>Let me preface this post with:

You honey-tongued bastard.

>This is wildly untrue and pure speculation. Speaking as
>someone that has distened to hero - repeatedly - with
>different classes the simple truth is:
>More than half your skills/spells don't work at all

I think you misinterpreted what I meant. I meant that the distention code may force you to alter the way you play such that you never distend in the first place. If you suspect you can only kill N people per rank, work within those parameters. Rather than killing everyone you can, make certain the N people you kill are the ones which will provide the greatest benefit. In other words, be selective.

Without having experienced it personally, I can agree that once you distend 10+ ranks you're pretty much S.O.L. What I have trouble understanding is why, given knowledge of how unhealthy it is, you ever let yourself distend that far.

>Your math is flawed. 4 kills every 10 hours probably would not
>distend you. 10 kills/level would have you in hero range in
>less than 10 levels. 10 kills/level is VERY MUCH a reality,
>especially at the midranks.

I never said it can't be done. You seem to consider it axiomatic that a character must kill as many people as he can at all times. It isn't.

>Story of my (all time) favorite character's life (mid-rank,
>barely post purge):

Cabal stuff does complicate things since it may get you kills you never "intended". Not sure what to do about that. I guess if you're killing 2-3 people every time you visit an enemy cabal or defend your own cabal...maybe you content yourself with the fact that you're killing a ton of people and curtail your non-cabal-related hunting.