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Undead looked good in old updates before 1.18, skeletons have serious protection against pierce and blade damage, the two most common damage types in the game (and also cold, but cold is much rarer). In return they were weaker against less common damage types, like fire and especially arcane. Lookin...

Looked at the new pull request, commenting here since I don't have a github account. -40% arcane on undead seems okay. I'd prefer -50% but I can understand it as a compromise. I like drakes/saurians/humans having 1.16 arcane again Damage nerfs seem okay as a compromise, if that helps convince devs t...

Looking at the 1.18 update of arcane, it completely lost what made it special. Now the undead can actually approach many units with impunity, which were specially created for exterminating them. As for the balance, the units with arcane are mostly from levels 2 and 3, which already makes them in not...