Is the Empower from Combat useless?

[Wolpertinger]

Okay, so, I have a few Mages with Fireball (the best early damage spell I know of) on the Mornus scenario (god, is it hard), and am running into the problem of how the strength of enemies becomes so high that they start 'killing' (!) the fireballs without taking any, or .1 .2 damage tops. So, I put a few ranks in Combat for the mage.. rank 1. 10% damage. Small, but it's there. Rank 2.. it's still 10%. Rank 3. Still 10%. Rank 4. Still 10%. What's going on?

What usually (with normal units) happens +strength promotions 'stack' cumulatively, yet in this case, it seems that every single 10% increase from Empower is being overwritten by the previous one..

Is this merely a UI error, an error with simply fireballs, or is the entire trait tree useless for non direct damage spells?

 

[Lade]

Its "Momus"

As far as I know, the benefits do stack. At combat V, your summons should have a 50% bonus.

Also, Its more about collateral damage than actual damage on the main unit.

 

[squadbroken]

It's a UI quirk. It does the same thing with Combat (X) promotions IIRC; you're only shown the icon and effects of the highest one you have but you gain the effect of all of them. If you hover over the unit, the tooltip should show the total +strength%.

 

[ICanHasName?]

FFH has lots of promotions, and some of the modmods have just tons and tons of them. If 5 different empowers or combats all showed up you wouldn't be able to read your heroes information after a while. I assume that you are attacking Longbowmen or at least archers. Those have a fairly high base strength and lots of +% modifiers, but they eat your fireballs one after the other because they have a few first strikes. The fireballs dont even get a chance to fight because they get shot out of the air first. Yes, its odd to think about Get air mana from maelstrom, its one of the very few spells that does direct damage instead of just summoning a meat missile.

 

[Kael]

They are right. Promotions are cumulative and we consolidate in the UI just to make things easier to read.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Back before the move to BtS you could mouseover a promotion to have it show the ones it covered too. I rather miss that.

 

[WarKirby]

Back before the move to BtS you could mouseover a promotion to have it show the ones it covered too. I rather miss that.

I second this notion. seems pretty logical.