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Imperial (Anonymous)	Mon 19-Jun-17 01:02 AM
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#68435, "Lightforge"

Am I the only one, who is tired of being zapped with dispel scrolls, damnation, wrath, and talisman of pebble and so forth? I mean, its like having rangers, thiefs and so on running around with shaman powers...

Just my two cents.

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RE: Lightforge, Destuvius

, 19-Jun-17 05:15 AM, #2

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RE: Lightforge, Isildur, 19-Jun-17 07:23 AM, #3

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A cabal power that is actually useful, huh?, Murphy, 19-Jun-17 07:46 AM, #4

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RE: A cabal power that is actually useful, huh?, Isildur, 19-Jun-17 08:05 AM, #5

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Yes, and they crumble, right?, Murphy, 19-Jun-17 08:12 AM, #7

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RE: Yes, and they crumble, right?, Isildur, 19-Jun-17 08:44 AM, #10

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Haha. Yeah. That was my initial reaction. , TJHuron, 19-Jun-17 08:05 AM, #6

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Might have to do with Fort rolling deep lately, Murphy, 19-Jun-17 08:14 AM, #8

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RE: Might have to do with Fort rolling deep lately, Isildur, 19-Jun-17 08:48 AM, #11

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RE: Might have to do with Fort rolling deep lately, Jhyrbian, 19-Jun-17 12:23 PM, #12

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He's pretty muligrubant. n/t, Seriphax, 19-Jun-17 10:06 PM, #13

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RE: He's pretty muligrubant. n/t, Isildur, 19-Jun-17 10:23 PM, #14

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I want lightforged pills & potions, Murphy, 19-Jun-17 08:20 AM, #9

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Bash the thieves, offhand disarm the wand and talisman ..., Abernyte, 19-Jun-17 03:15 AM, #1

Destuvius	Mon 19-Jun-17 05:15 AM
Member since 08th Oct 2013 1012 posts

#68437, "RE: Lightforge"
In response to Reply #0

If they are spending their time using those scrolls/wands instead of other things that are more likely to kill you in a 1v1, then they are doing you a favor. If they are ganging you down then the lightforge scrolls probably don't change the outcome anyway. Pretty much everything that exists in a lightforge scroll can have the same affect occur with a non lightforge scroll.

Isildur	Mon 19-Jun-17 07:23 AM
Member since 04th Mar 2003 5969 posts

#68438, "RE: Lightforge"
In response to Reply #2

There are a few circumstances where lightforge provides something that's "PK optimal". Not sure those circumstances are what this guy is talking about, but they do exist.

Murphy	Mon 19-Jun-17 07:46 AM
Member since 30th Dec 2010 1639 posts

#68439, "A cabal power that is actually useful, huh?"
In response to Reply #3

Shocking.
Now if only imperial powers were up to par... oh wait.

Isildur	Mon 19-Jun-17 08:05 AM
Member since 04th Mar 2003 5969 posts

#68440, "RE: A cabal power that is actually useful, huh?"
In response to Reply #4

The weapons are useful if you're not already rocking highly limited stuff. I was just talking about the consumable magic items.

The annoying thing about light forge is that usually you're looking for a single wand/talisman/scroll out of several different possibilities. So unless you get lucky you end up spending a bunch of time forging stuff, identifying it, then throwing it away. It's like the old Masters power "brew" in that respect.

Murphy	Mon 19-Jun-17 08:12 AM
Member since 30th Dec 2010 1639 posts

#68442, "Yes, and they crumble, right?"
In response to Reply #5

So you can't make a stack of the ones you need in advance.

Isildur	Mon 19-Jun-17 08:44 AM
Member since 04th Mar 2003 5969 posts

#68445, "RE: Yes, and they crumble, right?"
In response to Reply #7

They do crumble, but the duration is pretty long. The crumbling is more of a problem with weapons. There's no obvious timer, so once you've had a pair for a while you start to worry they'll crumble in the middle of a fight. So you end up forging new ones "early" to avoid that happening.

TJHuron	Mon 19-Jun-17 08:05 AM
Member since 28th Nov 2007 1132 posts

#68441, "Haha. Yeah. That was my initial reaction. "
In response to Reply #4

An imperial bitching about fort powers? Damn

Murphy	Mon 19-Jun-17 08:14 AM
Member since 30th Dec 2010 1639 posts

#68443, "Might have to do with Fort rolling deep lately"
In response to Reply #6

Looking at cabalwars, all cabals (Empire included) have like 4-8 members, Outlander has 12 and Fort has 24.

Isildur	Mon 19-Jun-17 08:48 AM
Member since 04th Mar 2003 5969 posts

#68446, "RE: Might have to do with Fort rolling deep lately"
In response to Reply #8

Fort always seems to have a ton of members, the majority of whom are playing alts and/or are in the process of auto-deleting. Though, yeah, at the moment they have a decent number that are active.

Jhyrbian	Mon 19-Jun-17 12:23 PM
Member since 04th Mar 2003 924 posts

#68447, "RE: Might have to do with Fort rolling deep lately"
In response to Reply #11

Yeah well, there's not much incentive to share a cabal with Glikhardiz now is there?

Seriphax	Mon 19-Jun-17 10:06 PM
Member since 26th Feb 2017 145 posts

#68448, "He's pretty muligrubant. n/t"
In response to Reply #12

..

Isildur	Mon 19-Jun-17 10:23 PM
Member since 04th Mar 2003 5969 posts

#68449, "RE: He's pretty muligrubant. n/t"
In response to Reply #13

I really want to roll an Empire bard and just march around blasting this out via the "music" command:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC8tZ93avSQ

Murphy	Mon 19-Jun-17 08:20 AM
Member since 30th Dec 2010 1639 posts

#68444, "I want lightforged pills & potions"
In response to Reply #2

Holy marshmallows roasted over phoenix fire.

Abernyte	Mon 19-Jun-17 03:15 AM
Member since 04th Mar 2003 978 posts

#68436, "Bash the thieves, offhand disarm the wand and talisman ..."
In response to Reply #0

It's never really been a problem as there are lots of counters.

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