At hero level, you need ABS to compete. I guarantee you, if I put any warrior of mine against any mage lacking barrier and either aura or shield, I'm going to kick his ass. When you consider the back and forth dynamics of cabal wars, the constant demand of ragers hitting your cabal just to provoke a fight, etc., it becomes really obvious that even with the current system it's sometimes impossible to keep up.

When you DO run out of ABS from all the fighting, you are screwed. You have to wait it out, being almost impotent for the duration because you just can't survive long enough in a fight to attempt the spells you need to get off.

I'm not just pulling all of this out of my ass. I've played for a long time and these are my conclusions.


I've been playing for a long time, too, and I do not agree that your unprotected hero-level warrior is going to kick a hero-level invoker's ass if the invoker has weave of elements and full shields up.

I mean, it might help if I knew which hero warriors you played so I can remember if we ever fought each other .. or even what invokers your warriors fought. It's possible you're a special case, but then, if you are that good, you probably will not have a lot of problems fighting unprotected hero-level warriors as an invoker, either.

All things considered, I think that is a decently fair fight.

One of the major problems with the ABS system is that there are always going to be people who think ABS is supremely powerful(me) and people who think mages need ABS to have equal standing with an unprotected warrior (you).