Posted by Khiravn on March 30, 2000 at 19:28:48:
In Reply to: Not to defend Mithadris, but uh.. Pot/Kettle, Khiravn? (text) posted by Oldtimer on March 30, 2000 at 17:07:02:
I have alot of respect for Mithadris as a player.
What gets me is just the whining.
"I've been gangbanged left, right, and up the middle, and yeah, I get pissed and sometimes make stupid threats, but I pick myself up, stomp on a few (evils - originally ragers) and feel better."
Zharradam said that, and I think of it whenever I die an ugly death on CF. It's just part of the game. You don't whine and complain to the guy that did it. You don't come here to the log board and whine and complain. You just get over it and keep at it until you smite the living hell out of them.
For example, as Khiravn I hated *alot* of things that I thought were pretty unfair for an arial shaman: I had zero cabal powers and was fighting largely caballed people. Zorszaul?! All I can do to the guy is lash, kick, and dispel evil, and he gets one stupid spell (sleep) on me and I'm basically dead? Yeah, I thought that was crap. Conjurers? Damn, yes, I didn't like having to fight one with an archon and a water elemental. Damn, remember Eriwal?! Thinking about giving a form like that to someone and letting them run rampant still bugs me. But the truth is, I sucked it up and went on. I figured that eventually *someone* would notice it and change it, or they wouldn't.
So when I come here and I read the whining and ranting about things that really aren't that powerful or dangerous as people make it seem, I just stop and say something. In this case, I think there's a reason why Mithadris isn't playing a "courageous rager hero" right now in the manner he wants other people to play them - because it's not fun. I think there is a reason why virtually every rager dies an ugly con death and virtually every master (or any other cabal for that matter) doesn't: because ragers really aren't overpowered and die all the fucking time.
Anyway, I don't know if anything I just said lends any sort of light to this topic, I fully apologize for wasting anyone's time if it doesn't, and I'll work on playing a non Lightwalker.
Khiravn