by Naoya on Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:50 am
Imo, Gorgon has an interesting concept; but it simply has too many flaws.
She's built as a natural regenfigther - poison, low dmg, resists, finisher.
The problem is that she simply has too many weaknesses that not only make up for her strong points, but more or less override them.
You don't get anything except a layer of stoneskin for destroying statues that block your way, which means she needs more blackspace than other classes to not block herself off. Which doesn't go well with her being a regenfighter and all.
So, for regenfighting, you need tiles, and for cleaning up, you need even more tiles.
The second Point: She relies too much on deathgaze. Its a good thing deathgaze isn't easy stackable, but her fixation on it means that she lacks ways to take on enemys that counter her natural abilities, like magic dmg monsters, or worse, undead. So deathgaze, which is already balanced by low dmg, is eh... extremely balanced as she simply won't get them low enough for it to take effect. Which means she kind of won't take them down at all.
A caster that meets an high resist enemy either goes pseudomelee or somehow reduces magic resists. A melee fighter does essentially the same.
The point is, most classes can adjust their playstyle to difficulties and work around there weaknesses if required, although with some effort.
Gorgon can't really do these things, as he/she/it can't really utilize most deitis effectively nor can she do something different/pick another race. She HAS to rely on wittling down her enemys to finish them of with deathgaze. She probably can be played like a caster, but then again, who, besides the berserker, can't ?
Now, I'm not saying having a specific playstyle would be a bad thing; its just that it doesn't work *well* enough, and she can't really do much else.
YaY for easier breakable statues. It would be probably be interesting to see if the statues could be used as resources - getting something for breaking them or stuff like that. Has Anyone thoughts about this ?
Trivia: You can petrify Golems. GOLEMS. Things that are made out of freakin' rocks! I always found this kind of weird... Death Gaze should be 100% against them, always! =P