RotM-Patch 1.2 file - Disciples 2: Rise of the Mod for Disciples II: Rise of the Elves

Paralyze/Petrify/Drain Life/Drain Level changes

• drain level has been renamed to degrade
• drain life has been renamed to drain
• drain life overflow has been renamed to overflow
• paralyze has been changed to be extended, single turn paralyzes have been renamed Disable
• petrify has been changed to be extended, single turn petrifys have been renamed to Bind

These changes help differentiate the types and provides more flavor and readability for the player

Empire:

I'm pretty satisfied with the Empire so far, but I am keeping an eye on experience requirements and leveling options. No line should feel like the best option in all situations, so strengthening the less picked options should help diversify the choices a little more.

Exorcist

• experience requirement lowered from 1025 to 850
• gold cost to enroll now equal to wizard

The Exorcist is a great choice to guarantee your damage, being both immune to mind and dealing life damage. However, the Exorcist also deals very little damage, and is a very fragile caster. Allowing him to level up faster should grant him a little more survivability and a little more damage in the late game.

Mountain Clans:

The Mountain Clans are falling a little behind the other races in terms of power. I may have hit them a little too hard with the nerf-bat last time I updated. This should hopefully help them out a little bit.

Elder One

• health changed from 400 to 450
• experience requirement changed from 4200 to 4100

Elder one gets a small boost to it's experience and health, helping it survive so it can actually deal it's damage.

Son of Ymir

• health changed from 550 to 600

Not sure if I actually like this change, I may return it back to 550 in the next patch if this feels too powerful.

Rock Giant

• health changed from 310 to 325

The Rock Giant was in a decent spot, but still struggled to really help the Clans in the early game. This small health boost should help.

Venerable Warrior

• health changed from 300 to 275
• damage changed from 100 to 115
• experience required changed from 2200 to 2375

The Venerable Warrior has always been in a strange spot. When the tier 4 units become available on a map, all other teams have stronger warrior options (except the Elves). The VW also struggled to compete with the Hermit and Forecaster, which are incredibly powerful mage/warriors. Buffing the VW's damage should provide more synergy with the boosters, and solidify his role as a single-target damage dealer.

Rune Master

• initiative changed from 40 to 50

With the Dwarf King receiving so many boosts in both survivability and damage, the Rune Master has lagged behind a little. During my last update I returned the Rune Master to 40 initiative, but realized that this caused him to become a little lack luster. Although his double strike is incredibly powerful, his slower initiative prevented him from being a competitive option. This should help him out a little!

Flame Caster

• chance to blister changed from 80 to 50
• fire ward removed

My god. This guy. Burning down capitals. Roasting demons. Destroying the very fabric of space-time. He had to be stopped.

Undead Hordes:

The Hordes have been in a strong place for a while now. Their new Ghost line has given them the ability to level up much more smoothly, and their power at high level is still godly. Although they lost their Werewolves, their base units are much more powerful and capable of leveling. I'll be keeping an eye on them, and hope to play some more games as these ghastly ghouls to determine how powerful they really are.

Elder Vampire

• regained Overflow
• Damage upped to 75
• initiative returned to 40

I awoke one night to find a great and terrible creature lurking outside my window. I trembled in fear and terror as the creature began to speak about his anger and fury regarding his dark underlings. If I had known my foolish tampering with the power of Nevendaar's vampirism would summon such a terrifying creature, I would never have done so. Known only as “DarkArmanVampireLord”, he coerced me into seeing the error of my ways when I so foolishly removed the overflow from his favored undead minions. Restoring the Elder Vampires to their former glory was the only way to appease his unholy frenzy. I pray he does not return.

On a more serious note, I did know the Elder Vampire had become way too lack luster and had plans to buff him since my last patch update. I want to thank everyone who offers feedback though, I really appreciate it!

Lich

• poison chance changed from 70 to 50

Archlich

• poison chance changed from 75 to 50
• health changed from 175 to 180

Giving both the Lich and the Archlich less chance to hit on their poisons will make their outstanding damage a little less reliable, but still incredibly deadly when it does hit.

Dreadwyrm

• removed lower initiative, now has a 35% chance to Bind targets

Dracolich

• removed poison, now has a 35% chance to Degrade targets

Although they are excellent choices in combating enemy Undead, and splitting experience costs across a group, the Dracolich and Dreadwyrm were never as interesting or satisfying to use when compared to the alternative. Hopefully these new mechanics help them differentiate themselves from the other options available

Legions of the Damned:

The Legions definitely got the most buffs with my mod. The reason was I always found them to be the weakest and easiest to fight (I often cried out “experience!!” when I'd see any demon unit on the map, and the only thing that made a Legions player scary was their spellbook, flying and gargs, not so much the rest).However, they're definitely in a more interesting spot now, but there are a few changes that need to be made to their mage line to keep different options viable. Hopefully these changes do the trick.

Dark Magus

• renamed Magus
• Damage Source changed to Fire

The Magus has always been a very interesting option, however, the death source damage made them far too niche(completely useless against undead). Changing their source to fire should allow them to curse more enemies with reckless abandon.

Modeus

• blister chance changed from 90 to 75

Witch

• health changed from 75 to 85
• experience requirement changed from 550 to 450

Hag

• health changed from 105 to 125

Succubus

• health changed from 135 to 165
• damage changed from 60 to 70
• experience requirement changed from 2875 to 2500

The entire Witch line is getting a buff... Wow.

Elves:

Ho boy. Probably the most controversial change in my mod was done to the Elves. Moving them away from Empire wannabes they now have to use a combination of extreme initiative, proper targeting and map/resource control to dominate fights and games. With good usage of their updated spellbook (a combo of Splendor, Swiftness and Ents) these killing machines can really become an unstoppable force. But, they still do require some further tweaking, and hopefully these additional changes help them out just a little more.

Charger

• damage reduced from 55 to 50
• armor reduced from 25 to 20
• now has weapon ward

The Elves have been greatly changed; focusing more on dealing damage as quickly as possible and no longer mitigating damage taken with healers. This change has caused the Charger to feel a little out of place. Giving them a Weapon Ward will now allow them to deal their damage while maintaining their original tanky purpose. Huzzah! (I will be keeping an eye on him though, a level 2 with weapon ward is incredibly powerful and no joke)

Sun Dancer/Slyph

Bestow Ward/Give Attack priority switched; this allows them to give attack to units with the ward already on them, but also no longer allows them to bestow ward to non combat units (like other boosters/healers/etc)

Slyph

• now boosts 75% entire party, initiative decreased from 90 to 80

Changing the Sylph to a party booster provides more meaningful choice between the two final options. Should you focus on doubling down on your heroes and hard hitters? Or boost your entire party for some incredible damage and protection (against air)? These questions are what this mod is all about! Fun and interesting choices my friends.

Watcher

• health changed from 90 to 85

Slight nerf, shhhhhh.

Warden

• damage changed to 70/25 from 65/10
• chance to hit changed to 80/33 from 80/75
• health changed from 145 to 130
• experience required changed from 1425 to 1500

Sentry

• damage changed to 65/35 from 60/15
• chance to hit changed to 80/33 from 80/85
• health changed from 145 to 130
• experience required changed from 1375 to 1425

The Warden and Sentry have been in a tough place since my rework of the Elven archer line. Although they still provide the useful(or useless, depending on your perspective) elemental damage (vs weapon immunes), they fall off in usefulness versus the Marauder and the powerful Stinger. This change should allow them to better synergize with your boosters, and maintain their strength vs armor and those pesky undead.

Neutrals:

Mermaid

• fixed a hiccup that caused her to gain 5 damage per level up, instead of 2

Giant Spider

• damage source returned to weapon from death

Medusa

• now has extended petrify
• chance to hit changed from 65 to 40

In the next update I'm hoping to make some larger changes that take more time (like adding new units, updating hero abilities and updating some of the campaign maps :O), so it may not be for a while. Feel free to provide any feedback, I always appreciate it. Thanks again for playing my mod!