Posted by Quinthen on June 29, 2000 at 05:48:54:
In Reply to: Amended for greater clarity: Conjurers should use lash MUCH less than they do (some text) posted by Peroleth on June 28, 2000 at 17:46:26:
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> > Well, true, but what opened my eyes, reading that log, is seeing myself hit about 6 lashes in a row... I thought lash sucked myself until I saw that. It does have its uses, that's all.
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> Well, a healer's not quite a mage....
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> > Now, why does everyone have to take everything so damn personally? I'm not attacking you, I know damn well who you are, and I know you know much more about these things in general than I do.
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> Psst... who's taking it personally? :P I was just being a bit sarcastic, as I am wont to do. Lash certainly has its uses.
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> >Why do I bother posting? Just trying to throw my two cents in, and ya know, most of the time, they're a pretty good and valid two cents. If I'm wrong, I suck it up, I don't take a snide tone and try to reverse things. All I know is, I've lashed with 4 classes, and I've found it useful for all four, in certain situations. I'm not saying it's the ultimate weapon, and makes deathblow look like kick, gee whiz. Sorry to vent, I needed a good rant. I mainly post to try and add something to the forum, there's a ton of newer folks out there who don't know what lash is, and, when they hear a voice of authority like you say it sucks, well, they probably listen, and in that case they shouldn't.
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> For a healer who's fighting in a group, lash is probably almost ideal. As an evil healer, the snake whip would be my ideal weapon (oddly enough, it was my ideal weapon as Peroleth also, barring Hell stuff). If your groupmates don't need healing, and you've got the guy cursed, it boils down to either kick or lash. And lash almost always wins out.
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> My point is specifically restricted to conjurers, and it's one that I've thought about a fair bit. My first conjurer (Praetyl) basically ran around lashing everyone and letting his level 60 mobs kill the poor level 30s who had to fight him. I deleted for a number of reasons, one of which was that I thought conjurers were boring, and lacked anything interesting, tactically speaking... it was just lash, lash, lash.
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> I've since changed my mind... lash, lash, lash sort of works, but it's the simplistic and ultimately less effective way of playing a conjurer.
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> I'd go so far as to say that you'll probably have more success as a conjurer if you keep lash at 1%, just so that you'll never have the temptation to use it, and you'll be forced to adapt.
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> >Oh, and by the way, I miss Peroleth. He was one bad ass mofo. Damn, I'm in a wierd mood.
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> Thanks, we had some fun fights. *tip*