Unless your opponent is also using another high point figure (who has to be higher than him), they are totally screwed. You have an invincible figure...

Max

what does the blade of dominance do then?

Have you ever heard of Auto-damage? Plus, if he were to fight someone like Kossak that would make it impossible for him to win.

R-012 Blade of Dominance
The wielder cannot use the Surge proficiency. Only figures with higher point values than the wielder can target the wielder with close combat attacks. The wielder can make close combat attacks only against target figures with lower point values than itself. The wielder cannot break away from a figure with a higher point value than itself.

40 points +3 attack, -2 defense

Everything is posted in the units section by the way.
Max

Veratix+ Blade of Dominance= 196 points

Problems:
1. Sure you can may be invincible, but holding objectives wins games not staying alive.

2. Since he only does 3 damage at range, every other turn, you will probably want to attack in close combat. Leaving him out of soaring, able to be hit by venom and ram.

3. If bombardment hits ghost form, then his now 16 defense means he is will be hit from afar.

Plus he can't surge, which I think is a definite weakness from him. His great speed is one of the reasons he's so terrifying(obviously one of many, many reasons).

I find it to be comedy gold that Wizkids has already erratated the blade of dominance to read "All figures ignore the wielder's ghostform ability".

No, Varatrix isn't broke. Really. He isn't.

Oh well, at least this combo of doom has been thrown out the window.

In the FAQ it says that it also ignores the figure's ghostform.

EDIT: Nm lich beat me to it.

how about Vithzeral with it? now you scared? thats a 214 pt. fig that's practically invincable and if you kill all of you opponents peices befor the time limit you get all the objective tokens.

never mind i just saw that Vithzeral has a :wand: attack tye instead of a :sword: .

why not just use Vera and magestone or paragon's shield and take advantage of his counterattack?

Even better: Helm of Rule.
Only uniques with relics and figs with Command or Leadership can attack him, and he'll surge them for 5 before they can. A great way to prevent followup from Kossak or Neo Corpheus Draconum aka Vithzerai.
You know Varatrix would totally own against any Dracs that even tried to attack him.

I find Kossak with it scarier. its been very hard to find a good relic for Kossak with that lame magic immunity defense (I wanted to use jewled helm on him SO bad...) but it seems this is perfect for him.

What Ever People. All Podo has to do is Roll a 12!

I guess you forgot about capture attempts huh.

And Podo aint the deadliest, if an Imperial Legionnaire gets ahold of him. Well, lets just say his fate will be as lame as Kzar Nabars. Karma, gotta love it.

I belive a capture attempt counts as a close combat attack.