What does Soul Cage do?

[StockBreak]

As the title says, what does the spell Soul Cage do? I can cast on a friendly unit it costs me 2 mana upkeep. It says that the soul is saved even if I loose the battle.
How is it different from the necromancer's minion passive ability?

Thanks!

[Kaysoky]

The spell affects *your* unit, so you cast it to save a soul (say, a rare Tier 3 soul) if you expect to lose the unit in an upcoming battle. As long as you aren't sacrificing Tier 3 units, you probably won't need to use this spell.

[Drake]

Iirc this one will activate when that unit dies, so you'll get the soul back if it dies (even if you lose the battle).

It's very useful for rare or powerful and unique souls (you can loot some npc unique souls after certain quests), so that even if the unit dies, you can just craft it back (it'll still be lv1 though).

[Nura Rihan]

Originally posted by Drake:

Iirc this one will activate when that unit dies, so you'll get the soul back if it dies (even if you lose the battle).

It's very useful for rare or powerful and unique souls (you can loot some npc unique souls after certain quests), so that even if the unit dies, you can just craft it back (it'll still be lv1 though).

By using the spell,is the tier of soul i get still RNG or based on the tier list of affected unit?

[Vvv]

I use it to catch strong souls and even sometimes of my own units Idc about. Like the quest where you can save a wendigo demon. I save him, than I let him die because I don't like his 4 mana upkeep.

[StockBreak]

Thank you! So the Soul Cage of the necromancer minions (the passive ability) just add a 100% chance to get that souls at the end of a battle, right?
How can I know which souls does an enemy unit have?

[Vvv]

Originally posted by StockBreak:

Thank you! So the Soul Cage of the necromancer minions (the passive ability) just add a 100% chance to get that souls at the end of a battle, right?
How can I know which souls does an enemy unit have?

Not sure if there's a way to know but the souls tend to reflect the units abilities or stats.

Tier 2 mole for ex will give you a tier 2 soul that increases your hp by 20. Smaller elementals or caster of tier 1 or 2 will give you souls that generate mana or allfire every turn for ex. Dwarves will give you gold or frenzy souls.

Tier 3 casters like dwarf shaman will give tier 3 souls that if your unit dies it will resurrect at end if you won the battle.

Tier 3 thing like battle trolls or draugr giants will give souls that give 50% life leech

Tier 3 soul from a wendigo demon seems to be a tormented soul without any special bonuses. Not sure how many more different souls is there. And ofc you will get unique souls through quests that give more than one bonus.

[StockBreak]

Thanks for the details answer!