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Build time: 3 turns, shaman hut
Hp: 12 (barely out of kill range of his own fireball)
Attack:3 (flame weapon)
Armor: 0
Spell resistance: 40% (unlike most casters, he knows nothing about stopping other mages beyond setting them on fire.)
Movement: 3
Spells: Fire blast (no cd. arcane bolt, but also inflicts fire. The heat is intense enough to ignite even ordinarily non-flammable material, like flesh, and melt metal, so anything can catch fire, even flesh and blood units.) I don't know if it is possible to code a burning effect that affects non burnable units. It should be a totally new effect shaped like fire but that affects anything (like the black flames from amaterasu in naruto). It is not clear what this skill should hit (AOE or single target)
Fireball (range 2, so he's going to burn himself. At full life he should barely survive.) As far as I understand you want the fireball to always hit the pyromancer. This is hardly useful...
Summon fire elemental (sacrifice an adjacent unit to summon a fire elemental)

Fire elemental
Hp: 40
Vanishing 3
Attack: 5, burning weapon
Actions: 2
Movement: 3
Armor: 0/5
Spells: fire blast (cd 4, so one shot per elemental)

This spell is only useful if you are sacrificing a orc unit with 1 hp or such since it is really weak compared to orc units and it has vanishing
Aura: An aura is always active so it shouldn't have an automatic side effect otherwise this unit will be used less than the cannon fodder

Alexander82 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2017 4:53 pm Ok let's try summing up everything

Your basic idea Comments in red

Build time: 3 turns, shaman hut
Hp: 12 (barely out of kill range of his own fireball)
Attack:3 (flame weapon)
Armor: 0
Spell resistance: 40% (unlike most casters, he knows nothing about stopping other mages beyond setting them on fire.)
Movement: 3
Spells: Fire blast (no cd. arcane bolt, but also inflicts fire. The heat is intense enough to ignite even ordinarily non-flammable material, like flesh, and melt metal, so anything can catch fire, even flesh and blood units.) I don't know if it is possible to code a burning effect that affects non burnable units. It should be a totally new effect shaped like fire but that affects anything (like the black flames from amaterasu in naruto). It is not clear what this skill should hit (AOE or single target)
Fireball (range 2, so he's going to burn himself. At full life he should barely survive.) As far as I understand you want the fireball to always hit the pyromancer. This is hardly useful...
Summon fire elemental (sacrifice an adjacent unit to summon a fire elemental)

Fire elemental
Hp: 40
Vanishing 3
Attack: 5, burning weapon
Actions: 2
Movement: 3
Armor: 0/5
Spells: fire blast (cd 4, so one shot per elemental)

This spell is only useful if you are sacrificing a orc unit with 1 hp or such since it is really weak compared to orc units and it has vanishing
Aura: An aura is always active so it shouldn't have an automatic side effect otherwise this unit will be used less than the cannon fodder

I like the unit concept but I will hardly see it as a finalized unit.

There is not a great point in planning to put in a unit that is clearly worse than other unit already in game (an orc shaman has the same cost and it is far better). It is not that orcs lack something to vote so I'd work more on the unit itself before declaring it finalized.

makazuwr32 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 09, 2018 5:59 am No i mean no pyromancers for orcs.
And definately not another offencive caster for orcs - they already get orc warlock unit with fireball, thunderstorm, magic missle, hell of pain by sacrifice.
Another caster will be too much for orcs.

And wisp is completely different being - it is spirit of the forest.