Master Of Magic Patch Changelog

What's new in Master Of Magic Patch 1.31

• SPECIAL ABILITIES:
• The Alchemist special ability allows all of your new normal
• units built to be equipped with +1 magical weapons, as if an
• alchemist's guild were present in all of the wizard's towns.
• Archmages gain +50% towards their spell casting skill.
• Node Mastery makes you immune to having your spells dispelled
• while in a node.
• The special ability of Famous now starts you with 10 fame.
• The Conjurer's bonus of +25% now applies to research of
• summoning spells, maintenance costs of fantastic creatures, and
• casting cost for all summoning spells.
• The Artificer reduces the cost of creating magical items by 50%.
• The Runemaster ability doubles the wizard's chance to dispel
• another wizard's enchantment, instead of making the runemaster's
• spells harder to dispel.
• The Chaos Mastery, Sorcery Mastery, and Nature Mastery abilities
• now give the wizard a +15% bonus to his research and casting of
• spells of the appropriate realm, instead of +10% just to
• researching.
• The Channeling special ability now reduces maintenance for all
• summoned creatures by 50%, in addition to eliminating the range
• penalties for casting combat spells away from your fortress. The
• Channeling ability costs 2 picks.
• The Myrran ability now costs 3 picks.
• SPELLS AND MAGIC:
• A wizard's fortress generates magic power equal to the number
• of spell book picks selected when the game begins, instead of
• the base 5. Myrran wizards then make an additional +5 magical
• power from their fortress.
• A wizard's starting spell casting skill is equal to twice the
• number of spell books chosen when the game begins.
• Guaranteed spells have been eliminated. Instead a wizard may
• select one spell for each book he picked above one when the game
• begins. Wizards who selected 11 picks begins with all common
• spells, 2 uncommon spells, and one rare spell.
• The Disjunction spell now has a base cost of 200.
• The Windwalking spell now has a maintenance cost of 10 mana.
• The Weakness spell is no longer automatic and requires a save,
• but the spell does have a -2 resistance penalty.
• The Starfires spell only costs 5 mana to throw.
• The Holy Weapon spell now costs 10 mana to throw in combat,
• 50 overland.
• Great Unsummoning now has a -3 resistance penalty.
• Guardian Wind has become a common spell and costs 10 mana to
• cast in combat, 50 mana overland.
• Guises has been eliminated as a spell, and replaced by Blur.
• The Blur spell is uncommon sorcery and covers all of your units
• in a veil of wispy illusion, making it very difficult to see the
• exact positions of the protected units. As a result, all hits
• inflicted against the blurred creatures have a 10% chance of
• just missing. Blur is a global combat spell and costs 25 mana to
• cast.
• The Dispel Magic True, Disenchant True, and Disjunction True
• spells all dispel with a strength equal to 3 times the mana spent
• on casting the spell.
• UNITS AND HEROES:
• Units may only fire 1 missile attack each turn. Firing a ranged
• attack ends the unit's turn.
• Units with lifestealing may still attack with their normal attack
• Clarification: all animated dead units cost 50% more mana to
• maintain than the creature's cost before becoming undead,
• regardless of how the creature become undead ( ghoul, demon
• lord drain, life drain spell, animate dead spell, etc.).
• Berserkers have a 7 hand-to-hand, 3 defense, 3 thrown, 7
• resistance, and cost 120gp.
• Hammerhands now have a 4 defense.
• Sky Drakes are now very rare creatures.
• Death knight's now have a h-to-h attack strength of 9
• Demon lord now has a -5 save to life stealing
• Djinns are now very rare creatures.
• Halflings standard units cost 150% normal
• Halflings no longer have a +1 defense.
• Magicians have a 5 strength and Warlocks have a 7 strength.
• Galleys and Triremes have a 4 defense.
• Galleys have a 2 range arrow attack with 8 ammo.
• Gnoll units cost the normal standard unit costs for spearmen,
• swordsmen, bowmen, halberdiers, and settles.
• Gnollish wolf riders may now move 3 and have a 7 attack
• strength.
• Lizardmen dragon turtles require a stables and an armorer's
• guild to build.
• Draconian standard units now fly at a speed of 2.
• Draconian airships may not carry units.
• Great Drakes now have a 30 hand-to-hand attack strength, a 30
• strength breath weapon, and a 10 defense.
• Wizards lose 1/2 fame point per level of heroes slain in battle.
• Maleus now has the spell of flame strike.
• Rare and very rare fantastic units have had their defense
• increased:
• Chaos Spawn: 6 DEF Sky Drake 10 DEF
• Chimera: 5 DEF Wraith: 6 DEF
• Efreet: 7 DEF Death Knight: 8 DEF
• Great Drake: 9 DEF Demon Lord: 10 DEF
• Angel: 7 DEF Stone Giant: 8 DEF
• Arch Angel: 10 DEF Gorgons: 7 DEF
• Storm Giant: 7 DEF Beheemoth: 9 DEF
• Air Elemental: 5 DEF Colossus 10 DEF
• Djinn: 8 DEF Great Wyrm: 12 DEF
• MOVEMENT:
• Flyers may now use enchanted roads.
• Teleport only costs 1 movement point in combat.
• Pathfinding allows all units within the stack to move on land
• squares as if they were roads.
• Non-Corporal units can move on any terrain as a road.
• Desert map squares cost one movement point to cross.
• MISCELLANEOUS:
• A left mouse click on any resource on the city view screen will
• give a complete accounting and breakdown of resource production.
• Trade Goods do not benefit from bonuses from any other source in
• a city.
• A conquering wizard may now chose to raze a city, totally
• destroying the town and slaying all of its occupants. The razing
• wizard then receives 10% of the original cost of all buildings
• within the city, but loses 1 fame per size of the city, i.e.
• 1 fame for a hamlet, 2 for a village, 3 for a town, etc.
• The default tax rate is 1 gold per townsfolk with a 20% unrest
• rate.