Posted by dazed and confused on October 30, 2000 at 15:16:30:
In Reply to: Please give me your thoughts on this idea to make evil races more appealing. I know its long but I put a lot of thought into it... posted by Sivanne on October 30, 2000 at 05:52:51:
I have played every race and class and done very well with them all. So I will speak about their weaknesses etc. with the evils. fire giants... compare that to storm giants of the light. dark elves... duergar.. this is the one that got me to post this post. the evil races are already balanced out.
fire giansts main weakness is cold... so yeah, the invokers ice shards and other ice spells do mean damage to them, and yeah, frostbrands seem to spring up everywhere there is a firegiant to kill.
BUT, to balance that, as there is with every class, fire giants have a bunch of fire giant only clothing.
there are pills that will temporarily remove the affects, and two pieces of clothing that do.
those I can think of off hand.
invoker shields that will nullify it..
so with being that vulnerable to something, there are special things you can look for.
not only that, but they are the only class that can wield the best axe in the game.
hard to get it though ;P
If I remember correctly, they were weak against the mental knife, but that is no more.
they are somewhat weak against fire and ice and to wrath, but nothing like its evil cousin.
because of those vulns... they can float on water, breathe underwater, and are unnafected by water type attacks.
so they balance out.
there are also a few storm only things that I can think of off the top of my head.
they are weak against mithril, yeah.. have low con, low hp, yadda yadda yadda.
but...
they can sneak, you never know which way they flee.. they have much more mana than all other races (usually) they learn abilities the fastest (highest int) i think they have the highest int, them or the elves or arials...
anyway...
ever get a full set of drow only things? you should try it. Fight a drow with all her things. go ahead.
shit fight a drow lich.
;P
hmmm...
duergars were dying right and left when the new paladins came out... although not much difference from the previous spam wrathers...
just seem to do more damage.
now.. yeah, wrath does stupid amounts of damage, as does all holy attacks/weapons.
duergar to balance that can see all people of thera when they are hidden, save sylvans and non-sylvan rangers.
reclothing for a duergar in underdark will give a set of things for him/her/it, not complete, and still be better than most others fully clothed, unless they take alot of time.
old thibby doesnt take that much time.
my last duergar killed soo many paladins, and never died to them except when they came in pairs against me alone.
i will leave it to you to find that class, and how to do it.
same with the lich, I know a way it might be done. Though I wasnt successful, I was also quite near naked at the time I fought him.
I also know everything I did right.
is evil and good balanced? Yes. Exactly how well you see it is based on how well you know all the classes and the game.
is it good to be evil? I think so.