Wow

Oh, and the gambling assassin ability plays the incorrect animation.

Path of the Assassin could use some balancing. Give them some melee applies poison traits at higher levels.

It's not just AI cities that can be invisible when you come across them.  AI outposts and resources are invisible too.

Assassins should also be invisible, teleport, fly, and never fart!

While those hitpoint changes are appropriate for multiple tile units they make no sense for single tile units. They also only address the benefit from leveling, and do not have any affect on spells, buildings or enchantments.

In order to make effective changes to unit hp, the bonus from all sources needs to have different effects for multi-tile and single tile units. Halving all bonus hp for multi-tile units and doubling them for single tile units would go a long way to making building say a juggernaut over a spear unit a sound decision. Champion hp at 2 hp per level is simply going to make hardy and life magic mandatory. 

Champions would be less out of control if their gear, spells, and levels were tied to technology, and would have the added effect of keeping the city aspect of the game relevant. I would actually vote for an increase to their hp to reduce randomness in the game. Losing a champion to a couple unlucky damage rolls is the opposite of what I would consider strategic or fun.

Excellent Observation !

Really what I am thinking sometimes

You should do some major posts I could agree with >_<

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Eeeek, i think that change makes the spell useless. It would be better if Regeneration heals 2 HP and does not scale with shards.

Always saving the best addition for last... I don't knwo why this makes me happy... especially the Rusty items as I saw that in a thread. It pleases me when I see the feedback with actual changes to the game. Great work everyone.

Not true.  And something needed to be done to balance regeneration. 

I hope regeneration as a monster trait is still in, however (trolls.)

The removal of regeneration in tactical is to avoid cheese tactics I assume (hit and run if you have high int). Good riddance I say

It would be nice if regen did things other than regen per season though, even if the spell does cost more upkeep.

Damn, someone else noticed, I was hoping I could laugh at it on release .

A lot of these hp per level stuff is going to be seriously powerful compared to 2 hp per level, noone will ever take scarred for example.. Since cutting you HP in half sucks, and the other traits are less penalizing.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

regeneration not working in tactical is a huge nerf, probably due though

but maybe regen in strategic only make the enchant totally useless dunno

Gotta be more powerful than now if it only works on the strategic map in any way, that is true.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

I hope they balance out some of the traits that effect hitpoints before release, like Adventurers Boon, Wraith Blood, and Scarred. 

Also I don't understand how they haven't rethought how essence works. Right now starting with 2 essence is a massively huge boost to a city, for little to no cost. Removing the Oracle and exponential nature of essence is a must. 

so wait, those Darlings cast blind now to prevent you from looking at other pretty women ? 

Wow!  Slippin some sweet updates in there last minute folks; I am continually impressed.

yeah but how?

the problem is just the purpose

its true sometimes you take lot of damage and need to heal between fight

but you dont *keep* an enchant up all time just cause sometimes you need that regen

you would just heal on demand

it seems to not serve any purpose because you dont want a steady hp incoming in strategic, while you want that in combat, dunno seems too complicated

Strategic regen keeps the downtime on an injured hero. If you fight a battle and get pounded with say 4 hp left. You're probably not going to do the next fight until the hero is somewhere around 20 hp for a little cushion. It takes a long time to heal naturally, so regen is saving you time for a healing hero. In battles you have the heal spell to keep you alive and regen just doesn't make sense in the current system they use for turns. If I have a high initiative, it doesn't make sense that I heal 3 times before the enemy moves. The regen needed a clock timer for the tatical battle. After so many turns heal, but the current system doesn't support this at present. So the best thing to do is let heal do it's job in tatical and let regen do it's job in strategic. I only used regen on the strategic map anyway, so to me this is not even a nerf.

I agree that trolls should be able to still regen in tatical, but we shall see when this update comes out.

Trolls can still regen in tactical.  Regen has been nerfed because of balance issues (as you guys have noted).  Im not done with regen.  I'd like to address kiting in another way (turn limit on tactical battles) and then return regen to its old function, but its something I have to play with.

Not sure about the turn limit on tactical battles.  What's the point?  We'll just attack the same group next turn and do our kiting/regenerating stuff all over again.  All we've done is slow the game down then.  Anyway, keep playing with it.  That's what I do.

yes i always said regen was incredibly op and i agree something had to be done im just not convinced by this change of functionality