Posted by Nepenthe(IMM) on August 2, 2000 at 14:28:20:
In Reply to: in sylvans' case, it's often both easy and over. [nt] posted by Ex-Ex-Sylvan on August 2, 2000 at 13:40:29:
Anything can be easy if your opponents are bad. If you try anything, even something ridiculous like make a felar axe warrior who spams overhead, sooner or later it's going to kill someone. There are players who, by virtue of newness, stubbornness, gigantic egos, shitty links, or other factors that will be just that bad.
As an analogy, I will never be an olympic class sprinter in real life. But put me up in the hundred yard dash against enough people, and I'm going to win sometimes. Sure, some of those people might be massively obese, have only one leg, be in a coma or be too dumb to run the right way. . .but damn it, I'm going to win sometimes in spite of my qualification for the task. You can't generalize based on that.
Personally, I took some deaths involving the Sylvan powers with my very first character who got to fight Sylvans. That's part of the learning process. I can't think of one since. . .and while that doesn't mean there weren't any, it does seem indicative that it's not a leading cause of my ass being kicked.
From this we could draw two possible conclusions:
A) I am the baddest mofo to ever play this game. I'm so good, that years from now future generations of CFers will read logs of me buying beef jerky or scavenging for brass equipment and marvel.
Hint: This is not the conclusion you should be drawing.
B) The Sylvan powers are pretty good, but like anything else they can be compensated for, prepared for, or otherwise countered by a good player.
I'd be surprised if The Arcane, to name one of the better players (if theoretically retired at present) hasn't had similar experiences.