"Necropolis" - changes to creatures of levels 6-7.

I wanted to ask: Does Fear work on a retaliatory attack? If not, then I will leave it on the Banshee, at least because I will still have to choose between Fear and the retaliatory ability.

Fear does not work on a retaliatory attack.

Regarding the choice between the shriek and a direct attack, if there is an enemy nearby, there should generally be no choice – only the shriek.

Because if there is a choice, then the attack and the shriek are comparable, which means you don't have to be too afraid of the shriek, as it is almost equal to the attack.

That is, there are two possibilities here:
1) either in those rare cases when the opponent is nearby, there is a choice between an attack and a shriek
2) or in these rare cases, the ability works very well, and thus remains a dangerous (strong) ability overall

Either a choice, or a strong ability.

As an example, you can take Red Dragons. Damage when burning +50%, +retaliation, so there is no choice between attacking from a position and using the ability.

In this mod, the shriek on 1 target is indeed comparable to an attack, but the danger lies precisely in the retaliation and the area of effect.


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In my opinion:
terrible presence + Grasp > Attack with fear + shriek
if you give the aura to the Herald, then what about the Banshee...? (or maybe it should reduce it by 1 for all Battle Dragons, as the Phantom Dragon did)

You are somehow only evaluating the abilities, ignoring the stats of the units.