While playing Sheaim, I was attacked by a barbarian Alazkhan. Of course, I killed him and shamelessly gave the black mirror to my Meshabber
, but I really do not know what happened. I do not think Bhal has any means to convert units. Maybe he turned feral by some mutation/lair/event. Anyway, I think heroes should be immune to this kind of promotion.
The new health system has seriously nerfed down the Calabim, but they remain incredibly powerful, especially with Xivan. It is the only time that I acheived omnipotence for an archmage and a mendacite.
One remark about that. All mastery promotions are great, except creation. I gives you 1 extra spell, with 33% miscast.
If you compute the probability, on the average, you have 10/9 spell. 0.11 extra spell is an unsignificant boost, considering the drawbacks of this feature:
1/ miscasting a spell in a dangerous situation
2/ after a miscast, you have a burnout and cannot cast any spell for several turns (and the probability for a burnout is very high around 55%). If you integrate this aspect and compute the number of spells that you have in 4 turns, probably it will be around 2 or 2.5 instead of 4 (but I am too lazy to compute it exactly).
More, if you have twincast, your average number of spells is 38/27, that is 1.4, and this REDUCES the normal number of spells that you would have without this mastery (ie 2)!!!!!!
Obviously, a mastery should be an advantage and not a drawback.
What I suggest is either to:
* largely reduce the miscat penalty. With 10%, you would have on the average 1.7 spell and and 2.6 with twincast and the risk is reasonnable.
* suppress the burnout for a miscast. In that case, with 1/3 miscast you would have 1.33 spell and 2 with twincast, and with 0.25 miscast probaility 1.5 spell and 2.25 with twincast. That seems reasonnable. You still have the risk to miscast in case of emergency, but at least you will not have any burnout.
* suppress any miscat and randomly add an extra 0.5 spell (probably the better solution)
* suppress the creation mastery (and with the present behavior, it would be better if it did not exist!!)