Power, not powers. Bond is incredibly powerful if frequently not present. It frustrates me even further when you try to pamper and help shifters so you have people to bond with just to have them delete days later.

I reviewed the log. In this log it looks to be providing over 50% dam reduction. I would guess that some of this has to be because of Szzilizi being evil and vanguard potentially providing protection from evil. The *** Demo's he looks like he would normally be doing also would seem to be big enough hits for vanguard to be dropping them. This is legit damage reduction.

Had vanguard stayed up, who is your money on? Mine is still probably on Szzilizi.


I would like to do a comparison for a 1vs1 nexun warrior vs RBW warrior.

Village Powers
Berserkers
Resist which provides consistent damage reduction
Deathblow which provides an amazing increase in damage production
Bloodthirst which seems to provide haste, some protection against lag, protection against maledictions, protection against blindness, at a large risk to yourself
Truesight - Detect invis, cure blindness
Spellbane - Counter spells, save vs spells.

After some debate and trying to learn from the forums, these powers are awesome and fun and should stay the way they are.

Nexus Powers
Eye - Free Detect Invis/Alignment/Ethos/Magic. Basically a power that is required to figured out who to fight.
Gauge - Another power that is just required to figure out who to fight.
Vanguard
Protection vs strong alignment - This is helpful for everyone else, but largely not against ragers especially recently with how often light is strong and the rarity of goodie villagers.
Damage Reduction against strong hits - I loved this against rangers and thieves. It was somewhat useful against berserkers. The problem really comes in that it does little against the warriors who are more about hitting you a lot for medium damage instead of a little for big damage.


Resist vs Vanguard - Not a bad comparison, but I would rather have consistent damage reduction than sometimes damage reduction.
Truesight vs Eye - I suppose I would take truesight for the curing of blindness without having to always have potions on me to do it.
Gauge vs ? - Gaining no benefit at all beyond knowing who to fight, I see nothing comparing to this.
Deathblow vs ? - Keep dreaming Nexun.
Bloodthirst vs ? - The general answer said is RUN AWAY. Woo, thats fun.
Spellbane vs ? - Yeah that would be nice Nexun. At least you are not fighting mages all the time, wait you mean a-p's and necro's and transmuters still want to kill you to?

Ever present argument - Nexuns have the numbers! Yeah, so what if I am constantly outnumbered? Do I really have the numbers?

The truth is for a solo nexun vs RBW, your powers are just lame. One of your powers does something, woooo. It doesn't mean you have to lose, you can play smart and win. It doesn't mean there won't be successful nexun warriors, some builds are good enough or people are talented enough to pull it off. It doesn't change my mind that nexus powers are still lame.

The other counter is that the bond does make up for a lot of the short comings and can be rather fierce. I really don't feel like it is overpowered just because you have to have two people work perfectly together, which is frequently lacking.

So don't play them. Well, okay I really don't want to but I don't like any other cabal but villagers any better and I don't have the patience to play them constantly.
Outlander - The last time I played it felt like a collection of independent people who had very little interest in one another, which bored me.
Scion - I am not sure I have the talent or patience to pull this off honestly.
Empire/Fort - I have enjoyed empire and fort in the past, but it just feels like the Fort/Empire wars cause people to be ugly and brutal to each other. I also hate the summoning traps and numbers on both sides.
Tribunal - No patience for sitting on my butt for hours in town twiddling my thumbs.
Battleragers - I love everything about them, you know, except for not having teleport potions .
Herald - I enjoy more pk than rp, though do enjoy both so I don't see myself fitting in here.
Nexus - At least you consistently have someone to fight and allies who want to work together.