Quoted from Valg's post that I was responding to.
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Player skill (not the numbers that show up what you type "prac", but the experience and cleverness of the player) is vastly more important than either character skills or equipment. Give Nepenthe or Jhyrbian or Leika or Twist or whoever an average suit, a little time to gather prep items, and 75% everything, and they will find a way to thrash an average player with 100% everything and shiny gear in a one-on-one fight. Again, if you've got 50 hours to spare, choosing to spend that time on parry or whatever isn't going to trump getting out there and learning the tricks of the trade in the long run, in my opinion.

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He basicly posed a challenge of a player like Leika, Twist, You, Or Jhyrbian could "Thrash" a chracter with straight 100s and shiny gear, with a moderate char.

I said that an assassin with perfect 100s is going to do sick things to them. As soon as the fight starts the weapons will be gone or nearly gone. The other guy gets protections? Great that will drag the fight on longer, an assassins best friend is time, and he can buy his own because he is tanking like a perfected assassin with a shield should.

You mentioned that nobody would "let" an assassin do those things? I got the idea that this was basicly a deul between two chacters and I know of no way to stop someone from kot, kan, throw/gc, etc. Except for lag the hell out of em, but that wont stop it all.


I suck at pk and am most likely speaking out my ass here. But I have played a ton of assassins, and spend a LOAD of time working on my skills because thats one of the things that makes me like cf, the feeling of self accomplishment. WHen those skills are perfected there is very little I cannot take out...and yes this includes mace/axe specs. A good portion of the mace/axe users arent smart enough to load up on +20 str, and once you get those weapons away from em and take their dex to -54487567...buh bye.

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