I'm totally going to cast into spellbane for medicore -dex.

and a wood-elf warrior who has probably played at least one ranger vs. ranger fight is totally going to let me dirt kick him and then ambush cripple and not spam eyejab to prevent exactly that.

Nah I'll stick with permalagging him and waiting for my higher-avg healing prog weapon to do the work for me, thanks. He's just a wood-elf, he and most of the rest of the MUD has to go down eventually if I just don't let him drop my str, cover my vulns if needed and wield the ranger fashioned weaponry to tank decent since dual wielding axes sure as hell doesn't work right anymore.

Something is still screwed because the fight in question I'm talking about I was hasted the first half, but that could do with the haste nerf from way back when to prevent exactly what I was expecting to happen and nerf the effectiveness of exactly this tactic (from warriors) I suppose.

If that's the case, I have no further comment. I won, after all every subsequent battle that started the same way. It's not like he didn't have, oh, pull, to yank me out of the wilderness.