The Revelation

Proficy · December 2016

Kiskan said:

If he can chase them down and take them out that easily alone (before people can arrive to help) they're not the right kind of friends and you are in the situation most people are actually in - can't kill the guy myself, don't have the right kind of friends. And that is the situation where your best option, your only option really, is to do nothing and take it on the chin.

There's a threshold of artifacts/competence there, and if you don't meet that threshold, taking him down is sort of a trap. You want to avoid the trap. So if your friends can't actually beat him, they are pretty good at tanking/running/stalling/calling for help that can arrive quickly and so forth.

Just saying more than, and actually WANTING to take people up on no arties fights. Since everyone seems to think they make a world of difference... Don't get me wrong, they do help but mostly for QoL.

@Farrah is 100% right, everyone dies to everyone sooner or later, most fights aren't about who has the best this or that, but more or less who makes the first mistake. I do the basic kill strategies (only think outside the box for select players) and wait for my target to handle a situation wrong and capitalize on the situation then. Most people blame it on arties as a generic excuse, but if they understood the game mechanics and what it is there opponent is actually trying to accomplish. Arties can only help out so much

Ryzeth · December 2016

Proficy said:
Just saying more than, and actually WANTING to take people up on no arties fights. Since everyone seems to think they make a world of difference... Don't get me wrong, they do help but mostly for QoL.

Still remember the contract you had on me when I was still Ashtani.. Alch vs alch was damn close, I even remember us laughing about it afterwards... Fkn huskmaker op

Vender · December 2016

not speaking oocly in party chat is something i still need to get used to and something I am starting to appreciate more since coming to achaea

Ahmet · December 2016

I assumed that phylacteries functioned similarly to quivers and decks. I was mistaken. Apparently when your phylactery decays, you lose all your shadows.

Zahan · December 2016

Ahmet said:

I assumed that phylacteries functioned similarly to quivers and decks. I was mistaken. Apparently when your phylactery decays, you lose all your shadows.

Hm, for me it was the opposite - I expected the shadows would escape, no longer having a special device containing them.

Ahmet · December 2016

Zahan said:

Ahmet said:

I assumed that phylacteries functioned similarly to quivers and decks. I was mistaken. Apparently when your phylactery decays, you lose all your shadows.

Hm, for me it was the opposite - I expected the shadows would escape, no longer having a special device containing them.

Well, obviously, if we're talking what should -technically- happen the shadows would escape. I just assumed, given the precedent of decks/quivers, that they'd stay but only be accessible with a phylactery.

The artefact phylactery seems infinitely more worthwhile, now.