by Lujo on Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:53 pm
While I like the compromise between the whole bunch of approaches to buffing Taurog, there's one problem with it.
It's not ellegant.
Taurog, as he is now, is a very straightworward, sleek deity, that a noob can easily understand. You take boons, get MP penalties, gain an item per boon, and in the end you're unkillable.
Vets will soon figure out that their inventory space is rarely worth any single piece of Taurog's equipment, and some other vets will figure out that in some cases the free string f death protections you can squeeze out of it all is all sorts of worth it.
He's not the most cost-effective god unless you go all in with a physical class, but he's by far the best designed god, and always was, simple as hell and noob friendly, but as far as design goes - a masterpiece.
I'm not sure he needs a rework that makes him complicated (not that we haven't done more complicated things about 10 times per run, but hey). Somehow, I kind of feel that just giving him a way to acess BYCEPS would give melle classes acess to a way to deal with phy's protection and also give them use of one glyph that screams "use me on a phys guy!", but is unusable to him because it's a repeateble glyph.
I think he's a great god as he is, don't get me wrong - he's actually so powerfull as to make the old warmonger wizard Berserker Camp run doable, back when it was undoable (just... think about it). And the only real problem is that his worshipers have no way to go all in with "phys damge + convert everything + get them freebies in" lifestyle.
Sorry to rain on your parade guys, I wouldn't mind having Frans Taurog in the game (tweaked ofc), but I sort of feel we got a little carried away. Taurog doesn't really need buffs all that much, and I'm not sure if we could talk the devs into a rework of him that would make him more "advanced user friendly". But we might squeeze a Taurog friendly byceps, and maybe a few other flavourfull but not gamebreaking glyphs on the lackluster equipment pieces. He doesn't even penalize spellcasting all that much to begin with...
I almost got pwned by Shifty Brickwork!