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Originally Posted by Zechnophobe
Wait, what? You cast oil mist on your own black knights, and then target them? I have no idea why you think that sounds like a good idea.
Do you mean that you'll use the infinite retal item to cause them to attack a lot? In such a case, stone skin is better for defense. Oil mist is actually really bad for black knights compared to the melee attackers going against it, since there defense is so high. And ranged damage INTO the mist is normal. Only ranged from OUT OF the mist gets lowered.
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Ok, I didn't realize Oil Mist can hurt your own units morale as well, as I am more used to using my own pure level 5s, although it does lower the enemy's attack rating and ultimately it was one of the only ways to suffer no losses in Reha's Arena of Death when using only Black Dragons and Black Knights. It probably washes out though, since the enemy's who attack have reduced their attack rating too, BUT, I still believe it increases survivability.
If you read the last part of WHY one would do this (which you have oddly quoted), you would see why with some inference.
Black Dragon, Dragon of Chaos, and Ancient Phoenix will demolish the enemy's all around the Black Knights (obviously I wouldn't do any damage to the black knights in the process). In the battle I used this, there were ZERO ranged units. That's the point I was trying to illustrate. I can debuff 6 units for the price of 5 mana, and they will suffer FAR more than me (since I have 3 units that deal fire damage, 2 of which are disposable), and I can resurrect the Black Knights faster.
So, while the Black Knight's defense might go down a bit, their survivability still goes up due to my ability to destroy his attackers at ~1.7-2X the speed rate, and since they will be clumped, allow me to do +60 Attack over their defense realizing 3X damage, and the dragons will do maximum effiicency, although the phoenix will not (2 out of 3 hits).
Ironically, if I used stoneskin, I would delay the inevitable, and probably be worse off, since the best defense is good offense (I would have no method to really kill off the enemy nearly as fast for the same mana cost).
I didn't realize oil mist hurts your own units, so from that angle I was incorrect, but I believe the strategy still worked out better for my particular set of units. I need my summons to last as long as possible, so reducing the enemy attack (not to mention more than one stack) AND dealing more damage in a first hit (Ancient Phoenixes are FAST), creates FAR FAR FAR more defense than one might initially think.