Posted by How about on April 5, 2000 at 15:11:23:
In Reply to: The definition of overpowered through the years.... posted by Not an Immortal on April 5, 2000 at 15:04:17:
> Here's a rundown on what the vocal minority of CF has proclaimed to be "overpowered" in the time of CF, with a little bit of why.
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> Ninjas, when they had heal
> Ninjas, when they could transform, charm dozens of pets, and tess.
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> Transmuters, when they could gate and charm.
> Transmuters when they first got forms.
> Transmuters when Air forms were revamped.
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> Invokers - when crushing hand, AMS, and chain lightning were unstoppable.
> Invokers - when they got their new shields
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> Warriors - when they got their specs, not even going to go into all the complaining about how each one was unfair.
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> Anti-Paladins - when they could charm hoards of pets (ie, dragons, Sphynx).
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> Bards - When they could charm people 9 ranks above them
> Bards - when they gained frightful fiend
> Bards - in sylvan, in battle, waah
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> Rangers - When cloud giant rangers were resistant to magic _and_ physical damage.
> Rangers - When they could detect hidden, invis, _and_ acute
> Rangers - When they had bears which were 1.5x your level
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> Old Clerics - Could do it all
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> Storm Giants - no downside in stats, all bonuses if you don't mind the pk range.
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> Arials - everybody played them. Arial Assassins were outlawed in Entropy for awhile, because they were all Arial Assassins.
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> Healers - When they could flamestrike, dispel evil, dispel good, they were darn good killers via gate.
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> Dwarves - Were sick in HP when allowed to be mages
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> Conjurer- well, search the forum on this one
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> Necros - acid blast at 30 killed almost anybody in one hit. Throw in eyes of intrigue and you have an unstoppable killing spree waiting to happen.
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> Druids - bearform
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> Masters - Had demons that cast spells _and_ had double their transformed hp (imagine 4000 hp)
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> Knights - golden weapons that healed around 100 hp a round, shadowbane that did regular annihilates.
> Knights - forced duel
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> Shadow - Eye of intrigue, god I miss that.
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> Seems to me that almost every race, class, and cabal is overpowered. Maybe we should tone them all done and just fight with practice weapons/magic missile.