I find that a lack of innovative thinking & imagination is quite common among the most vocal critics of felar power builds.

A pertinent example of that is when a player like yourself decides to try their hand at, say, a felar warrior, and then attempts to force a duergar-ish playstyle upon their felar. You then discover that you're basically choosing your legacies just to try and compensate for that felar's unique drawbacks (lowest PC strength, lowest carry weight, not being able to dual wield two different weapons, etc.), and conclude that you're being forced to waste one or both of your legacy choices just on covering these drawbacks, while receiving a warrior who can't bash properly or carry a lot of weight in return for it.

What you manage to overlook completely is that a felar needs to be played at their unique strengths instead. Those strengths include dual wielding average 31 hand to hand attacks with any two-handed weapon (and more importantly, the spec skills it offers) while boasting the hp pool and hp regeneration of a fire giant and the dodging potential of a human assassin, all in one warrior. With proper legacy choices, a felar hand to hand spec remains a major threat in circumstances that would seal the fate of most any other warrior, a felar staff/spear spec gets to combine above average defensive abilities with above average damage output with just basic gear (which most other warrior types would require prepping and/or cabal powers to reliably achieve), and a felar whip spec can replace his bash with a very reliable lash, combining whip and hand to hand (two hard to parry and relatively exotic damage types) with a massive hp pool, excellent dodging, and excellent crowd control abilities. (On that note, never use entwine with a felar. Use lash instead to keep them in the fight instead.)

Something similar to this above dynamic holds true for virtually every other class felar can play as. There is no point in playing a felar anti-paladin as a gimped duergar or fire giant anti-paladin. Felar require a different, innovative approach that plays to their strenghts rather than one that desperately tries to compensate for their weaknesses. Once you know how to do this, the benefits of choosing the race become plainly obvious. I think this is what Torak has repeatedly tried to point out as well.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/14/2017 12:24AM by GoldenApple.