Well as mentioned earlier, I hate anti-paladins. Ive played them before and never did well. One good thing with Finley was for some reason (maybe imms tweaked the formula a bit?) getting souls was a lot easier than earlier APs I have played. Nearly anyone I killed gave me at least one soul which was the opposite in experience that I had with earlier APs where I killed more often but hardly got a soul for my efforts. That helped me keep trucking. Also this was my first AP to get a control! (yay me)

My thoughts on the class are this...they have the name but these are not anti-paladins. They in no way shape or form match paladins. May as well call thieves anti-warriors. Hell that would make more sense in terms of the effectiveness a thief has in killing a warrior versus an anti-paladin killing a paladin.

My greatest amount of souls was about 35 souls (in rancor) and only with that amount of souls did I begin to approach feeling as if I wasn't a big soft wet sponge waiting to be smooshed. Although I did get better at fighting without souls as time went on the sheer amount of preparation required to have an even chance (at least for me) was ungodly. And by even chance I mean after applying all the preps, being able to survive long enough to see if I had a chance of winning.

Frankly with preps i found still that the vast majority of fights I had were me getting hit once or twice then needing to flee because I was already at half health and none of my spells were landing.

That by the way is the number one problem...getting spells to land. by the time I threw out a blind or sigil (usually missed sigil the first time) I was near dead. Forget trying to fight a berserker...I literally melted before deathblow.

Long story short, APs are incredibly squishy and most kill themselves off before hero. I would love to know what percentage of APs that have even made it to each control. And how long it has been. I think some study into that would be good to see how the clss is doing and how relevant it is. PEople like AP's for the promise of unrestricted power but from what I have seen and experienced its like the lottery. I kept Finley going because of the players not because of the class.


Didn't have alot of immteraction, what few moments I did kinda soured me on the experience. And speaking of which...titles really should reflect the RP reality of things. Finley never betrayed the spire. He quit. There is no oath given or taken to join the spire. as far as Finley was concerned it was a job and he got offered a better job and tendered his resignation. As far as most of the player leadership of the spire was concerned Finley was still an ally. Marking me a betrayer only served to have the light walkers in the spire to have something to say to me. It really annoyed me.

And when did leveling become a requirement of this game?

Having the sect guardian basically threaten you if you don't advance is so not cool and ooc in my opinion. Lets not forget that levels represent one thing and one thing only in this game from an RP perspective - GUILD rank. Meaning that in RL its like a person belongs to the local baseball team and their boss at their job tells them if they don't go pro on their baseball team they will be demoted at their JOB...which has absolutely nothing to do with baseball.

Being high enough rank means you are high...enough...rank....

anyways, for the most part I enjoyed my interactions with the players and I thank the staff for all the work that goes into this game from the imm-side, just wanted to comment that in the past i have enjoyed some imm-teraction but this time around I could have done without it.