Posted by player of ragers and mages on April 12, 2000 at 13:13:32:
In Reply to: Issuing a challenge: to all those who think battles are over powered. posted by Sick and Tired on April 12, 2000 at 09:29:11:
I dont know how many times Ive seen this whine on this forum so many times...
Ive played ragers since near the start of them, because they were new people thought they were overpowered...
bullox - ragers died to masters in droves... it wasnt even remotely fair with tessaract, scourge and no warrior specs at the time
Now its alot more balanced - but still ragers die all the time.
Now lets assume defenders and scouts are not overpowered (if you think they are you need to sober up)..
scouts and defenders have skills that are useful, not overpowering and fix some severe problems with previous ragers
Berserks are tough, they hit like trucks... so dont let them hit you. Its really easy to avoid a rager.
Some facts
at low ranks its bloody hard for most ragers to keep spellbane, resistance or truesight up infact most can only keep one up all the time.
Most ragers cant fly...
bloodthirst is about as dangerous as it is useful... so rager is going to attack other creatures in the room if you leave.... or if he has to get past them to get to you....
Ragers have a major problem as far as getting stuck in places every other smuck can quaff a potion to get out of.
Ragers are definetly easy to play, because they are limited to their skills and their cabal powers, they dont get sanc, nobody is going to word of recall them out of trouble.
As my ragers, Ive had a reasonable pk ratio till about rank 38 from there on you its just downhill till you get to level 51... from there its
generally about 50/50 maybe... Of course im a mediocre player... Takashimi Dhaevor died alot but will probably have a lot better figures....
As my mage, even uncablled, using no wands I can take ragers... not berserkers though but thats cos im offensive major, and cant take the hits...
porcupines... is where its at for killing berserkers (yes some can wield the correct weapons to take them.. but felars and those without those weapons are in trouble)
I heroed a transmuter... thats mr cant fight for shit... dying only 3 times to ragers (2 times because I hunted them down to see how strong my minor form was... and I killed a rager as well)
If theres 2 things I absolutely hate its
power word kill (I really dont think its needed for necros, who can mess you up in so many other ways)
assassinate (now I dont mind quite as much but when you get assassinated without being stalked...)
both I think should be gone... single command kills suck.
pwk seems to work far too often.. maybe it should only be allowed to be used on players so you cant perfect it on mobs (like assassinate)