HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I mean, you're kidding, right? This is a joke, right? HAHAHAHA!! Here, I'll throw in the punchline!

>Except berserker powers come with huge, enormous,
>get-you-killed drawbacks, and are also powers which can be
>prepared against, defended against, reduced, and generally
>circumvented.

Here, let me as Johnny Scion warrior 'prep' for deathblow. Let's see...nightwalker, check. Stoneskin, check. Haste, Aura...well those are out and are probably sitting in someone's inventory. OK, I'll go in with just stoneskin. Wait a second, I'm only doing half the damage they are because of resist...shoot, I just got hit with three deathblows and died.


>None of that can be said about this particular scion power.
>It's entirely without drawback and it is impossible to defend
>against by most of the people who are required to fight the
>cabal. Worse, it renders a success against all the scion
>actual players a loss.


Hahahaha! Let's see, I guess as Johnny Berserker, dropping all my 'preps' off in the battle cabal before raiding is out of the question. Food and water is hard to come by.

Hmmm, well I suppose I could always raid during the day when a portal CAN'T be called. Nah...too easy, and that says I have a defeatist attitude towards the whole thing!

What's this? Small nightwalkers that steal are the most rare thing to come out of the portal, with an even worse chance of coming if they aren't being called by a leader, and generally fail?? Well, still, unfair says I! I could really lessen the chance of the scepter getting stolen by doing a couple very easy things (wait, if the steals are random, you mean I could fill up my inventory with berry pies and reduce the chance of the Scepter being stolen! Pshaw!), including not hanging around to full loot the Scion pit, but hey, to the victor go the spoils and I have every right to sit here for 10 minutes sorting through loot!

I guess with all my crappy berserker insta haste/deathblow/sanc/infinite movement/cure blindness powers, I'll just go back to my norecall shrine and sit by my sick inner guardian that has the best cabal guardian abilities, twice the hp, and innate dam redux and pay the priest to uncurse some stuff for me. Woe is I!!