Heres my idea/rant 
Haymaker's 10 powers is a waste as it does so little,
give it an extra ability, too much damage would mean people
like ixion do one hit wonders but at the moment its just too
little. I would say increase the damage done by a small amount so
it does more then a double slash. That way it would also do more limb
afflictions.
You can envenom shields if a bonecrusher why cant we get something
like that - or so i've heard.
Bonecrusher afflictions are slightly harder to cure, make ours better.
Plus bonecrusher afflictions can cause black outs, when we get suff
like slit throat which stops you talking. The only person thats gonna
affect is Murphy.
Also Alger summed up a good view point in another post so i though i might as well quote it.
Then compare us blademasters to Guardians, they can do constant tarot afflictions,
while we have a one in two chance to get each affliction off, then they can resist it.
Then their best ability the souless tarot, compare it to our makehay. I think you can see that we've got the worse ability.
Then Mages, in their demenses I've seen mages in similar might to me be able to completly disable me with repeated stun and paralysis, not letting me get one attack off. Then with one "over powered" karma blessing merian mages can get off 2k damage with their staff a turn. Thats without artifacts and stuff.
If you think I'm just complaining cos im not a good fighter well this hasnt come from just me I've looked at other stuff, and peoples views (like Algers) and I am a good fighter (I think
) despite these very serious set backs for this class.
Anyway what do you guys think...
Haymaker's 10 powers is a waste as it does so little,
give it an extra ability, too much damage would mean people
like ixion do one hit wonders but at the moment its just too
little. I would say increase the damage done by a small amount so
it does more then a double slash. That way it would also do more limb
afflictions.
You can envenom shields if a bonecrusher why cant we get something
like that - or so i've heard.
Bonecrusher afflictions are slightly harder to cure, make ours better.
Plus bonecrusher afflictions can cause black outs, when we get suff
like slit throat which stops you talking. The only person thats gonna
affect is Murphy.
Also Alger summed up a good view point in another post so i though i might as well quote it.
QUOTE(Alger @ Feb 21 2005, 07:22 AM)
im like one of the few remaining afflict knights left out there and seriously trying to think of a way to make anything stick makes my head hurt. Ill try to stick with it till it gets better though...
my opinion is...
BLADEMASTERS:
The afflictions of blademaster being mostly herb cures are just too randomized that they end up becoming close to worthless. Doesnt matter if you can afflict me up to 3-4 times a round if those afflictions dont have anything to do with each other they're going to be gone by the time you try to hit me again. Anyway a lot of people have tried, but there so much things to consider, afflict tactics get shot down majorly. Things like the knight has to consider limb state so he can get the afflictions that he wants. Limbs being curable makes it a task to actually keep certain limbs at certain conditions. Most i can do is keep 2-3 limbs at heavy/critical but thats considering my attacks arent delayed and i can figure out the wound curing strat the person is using. Even though the limbs are at the stages i want the wound afflicts are also randomized with the better afflicts being on such a low probablity that it takes constant hacking to just get them. Then theres venoms application probabilities. I usually just weaponprobe my blades to see if the venom went but then theres a chance it got shrugged off anyway. Then theres all the passive defences such as stance, parry, rebound which puts limits to chains. Then there are all these passive delay tactics that puts more limits on chains... (seriously i dont think i've ever encountered so many fighters who can do passive stun and para with no possible defence.)
BONECRUSHERS:
Bonecrushers are much easier to work with. They have their stun and blackeye moves which hinder curing and if you get lucky in a chain like 4 blackeyes well it stacks and lasts really long. They can smash shields to get rid of some peoples parry ability. Their afflicts are more or less salve balance, where applying regeneration being one of the longest cure balances(compare stumping a leg to slicing a tendon... both critical moves the later you just have to eat marjoram and its gone). Knockdown to prone people which also prevents parry. Pulp is way better than haymaker. Their endurance drain is a constant drain as opposed to pierced lung which is just an added drain on endurance per move (been awhile since i tested this one). Brainbash seems to go off more than behead (probably because of pulp but we dont know and umm since when did blademasters have more instakills... i still count 1...). Even reposte is better than coule in the sense that reposte hits different limbs, but the most you can get out of a coule is a major artery hit.
i got rend though! go bleeding... now if only people stopped being so over-protective of the lower half of their bodies.
on the side note i find blademaster to be interesting... and i refuse to go damage!
my opinion is...
BLADEMASTERS:
The afflictions of blademaster being mostly herb cures are just too randomized that they end up becoming close to worthless. Doesnt matter if you can afflict me up to 3-4 times a round if those afflictions dont have anything to do with each other they're going to be gone by the time you try to hit me again. Anyway a lot of people have tried, but there so much things to consider, afflict tactics get shot down majorly. Things like the knight has to consider limb state so he can get the afflictions that he wants. Limbs being curable makes it a task to actually keep certain limbs at certain conditions. Most i can do is keep 2-3 limbs at heavy/critical but thats considering my attacks arent delayed and i can figure out the wound curing strat the person is using. Even though the limbs are at the stages i want the wound afflicts are also randomized with the better afflicts being on such a low probablity that it takes constant hacking to just get them. Then theres venoms application probabilities. I usually just weaponprobe my blades to see if the venom went but then theres a chance it got shrugged off anyway. Then theres all the passive defences such as stance, parry, rebound which puts limits to chains. Then there are all these passive delay tactics that puts more limits on chains... (seriously i dont think i've ever encountered so many fighters who can do passive stun and para with no possible defence.)
BONECRUSHERS:
Bonecrushers are much easier to work with. They have their stun and blackeye moves which hinder curing and if you get lucky in a chain like 4 blackeyes well it stacks and lasts really long. They can smash shields to get rid of some peoples parry ability. Their afflicts are more or less salve balance, where applying regeneration being one of the longest cure balances(compare stumping a leg to slicing a tendon... both critical moves the later you just have to eat marjoram and its gone). Knockdown to prone people which also prevents parry. Pulp is way better than haymaker. Their endurance drain is a constant drain as opposed to pierced lung which is just an added drain on endurance per move (been awhile since i tested this one). Brainbash seems to go off more than behead (probably because of pulp but we dont know and umm since when did blademasters have more instakills... i still count 1...). Even reposte is better than coule in the sense that reposte hits different limbs, but the most you can get out of a coule is a major artery hit.
i got rend though! go bleeding... now if only people stopped being so over-protective of the lower half of their bodies.
on the side note i find blademaster to be interesting... and i refuse to go damage!
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Then compare us blademasters to Guardians, they can do constant tarot afflictions,
while we have a one in two chance to get each affliction off, then they can resist it.
Then their best ability the souless tarot, compare it to our makehay. I think you can see that we've got the worse ability.
Then Mages, in their demenses I've seen mages in similar might to me be able to completly disable me with repeated stun and paralysis, not letting me get one attack off. Then with one "over powered" karma blessing merian mages can get off 2k damage with their staff a turn. Thats without artifacts and stuff.
If you think I'm just complaining cos im not a good fighter well this hasnt come from just me I've looked at other stuff, and peoples views (like Algers) and I am a good fighter (I think
) despite these very serious set backs for this class. Anyway what do you guys think...
Which actually do something, here!
QUOTE(Gwylifar @ Feb 22 2005, 10:29 PM)
Mine is currently mostly-dormant, unfortunately.
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And is a Bonecrusher, someone make him go Blademaster so he realizes how sucky we are to ask for decent afflictions.
I may be wrong but Brainbash and Behead should have the same coded chance to happen, however the problem Blademasters have is that they have no way to stop people from parrying their head, now that Pinleg is pretty much useless, you should get a skill that disrupts parry, it could be like:
SliceElbow
Wound State: Heavy
With this swing to the arms, you slash the inside elbow of your opponent, causing them to hold their arms close to their body and rendering them unable to parry, and causing bleeding.
This is all Knockdown essentially does. Makes them unable to parry, the balance disruption and now stun was and is what gets the people that are fairly easy to kill already. The only way I ever kill competent, high leveled fighters, is Brainbash, our "instakill". Notice this new affliction would help equalize Bonecrushers and Bademasters, but not do anything to equalize Knights in general.
Also your title was too whiny
http://lusternia.ire-community.com/index.php?showtopic=1664
It's like you quoted from my mockery
SliceElbow
Wound State: Heavy
With this swing to the arms, you slash the inside elbow of your opponent, causing them to hold their arms close to their body and rendering them unable to parry, and causing bleeding.
This is all Knockdown essentially does. Makes them unable to parry, the balance disruption and now stun was and is what gets the people that are fairly easy to kill already. The only way I ever kill competent, high leveled fighters, is Brainbash, our "instakill". Notice this new affliction would help equalize Bonecrushers and Bademasters, but not do anything to equalize Knights in general.
Also your title was too whiny
http://lusternia.ire-community.com/index.php?showtopic=1664
It's like you quoted from my mockery
QUOTE(Aajen @ Feb 23 2005, 11:58 AM)
now that Pinleg is pretty much useless
Wait, what happened to PinLeg? I didn't see any announce saying it got stuffed...
QUOTE(Shinza @ Feb 23 2005, 04:35 AM)
Wait, what happened to PinLeg? I didn't see any announce saying it got stuffed...
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Now you can cure normally while pinned. No announce post but it was mentioned here. Now by the time they've writhed off they've cured enough that you can't do it again, so it's essentially identical to an Impale, only without the new Rend option.
