Damour's weekly breakdown of the Battle mage secrets

CHALLENGE RULES

RULESET: Noxious Fumes

Description:

All units are Poisoned at the start of the game.

• Units with Immunity are not poisoned.
• This is a one-time application units that are cleansed, resurrected or rebirthed will not come back with poison or have it reapplied.
• Enrage is triggered by poison application.
• Higher HP and cleanse are the best choices.
• However there may be some cases where you go for a big offensive attack and wipe out your opponent before the poison becomes a factor.
  

Ruleset Nerfs

Rulesets that don't support	Reasons
Healed out	Takes away sustain options ensuring quicker death for those with poison.

Ruleset Buffs

Rulesets that support	Reasons
Equalizer	Extra Health always helpful when you have been poisoned.
Holy Protection	Divine shield will protect you from one source of damage.

Monsters breakdown

Buffs

Cleanse
Taking away the poison can mean the difference between a win or a loss

Immunity
By far the best buff possible for this ruleset must include in any poison ruleset.

Nerfs

Headwinds/Demoralize/Silence
You can still survive longer if you can reduce the damage from the opponent's attack. Abilities like Demoralize, Headwinds, or Silence reduces the melee, ranged, and magic damage respectively will help you achieve this strategy this will be an ideal way to hurt their damage output.

Summoners breakdown

Summoners buffs	Reasons
Summoners that give Health	Extra helpful in this ruleset
Kelya	Having speed as mentioned above is great but the added armor here has many benefits.
Lux	Same reasons as Kelya with the added bones of some more health as well.
Grandmaster Rathe	Giving everyone void armor can be particularly difficult to get through regardless of the damage type.

Summoners nerfs	Reasons
None	Can't really think of summoner with a disadvantage.

If you can think of any please let me know.

Without further delay lets dig into a battle to see some of our recommendations in action.

Battle

Top player went with a Jacek and one of the highest health monsters available in Fire Magnor. The bottom player came with Quix and a water play, no Immunity from either side.
In the end the cleanse and a crazy stampede walks away with the win here. Good application of the basics with High Health and Cleanse to rid your tank of the poison still remains a solid approach today.

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