Talk:General Discussion/@comment-74.178.209.131-20130427025611/@comment-5395153-20130427223735

Heya, not sure about answers to some of those questions but I'll try to help as much as I can.

I'm not certain but Assassinate may be capped at some value, I can't imagine it's been overlooked, but it always pays to find out (if it isn't capped, it could be something fixed in the 1.03.25 unofficial patch). White Ward should let you survive Assassination, the only thing that stops White Ward from working is the Destruction spell as far as I know as it says in the 1.03.2 changelog it removes all magical buffs from the caster except Enervate (I've never tested this though).

IMO, the best hero for surviving Assassins has got to be any Bard. With Diplomacy, the Bard can hire a massive army right at the start of the game, which pretty much counters the Assassin nicely.

Unfortunately the Pyromancer is the only ranged hero class in the game (oddly) as of 1.03.24. I would love to see an Archery skill turning up on the Ranger and possibly some other classes in 1.03.25 though :).

Although I've never tested Resurrection, I think there isn't a timer (or at least it wasn't mentioned in the changelogs). No idea about stealing retinue units or mercenaries, it's definitely worth finding out :). I would do it but I have a rather little free time at the moment, sorry. I should be free soon after May 15th though and will be back to contribute to the Wiki :).

I've honestly never noticed classes changing hero alignments, it's definitely something that can be added to the Wiki somewhere on some Campaign section. However I think only race matters with the Smite abilities. Neutral's a pretty great alignment, can't be smitten by anything. Daemons and Dragonliches have double damage vs good whilst Archons and Celestial Dragons have double damage vs evil, but there's not a single thing which deals extra damage to all neutral units. I've always found it amusing how things are so neutral they can't be smitten :).

Anyhoo if you would like any more info or if you've got any more questions/comments, I'll be hovering around from time to time, feel free to ask. I'll try to help as much as I can :).