Some balance for advisors

There are a lot advisors who are "useless" or only good for "one quest" or in the wrong age slot. I think that the crew has higher priorities at this moment than to rearrange/fix some advisors. Hopefully one day but for now the "main" advisors we all use are pretty great =)

 

Agreed! Many advisors should be reworked. They are useless, are at a wrong age or are too weak.

Also, unique units from advisors should receive a buff. I don't think that is necessary to create a new technology. A simple buff would do it.

 

I agree that unique units from advisors should be buffed.
Golden Hippikons are worse than regular Hippikons (divided by pop).
So many of the unique advisor units just melt like butter in a battle.

 

Thanks a lot for rapid response!

 

I've found the (Epic) units from Nynetjer, Lord of the Hunt, Somatophylax Commander Matius, Pezhetairoi Commander Tumerok, Phalanx Commander Herculos, Charioteer Bahadur & Horselord Siavash to all be especially useless.
Might just need more HP/Armor.

These units are available in Age 3 or 4, but I don't think gear or armory upgrades apply to them, so they melt really quick against basic enemies in lvl 30+ quests.

I think the unit from Nekhbet, Protector of the Lost needs a small nerf - does good dmg, is cheap, fast and trains in 5s - I use it lots.

I think Golden Hippikons should either be buffed, pop count lowered or have training time reduced as everyone gets that advisor and it's a simple strategy (Age4, Fortress, Hippikons & Siege) for noobs struggling to beat a quest.
Golden Hippikons should be a bit better than upgraded greek Hippikons in my opinion.

 

I think we could just try to "equip" them, i mean, if the advisor is epic the unit should have "gear" epic.
The easy way is just add flat dmg or health with typical lvl 40 items like.

Spartan champion shield https://aoedb.net/items/1454/40
athenas graceful arrows https://aoedb.net/items/581
hero's bow of apollo https://aoedb.net/items/666/40
heavy anubite armor https://aoedb.net/items/535
the vorpal blade https://aoedb.net/items/1009/40
Athena's Blessed Tunic of Defense https://aoedb.net/items/485/40



for example Nynetjer, Lord of the Hunt, classic archer with bow cloth armor and arrows so you put:

hero's bow of apollo
athenas graceful arrows
Athena's Blessed Tunic of Defense

if base health is 134 http://ageofempiresonline.wikia.com/wiki/Desert_Archer (sure is outdated XD)) the epic advisor should have
134*1.824=244.416 health
and 12*1.571*1.163=21.9 dmg

other example: Somatophylax Commander Matius, is a soldier with armor, shield and sword so if he has ¿695? base hp and ¿15.4? dps we put them the epic items with flat health and dmg:
Heavy Anubite Armor

• Health:+82.4%

The Vorpal Blade

• Damage:+57%

and
Spartan Champion's Shield

• Health:+7.9%
• Damage:+7.9%

so we have:
-Health 695*1.824*1.079 = 1367.82
-Damage 15.4*1.57*1.079 = 26


The hard way is "put" specific items to each unit to specialize them even more like more range to the longbowman ie Delian Preceptor's Arrows arrows etc so its like if you would gear them with epic items so its not metagame (not legendary gear and 1 advisor less) but still worth.

*sorry my english
*im not sure about the stats i wrote but you got the idea