Posted by Someone on February 9, 2000 at 23:46:09:
Why would anyone pick a Devil? Devils are not worth it. A devil will cast stuff like blind, poison, and plague (which I seen poison fail more with devils than with my level 30 necro). Devil will also cast hellfire and some other damaging spells. Here is what I suggest to make devils and archons more even. I think a devil should be able to do two things per round. Plague and poison (and poison doesn't fail so much), blind and curse. Maybe even plague and hellfire. Devils just do not do enough per round to make them worth giving up the healing and sancing ability of an archon.
Devil vs Archon.
An archon will sanc, heal, and cast damaging spells. I mean sanc will double a conjurers life. Throw in a heal every round and a conjurer becomes hard as shit to kill.
With a devil, it will try and plague or blind the first round, then poison, then maybe a hellfire. By that time the battle is over because the conjurer just got his ass handed to him. I point to the Gosum log as proof. With an archon, that falcon would not have came close to killing him because everytime he fled, the archon would have healed Gosum 100 hp's and then another 100 during the fight.