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On the other hand, I had a game where I had 4 life shards, and that made healing one of the more powerful spells in my arsenal. Essentially, as long as healy mcgee stood far away from the badguys and had mana, armor mcgee was invincible.
Kill the slaver does this for me. In addition, I chose to hire the giant the first time, and then the slaver fight event was given to me again when I returned the girl to the farm. The second time I killed him.
Note that it is possible to get counterattacks as skills on characters, it's just not common/ubiquitous anymore.
So far I'm really liking the game. I'm having a lot of fun with it. Here's what I've come across so far: Quests that give you heroes give you hero looking non-hero units. Daxus and Haitan both do this, granting a unit that has hero skills but is unequippable and has no equipment and blows. I was granted the 'kill the butchermen that killed my husband who is an axeman quest' and chose the flee option. I still got the q