: And what did Eblis Stone do? It only paralyz him, it
: didn't make him damage. If you chose SB fron levels
: "MoC", "TB" and "forge"
: you can't make him damage.
: In level "Murder of Crows" we can't kill him
: with swords, because they can't make him a lot of
: damage and can't kill him.
: In level "Twice Born" only Balmung(and lighting
: attacks) can make him damage, nothing more can make
: him damage.
: In level "The Forge" we can't even attack him,
: he's protected and if you try attack him, your units
: die before they can attack him.
Yes, the Eblis Stone paralyzed Balor. But when he was paralyzed he couldn't block, couldn't dodge, couldn't cast defensive spells (or, perhaps, even maintain the ones he had going). So it effectively decreased his defense. If Soulblighter was placed into "stasis" in the same manner, his defense would also drop.
And, overall, Soulblighter's vulnerable to swords and arrows. That he's immune in "Twice Born" is obviously a gameplay consideration: when you've got so many units, it'd be too easy to trap him somewhere and kill him without Alric, derailing the script. Where there's no danger of that, in "A Murder of Crows," he's made vulnerable.
His killfield in the Forge is an impressive spell, but Alric easily reaches through it, cancels his spell to destroy Tharsis, and shatters the rock beneath his feet. With Balor, on the other hand, it took all of Alric's strength plus the Eblis Stone just to hold Balor still so someone else could kill him.
--SiliconDream
