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Also yes, please incorporate Overkill into Achaea.
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
Is it how long things take to die?
Is it how long it takes to gain xp or gold?
Is it how slow your attacks are?
I can't actually hunt things that are supposedly my level. My character has issues with murdering a lot of things due to actually being a god damn person and not "MURDER ALL THE THINGS" that some people have. He has standards to his method of murder, and only kills things that deserve it. Animals, Vertani, Orcs, those taryen, gnolls, etc. The higher I get in my levels, the better my hunting gets due to critical chance. However, this is quickly offset by the fact that.. I simply can't kill things on my own. Dun Fortress is a death trap or tediously slow because I have to perform hit and run maneuvers to fight orcs/ogres there due to there being literally 2-stacked everywhere there is an orc usually.
I know what monk hunting was like before, it was kind of insane on the damage. Honestly? If Monk damage for PvE was actually raised to the tier of like 2 handed weapons, wherein like.. I'm doing 7% or so per combo? I wouldn't have ANY issue with the fact that I literally can't fight two enemies at once because of how squishy I am. I don't know if it's the fact that "Oh you just have 14 strength, get 18 or more and you'll hunt just fine" or, "WELL OF COURSE U CANT HUNT. U AREN'T ARTIED!" but it's a tad.. annoying? It's this weird sensation that to actually hunt as a monk, I have to be artied to the gills. I don't like that, I want to be a class for RP and not have to randomly go "oh yeah, I changed my entire rp back story because being a monk is really bad at fighting. Now I'm a rune warden who suddenly knows how to use a sword.
I rarely hunt now-a-days, much less if I'm on my own. I attack 'fast'... but I can't keep attacking because I repeatedly have to run due to how monks can't take a hit. If we could just hit a helluva lot harder than 2-3% for the 14-15 STR.. I'd be super happy considering just how squish we are.
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
The secret to becoming a dragon, whatever class you are, is very simple: don't die. Hunt things you can actually kill without dying. Death costs a huge amount of XP and time. Stay alive. Kill things you can kill. Stop complaining. It's a grind for everyone at some point.
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
I look at Monk and people are like "BODY BLOCK, REGENERATION AND BOOST IT, VITALITY!" Things I already (which by the way, vitality does jack shit for hunting except give you a 2nd chance incase you messed up then it's not available to be used for another 2-3 minutes).
I have to use my mana, consistently, to stay alive. In the form of transmute 1000.. that's 1000 of my 2500 mana to get about.. 750~ health back. Or they say numb.. to which my reply is "That's insane to do unless you do hit and run tactics".
Maybe I just don't know where all the elite hunting spots are for my level as a monk because magi's can tank areas that I can't and come out of it relatively unscathed.
Don't go by what the perceived hunting zones are - find what you think is best and go with it.
Side note: Serpents are godly with their speed now, but we still can't tank things. Unless you're Penwize
He's an aberration.
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I think BR and the slowing down of hunting had a few positive effects. It made it so that more mobs are generally available at any given time, so you don't run the gauntlet trying to find a poor village that hasn't been destroyed at any given time. I feel that it was slowed down way too much though. It makes hunting a boring and vastly tedious chore for a large portion of the playerbase. Just looking into the reactions of people that may not frequent the forums, a lot of people are still upset over BR, and even more upset over recent damage shifts. It feels like a situation where the game is being balanced by parties that are either outliers, or don't actually play to experience what it's like.
(Also.. Artied serent bashing is rather nice. Unartied serpent is god awful horrendous and somewhere above a bit more enjoyable than BM.)
This is PRECISELY the problem with new bashing. "Go hunt shit that you won't die to because you can't hunt shit you could hunt before" is NOT the solution, it is simply a flimsy excuse for allowing the perpetration of horrid game mechanics. You SHOULD be able to hunt mobs that are your level. You SHOULD be able to shred through those areas at a decent pace. You SHOULD be able to bash JUST AS WELL as that Runewarden when you're a monk, or serpent. There should be NO difference when it comes to bashing. IF you think there should be, then YOU are the problem! What should NOT be tolerated is arrogant, upstart excuses like this where you simply shrug your shoulders and go "well, it sucks, but you need to go bash mobs that are 20 levels below you". UNACCEPTABLE! Instead of being part of the problem, be a part of the solution. Buff bashing, and stop making it a slow, trying task where a single mob gets to spend an hour smashing your head, wasting health vials and potash, and ultimately killing you because you can't last longer than the 15 minutes it takes to kill that one superbuffed mob since you're only doing 1% to him. No. Stop. OBJECTION SUSTAINED!
That's hardly a problem with "new" bashing, there were plenty of people who weren't capable of bashing "level appropriate" (a phrase that has literally no meaning in Achaea) areas before Battlerage came along. Ultimately, if you want to go back to shredding through mobs, you'll also be going back to a lot of mobs dropping (low to mid) double digits in terms of gold, if any, and being worth basically fuck all experience.
What you're extremely unlikely to get is a situation where every class is as capable both offensively and defensively as all of the others because that's literally the complete opposite of what Tecton has stated is their desired result.
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