by Lujo on Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:23 pm
@Joist - ofc they promote using every tile, but again, it's the disparity between what you can bring in / find and what you are expected to clear. If a loadout works for VICIOUS dungeons, it destroys anything lesser that doesn't have a major twist. Which is why I sort of think I'd rather see the Stheno dungeon and Ick swamp as VICIOUS dungeons (as they have a twist) rather than Dragon Isles (everything's fat and there's more of it never felt VICIOUS to me, more like HARD in the literal sense of the word). What sets NC and Gaan'T from the other ones is that you're expeted to clear a crapload more monsters, but are given plenty of tools for it.
@gjaustin - sticking a trisword on a halfling is not basic, it's broken and always has been. What you're doing there is not strategy - it's trying to farm up as many HP potions (a very strong item in and off itself) with a class that breaks the rules that apply to all other classes (makes HP potions even more effective), and then prepping an item that adds a bonus to using said item, an otherwise scarce bonus (+dmg) in a game where %based att augumentation is plentifull, and the potion in question allso allows you to apply that damage to enemies more times (since HP is practicaly mana for mellee attacks). I don't suppose the strat also involves the "rewards you for anything you do, really, but can boost your HP to way above curve" god as well?
Executing all of that in the most strategic manner can take a bit of an effort, but so can aiming a nuclear bomb. Anything that's not EASY for that particular combo is probably really, really difficult. That's not mastery, that's not even synergy, it's singularity, and if anything requires that much power it should probably be nerfed or rethought.
And if someone's not sure, between trilings and old cydstepp rogues it took people ages to figure out that there was stuff in the game that couldwalk all over old Gaan'Telet, not to mention even think of trying out a whole bunch of stuff that was getting overbuffed beyond belief for months.
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Lujo on Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I almost got pwned by Shifty Brickwork!