Posted by Someone on July 25, 2000 at 17:22:07:
In Reply to: Re: Assuming that what I'm told has any semblance of truth... posted by Nepenthe on July 25, 2000 at 15:59:44:
> Oh. No such thing as a 100% chance for assassination, either. Not even close, in fact. > > Are entropy assassins really the end all and be all of assassindom? > Nope. Have a *little* faith in my ability to design something. :P I could make significant cases for Battle-Scout and Scarab assassins as leading competitors in the assassination-based (vs. fighting-focused) assassin arms race. > In my opinion, the biggest edge an entropy assassin has is that they can realistically go after someone teamed up with someone who can see hidden. In other words, if you're Joe non-doppled assassin following around a group, chances are pretty good that unless the detect hidden guy in the group is a complete loser he's going to say to the other guys in the group 'uh, Joe the Uki Goshi has been hanging around us for a while here. He's not in my range but he might be in yours.' Your chance of that happening if you look like 'Jim the swordpupil wandering through hoping to find some of that sweet, sweet brass eq on the ground' is much less. > The guild thing is kinda nice too if you're lazy, but I think the fact that any Arbiter who isn't just terrible should tear you a new one pretty much balances that out.