Posted by Rome on April 19, 2000 at 14:15:41:
In Reply to: Re: The newest class, Crusaders posted by DL on April 19, 2000 at 10:19:52:
> by the time you get blaze of glory, you've died 80 times..
> 80 times...to evil characters if I'm not mistaken.
> that doesn't take into account other deaths you might have had along the way.
> I guess my point is that...
> I like the philosophy of always throwing themselves at evil
> But this blaze of Glory thing seems like an added bonus for people who can't pk.
Wrong, all it does it cause the people who die a lot to get better at dying a lot. You die and die and die, and eventually you're REALLY good at dying. Then you con-die and its over.
> and the people who can pk will go the pride route...
Here it looks like you are mistaken as to how the class works. You don't work on one route at a time.. you work on all three at once. If you're good at pk'ing, you get better. If you have patience, and stick with your character, you get sturdier. If you sacrifice a lot, and take chances, you're imm prizes your life more, and takes care of you.
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> the people who can pk well will give up on these characters because they are stuck with having to face defeat and the people who suck at pking will have their fun with blaze of glory yet seem unsatified.
First, you don't gain anything that you can use day to day by dying. If you never die, you'll never miss any of the resilience skills. Second, if all you do is power rank to 51, and die a lot, save your trains for your con, and try for blaze of glory.. you'll still suck. You'll be a fighter without any spec's, no dodge, no protection from evil, no nothing (except the 50% damage reduction, flyto, and auto healing every round..). Then you get to have a special guy for 2 days of mud time (what.. like 1 hour?) .. then you're gone.. not really worth hero'ing a character for if you ask me.
>Leaving those determined players who see all of their characters through to the end, who have the highest chance of making it to the top of all three chains, but still..that's a lot of kills, and a lot of deaths to have to deal with along the way.
Yup, I'd be very surprised if more than one or two people even finished the purity and pride chains... very surprised. I'd expect fewer of them than liches.
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> then again maybe this isn't a problem, and maybe I don't quite understand the whole idea yet.
I think you got the general idea down pretty good.
...Rome...