Yeah server's down. POOR HERBERT BETTER NOT STARVE!!!!

*shadowdance choke server*

We have a thread for this!

Gah, you griefer! Quit killing Lusternia!

Yes but it wasn't on 'View New Posts' and no one is going to go off searching for it.

Amazingly enough, it wasn't dead. It really was just choked. EPIC LAG!

It's pinned...

I caused an untrapped error in the code trying to check my messages! Sorry!

Although I have a special place in my heart for those who betray me but later change their minds.

I have a special place in my heart for defiling your shrines. Does that count?

Talking to friends has dispelled all interest in joining another Order.

You don't want to be in that special place? Otherwise you're just somewhere else, his toe, I suppose. Not even his big toe, you're not that important

I've already been there.

I was in Fain's order before I left Mag the first time.

Morgfyre's order is all but dead. We're like half-alive.

I'm too afraid of Fain to have a character ever join his order. o_o

I love my skills and my guild, but Moondancer combat makes me want to cry.

oh man what? Try MD combat with lash and no beastmastery and no champ pet. Now those were some rough days. No hexen palm either.

There was even one point where we couldn't doublewhammy or whammy with hexaura active, but at least back then anorexia/asthma could lock people without focus mind so that wasn't as bad. But yeah the above was rough. All these years I wanted to go SD and when i finally do I don't even get to use succumb

And yet way back when we used to kick ass somehow. Tuek and Narsrim wrecked people as MD. What happened?

They changed guilds.

My frustration with Moondancer combat is more about the style of it than its power. It's a put all your eggs in one basket style. Really not much buildup or anything.

Thank god for only getting into hexen combat after beastmastery, though.

Although to balance the olden days, yeah, standard of curing has gone waaaaaaay up.

I need to stop logging in just to pop in and see if anything's happening and then get distracted and end up playing. -.-

EDIT: just saw the above posts, I think a huge factor is just the advancement of curing systems. You could just throw afflictions and they wouldn't be able to cure them. Now, even if you had unlimited power, spamming doublewhammys wouldn't get you anywhere. Oh, and Tuek is still MD.

way back when Tuek and Narsrim around is the time I was speaking of when you couldn't whammy/dwhammy off hexaura. Anorexia was a smoke cure and asthma was an herb or curative sip cure. So anorexia/asthma was a lock. Back then a lot of people lacked all the numerous skills that create the high cost of entry and so people who couldn't focus mind could not cure this with green. Two afflictions. Furthermore, throw in paralyse/impatience and then not only could they not sip or eat or smoke, they can't move without tumble or passive curing because they can't focus body. Add that knowledge on top of the fact that allhex used to exist (throw all 6 hexes at once). Well, let's just say there were some easy locks back in the day.

I am also not sure in the availability of public systems, but I will presume that has played a part in how affliction classes have struggled more. i was there for some of that and enjoyed the allhex combo. But most of my days were when it was deleted and we earned some rough lash toadcurses.

@Solanis yeah, that is the problem with affliction classes, they tend to be one shot bursts. At the very least, both wiccans and druids are, and to an extent half of the bard guilds. The plus side is that 1v1 is tough to find anyways so it's not too much to worry about. The down side is that all the new guilds are getting passive and active long term kill options. Burn levels, coils, temp insanity etc. Some of the old guilds like nihilists got deathmark, so I mean that is something you can do while regening power and such. Even Sacraments got holy light and regardless of how helpful it is, it can be some help.

If anything, we could look to add something brand new. Otherwise, since sleep locks seem to be the way everyone is forced to go, just throw sleep hexes x 200 or aim to add ways to increase tiredness via envoys or just increase the tiredness that sleep hexes can give.