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Bone golems gain the dragon breath ability: They can use their arm to trow a small fireball (smaller range) to nearby enemies that can set them on fire (useful against wooden units and trolls)

Sounds like an okay idea, but "Dragon's Arm Breath?"

Seems like giving the golems the ability to breathe dragon arms.

How about "Dragon's Arm" instead. It's a slightly better name for it.

Yeah, I also knew the name wasn't great but I tought we can decide a better one together xD

Anyway they already have a dragon's head as arm

What range and cooldown this ability will have ?

I haven't decider yet. I don't want it to be spammable cause you can virtually make an infinite amount of stone golems. Also golems are meant from defense and that is a good way to make them real towers thanks to a spirit tower

A range of 2 will be good (it will hurt the golem but just think it as a balancing effect)
roleplay: the golem can not handle this abillity very well and it tunds to hurt it in the process.
Or
The spirit of the once noble dragon fights to regain control of his remains and at last release his spirit by this terrible fate.
Cooldown: 4-5 turns ?

Being a breath it should work really near the unit (since it goes directly out of the dragon's mouth) but i think it shouldn't damage the unit.

If we might be able to handle a conic form with the summit of the cone oriented toward the golem it would be perfect but I assume it requires a lot of coding

How about these?

codown: 5-6 turns
Range: 3

Alexander82 wrote:Anyway they already have a dragon's head as arm

I never noticed that detail...
Let's just rename this topic to, "Dragon Hand Blast" the ability sounds more like that.

Puss_in_Boots wrote:

Alexander82 wrote:Anyway they already have a dragon's head as arm

I never noticed that detail...
Let's just rename this topic to, "Dragon Hand Blast" the ability sounds more like that.

yeah, it sounds better

Anyway I've made the unit this way from the start but I completely forgot about that until now (I was deleting images from old posts to regain space) and in my original idea it was already considered a tech to gain the dragon breath (that is why I put that head there in the first place xD)

I suppose you could make it single use per golem. There's an option to do so already in the JSONs, and that would be completely non-spamable while still being very useful.

Democracy is non-negotiable. Proceeded to shoot outer is his head hands.

Anyways, it sounds great but so terrifying also.

As i said
3 range
6-7 cooldown !!!

Sunrise Samurai wrote:I suppose you could make it single use per golem. There's an option to do so already in the JSONs, and that would be completely non-spamable while still being very useful.

Since now golems have the chance to survive a lot with vanishing i'd prefer a long cooldown

Menselot wrote:As i said
3 range
6-7 cooldown !!!

I think that range 2 with a radius of 2 is ok.

What i mean with "spammable" is that you can really make a lot of golems in a turn so the skill cooldown should start greyed to avoid a tactic like "build golem and shoot"

I agree with the stats !!!

tech/skill image

Too late for a name?
How about one of these?
Dragon Blast
Bone blast
Dragon bone blast

i like more

KingslyTheGreat wrote:Dragon bone blast

Also as long as there is no "Accepted" status in name of topic it is never late to discuss.

Also it could possibly be named "immolation" or "immolate" it's just a word that generally means " to set on fire"

I don't like much immolation because it soynds more like sacrificing a unit.

I'd rather refer the name to the dragon breath (like Bone dragon breath or such)

I felt like this needed a bit more shading. Don't have to use this if you don't like

Where the head blast?

Ok i think that some straight fire damage is needed

Now that we have the spirit towers to keep bone golems alive I think this might become incredibly powerful to face enemy groups and enemies that are vulnerable to fire damage

Yes.

With upcoming demons and some others I don't really like this fire focused base units.
For bone golem is bit weird imho

Tho it's OK if go with
FIRE missile - one target, applies burning
has fix dmg 6-10.?

(ik this skill needed for pyromancee,fire drake, salamander)

Would you prefer a poison breath?

It would make sense because they already have poison. And isn't it just a dragon head so it should poison like the regular dragon.

It is ok for me.

Other opinions about that?

+1 on poison breath.