Stats for Dragon Knight (Death Slaad)

MLoki · Post by **MLoki** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:51 pm

This is a Dragon Knight summons from a Lawful Nuetral 40th level Wild Elf Druid with Epic Spell Focus: Conjuration.

Use this in the Wikki or just as a reference but here is the Slaad with Awaken cast on it.

This is the Slaad with Greater Magic Fang cast on it.

And this is the Slaad with both spells on it.

Not sure what the changes were but these SSs were taken immediatly after this NS4 Change Log was made.

http://www.nsrealm.com/public/ns4/viewt ... &start=105

Please let me know if these SSs were taken before the actual changes went live.

MLoki

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:36 am

Stats screens for summons are notoriously incorrect the vast majority of the time though...

CrazyJ · Post by **CrazyJ** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:04 am

One problem with focused summons is that the focus bonuses are applied as magical stat boosts...making it difficult if not impossible to actually buff your summon more with bull's, cat's, etc.

watchwood · Post by **watchwood** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:58 am

Would it be possible to get the focus buffs altered to work as LETO ones then, like the subraces?

Post by **cely** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:18 pm

Technically it's not LETOable since summons don't have *.bic files that you can edit.

They would need to create blueprints in the toolset for each variation of each summon (ns4_deathslaad_nofocus, ns4_deathslaad_sfconjuration, ns4_deathslaad_gsfconjuration, ns4_deathslaad_esfconjuration, etc). Then they would have to do that for the other Dragon Knight summons (Solar, Balor) and arguably for every summon in the game.

I'm not sure if they want to go that route as it might become unmanageable. Especially with how fast things have been changing lately. Of course, there might be some fancy backend database magic that they can work...

Post by **VagaStorm** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:56 pm

Hers my epic spell focus solar. Char is lvl 24 wiz, it has a maxed bulls and a maxed con nad a flame wep on it. Sry, I seem to have messed up the unbuffed screen shot, but it get +3 ab from the bulls.

disastro · Post by **disastro** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:12 pm

well i had never seen solar stats next to death slaad stats until this thread.

is there some advantage to death slaads I'm not seeing, or are slaads just meant to suck?

P. Fricebottle · Post by **P. Fricebottle** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:18 pm

Slaads suck, thats all there is to it.

CrazyJ · Post by **CrazyJ** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:18 pm

Slaad theoretically has a bit more damage, but that never really seems to come through. It also has a bit of SR.

And yes, it is the worst DK summon.

disastro · Post by **disastro** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:47 pm

solar has better sr than the slaad.

btw the change seems to be in the AI. slaadi will now cast once then engage.

edit: i might be full of crap but it seems like it wont always go through it's entire spell list before fighting, though sometimes it does anyway.

Post by **Binkyuk** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:16 am

I'll live with it sometimes not casting at all to what it did before any day.

MLoki · Post by **MLoki** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:04 am

I've lost faction far too many times due to the Death Slaads spells. He'll accidently hit a Guardian with an AoE spell the guardian will attack him then the Slaad will kill him and make me lose faction. Usually this happens outside my current point of view so I have no idea that this is happening. So any change to the Slaads spell usage should be an improvement since he is basically unuable while defending.

MLoki