Posted by Vargus on May 3, 2000 at 14:03:10:
In Reply to: My problem isn't dying so much as an inability to rank because everybody and their mother's cousin is playing a goddam rager. nt posted by Smirk on May 3, 2000 at 09:04:26:
> > Get back here and let me finish. You could do that. . . .or you could be one of the folks causing that nose-dive from the other side.
> >
> > This is a serious comment to all the non-duckies out there. Y'know how at least a few of the other players out there just seem to be better than you? Maybe time after time they seem to "luck out" and play something uber-tough, or find that winning angle before the rest of the pack? They didn't get that way, for the most part, by playing only when they could be on the dominant side and giving up when they weren't. They probably got spanked by the opposition until the cows came home.
> >
> > Here, plainly stated, is the secret to being "good" at CF:
> > 1) Try things that challenge you.
> > 2) Learn from your mistakes. Never blame game balance, the bad roleplaying of others, or luck for your deaths. Even if one of these things is the case (and that's a big if) you still did something wrong. Learn.
> >
> > In specific address to the issue of Battle bards: should there be as many bards in Battle as warriors? No (being a Rager is kinda about being a good fighter, too) and, ta-da! there aren't. That said, a character could be made for any cabal or none(I have specific examples in mind) that, played correctly, a rager bard would be hard pressed to do anything but get killed by.