Summon |
Wolfgang has a special attack where he bites and hangs on to the target Oblin, interrupting the Oblin's attack. If Botherella is the main character, an icon of jaws appears at the top-left of the screen to show the CoolTime of Wolfgang's special attack. Note that there are baddies who are immune to interrupt.
Casting time for Summon has been improved and as such, Botherella is in lesser danger of being vulnerable while she is calling Wolfgang.
Interestingly, if Botherella is the main character in the Kanbucay Mission 'Gather the yummy coconuts', her Wolfgang can gather the yummy coconuts.
Curse |
This skill is very useful against Raid Bosses with very high Def (Genzir the Storm and SD-91). Curse also helps the buddies stay alive. The Curse symbols on bosses disappear sooner compared to the Curse symbols on regular Oblins. Despite that, the effect of Curse seems to continue on bosses for a short while even after the symbol is gone.
Curse is one of The Almighty Skills, able to reduce damage received drastically and also make targets with high Def vulnerable.
Thorn Bush |
One trick is to cast Thorn Bush on an Oblin then lure other Oblins into the area of effect of the skill. This is a good skill to start off an Arena fight - just cast it on the ground the opponents are rushing to.
Some opponents may be resistant to poison damage. In the past, these opponents would take one tick of poison damage then immediately recover. I have been unable to confirm this lately since those same opponents die instantly on contact with a Diamond Level 5 Botherella's Level 7 Thorn Bush with an extreme amount of SkillPow bonus.
Ghost Storm |
The special features of Ghost Storm is that it does fairly consistent damage and it follows Botherella. These makes it very useful for completing low-level Missions. Simply cast the spell and take a walk to the Mission exit. Oblins will die left and right when they come into contact with the storm.
Charity |
Elastic Skull |
Elastic Skull also allegedly allows Botherella to Curse with her regular attacks. However, I have only seen the skull symbol appear on targets affected by this passive Curse. I have not noticed any increase in damage done to those targets or any decrease in damage received from them.
Pain Sharing |
Sharing HP means that some of the damage Botherella receives is transferred to Wolfgang. It does not apply the other way around. Effectively, Pain Sharing gives Botherella a certain percentage of reduction to any damage she suffers while Wolfgang is around. This is very useful since Botherella has low health.
As an added bonus, Wolfgang gets a boost to his Max HP so he can endure more damage. This skill is good for Botherella builds that focus on Wolfgang.
An eye for an eye |
At low-level, this skill is quite useless with the low chance of activating and low effect. At high level, its use is debatable. It is useful for buddies who have high Max HP but low Def. However, it should not be relied upon to deal damage.
It is best to bring along a healer if one wants to make use of this aura.
Update 25 April 2013:
'An eye for an eye' is potentially deadly in the Arena. When the opposing team has Botherella, I sometimes lose huge chunks of HP when using powerful Skills.
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In hindsight, I probably should not have invested so many skill points into 'An eye for an eye' since the Botherella in the screenshot above is built around the Curse skill, which reduces damage.
To further increase the effectiveness of the Curse skill, I had included a lot of items with Skill CoolTime bonus so Botherella could use the skill more often. The duration of Curse is still shorter than the CoolTime so there is a time when the target(s) is not affected.
I also invested a lot in Pain Sharing to keep Botherella alive. I did not put many skill points into Ghost Storm since I did not plan to use it often. In hindsight, I probably should have (instead of investing in 'An eye for an eye').
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