>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.
>

You're dumb, so I'll try and dumb this down for you. Yes, prep for deathblow. You have healers, you have invokers, you have the ability to use stoneskin, aura, shield, haste, and everything else. If you don't use any, that's your fault. And you have two or three or four super special ways of avoiding that deathblow: called parry, dodge, shieldblock, spin, flourentine, distance, and anything else like that. Or, you can *gasp* disarm the rager. Taking the weapon out of a rager who uses axes and maces and swords and daggers and all that is novel for someone like you I'm sure, but now you know. Or *gasp* you can reduce his strength, watch him thirst, go away for three hours and wow, come kill him.

These are all just off the top of my head and I'm a ####ty player, so I'm sure a genius like you can come up with more and better ways to prep for deathblow and thirst and all that jazz.

>>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.
>

No doubt you think you're funny talking about 'preps' and a villager. Ha, ha, ha. Sadly you're also stupid. A rager depends on his weapons like everyone else, and needs them to go do that little raid. So when he leaves them all in the village he goes and does what, use profanity against the scion defenders and archmage?

>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!
>

Except they last into the day after they have been called - the scepter was stolen during daylight hours.

>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!
>

Most rare? Ok, but that just means the others are constant and numerous because the "most rare" one always happens when I raid. And all of the inventory is stolen. And only rarely does it fail and step from the shadows. And the most recent time it was called by Mendoza who is not a leader and all the inventory was stolen and the scepter as well after the archmage died, despite leaving as fast as possible - the pit was empty. And no, I can't lessen it by doing some easy things. Some of us don't have the inventory of an arial. We have lower dex. And even so it steals the entire inventory, so it doesn't matter. You just don't want to accept that.

>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!!
>

Except... not. Doofus.