the ability to convert enemies is rarely used, due to following reasons:
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low range (even with the HC card). Your priestes needs to come really close to the fight and will most of the times die
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complicated micro. if you select 5 priestesses and convert 1 unit, all priestesses have a cooldown. In aoe2 you can research a tech, where only one of the selected monks will get a cooldown, maybe we should add this to the HC upgrade card.
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converted units lose their stats. if you convert one imperial musk, you’ll receive an age2 musk. Honestly, this makes conversion in lategame nearly useless, since you risk loosing a priestess for nothing.
(4. it takes so long. maybe this wouldnt be a problem, if they had more range and wouldnt die in the meantime)
(5. maybe by reaching imperial, they could get a small area conversion ability, allowing them to convert 2-3 units at a time. converting only one unit in lategame just isnt worth the micro. it would be similiar to the african heros ability)
i hope priestesses will get buffed in the future. its a concept thats really fun to think about and i like to come up with strats for them, but sadly they are never viable ^^’ yesterday i wanted to counter artillery with them… worked 1/10 times