Posted by SB on May 31, 2000 at 15:02:30:
In Reply to: Re: Paladins: New and Improved? No just new. posted by Nepenthe(IMM) on May 30, 2000 at 23:57:46:
> Go 'head, mister paladin guy. Don't play a paladin. I can already tell you're not going to enjoy it. A few specific points: Crusade is not useless in pk fights. Previously, a highly-skilled paladin would have matched up poorly against a highly-skilled necromancer or shaman. I am one hundred percent sure they stack up more favorably now.
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> Whenever virtually anything new comes in, there are people who think it sucks. Well, of course you think it sucks. You don't really know what it can do yet. There's a happy web page here giving you the gist of all the weapon spec skills. There are other players here that can tell you how you what kind of warrior you should be playing and how you should be playing them. You won't ever be on the level of the "good" players that way (duckies, if you will), but you can do pretty well. Hint: if you see an enemy player use a tactic that you think of as wrong, sub-optimal, or even stupid. . . and yet use you as a chew toy. . .they might be in that "good" group.
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> CF is a dynamic game. New abilities and areas are being introduced all the time. Old bugs are fixed. Loopholes are closed. New tactics are born and some old ones will die or become less effective.
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> You've got a very new and different class here. Pretend you trust me on that. You haven't seen the half of what they can do. I'd bet you haven't seen the half of what just the two-hand dedicate can do. You can bust abilities out on other players that they've never seen. Abilities that they've never gotten to read, here, how to counter. How cool is that? How neat would it be to get to be the guy who comes up with the clever use of commune X that everyone else will mimic for the next year? To me, that's half the fun of the PK aspect of CF -- looking at something others don't see as an ultra-tough character, figuring out an angle that can make it stand up, and seeing if it works.
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> I will say this: there will be at least one paladin by the end of the year who gives the enemies of their faith cause to be wary. If you don't want to try to be one of them, you might find yourself being one of those who has to end up being wary in three months.