Soul Butcher

[luntacarsus]

I have never seen this Heroic Ability before. Is it new in Dom5?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1363515971

[Nrak555]

What?! that is a amazing ability. He gains strength, Fear and generates death gems.

[terve886]

Some of the hall of heroic abilities are more rare and better than the rest. That is one of the super good ones.

[luntacarsus]

I can't confirm that he was actually generating any gems. He didn't get the gemgen ability icon, no gems were appearing in his personal inventory, and my death gem income can be fully accounted for by all the magic sites I've found. It's pretty awesome nonetheless.

[Mardagg]

I think he gets gems for killing units ( not sure if only in melee)

[Jiven]

You will find gems in his inventory from time to time.

[DasaKamov]

To answer the question, yes, "Soul Butcher" was added in Dominions 5. :)

[sunbeam]

Makes me wonder which heroic abilities would be selected and which utterly neglected if you could pick them.

[Mormacil]

Can this be modded on units? I need this...

[onomastikon]

I've done a search for soul butcher and have only really come up with this ancient thread here on steam. I've finally stumbled over this heroic ability on one of my own commanders and am still puzzled by the "those death gems do not come from nothing" in the description, which -- like the posters before me believe -- seems to indicate that death gems are generated, perhaps on killing enemy units. I've had this ability now for 3 turns and have quite gently but firmly racked up quite a number of kills with this unit, but there have been no death gems generated. Has anyone, in the meantime, figured out if this text is somehow inaccurate or if the generation of death gems is somehow tied to something particularly random or ... anything really?

[ÆtherNomad]

Originally posted by Mormacil:

Can this be modded on units? I need this...

You could theoretically grant it to a unit with a spell effect 5xx damage 134, but I haven't tested it to see if it works.

[ÆtherNomad]

Originally posted by onomastikon:

I've done a search for soul butcher and have only really come up with this ancient thread here on steam. I've finally stumbled over this heroic ability on one of my own commanders and am still puzzled by the "those death gems do not come from nothing" in the description, which -- like the posters before me believe -- seems to indicate that death gems are generated, perhaps on killing enemy units. I've had this ability now for 3 turns and have quite gently but firmly racked up quite a number of kills with this unit, but there have been no death gems generated. Has anyone, in the meantime, figured out if this text is somehow inaccurate or if the generation of death gems is somehow tied to something particularly random or ... anything really?

I've had this ability in the past and was able to generate gems with it on kills. The killed units must not be mindless and the kills must be done with melee attacks.

[Ddraig Lleuad]

There's been a few scattershot attempts at reverse engineering it, but no firm answers. It seems to be random chance based on the ability value of the trait, and may depend on the HP of the slain enemies, but it's nothing like as efficient as like, the Sickle Whose Crop Is Pain. Mostly it's valuable for the strength and fear aura, the occasional gem is a nice bonus.

[onomastikon]

I'm certainly not complaining. Fear is great. I have killed lots of non-mindless enemies with melee attacks but no death gems yet, was just curious.