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I was on holiday for 3 weeks and then returned to a lot of work, so I lost the time to play.
I didn't get to interact too much with many people given sparse playtimes.
Ada was a Deormdel follower just as Deormdel pretty much disappeared, which was unfortunate.
I picked polearm because (a) I have not tried it before, and (b) I wanted to prove funnyone wrong. "funnyone" is the qhcf handle of a CF player with poor self-awareness and judgement, who declared giant polearm specs worthless.
I didn't focus much on hunting down PKs, and ended up with a 14-0 PK record (my estimate), most of it solo. I did spend a lot of time just grinding skill %s on frost giant int. I thought that was really good by my standards, and showed the strength of the giant polearm build.
Giant polearm spec is excellent in the midranks, and I estimate that it would remain good (with slight drop-off in power) in hero ranks as a defensive spec with great bleeding.
I was planning to pick mace and Cry/Gates for hero levels. I think the final build at hero would've been deadly in Empire gangs, and very solid solo as well.
(1) The distance-based tanking is incredibly good, I felt significantly tankier than a low-hp high-dex sword spec (e.g. arial).
(2) Slice causes huge bleeding (even more with the edge), I think the bleeding got me like 4 or 5 of my kills or something ridiculous like that.
(3) Cutoff is very reliable in one-exit rooms particularly.
(4) Chop deals double the damage of a melee hit, and was surprisingly good as a finisher with cutoff and parting blow.
I didn't have Imperial heroes give me any hero-grade polearms, unfortunately, so I made most of my kills with the unlimited imperial polearm, the poison jade polearm, and twice with the flaming bardiche I think. I think it would have been even more OP if I had some nice hero loot to go along with the build.
Edit to add: Ada won a role contest run by Jormyr, but I didn't end up getting any reward. I'm a bit curious what the planned reward would've been: I expect it would've just been a minor edge or something, but it's always nice to have a little "special snowflake" feature for your character.
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