Cool game but Arleon is garbage

[Mythless]

Late game feys are total garbage comparing to other.

Order essence is a joke.
Chaos and creation aren't super bad, but medicore.
This and having in mind that magic in this game is one of core instruments which decide about battle, it is a real struggle to win a game wihout using some exploiting and abusive playstyle.

I would love to have option to use other magic essences as Arleon. But without lucky items or perks it's immpossible. If I could, the game would be much more balanced.

Also about ai. I believe ai has some super boost to gold. Maybe I'm asking too much but I would love to get more inteligent ai, rather than boosted ai throwing at me waves of army from each side of a map constantly.

Got a game on gog btw.

[Jolly the Joker]

Huh? Arleon has awesome spells with their combo. Mist is insanely good (especially for the glasscannon Faey Ragers). Quicken is fine, but Invigorate is way better, depending on the situation Swap is a killer spell as well. Rejuvenation? Onslaught? Pacify, Rally? Chain Lightning?
That's why you need Troubadours and Faey Ragers, giving you Chaos and Creation essence.

[Mythless]

Rally is a joke
Quicken is only good for knights
Pacify is medicore at best for that cost
Mist is good spell for other factions. For Arleon, is medicore because Arleon has terrible lategame units besides knights.
Faey Ragers are terrible units oneshotted by anything which makes their combo very risky and when failed, it's auto lose.

Few other spells you mention are okish but that's not enough when whole order essence is trash.

[Zymeth]

Arleon is likely broken due to the magic. I agree Arleon is very specific.
I only see 2 ways of playing this faction to be competetive :
1. Get militia + upgraded knights + fay nobles (the highest tier units)
Knights will buff militia with +1 damage making them very effective. They and fay nobles are strong units on their own.

2. Get fays and mostly them (you can likely get a bunch of other units, but I'm not competent enough to point them with certanity) WITH a hero that speciazes in Chaos.
Upgrade fays as soon as you can. Sick chaos essence generation will let you spam powerful thunder spell.

Edit : on the other hand Bara is awful and I agree that spells which require only order essence are awful.

[Jolly the Joker]

Originally posted by Mit:

Rally is a joke
Quicken is only good for knights
Pacify is medicore at best for that cost
Mist is good spell for other factions. For Arleon, is medicore because Arleon has terrible lategame units besides knights.
Faey Ragers are terrible units oneshotted by anything which makes their combo very risky and when failed, it's auto lose.

Few other spells you mention are okish but that's not enough when whole order essence is trash.

Then you play the faction the wrong way, having too many stacks that give order essence (and not even muchof it) and not enough stacks that give chaos and creation, possibly playing for the wrong thing there. I mean, if something doesn't work the way you want it to, instead of demanding stuff that would make it work you might alternatively just try something different.

[Consul]

The thing that annoys me is there isn't a single destruction essence troop in arleons roster
like wtf?

[Jolly the Joker]

All factions have access to 3 essences via their troops. Arleon has Order, Chaos and Creation, Loth has Order, Destruction and Arcana, Barya has Order, Chaos and Destruction and Rana has Creation, Destruction and Arcana. (The next faction might give Chaos, Creation and Arcana.) So everyone misses out on two essences.