Posted by Klaak on March 11, 2000 at 01:53:22:
In Reply to: Re: Well no shit, ragers are favored. They continually get benefits. In addition to being able to flee while thirsted? they can also cure blindness with true sight? is this true? posted by Thinks Ragers are a crock on March 10, 2000 at 20:29:12:
Ok, the fact that bloodthirst stays up when the berserker flees is an incredible DISadvantange. If all you had to do to get rid of bloodthirst in a situation where perhaps you should not of called it or where someone changed tactics because of it, is flee, berserkers would be able to kill much better. Hell, they would stay thirsted almost all the time then, cause they wouldn't have to worry about fleeing into something like an elite storm and attacking it, or fleeing into anything else you don't want to attack.
The reason that you can flee at all while thirsted, is that even though you are bloodthirsty, that doesn't mean that you can no longer think and employ strategy. It also doesn't mean that the victim of the berserker can't think and employ strategy as well. Since so many people have difficulty figuring these things out, I'll give a little and point a few out (not going to point them all out as there's nothing I hate more than spoon feeding people)
The balancing factor of bloodthirst is the aggro to all except ragers. Use that to your advantage. Any summoner worth half his wit knows to summon up something difficult for the rager to kill, so that when he thirsts, he has that to deal with as well (ie. elite storm giants). A warrior can drive/pull the rager into another mob, or in some cases, into one mob, then past him into a second mob so that the ragers has to flee many times to get back to his intended victim. Those are just two of the blatantly obvious ones. There are other options for other classes, but like I said, I'm not going to spoon feed people if they can't think for themselves. Ragers are not overpowered, Masters are not over powered, they are balanced against each other and not against the uncabaled population, or against the rest of Thera. Throw a thinking rager or a thinking master against the majority of uncabaled players and it's a good bet the master or rager is going to be dealing out a serious beating. Put them against each other (at about the same rank) and it's going to come down to who can employ the best strategy. Both of my ragers have delt serious beatings to every class of mage, and been seriously whipped by every class of mage. The smarter player generally wins, though just as we all know, once in a while you get a lucky break and the impossible happens, whichever way it may go. Ever since the new powers for both cabals when in, all I've heard is bitching from both sides about how overpowered the other cabal is. That in itself should be evidence that they are balanced, since obviously they can't both be overpowered against each other. Enough bitching and whining from both sides.