Firebird and Phoenix

Conflux Creatures

Level

1

 Pixie

 Sprite

Level

2

 Air Elemental

 Storm Elemental

Level

3

 Water Elemental

 Ice Elemental

Level

4

 Fire Elemental

 Energy Elemental

Level

5

 Earth Elemental

 Magma Elemental

Level

6

 Psychic Elemental

 Magic Elemental

Level

7

 Firebird

 Phoenix

Firebird

Attack Skill

18

Defense Skill

18

Damage

30–40

Health

150

Speed

15

Move

Flying

Size

2

Growth

1 2  (+1)

AI Value

4336 4547 

Fight Value

3097 3248 

Cost Per Troop

2000 1500 

Flies. Breath attack. Damage from Fire Magic spells reduced by 50% Immune to Fire Magic .

Phoenix

Attack Skill

21

Defense Skill

18

Damage

30–40

Health

200

Speed

21

Move

Flying

Size

2

Growth

1 2  (+1)

AI Value

6721

Fight Value

4929

Cost Per Troop

3000 2000 

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Flies. Breath attack. Immune to Fire Magic. Rebirth.

Firebirds and Phoenixes are the level 7 creatures of Conflux. They are recruited from the Pyre. Building the Vault of Ashes  increases Firebird and Phoenix growth by 1 per week.

"Firebirds are worldly manifestations of creatures from the elemental plane of fire. These magnificent beasts are as quick as fire itself and immune to spells of the same nature. Phoenixes, the more powerful incarnation of the Firebird, can resurrect some of its number from the ashes of its own demise." ^{AB manual}

Dwellings & Portraits

Heroes with a specialty

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Special Ability: Rebirth

Rebirth is a special ability of Phoenixes. It causes part of them to "rise from the ashes" if the whole stack is killed. The effect is similar to Resurrection spell, and it is permanent. The ability works only once per combat per stack.

Every Phoenix in the stack increases the chance to one of them to be reborn by +20%, but no more than one unit per a group of five Phoenixes may be reborn. In other words, one Phoenix will have a 20% chance to raise one unit with rebirth ability, three Phoenixes will have 60% chance to raise one unit, and 6 Phoenixes have 100% chance (always) to raise one unit with a 20% chance of raising a second.

Horn of the Abyss

• Firebird's cost 1500 2000
• Phoenix's cost 2000 3000 .
• Phoenixes are vulnerable only to the central hex of Magog's attack.

Appearance

A Phoenix appears at the beginning of the A Blade in the Back scenario from the Armageddon's Blade campaign.

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  Phoenix
  (AB manual p17)
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Beware of breath attack which may kill your own troops as well.

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Although Firebirds and Phoenixes are immune to fire magic, they are not unaffected by fire-based creature attacks. For example Magogs' fireball attack or Dragons' breath attacks are not considered to be magical, and therefore, they do harm Firebirds and Phoenixes. In the original game, they are considered to be one of the most overpowered level 7 unit because of their double growth, speed and specialty. They are useful for Dragogeddon, as they're immune to Armageddon (note that in Horn of the Abyss , only Phoenixes are immune to it, therefore in HotA Firebirds are useless for Dragogeddon).

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Though Phoenixes are not the strongest tier 7 creature, their main strength lies in their incredible speed. They are easily the fastest unit in the game and can cover the span of an entire battlefield with one movement. Even in low numbers, they are extremely handy in the ranks of a hero wielding powerful Expert spells like Slow, Haste or Prayer. An army containing Phoenixes is next to guaranteed to strike first, unless the foe has multiple speed-boosting artifacts like Cape of Velocity and/or is Sir Mullich. This gives the Phoenix controller the ability to immediately buff their entire army or cripple the opponent's.

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The Phoenixes' ability to resurrect themselves, although it only works on a very small number of creatures compared to the original stack size, can be quite annoying for an opponent. For instance, it can make it harder to get rid of a stack of phoenixes forcing a shooter into melee, or to kill all of a weaker hero's army before they retreat or surrender with their artifacts.

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They are creatures summoned from the Elemental Plane of Fire.

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See Also:

• List of creatures

• Comparison of Level 7 Creatures