[ТУРНИР-SoD] Тест Fresh Mod

What nerf are you talking about?
This is an unbanning of something you never used in SoD at all. Isra and Vidomina were almost never played due to their useless leveling.

I always used them, and not just me in saves, if they showed up. I don't care about their leveling at all. They just rode around collecting skeletons — who would bother making them mages? They're quite convenient, starting to necromancy immediately without investment.

And they already get 30% necromancy at level 2, which is much more important than a "wet dream" of level 10-20 sometime in the future. And necromancy keeps growing without grinding those heroes.

Well, yes, that makes them another Nimbus, without Eagle Eye and a Srakar without Resistance — equally useful specializations. Level 3 is fast, sure, but the specialty is clearly garbage. As for level 20, it's doubtful, but level 10 is pretty quick to reach. Before, at level 10 they became like regular necromancers, and then they got better.

The boost building couldn't be built. Now it's a guaranteed 2% necromancy upgrade. And only sometimes from computer necromancers we got a previous 5% boost.
Same story with vampires. They just weren't in players' armies.
Did you even play SoD with HW rules?

Why 5%? The computer's boost gave 10%. It's 5% in HotA. 2% — well, they made another (not very) useful building like Excavated Graves. The payoff and cost match.

Before 2020, starting with Vidomina was popular. Now they only pick Tanta because mysticism was buffed and oil was nerfed.
By your calculation, Vidomina gets 36% at level 20 with the current version. In HotA it's 30%.

That's right. Only in HotA, compared to all heroes having 15%. Even 20%, let alone 30%, looks like a decent specialty, and they still don't use it. But here, compared to everyone having 30%, a specialty with 36% at level 20, which as you noted is mostly in "wet dreams," looks like a joke.

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Also, the value of the external vampire dwelling is significantly increased.
So getting a good stack isn't easy — you can only get it from a box.

Even 15 original Vampire Lords is very powerful; with good stats and a shield, you can already take a low-end Dragon Utopia.

Well, taking a low-end one is doubtful — more like a max-level Griffin Conservatory. Still, there's no way to get 15 original Lords without external dwellings and Pandora's Boxes by week 2. After that, they're not as relevant. In my opinion, with modded ones, you'll only be able to handle levels 1-3, or some barely crawling dendroids, and the upgrade costs way too much — 20 resources and 2 buildings (the boost building in this form is also useless in my opinion). It's not that necromancers are weakened; it's more like a useless option emerges. You'll be able to find out who gets necromancers, whether they upgraded vampires, but I don't think anyone will. Unless there are a couple of external dwellings near the town.