Posted by The Arcane(VIP) on May 3, 2000 at 07:54:59:
In Reply to: Uh, not to be a party pooper, but... posted by Graatch(VIP) on May 3, 2000 at 07:40:48:
> Uh, who was that tranny? That necro? that invoker? Which of them did you get up past level 25, let alone hero? (Post revamp, of course) Must I bust out even *more* logs?
I've actually had a transmuter in hero range. Contrary to popular belief, I don't tell everyone ALL my characters.
Anyway, the specific complaint of the poster above was dying in a round of spellbane autohits. That could've happened to anyone fighting any Rager, going back to when Battle first came into being as a cabal. That does not diminish the validity of my point one whit.
Could I have the same degree of success today with an invoker as I did 18 months ago? No, I probably couldn't walk into groups of 3-4 ragers and kill them without risk. Of course, I wouldn't even try that. But I could handle solo berserker Ragers. And I still wouldn't die to them.
Area spellbane appears to have been toned down since you played Diarmuid. Fine, you had a really, really tough time against the first wave of berserkers. The whole world had an even tougher time against the first wave of gaunting Master conjurers. Unanticipated things occur. They're fixed. You get game balance.
Things are balanced now.