Nature school nightmare (gained knowledge

[MiyabiSFG]

I started the game with a nature-focused alchemist and it's been a nightmare. There is no useful magic here. Anyone know how to take advantage of this?

Primordial forest.
The terms of use are so restrictive that the hex is almost non-existent in my domain. When consumed by other magic, it turns into garbage and never resurrects.

Summon Animal Pack.
Sacrifice the Primordial Forest to obtain three bees. The game has a stack limit, so getting a lot of Tier 1 units is useless.

[Kaysoky]

MiyabiSFG původně napsal:

Everyone's comments have given me hope for the second half of the game. However, it seems that there are still no useful spells in the early stages of the game. In this case, there seems to be no point in using Nature as a secondary school. (It activates only the first page of Nature)

In my most recent game as Alchemist (impossible difficulty), I went for Guardian (for the Guardian Wisp) + Nature (for Primordial Forest). This combination gives you large domain control and lets you place Primordial Forests in a lot of places. By week 10, I had over 100 Allfire income with only 20% of it coming from 2 Great Allfire nodes.
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[Syiss]

Nature is fine. It might not have the strongest page 1 spells, but Summon Beasts can be very useful. The beasts it summons is based on where the primordial forest is located, so you don't always get bees. You can get plague beetles which are nice suicide monsters if you need to take down a particularly tough stack early on. Other places summon 3 wolves which are decent T1 units, and you can even get some T2 units if you use it in some of the more dangerous areas. The spell itself has no upkeep cost unlike most other summon unit spells, and the units themselves have no upkeep cost either.

Choosing your starting spellpages is about more than what starting spells it gives you though. Going nature/nature will get you access to the 2nd/3rd/4th tier Nature spells much faster, and they have some real good ones there. Befriend Beast is extremely strong, even if you dont want to keep the beast it removes an entire unit from an enemy stack, theres basically no other page 2 spell that can have that much immediate impact on an upcoming battle. Resist Elements is the best 9 mana you can spend to improve your fighting power in an upcoming battle. Pathfinding can greatly increase your stacks mobility and movement speed, letting you clear areas faster, find goodies faster, and expand your range of safe areas to plant down your tower/lodges. Summon Beasts on page 3 can give you various T3 units which are quite strong. There's more, but you get the point. If you take at least one nature page, you're more or less guaranteed to get to 3-4 pages at some point in the game. If you don't, you may never get a single page.

[MadDjinn]

I mostly dislike the pg 1 summon spell because it trashes the forest, just like the Summon Beast spell, but it's definitely not equal in quality.

I'd prefer if it didn't trash the forest, then it'd be ok.

[Heindal]

I admit that I had the same problem at the beginning with nature. I summoned 3 hornets
from a primordial forest and was shocked about the costs. So I split them up and used each for scouting. As the have no gold costs they can be used as free scout. Once you find another forest on the map you can use the beast creation spell again, as you can use it on any forest that is visible. So you can use this to scout very fast and secure free mana, gold and other resources. No other spell class allows such a scouting speed, espically for combining it with the buff for higher visibility. Lateron you will probably go for the bigger beasts spells that creates a level 3 unit, which is better than any of the other spells.

(you can get a phantom warrior for 75 mana, or a medusa for 75 mana or a cool tier 3 beast for 75 mana - so this is quite strong)

The kernel in the end (note that you can even built several kernels) allows you to get rid of any gold costs for beast units, which is pretty strong.

[MiyabiSFG]

Thank you guys for taking my nightmares away.

[Robineus]

Nature magic has the kennels building, with the option of making all beasts followers so no upkeep, in that way it is possibly the most powerful school in the game.

[MiyabiSFG]

MiyabiSFG původně napsal:

Summon Animal Pack.
Sacrifice the Primordial Forest to obtain three bees. The game has a stack limit, so getting a lot of Tier 1 units is useless.

I have found how useful 3 bees are. It was very useful to fly them one by one in different directions as scouts. And having reached great distances, they have amassed an incredible amount of material. I realized how unreliable my first impressions were.