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incognitoTue 18-May-04 07:01 AM
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#4571, "regarding enhanced reactions"


          

Don't take these too badly please. I like 99% of the changes, but I'm only covering the ones I have issues with.

I'm not a big fan of enhanced reactions. Reasons follow (and the first one is not the important one):

1. I thought warriors didn't need an increase in power to be competitive. They were already very common, and with the exception of cranial I think all their tweaks have been acting to increase their strength? Once air-offense shifters became subject to maladictions, and once legacies came in, I think a warrior that does not focus on offense should be able to handle anyone.

2. The major reason...

Part of a warrior's strength is that he can use any weapon. No other class can do this. With the exception of paladins with a certain virtue, it effectively means that he can choose a weapon that his opponent cannot parry.

In my opinion, knowing when to sacrifice the use of your weapon specs in order to exploit weapon knowledge in a fashion that prevents your opponent from parrying (bearing in mind all warriors can get rid of shields), is part of the skill of playing a warrior.

It seems to me that this change, by reducing the ability of others to parry a warrior's blows -whatever weapon he chooses- reduces the impact of skill on the effectiveness of warriors. He no longer has to consider switching to non-specced weapons (or not nearly as often) because his hits won't be parried often enough to make up for loss of spec skills if he chooses not to. I see this as a skill that simply increases the level of "one-trick poniness". Ok, so the warriors aren't limited to one trick, but they certainly won't benefit as much from using a variety as they used to.

  

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Reply RE: Pontification: Change Fearers, Xaannix, 17-Jun-04 07:10 PM, #35
Reply Change is not the problem., Xaannix, 17-Jun-04 07:00 PM, #34
Reply I have pehaps a unique view on this, Abthalok, 08-Jun-04 10:55 AM, #30
Reply RE: Pontification: Change Fearers, Nightgaunt_, 17-May-04 02:12 PM, #19
Reply About Outlanders (since you mentioned them), Jarvino, 17-May-04 06:39 PM, #6
Reply Outlanders, Zanya, 18-May-04 04:54 PM, #12
Reply Response., Lyristeon, 09-Jun-04 10:22 AM, #32
Reply woot! Flame on!!, Chalupah, 07-Jun-04 08:22 PM, #18
Reply RE: woot! Flame on!!, Zulghinlour, 07-Jun-04 09:05 PM, #22
Reply RE: woot! Flame on!!, Chalupah, 07-Jun-04 09:48 PM, #23
     Reply RE: woot! Flame on!!, Zulghinlour, 07-Jun-04 10:16 PM, #24
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               Reply RE: woot! Flame on!!, Zulghinlour, 07-Jun-04 11:21 PM, #26
                    Reply I'm not trying to be difficult, I swear., Chalupah, 08-Jun-04 12:31 AM, #27
                         Reply RE: I'm not trying to be difficult, I swear., Zulghinlour, 08-Jun-04 12:57 AM, #28
                              Reply Two points for using onus in a sentence and not soundin..., Shadowmaster, 08-Jun-04 08:08 AM, #29
Reply RE: woot! Flame on!!, Valguarnera, 09-Jun-04 09:09 AM, #31
Reply Just a few thoughts., Lyristeon, 09-Jun-04 10:43 AM, #33
Reply Good post (small text), Soren, 28-May-04 01:30 PM, #17
Reply RE: Pontification: Change Fearers, Evil Genius (Anonymous), 18-May-04 05:24 PM, #14
Reply Didn't read your post, but "Trust" sums it up., Evil Genius (Anonymous), 18-May-04 05:09 PM, #13
Reply RE: Pontification: Change Fearers, Romanul, 17-May-04 11:31 PM, #7
Reply Assassins, nepenthe, 18-May-04 12:00 AM, #8
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Reply Orb Ramblings, ORB, 17-May-04 12:48 PM, #5
Reply Change Fearing vrs Constructive Critiscism, General_Malaise, 17-May-04 10:43 AM, #1
     Reply RE: Change Fearing vrs Constructive Critiscism, incognito, 17-May-04 11:31 AM, #2
     Reply Regarding Scion:, Valguarnera, 17-May-04 11:51 AM, #3
     Reply RE: Regarding Scion:, Evil Genius (Anonymous), 18-May-04 05:30 PM, #15
     Reply Regarding Criticism:, Valguarnera, 17-May-04 12:11 PM, #20
          Reply Great post, and a response., Shadowmaster, 17-May-04 12:34 PM, #4
          Reply regarding flee/sleep, incognito, 18-May-04 03:23 AM, #9
               Reply regarding enhanced reactions, incognito, 18-May-04 07:01 AM #11
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