I am not upset nor have I dismissed your input. I do value the replies here and from the broader pbase.
-Kartekenth
Anonymous poster hash: c922d...29e
Kartekenth (Werebeast Zerker, uncaballed) vs. Kotrag (Feral Ninja, Syndicate)
This was my response in prayer which I still believe and have offered for review by a wider audience.
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Personally I think nymph hearts might be the problem. You can down three of them (60 - 90 hp), perhaps more, quicker than a berserker can use an essential path skill to restore 100 hp (with self-lag and a chance of failure).
To which my suggestion would be reduce nymph hearts to a random X variable that is a 5d5 roll, minimum value 5, maximum value 25, and also put the same amount of lag on it that you can when you sacrifice an item.
That, or make them for moderate characters only.
As a secondary point of consideration, tsuki strike accounted for 19 free hits (Injures, Injures, Mauls, Mauls, Wounds, Decimates, devastates, Mauls, Decimates, Decimates. Grazes, Mauls, injures, Decimates, Injures, Decimates, Devastates, Hits, Grazes)
To which my suggestion would be to make tsuki strike a hand to hand attack that is subject to hit or miss based on AC/Thaco considerations. Additionally, I would suggest removing tsuki strike when pugil is in effect.
Those hits are in addition to 4 autothrow attacks which he was given when engaging with murder or shoot. Four rounds open with the shadow launcher and end with an auto-throw (Injure, devastates, MANGLES, DISMEMBERS), for a total of 23 free attacks while shooting and tsuki striking, not counting any weapon or cabal effects.
To which my suggestion would be that a raged berserker should always be able to engage faster than another player can flee/murder or even walk by. To which a second suggestion would be that shurikens should not be thrown when other ranged weapons are going off.
Please also note that his shuriken damage (MANGLES), and I am not sure if this was hitting a vuln, exceeded any damage I was able to do with over 100 dam.
And the number of attacks he got off on me using a (presumably, staff) exceeded the number I got off on him validly while using a weapon type he did not know.
As a final suggestion I think push should be changed so that if you fail, you run INTO the character, not rolling out of the room, and it lags you like a bash/bodyslam.
As it stands now, failing a push is just a way for the player to re-engage with murder and take advantage of the throw auto-attack (which should also be invalidated by rage, in terms of being able to beat the zerk's timing of re-engaging).
Also, when a zerker is raged, make the opponents chance to flee reduced by 10 to 20% and disable rescue unless berserker is blinded. Lots of mob/rescue/flee abuse going on... unrelated to this battle.
Just my 2 cents.
-Kartekenth
Anonymous poster hash: c922d...29e
I would argue that nymph hearts are a none issue because they are universally accessible.
Nothing stops you from gathering them, and using them yourself.
The log just shows how not to play a berserker in my opinion. And that yes you cant just win spamming lag commands.
Ok guys. Imms don't post logs here to get an opinion different than they got from the staff (which the player did not get here either). It's a players option to get more opinions if they feel strongly about something. So let's be more civil, even if you disagree.
Kyz do we have a log of how to play a berserker against Kotrag.
-Kartekenth
Anonymous poster hash: c922d...29e
I dont have my lycanthus fight vs him sadly. Though you can ask him how "easy" i was compared to the above.
You can be snarky with me all day tbh. I am just summarizing the message in these comments sans kid gloves.
No snark. What was the outcome ?
-kartekenth
Anonymous poster hash: c922d...29e
I did very well actually. He couldnt stay in combat if dirted or haymakered. I lost only because he caught me with an abduct out of beastform because i dropped to use a glimmering and had several tics before i could change again. Bad decision on my part. Should of kept smoking.
Against anyone other than kotrags player I would of won imo. But hes a very good pker. And was ready to capitalize on my mistake.
10 hours ago, Anonymous said:
I've marked everything that's incorrect in your post, @Pali,
I'm mostly just wondering how that post ended with a Starfleet reference... I was pretty drunk at the time and posting off mobile, so I'm guessing it was autocorrect.
That said, I stand by paladin and mino charge lagging charger and charged for two rounds (perhaps slightly shy of two rounds). I've never seen a log that this was not the case for with minos, and I've played enough paladins to be certain in their case.