All I need is a Murphy to get people to STFU?

Sweet.

Now, yeah. Thoros isn't bad at all.

And Stryke, you did indeed go on and on to me about assault and how you duelled Amaru and beheaded him. I should say that he chuckled mightily when I asked and feigned innocence. The plot thickens!

Either way, I don't care. Assault/Sweep are overpowered for the simple fact they are powered swings that go through all defenses. That needs to be changed, quite simply. Envoys, envoys, my friends.

Grizzled Ciaran, Dreadlord Apprentice
Strength : 19 Dexterity : 11 Constitution : 17
Intelligence : 8 Size : 12 Charisma : 8
You are dressed normally, and utterly satiated.
You are fully rested.
You are sober and in control.
You are completely sane.
From the clothing that can be seen, you look like royalty.
You are an enemy of: Serenwilde, Celest, Celestines, Tosha, Licorice.
You can campaign for sanctuary during village influencing.
You currently possess 179 lessons, 0 Credits.
You have played for a total of 13 days, 13 hours and 31 minutes.
This week you've played a total of 0 days, 23 hours and 23 minutes.
You are currently ignoring shouts. Typing SHOUTSON will remedy this.
When you shout, others will hear: A Herculean voice booms, "Blah blah blah."
You are not currently active in any family.
Your current mindset is pedantic.
Your motto: 'Gar Orclach.'
You will timeout after 10 minutes of inactivity.
4205h, 2288m, 2288e, 7p ex-
You may drink another health, mana, or bromide potion.
4205h, 2288m, 2288e, 7p ex-
Predicant Chandestri tzya Mor'Wyrd says, "Ready."
4205h, 2288m, 2288e, 8p ex-sheathe katana
draw greatsword

With a flourish, you slip a black avian hilted katana into a dark forestal
scabbard.
4205h, 2288m, 2288e, 9p ex-
With a flourish, you draw a warrior's iron greatsword from a dark forestal
scabbard.
4205h, 2288m, 2288e, 9p ex-time

It's mid-morning in Lusternia.
The phase of the moon is that of the Waxing Crescent.

In your world, it is 1:09 GMT.
See HELP GMT for an explanation of GMT.
4205h, 2288m, 2288e, 9p ex-wp sword

It is a two-handed weapon.
Damage: 214 Precision: 521 Speed: 150
It has the following dwarven runes etched upon it in coal:
A dwarven rune shaped like a wolf has been etched in coal.
A dwarven rune shaped like an axe has been etched in coal.
A dwarven rune shaped like a boar has been etched in coal.
It has a Great Rune of Elemental Fires attached to it.
4205h, 2288m, 2288e, 10p ex-assault Chandestri head

Holding a warrior's iron greatsword poised at an angle overhead, you unleash a
violent assault at Chandestri's head. You strike into her neck, and blood
fountains out in a thick spray.
4205h, 2288m, 2288e, 6p e-
You have recovered balance on all limbs.
CHASE-ME



4205h, 2288m, 2288e, 6p ex-
4205h, 2288m, 2288e, 6p ex-
4205h, 2288m, 2288e, 6p ex-assault Chandestri head

4205h, 2288m, 2288e, 6p ex-
4205h, 2288m, 2288e, 6p ex-
Holding a warrior's iron greatsword poised at an angle overhead, you unleash a
violent assault at Chandestri's head. You strike through her neck like it's
butter, and her head goes flying through the air.
KICK-IT-BECKHAM-GOOOOAAAAAAAALL!-TEAMCiaran-1-Chandestri-0
a top.
You have slain Chandestri.
Defeated, Chandestri is cast out of the Arena.
**********************************************************
You have been victorious and leave the Arena in triumph!

What's the cutting on her robes? Or whatever-t-f she wears.

But see? OP!

Her cutting protection was 50, I'm redoing the test with her applying
:note:
I did this highfavored, she wasn't applying, a web would have screwed me over (orclach, so I do good wounds but easily hindered)
Most importantly: this is with the Champ helm! Nerf champ helms a little bit, but pureblades are ok, they might need an upgrade in a few areas to be fully balanced 1v1.

I still believe things are OK, this proves very little, and I doubt I could do it consistantly...
A

I hate being the last post on a page, I feel like the post never gets seen.

2 hit beheads are never 'ok', even if he/she applied odds are it would of just made it a 3 hit behead. You have to keep in mind people can't spend the whole fight webbing because if they don't you will behead in 2 -3 hits. I like Murphs idea with the helm personally.

I fighted with Thoros in one of FFAs and he was really good i was impressed.

And back to topic, i share with Diamante and Murphy idea about nerfing helms.
+10% wounding/damage should be enough. Right now its just crazy boost. No artifact can give you such boost.

And working on weapons cap could help a bit, but i can imagine how hard it will be to find best solution.

And im all for lunge/crash/assault/sweep not increase wounding. Its enough that that they bypass all defenses.

Maybe even changed sweep and assault to be jab. But im not sure about it.

I'm not sure also about higher precision on 2 handed weapons then on one handed. Its 2.2 more them on one handed weapon. Maybe it should be lowered to 2.
So greataxe/sword would have cap on 470 precision. Right now its possible to get 500+ and with Great runes/forging runes/aura its can be skyrocked to sick level, and no wonder people behead in 2 assaults.

And behead in 2-3 hits is very wrong.

When i sparred with Ravlok i menaged to survive his few first assaults to head, but i apllied all health to head and was healing only with sparkleberries nad regeneration. But it was possible with 6k health and 4k mana.
Not many could sacrifice health drinking cose damage on greataxe/swords isnt bad.

Both to get back on topic, and to see if our concerns are going -anywhere- here,


How many envoys have contacted the administration on this topic?

I assume this is something for the warrior archetype envoys only. I think that's Diamante, Lyco, and Daevos since the Paladins don't have one? Diamante is the only one likely to bring it up at all, he's probably the one to speak with.

all of you guys suck... you're loosing to Lyco! Kidding Lyco Im sure you're a lot better since last we sparred. This makes me want to play again though, wish work would allow me some time.

Icarus: Icarus are you still an axelord taurian? I drew a pick of you.

Geb: No fair bringing up your monk here you artiewhore! heh your monk kills me in like a couple combos if I make a mistake. Not that I say it was overpowered or anything. Though in comparison at least against you whos offensive had no to very little passive effects (I remember you having a pet) I could fight toe to toe for a bit but against a fighter with a lot of passive effects like Tuerney with all his vibes I get blown away a lot faster (not saying hes better than you, when you were a mage you blew me away a lot faster). Remember when you were a mage with all your passive effects you took on all of Cyrenes top fighters at the same time.


500+ wounding on a weapon in my opinion is too much.

Aye, I agree.

I went shoping for greatrobes a weekor so ago and because I am so picky about it I wrote down all the stats to figure out the best one to get the most protection I could get, this is what I saw in Weavings of Moonlace. (Shorlen's shop in the Serenwilde)

Cutting-Blunt-Total

47-46-93
47-50-97
43-55-98
56-44-100
53-49-102
43-57-100
52-44-96
38-59-97
52-45-97
41-56-97
41-53-94
42-52-94
47-46-93
53-46-99
57-47-104
51-49-100
53-55-108
43-62-105
44-55-99

(19 greatrobes)
(Average cutting=47.52) 23.76%
(Average blunt=51.05) 25.52%
(Average total=98.57)

I asked Shorlen about the one in bold, and he said that's the best overall he's ever made, he's made one or two like it, but nothing above. I've also seen (and had) greatrobes far worse then any on this list down in the 30-40/30-40 range, so I'll call this a high average test.


Ok, I don't know what the stats on field/fullplate are, but I think I remember Malicia telling me a few months ago it was around 90-110?(Please correct me if I'm wrong)

Conclusion:According to those greatrobe stats, that clearly looks like double protection to me.

Edit:Yes, I know it's not rounded but I wanted to be as objective as possible.

And on another note I believe spendor robes are around in the 60-65ish range

Come back Alger, I miss trying to defend against you raiding the Etherwilde by yourself.

Him and Ru (and sometimes his champion pet) is NOT by himself! >_>

EDIT: He does need to come back though.

Yea, I remember that. I came out of it really disgusted with the magi class too. Soon after, I left it and returned to the monk class.

The Cyrenians weren't using the proper tactic. You don't fight a Mage in Retardation, you get out of the room and shoot him with sleep arrows. I think that's how we ended the everyone vs Geb event.

*boggle shiri* Alger had a champion pet?

Yeah! It wasn't really scary on its own, but it made fighting him in team combat a LOT harder.

I don't remember that... then again I was lvl 21ish and died in one hit from him, so I didn't have much of a chance to look around, it was mainly:

330h, 650m, 600e, 0p exk-
(Nature vine Alger)
330h, 650m, 600e, 0p exk-
(20 guards enter from the west.)
330h, 650m, 600e, 0p exk-
(Alger invokes summer, and then kills you, you noob.)
0h, 650m, 600e, 0p exk-
(huddles at the Mother Tree with a circle up watching alger run around killing things)

It was still fun though.

It's kinda an inside joke.

Awww alger so mean ....

I have gotten better since the last time we fought though. Come back would be fun.