Posted by Umm on August 26, 2000 at 15:18:40:
In Reply to: Re: Well..... posted by TotW on August 26, 2000 at 15:12:32:
> > Here's how I see it: > Suppose an Immortal came to you and said: > Would you respond: "That sucks."? > Transform is not just "easier." It also has a couple of features that make it more versatile, and *BETTER* than using barrier rods. As evidence? I present you to the fact that no master out there is using barrier instead of transform when they have the choice. ON the flip side, when you're huntting down a mage, you want to catch them unprep'd, meaning, they haven't zapped themselves with their limited supply of barrer rods. That's possible. It's much more difficult to find a master mage that doesn't have transform up. > Barrier is not available to All mages, like you said, just the potential for barrier is, and, as we know from playing the game, there's a far far difference between potential and actuality. To use barrier, you legitimately have to be of a certain rank, and they're rare enough that you can not always just have barrier going on. > > > Comment #2: carrion.gameshadow.com/cforum/messages/24725.html > > > (Your comments, almost verbatim, were written up months ago on this thread, if you're interested) > > Well It seems I'm not the only one feeling this way then. > Nope, you're not at all alone. Every master player out there wants more power. Read that thread, it's interesting and well written. > > ORB------------ > Wrath to the Wicked.
> > My arguement is that Transform used to be THE Master power, now all it is, is an easier form of Barrier which is available to All mages. So what your saying here backs up my argument that Master powers just make things easier.
> "Ok, ORB, I'm going to give you permabarrier at level 10. You won't have to collect any rods or anything, and you won't have to be a high enough level to use your new permabarrier like you do the rods. And, you can be sanc'd while you have the permabarrier going. How would you like that?