going to want to tank and chip away at a more difficult enemy's health earlier than that I'd say you're going to need a few sets of short paws.
If wings and paws were to, through the mutation menu only, get upgrades in size and strength that increase their effectiveness instead of requiring from the player to get more wings to fly as they get larger, it could work. But I agree with you that new content is preferable to increased cosmetics.
Uh, fire/magic is harder than fire/physical, right?
Yeah, I should probably inflate certain enemies a bit. Just yesterday I thought about creating 'elder giants' of all varieties. It mostly comes down to finding good pictures, though.
Doesn't that only work if you've got high fear? Otherwise, your dragon can't perform multiple retaliations and at least some throwaway minions are better than nothing at all.
Hmm, yeah, a big dragon is OP.
Some of it is the spells, but he's plenty powerful even without those.That would also be mostly cosmetic, and the effort would be comparable. I'd still have to rewrite the blurbs and introduce special handling into all sorts of name-displaying functions.
For the most part, yeah. But if the pheonix were magic/fire then it would be slightly easier in the sense that now players only need one set of specially adapted heads to deal two end-game bosses instead of two for two. Think of it like currently you need physical, fire, and frost heads against the pheonix, and magic, fire, and frost heads for the demon prince. If the pheonix were magic/fire then you simply need the demon prince's setup to deal with both of them.
Mountain ogre?
It's not about the multiple retaliations(as you can tank solo and take out angels one by one or build yourself against magic/lightning and eventually beat the mage) but rather about the fact that I have several highly valuable minions that I do not want to lose against a repeatable battle that has no impact on the grand scheme of things, since the wizard always teleports away after the battle and attacks things that attack him(leading to at least two or so minions who're capable of even lasting against him dying).
More powerful enemies in general that're capable of dealing with the larger dragon sizes(bigger siege engines from the kingdom, more powerful mythical beasts from nature) would be sufficient I think. The dragon's power scaling feels like it's in a goldilocks zone(on normal at least) and I imagine most would like it kept that way.
Well, okay, but physical resistances are always superiour, since you can stack them higher and you also have a spell to raise them if you're not maxed yet. With a fire/magic phoenix your setup will be less effective overall, even if you don't need to switch heads around as much. And it's probably pretty rare that people fight the phoenix and then immediately go to the demon endgame.
But I don't want to make them go into the mountains...
The best I have right now is Bull Ogre.While they get multiple strikes on the minion-less dragon.
I'll see what I can do. It's going to take time, though.
Maybe. I'm looking at it from a purely gameplay POV, and the big thing with an endgame dragon is that he's got a giant chunk of HP, serious resistances and basically halved damage from parrying on top of those. He's also pretty much the only creature in the game who can level his attack mastery to absolutely crazy levels.
The spells are already mildly broken as is, I really don't want to boost them any further. Witness the one-shotting of treants and all the physical-damage warrior types who are so much like wheat before the dragon.
The mountain part was more a relation to their size. Mammoth ogre then perhaps, if you can find a good enough pic of an ogre who has sufficiently large tusks as a show of his age, or simply ancient ogre. Hilly giant perhaps if the intended ogre is big enough to be mistaken for a hill as he slept.But I don't want to make them go into the mountains...
). No wonder the Witch isn't taking him in.No mistake from witch, dragon can't restore full stamina. He have "2.9/3" after rest or something like. 2.5, 2.8, never full stamina. Even if rest more, than need for full rest.The poor little dragon in your save is all of angry, hungry and starving (edit: not to mention a bit tired on the, er, 'performance' front
Can you give me a save just before she says 'no, because', and state why you think she's mistaken?
Yes. Just be sure to use the option of hunting down every traitor when you assume the king's form and talk to the general or whatever his role is instead of the treasurer or secrets dude and you'll at some point encounter Isabella's event. I'll assume you know how to get Marianne since the thing is kinda linear.
