: I assumed they were ordinary, nonmagical skulls
: (actually, they look more like dried-out whole heads)
: filled with some sort of explosive mixture. From a
: krid's point of view, why waste time fashioning a
: metal container for your explosives when there's a
: handy container atop the shoulders of each of your
: victims? As for the mana bar, I have the feeling its
: purpose is mainly functional--if the giant didn't run
: out of mana after one throw, it would keep on throwing
: instead of attacking hand-to-hand, and that's just not
: the attack behavior Bungie wanted.
Thanks for bringing some sense into this. I think the mana bar is mainly functional, for gameplay considerations, and the krid is merely collecting and "fasioning" the skulls of his victims between battles. Wonder what would happen if you blasted one of those skull platforms of theirs.... hmm...
-Ares
