Posted by Althusser on April 11, 2000 at 07:26:53:
In Reply to: Batleragers are over-powered posted by An Old Arbiter on April 11, 2000 at 07:08:37:
The biggest problem I've encountered is not with battle rager powers, but with their politics. It makes me wish Thror deleted instead of immorting, so I could use the phrase "Thror would be rolling over in his grave if he saw the way they are currently acting."
I've had no encounteres with Dhaevor, so I don't know what his stance is on the rager death squad that currently roams thera. "Honorable" combat (and I never fully understood the nebulous rager-definition of the word so please no lectures on my stupidity) seems quite frankly to be a thing of the past. Or if not "honorable", "fair" or even more essentially, a "duel" so to speak.
When I log on and have Gruntok, Takashimi, Tyzendail, Elgadon and Ioanis after me, I wonder if I should take it as a compliment that ragers feel they need so many to make it "fair", if I should be pissed that it is a gang bang, or just do the ic thing and lecture them on their rude behavior. Perhaps a little bit of all of these things.
I am not citing any individual rager, but it seems to me that there are a couple very good players with a strict "if I can't do this on my own, it's not worth doing" mentality, with the rest being a tribe of hangers on and packrats. But even rats can be deadly in high enough numbers...