Rain Yupa
Ultimately, I'm probably the happiest to see the MM3 Elementals, more than any other critter in that book. It's about darned time they had just regular single-typed elementals. I was beginning to think that they'd NEVER figure it out.
I had actually assumed they were replacing "regular old elementals" with the archons, as the flavor of archons is them being the footsoldiers of the primordial side of the dawn war (i.e. standard fare for elementals), and they were the only ones that weren't mix and match elements (though there were weird ones, like ice, and the four main elements weren't all covered in one place). the inclusion of the elementals in this was a pleasant surprise.
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I'm confused as to the Catastrophic Dragons are elites, instead of solos. It's like, "of all the dragons that sided with the primordials, only the strongest survived the transformation! But they're still weaker than all other dragons....."
I'm also a little weirded out by this. also volcanic and blizzard dragons have no elemental resistances (or weaknesses, but that I can get over). they are made of lava and ice respectively with a glowing elemental core. wtf wizards?
I could probably rationalize them all being elites with something like they were all the most craven and cowardly of the dragons anyway, they're probably weaker than the metallic and chromatic dragons that just decided they had plenty of balls already after Io got dead.
the real reason is that it's just easier to give them minions and/or allies to fight with when they aren't solos and/or their weird catastrophic aura mechanic would've just bogged them down if they had to stuff more immediate actions and/or attacks on top of that to get solo damage output and action allotment. If there's a third draconomicon I wouldn't be surprised to see extra powers or more stat blocks to bump these three into solos, kinda like the alternate powers from the other two and "how to make elites" from the second.
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