Dungeon seems to be changed at the last minute ... | Forums

[Borgopolis]

Dungeon is associated with Destructive and Summoning magic.

Then why is there not a single Dungeon hero who starts with the Basic Summoning skill and are there TWO heroes who start with Basic Dark Magic.

I'm sure some will be able to come up with some weird explanations for that
but IMO the most logic explanation is that Dungeon was originally designed to be Dark and Destructive (as it should be IMO) and they changed it afterwards without redoing the Heroes.

It's nice to have "rivalries" in the game but those rivalries should be reflected in more than just a background story.
One good way to show the animosity between some factions is in their lenience towards magic schools. In HOMMV this is currently not the case.

IMO, these choices would make a lot more sense :

Haven vs Inferno
Light&Dark vs Destructive&Summoning

Necropolis vs Academy
Dark&Summoning vs Light&Destructive

Elves vs Dark Elves
Light&Summoning vs Dark&Destructive

And on a final note :
NO WAY should the Raise Dead spell be available to EVERY hero, without needing any prerequisite.
In other words, Raise Dead should be a lvl3 spell.
Just the other day I wiped out an opposing stronger force with a small army of Elves led by a Haven Hero (I was playing Dungeon, btw)by continually casting Raise Dead.
I really was "put off" by being able to pull off the win like that. Think about it, a Haven Hero Raising Elven dead all the time without having to pick any skill for it ... makes no sense.

I like this game VERY much but it seems to me it is far from a polished product.
I hope the fanbase can convince the developers that some serious patching work needs to be done.

[Vitirr]

The magic system wasn't completely finished untill very late in developement, so yes, you are probably right.

[God_2.0]

I agree with you, Borgopolis. Just before the game was released, I tried to figure out the logical spell school focuses for each town myself, and came up with exactly the same results as you did.

Nival, make it so!

[super-bone]

seems like verything was done a late stage :S

[Goke]

Yeah, it makes no sense why the heroes would start with DARK magic... WTF???

It's not just an oversight problem with Nival/Ubisoft... It's just plain stupid and careless.

Maybe they wasted all their braincells on those ******* strippers.

[DarkMystery1979]

yes kinda obvious stuff, in the meanwhile i also agree reanimate dead to be lvl3, granted, it would be death magic not summoning, for summoning the lazy devs could invent a new spell...look resurrection is light magic too, why raise dead summoning?

i am not happy with the spells at all there are way too few of them and many lvl5 spells are underpowered, like many lvl7 units are underpowered as well.

[BG_Guardian]

I just don't get it. Why should towns even be associated with certain magic schools?! This completely stultifies developing the other two schools...
And with the 2 new towns it seems that there will be ones with same magic associations...

[lk002]

Dark Magic is required for Urgash's Call and Summoning Magic isn't.

[DarkMystery1979]

Dark Magic is required for Urgash's Call and Summoning Magic isn't.

ever got any ultimate without using cheat codes? requirements donot matter if you need lvl32-35 on regular basis for it AND luck getting no wrong skill choice. tested with heroes who had the best prequesites for urgash's call. in the scenarios even on xl, there is hardly enough exp. to get to those lvls.

[Goke]

Yeah, as of now it's completely insane if you really want to get the ultimate ability and still win the game... There's a "level cap" in experience at around level 29-30, where you need millions of experience to just get one level. Also, from testing, I've only been able to get the ultimate ability around 1 in 6 times with the console +exp, doing everything right...