Posted by lecrucious on January 19, 2000 at 09:01:40:
In Reply to: The problem with ragers... posted by Souljanger on January 18, 2000 at 22:24:57:
> They have no well defined role. > They seem to be many things all roled up into one: Best mage hating/killing fighter/healers in all of Thera. Give me a break. i know very well about defenders.. the one you question.
> Are they:
> 1) The best fighters in Thera?
> This would support the pride of not gang-banging, and justify deathblow, bloodthirst.
> 2) Mage haters/killers
> This would justify spellbane, truesight.
> 3) Whatever would justify their heal/cure skills (*boggle*) and resist.
defenders arent the bloodthirsty type. they cannot deathblow, or thirst, or make trophy's of their kills.
the field dressings.. was explained very well in a post a few posts down from this one. very well said..
poultice.. curing plagues and diseases.
when i thought about this one.. i would have to say grats to the gods.
this ties the sylvans and the ragers a bit closer together, balances the empire and masters being close together.
the villagers use different herbs and roots from nature to remove the poisons and plagues that haunt the victims they posess.
they are not healers. the poultices to not heal at all, just remove maladictions.. and perfected it doesnt always remove them all.
there is a 2 tick wait before you can use it again.
it costs 40 mana.. and warriors do not have that much mana.
field dressings take 2 ticks as well.. on each person, but they can do multiple people.
2 defenders cannot field the same person, or poultice.
you cannot dress someone or poultice someone that is fighting.
this is the in's and outs of defenders.
they are not too much like healers.. helers can heal over and over again with ease, can cure maladictions over and over again with ease.
they can sanc, make themselves fly... gate.. teleport.. word.. nap.. etc. etc...
but in the army which I am there are people that even though they fight.. are not specialized in the brutality of the grunts...
they take care of the wounded and do what little they can for them...
ok.. enough droning.
with lecrucious i have spoken with alot of mages.
with dernwyn i got a mage to kill himself forever that would not get rid of his magic, so i killed him. over and over.
he gave up, said his magic wasnt strong enough, that true strength lies in steel, then gave himself to the magi. took a while, but that was fantastic roleplay.
dont like to speak of past chars or currect ones much, but that was his proudest moment.
with lec i still speak with others.
a villager told me that noganth still used magi. instead of going out and killing him i went to talk to him.
was going to ask him to empty his sacks and stuff to make sure the info i got was correct or no and so forth.. but our thief went and near took his life.
would have been easier for me though.. duerger turned light.. my wrath obliterated him on eastern road before he said he turned from magi and turned to the light.
imagine db...
anyway..
-me