Posted by up-and comeing paladin on June 30, 2000 at 06:19:31:
*** In no way am I trying to devulge any information on the new abilities **** Tho I am not a Hero paladin yet, and thus unable to fairly judge the balance of it. If All goes well I will be able to continue on towards Hero level and be able to determin more on the dedication. Some suggestions for the immortals:
Only those who are playing a paladin will understand anything of which i speak off.
What I can see worries me some what. If one chooses to dedicate shield He gains many benificial abilities and becomes a extrem master of the use of the shield. If one chooses to dedicate two-handed weapons he effectivly sacrifices shieldblock thus become a much much worse tank. Being restricted enough as a paladin in your weapon choice, It is even harder that the abilities you pick up can only be preformed with two-handed weapons. Ontop of that The skills that you selecet are further reduced to swords and maces only. Polearms tho two handed cannot be used (as far as i can see).
Being restricted to being able to use two-handed weapons and swords and maces in particular is made even more finite with the MASSIVE lack of weapons avaliable.
Dragon slayer being the only sword I can think of that is two handed useable by good alins and isnt ave 25 or below. For maces I can think of Mace of dragonis and Fordurn
As you may guess these weapons arnt readily avalible untill you are of high rank. True you are not forced to use these, you can still use the other weapons and a shield.
I've spent close to 15 hours useing the skills gained by Paladins who dedicate to two-handed weapons. Yet they have not improved once. And the benifits From the skills seem to hold little benifit. I tested every single skill on a willing party to see the outcome, Nothing that ive gathered so far comes close to the gains recieved from dedicating shield.
- Make some of the current standing weapons two handed.
- Allow the dedicated Two-handed weapon skills to be used by other weapons.
- Utilise Polearm , Id expected to see its use in the dedication.
- Give a similar bonus to parry for the dedicated two-handed weapon paladins, as you did for the shield blockers. Or perhaps a dodge ability.
- ease up the learning rate on the skills.
- Perhaps make some of the skills passive
- Perhaps have sub help files on the skills avalible. Haveing a skill and seeing a message followed by some damage isnt usefull if you dont know what it truely does.