Unprepped warriors entwined by ragers with deathblow, a/b/sed invokers walking straight through aforementioned ragers, a duergar a-p summoning every thief he meets into a locked room, rangers jumping a guy when he's in the middle of fighting a tough mob, only to be jumped in turn when said ranger is outside the wilderness... etc. Nothing in here is "even," even though all are onby vortexmagus - Main Board
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If you can't win by being nice, then don't be nice. I don't see the point in playing a game where we're expected to roll over and die the moment someone with more preps, better equipment, and more time to get them comes at us. Fuck that. Gank the living shit out of them. Or wait, if I'm playing a healer and fighting a bard I have no chance in killing, I should juby vortexmagus - Main Board
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A prepped maran storm giant can kill an unprepped arial dagger spec? 1) Humbert doesn't use entwine or flurry 2) concealed didn't fire ONCE in several bashes and 20 or so rounds, this leads me to believe that this arial dagger spec hasn't perfected or maybe not even gotten all his skills yet, which would also account for why he's not using hurl torso. 3) these peopleby vortexmagus - Log Board
entwine fails against someone whose going to be outdamaging you and can simply blind you to fuck your primary wield - entwining 1v1 works only when you are gonna win regardless, not when you are going to give him 3+ rounds to outmelee the crap out of you. Yeah, there are ways to cover the vulnerability entwine gives you, like balance or maelstrom, but then you'll be at even more of a disadvaby vortexmagus - Log Board
there's a counter for everything, even imperial bards, fortlander gangs, and drow aps with 100+ charge whips. doesn't stop them from being difficult to deal with. I can foresee several situations where that whip/sword warrior can counter the effects of STSF/maledict combos, but I can also see several situations where that STSF/maledictor counters his counter-tactics, etc. Simplby vortexmagus - Log Board
By the time he's got the entwine off and is ready to flurry, he'll be so maledicted or hurt that there would be no point anymore, and it would just get him killed. entwine gives the dagger spec at least three free rounds of action, of which two are with you disarmed. Also, dirting you would fuck that flurry longer, since you can't re-wield to flurry unless you have maelstrom. Anby vortexmagus - Log Board
Lets examine what evils get as opposed to goodies: 1) allies who don't suck (I love the fortress, I really do, but I've seen some horrible things from members of the Fort) 2) the ability to kill off more than 1/3rd of the NPCs in the game while remaining in role 3) the ability to kill off people who are hoarding all the equipment you want, instead of having to hug them and walk awby vortexmagus - Log Board
go sit in a corner and listen to linkin park. The world is naturally without fairness or justice, and every single bit of it is targeted specifically at you.by vortexmagus - Main Board
good and evil in CF are different concepts from good and evil in the real world. Neutrals on CF can kill hundreds of orphaned children with zero repercussions whatsoever. Someone who selected align evil at character creation is an evil character, whom an elf can kill with no questions asked, regardless if that character is sleeping wounded in a pretty flowerbed amongst hugglebunnies and caby vortexmagus - Main Board
The issue is not the RP and never has been the RP. If RP was at stake, everyone would full loot everyone cause you don't want your enemies or your victims attaining more power to come back and kill you, but rather want to leave them as powerless as possible. You'd never get a single thing back after a fight where you died, ever. You'd also gang anytime everytime when possibleby vortexmagus - Log Board
woot!by vortexmagus - Main Board
POS: no 40 hour investment just to get to the point where you can actually play the game properly. No gay little experience holes whenever your teammates get you killed. Just pure, random PK. Only reason to play CF now is RP - I like the fact that the time invested in POS doesn't need to be large. P.S. Jalim, ancient bashers are so overpowered, and you know it. Bastard :Pby vortexmagus - Main Board
Lauraine was seriously badass. Was also hated by a lot of people who thought the RP was shady/sketchy/non-goodie-like. On the other hand, there is absolutely no denying that she knew her shit.by vortexmagus - Log Board
You can't wield thunderlance as an elf pole spec. Therefore, I'd say don't bother =). Yes, you get owned while ranking with daggers. Then again, ranking with poles is about 15x more boring, and an elf pole spec really wouldn't be my tank of choice on a lot of enemy groups (iron weapons + low hp gains rapes your tanking ability).by vortexmagus - Main Board