Conflux

Only available when the official expansion, Armageddon's Blade, is installed.

Fully built Conflux, as seen on the adventure map Fully built Conflux, as seen on the adventure map. (HotA)	Towns
	Castle
	Rampart
	Tower
	Inferno
	Necropolis
	Dungeon
	Stronghold
	Fortress
	Conflux
	Cove
	Factory

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.

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

Conflux Creature Dwellings:

• Magic Lantern
• Altar of Air
• Altar of Water
• Altar of Fire
• Altar of Earth
• Altar of Thought
• Pyre

Conflux Specific Buildings:

• Magic University - (unique Conflux building, learn any of the four magic secondary skills)
• Artifact Merchants - (like Dungeon or Tower, buy artifact)
• Garden of Life - (Pixie/Sprite horde building, +10/week)
• Shipyard - (enables town to build a boat, can only be built if town is adjacent to water)
• Aurora Borealis - (Grail building, all spells of the map available in Mage Guild, +5k gold, +50% creature growth)
• Vault of Ashes - (Firebird/Phoenix horde building, +1/week).

Halls		Fortifications		Miscellaneous		Mage Guilds		Banned spells
Village Hall	Village Hall (existing)	Fort	Fort 20 20 5000	Tavern	Tavern   5             500	Mage Guild level 1	Mage Guild level 1   5     5         2000
File:Town Hall large.gif	Town Hall 2500	Citadel	Citadel 5 2500	Marketplace	Marketplace   5             500	Mage Guild level 2	Mage Guild level 2   5   4   5   4   4   4   1000
City Hall	City Hall 5000	Castle	Castle 10 10 5000	Resource Silo	Resource Silo ()       5         5000	Mage Guild level 3	Mage Guild level 3   5   6   5   6   6   6   1000
Capitol	Capitol 10000			Blacksmith	Blacksmith 5 1000 link={{{smith}}} link={{{smith}}}	Mage Guild level 4	Mage Guild level 4   5   8   5   8   8   8   1000
						Mage Guild level 5	Mage Guild level 5   5   10   5   10   10   10   1000
Total Common Buildings:					45     40         37000	Total Mage Guild:	15   10   15   10   10   10   4000   20   18   20   18   18   18   5000   25   28   25   28   28   28   6000

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A full building Conflux in SoD

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A full building Conflux in HotA (note the Vault of Ashes on the right side)

Resource	Basic	Upgrades	All
	22300	26500	96800
	30	17	145
	50	25	140
	2	7	33
	2	9	35
	12	39	75
	2	12	38
Troop cost/week:		28500 + 4 (31100 + 3 in Horn of the Abyss)

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

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

Strategy

• 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.
• 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).
• Several great heroes.
• 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 Dracageddon 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.
• All units are immune to resurrection except for level 1 and 7.
• 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, making for poor main heroes.
• WARNING! 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 Sprite without the Mage Guild and Magic University, while Pixies are completely useless.

See also

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