Conflux

Fully built Conflux, as seen on the adventure map Fully built Conflux, as seen on the adventure map. (HotA)	Towns
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Conflux is a neutral alignment town with the planeswalker and elementalist hero classes. Conflux is focused around magic and magic-related units. Conflux represents the elemental planes.

"A Conflux is home to the Elementalist and Planeswalker. Composed primarily of elemental creatures, the Conflux also offers home to the Sprites and the elusive Phoenix. What makes Conflux towns unique is their emphasis on creatures of mid-range power. Generals continue to debate if this is the strategic strength or weakness of the town. Regardless, all agree it takes an astute commander to effectively lead a Conflux army..." ^{AB manual}

Conflux's native terrain is grass (replaced with highlands in Horn of the Abyss) .

Conflux building tree

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In Horn of the Abyss the building tree was changed: • Upg. Magic Lantern now requires Mage Guild Level 1 and Magic University • Adds new building Vault of Ashes. Increases growth of Firebirds/Phoenixes.

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Building Category	Cost
Common	45     40         37000
Mage Guild	25   28   25   28   28   28   6000
Dwellings	37   47  57    65   10   5   7   45800  50800
Unique	30   0  5    10         18000  23000
Total Building Cost:	137   75  90    140   38   33   35   106800  116800
Troop Cost / Week:	28500 , 4   31100 , 3

Common Buildings and Mage Guild

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Halls		Fortifications		Miscellaneous		Mage Guilds		Banned spells
	Village Hall (existing)		Fort 20 20 5000		Tavern   5             500		Mage Guild level 1   5     5         2000
	Town Hall 2500		Citadel 5 2500		Marketplace   5             500		Mage Guild level 2   5   4   5   4   4   4   1000
	City Hall 5000		Castle 10 10 5000		Resource Silo (1 )       5         5000		Mage Guild level 3   5   6   5   6   6   6   1000
	Capitol 10000				Blacksmith 5 1000		Mage Guild level 4   5   8   5   8   8   8   1000
							Mage Guild level 5   5   10   5   10   10   10   1000
Total Common Buildings:					45     40         37000	Total Mage Guild:	25   28   25   28   28   28   6000

Halls		Fortifications		Miscellaneous		Mage Guilds		Banned spells
	Village Hall (existing)		Fort 20 20 5000		Tavern   5             500		Mage Guild level 1   5     5         2000
	Town Hall 2500		Citadel 5 2500		Marketplace   5             500		Mage Guild level 2   5   4   5   4   4   4   1000
	City Hall 5000		Castle 10 10 5000		Resource Silo (1 )       5         5000		Mage Guild level 3   5   6   5   6   6   6   1000
	Capitol 10000				Blacksmith 5 1000		Mage Guild level 4   5   8   5   8   8   8   1000
							Mage Guild level 5   5   10   5   10   10   10   1000
Total Common Buildings:					45     40         37000	Total Mage Guild:	25   28   25   28   28   28   6000

Creature Dwellings

Structure		Base Cost	Upgrade Cost	Creature	Max Grw	Upg Cr Cost	Cost/ Week
	Magic Lantern	5     5         300	1000	Pixie  Sprite	50	30	1500
	Altar of Air	5         1500	2   2         2   1500	Air Elemental  Storm Elemental	12	275	3300
	Altar of Water	5         1500	5   5         2000	Water Elemental  Ice Elemental	12	375	4500
	Altar of Fire	5     5         2000	5   5         2000	Fire Elemental  Energy Elemental	10	400	4000
	Altar of Earth	10         2000	5       1000	Earth Elemental  Magma Elemental	8	500	4000
	Altar of Thought	5   2   5   2   2   2   3000	3     3   3   3   3000	Psychic Elemental  Magic Elemental	4	1200  800	4800  3200
	Pyre	10   20 10    10         15000 10000	10   20   10         15000	Firebird  Phoenix	3 4	3000 , 1  2000 , 1	9000 , 3  8000 , 4
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Total Dwelling Cost:		37   57 47    65   10   5   7   50800 45800		Weekly Troop Cost:			31100 , 3  28500 , 4

Unique Buildings

Structure		Effect	Cost
	Magic University	Allows visiting hero to learn the four magic secondary skills	10     10         5000
	Shipyard	Allows building boats if the town has access to water.	20             2000
	Artifact Merchants	Allows the visiting hero to buy/sell artifacts.	10000
	Vault of Ashes	Horde Building. Growth +1/week for  Firebird /  Phoenix	5           5000
	Garden of Life	Horde Building. Growth +10/week for  Pixie /  Sprite	1000
	Aurora Borealis	Grail Structure. +5000 /day, +50% creature growth Adds all spells to the Mage Guild.	n/a
Total Cost:			30   5 0    10         23000 18000

Heroes

Conflux heroes
Name	Class			Specialty		Skill 1		Skill 2		Spell
Pasis	Planeswalker			Psychic Elementals		Basic Offense		Basic Artillery
Thunar	Planeswalker			Earth Elementals		Basic Tactics		Basic Estates
Ignissa	Planeswalker			Fire Elementals		Basic Offense		Basic Artillery
Lacus	Planeswalker			Water Elementals		Advanced Tactics
Monere	Planeswalker			Psychic Elementals		Basic Offense		Basic Logistics
Erdamon	Planeswalker			Earth Elementals		Basic Tactics		Basic Estates
Fiur	Planeswalker			Fire Elementals		Advanced Offense
Kalt	Planeswalker			Water Elementals		Basic Tactics		Basic Learning
Luna	Elementalist			Fire Wall		Basic Wisdom		Basic Fire Magic		Fire Wall
Brissa	Elementalist			Haste		Basic Wisdom		Basic Air Magic		Haste
Ciele	Elementalist			Magic Arrow		Basic Wisdom		Basic Water Magic		Magic Arrow
Labetha	Elementalist			Stone Skin		Basic Wisdom		Basic Earth Magic		Stone Skin
Inteus	Elementalist			Bloodlust		Basic Wisdom		Basic Fire Magic		Bloodlust
Aenain	Elementalist			Disrupting Ray		Basic Wisdom		Basic Air Magic		Disrupting Ray
Gelare	Elementalist			Gold		Basic Wisdom		Basic Water Magic		Dispel
Grindan	Elementalist			Gold		Basic Wisdom		Basic Earth Magic		Slow

Banned secondary skills:

Some skills are not available for certain hero classes, which means they can only acquire them from Scholars, Witch Huts (except for Necromancy and Leadership, if not allowed by a map-maker), Seer's Huts, Events or Pandora's Boxes.

Necromancy is not available for planeswalkers.

Necromancy, Resistance and Interference  are not available for elementalists.

Creatures

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Name	Town	Lvl	Att	Def	Dmg-	Dmg+	HP	Spd	Grw	AI Val	Cost		Special
Pixie   Pixie		1	2	2	1	2	3	7	20	55	25		Flying
Sprite   Sprite		1+	2	2	1	3	3	9	20	95	30		Flying, No enemy retaliation
Air Elemental   Air Elemental		2	9	9	2	8	25	7	6	356	250		Elemental, Lightning and Armageddon vulnerability, Immune to Meteor Shower, +100% to basic damage to Earth and Magma Elementals
Storm Elemental   Storm Elemental		2+	9	9	2	8	25	8	6	486	275		Ranged (24 shots), Elemental, Lightning and Armageddon vulnerability, Immune to Meteor Shower, +100% to basic damage to Earth and Magma Elementals, Casts Protection from Air
Water Elemental   Water Elemental		3	8	10	3	7	30	5	6	315	300		Elemental, Ice immunity, Vulnerable to Fireball, Inferno and Armageddon, +100% to basic damage to Fire and Energy Elementals
Ice Elemental   Ice Elemental		3+	8	10	3	7	30	6	6	380	375		Ranged (24 shots), Elemental, Ice immunity, Vulnerable to Fireball, Inferno and Armageddon, +100% to basic damage to Fire and Energy Elementals, Casts Protection from Water
Fire Elemental   Fire Elemental		4	10	8	4	6	35	6	5	345	350		Elemental, Ice vulnerability, Fire immunity, +100% to basic damage to Water and Ice Elementals
Energy Elemental   Energy Elemental		4+	12	8	4	6	35	8	5	470	400		Elemental, Flying, Ice vulnerability, Fire immunity, +100% to basic damage to Water and Ice Elementals, Casts Protection from Fire
Earth Elemental   Earth Elemental		5	10	10	4	8	40	4	4	330	400		Elemental, Meteor Shower vulnerability, Lightning and Armageddon immunity, +100% to basic damage to Air and Storm Elementals
Magma Elemental   Magma Elemental		5+	11	11	6	10	40	6	4	490	500		Elemental, Meteor Shower vulnerability, Lightning and Armageddon immunity, +100% to basic damage to Air and Storm Elementals, Casts Protection from Earth
Psychic Elemental   Psychic Elemental		6	15	13	10	20	75	7	2	1669	950 750		Elemental, Attacks all adjacent enemies without retaliation, -50% damage to creatures with Mind immunity
Magic Elemental   Magic Elemental		6+	15	13	15	25	80	9	2	2012	1200 800		Elemental, Attacks all adjacent enemies without retaliation, Magic immunity, -50% damage to creatures with Magic immunity
Firebird   Firebird		7	18	18	30	40	150	15	1 2	4336 4547	2000 1500		Flying, Breath attack, 50% fire resistance Fire immunity
Phoenix   Phoenix		7+	21	18	30	40	200	21	1 2	6721	3000 2000	1	Flying, Breath attack, Fire immunity, Rebirth

* Ice Elementals are considered by the game to be level 4, Energy Elementals level 5 and Magma Elementals level 3.

** Abilities not mentioned in the creature's in-game description.

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Name	Town	Lvl	Att	Def	Dmg-	Dmg+	HP	Spd	Grw	AI Val	Cost		Special

Town names

Unless specified by the mapmaker, towns will generate with a random name. Conflux towns will use one of these following names:

Ceald	Electrasing	Elementon	Fenderen
Fleogan Mills	Frosian	Igne	Lagumoor
Lanting	Magmetin	Massein	Solium
Styriam	Ventu	Vluchton	Wazzar

If there are more Conflux towns on the map than possible names, they will use names taken from other towns.

User commentary

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Upgrade your three first level creature dwellings as soon as possible: the upgraded versions are much better than the base versions (no retaliation against sprites; storm and ice elementals are range shooters). Both storm and ice elemental have a wide range of damage: 2-8 for storm elementals, 3-7 for ice elementals. It is both a curse and a blessing, literally speaking: you want to cast Bless on them but avoid having them Cursed as well. Beware of Firebirds' and Phoenixes' breath attack which can damage your own troops. A simple Ring of Vitality makes your pixies/sprites 33% more durable; this plus a Vial of Lifeblood doubles their durability. Statistically, the conflux's higher tier units are weaker than average. However, this is compensated by their strong low tier units, which gives the conflux an advantage over the other factions in the early game. Pros: Conflux has the highest growth of units of all towns. (excluding Necropolis with Necromancy). All Elementalists start with one of four schools of magic as secondary skills. Phoenixes are the fastest creature in the game, out-speeding all competition by a large margin, and also have a base growth of 2 (1 in Horn of the Abyss, but with Castle and Vault of Ashes will be 3 finally which is still higher than 2 for the level 7 unit of all other towns). Average speed of Conflux units are the fastest of all towns. Many units unaffected by Mind spells. All 4 top-level units immune to Armageddon, opening up for the Dragogeddon tactic. Low level units are great for efficient map-clearing. Magic University allows heroes to learn all 4 Magic secondary skills for 2000 Gold each. The Aurora Borealis is the best Grail building, handing out all spells. The Elementals are unaffected by bad Morale. Cons: No ranged units without upgrading. Pixies and Sprites have extremely low hit points. Magma Elementals are the worst level 5 unit. Energy Elementals are below average. Many units have vulnerabilities to certain spells. Cannot have Armageddon in the Mage Guild unless you have the Grail building, decreasing the possibility of Dragogeddon. The Elementals are unaffected by positive Morale, and cannot be resurrected in any way. Even though some town creatures can be used in Dragogeddon tactic, town creatures are still going to be easily overpowered after you use Armageddon spell if you can't retreat. So using this tactic is advised only if you have large amount of Phoenix troops. The Planeswalkers only have creature specialties that don't scale with level and don't increase the speed of elementals, making for poor main heroes. This town is often considered too strong and thus is banned in many multiplayer games/tournaments. In an attempt to balance Conflux in Horn of the Abyss the growth of Firebirds/Phoenixes was reduced from 2 to 1, but the Vault of Ashes together with a Castle allows a total growth of 3 which is still more than all other towns. Also, the gold cost of Psychic and Magic Elementals and also Firebirds and Phoenixes got increased significantly. Firebirds' fire spell immunity also got downgraded to 50% fire resistance. Finally, in HotA you are unable to get Sprites without the Mage Guild and Magic University, while Pixies are completely useless. Total cost to buy all weekly troops is 28,500 gold while a Conflux town with a capital only gains 28,000 gold per week.

See also

• Town Comparison
• List of creatures
• List of creatures (HotA)
• List of heroes
• List of heroes (HotA)