Staff of the Silent Star
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Scars of Velious
#Anonymous,
Posted: May 10 2001 at 6:41 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) hehe verant did this to annoy you American whiners =)
8 posts
Oh look, a foreign troll.
6 posts
Monks get the only weapon in the game that has a damage higher than delay...they can easily out taunt any warrior due to their damage output...they can FD if problems run across...and their epic provides a very nice haste.
Try playing a warrior. No updates (besides bind wounds increase) in next to forever. Constantly having to taunt off monks and bards (which rarely works). Weapons that don't even equal in the same area as the other melee types. Epic provides no haste. No way to get out of a bad fight except run for zone.
Try playing a warrior. No updates (besides bind wounds increase) in next to forever. Constantly having to taunt off monks and bards (which rarely works). Weapons that don't even equal in the same area as the other melee types. Epic provides no haste. No way to get out of a bad fight except run for zone.
12 posts
Scepter of Destruction yo
Anonymous
Remember that if the dmg is brutal the monk will go down fast, every decent group should have a warrior due to HP and AC. Remember that parry and dodge also count. But also I feel warriors have been somewhat neglected. But that is because I play a warrior. Its very easy to not notice our own classes gains. Like the Velious armor. It IS good.
And about the taunting, its not GOOD for a monk or bard to taunt even though they might do it because outdmg. So its not really an advantage if you not solo.
Just my humble opinion though.
Castamir Coldstar
Warrior 48
Terris Thule.
And about the taunting, its not GOOD for a monk or bard to taunt even though they might do it because outdmg. So its not really an advantage if you not solo.
Just my humble opinion though.
Castamir Coldstar
Warrior 48
Terris Thule.
Anonymous
What weapon is that? There is a pure caster only weapon that 60dmg 40dly.
29 posts
the 60/40 1hb was the rod of annihilation, which is no longer dropped.
Rod of annihilation and the dam/delay ratio is better than that I think. But, it no longer drops in game and the 2 or 3 that might actually exist on live servers will never be seen by anyone who doesn't own one.
Nods
Nods
Anonymous
There are 3 weapons in the game that I know of that have a damage higher than the delay. One is the caster weapon you mentioned (name slips my mind at the moment) which is 60/40 but the downside is that it's minus 50 int. The other 2 are 2hb monk only weapons: Bo staff of Trorsmang which is 40/35 and Ton Po's Bo Stick Of Understanding which is 44/40 with a sweet proc. I don't remember for sure if the Bo staff has a proc, but I don't believe it does.
Oh well, back to viewing more new items.
Oh well, back to viewing more new items.
#Anonymous,
Posted: May 10 2001 at 12:33 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Yup. It's items like this that make some people scratch their heads, and wonder which crack smoking idiot at verant- hired the other junk shooting idiots that design items for this game.
This staff was specifically designed for out of mana wizards.
#Anonymous,
Posted: May 13 2001 at 10:32 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) laff- oh yeah, obviously... that's why it's 15/18, +75 HP, and 0.0 wieght, Einstein
#Anonymous,
Posted: May 09 2001 at 9:40 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Furor isn't the best war on all servers Nanak of VZ is = P he won the BotB or ToT whichever you wanna call it so there
Um, pallies and SKs DO get the best 1h ratio'ed weapons in the game because they cant dual wield
Anonymous
hmmmm, prolly sound like an idiot, whats FoH?
Anonymous
stands for Fires of Heaven, an UBER guild on Veeshan. And guess what, they CAN kill you like 30 times over. Furor is the leader ( it think) and is aruguably the greatest Warrior in the entire game.
Anonymous
I personally play on Veeshan, and I must say that FoH has earned every piece of loot that they come across. They work extremely hard for everything, and contrary to what most people believe, they aren't jerks. And in response to the post about Furor, he is great but he actually lost the warrior Best of the Best to another guildmate, hehe. Guess that's the downfall of not being an ogre =P
Yes, Furor Planedefiler. I believe he earned the name...He's currently the wearer of an almost full suit of Warlord's, weilder of a Primal Warsword and a Katana of Pain (although he occassionally breaks out the Epic.
I'm just waiting for them to take on the Mother. =)
Nastasja Wyldangyl
32nd season Knight of the Cathedral
Innoruuk
I'm just waiting for them to take on the Mother. =)
Nastasja Wyldangyl
32nd season Knight of the Cathedral
Innoruuk
Anonymous
What race is Furor? I would really like to know... for some reason... Oh, one more thing, ogre SUCK ****(sry, stormguard speaking there)
11 posts
Furor is my favorite race. He's a gnome. Just like all my characters. I just can't get enough of them!
Zump (38 Gnome Warrior)
Zzum (30 Gnome Necro)
Vazaelle server
Zump (38 Gnome Warrior)
Zzum (30 Gnome Necro)
Vazaelle server
I don;t know what Furor Planedefiler of FoH YOU'VE been looking at, but the one that is all over the guildpage is a Human Warrior of Innoruuk(according to his Magelo), and I have yet to see any kind of Illusion:Human masks that are warrior usable. This is, I know, totally off topic, but just wanted to throw in the correction.
As far as casters meleeing, as a poster above put it, this is perfect for OOM wizards. You dump 3500+ mana worth of nukes into some high end raid target, you think you;re gonna be able to sit down? You have been SUMMONED! 560 560 560 560 LOADING PLEASE WAIT. Might as well run up and get you some of %t, beats standing there waiting for mana to regen standing. You might do jack melee damage wise, but 400DD Lure line proc, with a 18 delay, you could add another 3-4K worth of proc damage on the uber 20-25 minute mobs, then nuke more after the C3 + FT Items you have add the mana back up. Just my thoughts =)
Wolveran Shadowbane 54.1 Pathfinder
Shizadow Knizight 31 Shadowknight
Edited, Wed Jul 17 18:28:35 2002
As far as casters meleeing, as a poster above put it, this is perfect for OOM wizards. You dump 3500+ mana worth of nukes into some high end raid target, you think you;re gonna be able to sit down? You have been SUMMONED! 560 560 560 560 LOADING PLEASE WAIT. Might as well run up and get you some of %t, beats standing there waiting for mana to regen standing. You might do jack melee damage wise, but 400DD Lure line proc, with a 18 delay, you could add another 3-4K worth of proc damage on the uber 20-25 minute mobs, then nuke more after the C3 + FT Items you have add the mana back up. Just my thoughts =)
Wolveran Shadowbane 54.1 Pathfinder
Shizadow Knizight 31 Shadowknight
Edited, Wed Jul 17 18:28:35 2002
Anonymous
Not a bad alternative to taking the time to do an annoyingly long epic.
Anonymous
Nice ratio, true. But thats not the selling point of this item. It weighs nothing, has 10 int and 100 mana - thats what makes it a killer caster item. I doubt you'll be seeing any wizzies working melee in VP anytime soon.
Considering FoH has been taking out that part of the Temple, I don't think that this is fake. As a matter of fact, this item is just like all the others -- very, very real.
My only thought is, some of the melee weapons I saw (Twisted Steel ******* Sword, was one, I believe) actually have a worse ratio than the Caster items.... that sounds a little crazy. I'm not saying that casters shouldn't have good ratio -- they should! But when you've got a same-area of a high level zone dropping a hybrid sword with a ratio around 1.8, and then a caster weapon with a ratio of 1.2..... yet will a hybrid EVER get better, or even equal (at the level) spells that their parent class gets, excepting the Call of Earth, SKy, etc and other rhybrids get? Even those have no comparison to the spells at the level that their parent class gets...
Let's take another look into these balancing issues you're always freaking out about, Verant.
My only thought is, some of the melee weapons I saw (Twisted Steel ******* Sword, was one, I believe) actually have a worse ratio than the Caster items.... that sounds a little crazy. I'm not saying that casters shouldn't have good ratio -- they should! But when you've got a same-area of a high level zone dropping a hybrid sword with a ratio around 1.8, and then a caster weapon with a ratio of 1.2..... yet will a hybrid EVER get better, or even equal (at the level) spells that their parent class gets, excepting the Call of Earth, SKy, etc and other rhybrids get? Even those have no comparison to the spells at the level that their parent class gets...
Let's take another look into these balancing issues you're always freaking out about, Verant.
Anonymous
"Let's take another look into these balancing issues you're always freaking out about, Verant."
Have you played a high level caster before and tried to melee? 15dmg/18dly just means that you get to miss a lot more often and on occasion get in a 15dmg hit. This does NOT affect game balance. Heck, 18dmg/15dly on a caster item wouldn't unbalance the game.
Let me put it in ranger terms. Say you gave to a lv 60 ranger, a hybrid version of sunstrike, one of the best dmg/dly spells for the best nuking class, wizards. 1600dmg/450mana 7 seconds to cast.
Now, say that you the ranger cast this spell, but it gets fully resisted 95% of the time (that's 450 mana for 0 dmg and 7 sec. melee wasted), you get 100dmg 3% of the time, 500dmg 2% of the time, and 1600dmg 1% of the time.
Would you really waste your melee time and limited mana pool on this spell? Btw, those figures work out to rougly 29dmg per cast on average if you had infinite mana and cast it over and over again.
I guess what I'm saying is, you can put whatever stats on caster weapons and it won't matter worth a donkey's *** because we can't melee =)
Amoran
57 Enchanter
Quellious
Have you played a high level caster before and tried to melee? 15dmg/18dly just means that you get to miss a lot more often and on occasion get in a 15dmg hit. This does NOT affect game balance. Heck, 18dmg/15dly on a caster item wouldn't unbalance the game.
Let me put it in ranger terms. Say you gave to a lv 60 ranger, a hybrid version of sunstrike, one of the best dmg/dly spells for the best nuking class, wizards. 1600dmg/450mana 7 seconds to cast.
Now, say that you the ranger cast this spell, but it gets fully resisted 95% of the time (that's 450 mana for 0 dmg and 7 sec. melee wasted), you get 100dmg 3% of the time, 500dmg 2% of the time, and 1600dmg 1% of the time.
Would you really waste your melee time and limited mana pool on this spell? Btw, those figures work out to rougly 29dmg per cast on average if you had infinite mana and cast it over and over again.
I guess what I'm saying is, you can put whatever stats on caster weapons and it won't matter worth a donkey's *** because we can't melee =)
Amoran
57 Enchanter
Quellious
Anonymous
Caster weapons will (I assume from now on) have the best ratios in the game for one reason. Casters are horrible at melee. An offense cap of 145, individual weapon caps of 110-115 (I forget which) does NOT equal a powerhouse of melee. Don't forget, casters get no primary hand melee bonus, no double attack, no bash, kick, stun etc. These items have some limited uses as weapons. Skeletons chasing you down/interrupting your spells is a good one. Sometimes I like to get up and whack at the mob a few times. Its fun. Giving casters a weapon that is not only fast but hits harder than 10 damage isn't a bad thing :)
Also, if you remember, Paladins and Shadow Knights get the best 1 handed weapons in the game for actual melee. This is because they can't dual wield. Casters get even better because we can't hit :)
Also, if you remember, Paladins and Shadow Knights get the best 1 handed weapons in the game for actual melee. This is because they can't dual wield. Casters get even better because we can't hit :)
Excuse me?
Paladins and Shadow Knights get the best 1-handed weapons in the game for actual melee?
Says who?!?
Rangers get the best 1-handed weapons in the game, with Warriors & Monks right up there. ShadowKnights just behind them, and Paladins a distance LAST.
Paladins and Shadow Knights get the best 1-handed weapons in the game for actual melee?
Says who?!?
Rangers get the best 1-handed weapons in the game, with Warriors & Monks right up there. ShadowKnights just behind them, and Paladins a distance LAST.
Anonymous
You're killin me Smalls !!!
Shadowknights get a 1hb weapon called Black Rock Maul of Crushing. Now the name alone is sweetass. Add that to it's damg/dly ration of 1.2 !!! and some stats including 75 mana and such. And you got yerself a weapon that rivals this one right here. However, Verant probably did this because a high lvl Shadowknight couldn't hit a sumo wrestler in the ***. In laymen's terms he misses an insane amount. (THIS IS A RUMOR I'VE HEARD REPETIVELY I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE)
Now a hgh lvl ranger CAN and WILL hit almost everytime. So Verant will not release a better weapon for Rangers other than Primal gear, but the difficulty of achieving this gear is LEGENDARY !!!
Plz, if you can... prove me wrong.
Shadowknights get a 1hb weapon called Black Rock Maul of Crushing. Now the name alone is sweetass. Add that to it's damg/dly ration of 1.2 !!! and some stats including 75 mana and such. And you got yerself a weapon that rivals this one right here. However, Verant probably did this because a high lvl Shadowknight couldn't hit a sumo wrestler in the ***. In laymen's terms he misses an insane amount. (THIS IS A RUMOR I'VE HEARD REPETIVELY I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE)
Now a hgh lvl ranger CAN and WILL hit almost everytime. So Verant will not release a better weapon for Rangers other than Primal gear, but the difficulty of achieving this gear is LEGENDARY !!!
Plz, if you can... prove me wrong.
#Anonymous,
Posted: May 09 2001 at 11:37 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) BADASS! maybe its fake muhahhahha
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