Achaean Raves

Tesha

Holy crap!!!

Thank you Tecton. :x

Synbios

Strata said:

* THURISAZ will now persist on the ground after sketching, preventing the use of flooding in the ...

Why in the flying fidgety flipping fluffer fluck is this in raves?

Must I repeat myself, human?

Synbios said:

Kyrra said:

That's so not even rave-worthy.

I am an eldritch abomination. I have different standards of raveworthiness, human.

Shunsui

thurisaz flood prevention is definitely a rave, nothing more frustrating than being a runie and fighting a magi/person with flood stick

Tesha

It is a rave because it is a huge shift from the metagame of sit in an area and range with a bigger party and win, which was not very interesting. Melee is so much more fun and interesting, and a lot more classes can participate in it. Some classes are still really good at area range, and this makes that their niche, rather than one of many. Serpents are still really good in line of sight, as are anyone with bows/doppleganger, but this shifts the metagame from "Are you a monk? No? Are you a magi, with three others? No? Do you have a bow or star tarot? No? Well, dor angel absolve davio and go afk." to being able to include strategies from all classes without everything hinging on area control.

Line of sight becomes more important, which means terrain and strategy becomes more important, which opens up a whole new level of strategy for raiding. It is not about finding an unguarded outdoors spot or an indoors spot anymore, it will be about finding somewhere where, if you have enough bows, you can make use of your LOS. If you have a more melee/beckon oriented group, you will want a series of rooms with more turns, and factor in which way you progress as you destroy rooms.. Do you hop around to different locations? Do you stay in one spot and make it harder for them to get to you, and hope you catch the serpent trying to evade in for travel? Do you leave a phased serpent behind and travel to them when their group comes, and backbeckon? It is all so much more interesting now.

That is freaking awesome, and I adore the admin for making that move.

Dunn

LoS has been the metagame for the last two months.

Tesha

This is another step in the direction of pushing it further towards LoS/melee. No meteors to take down shield from 14 rooms away is a hugely important change for that. This means no meteor volley/travel/snipe volley, you will need to meteor while putting yourself at danger rather than from forever away. Shield stopping arrows is something I think is being overlooked, because it was so easy to take down before. Now you need breathstream or soulspear.

I think this is a really good change, and very exciting.

Arditi

Glad to see that they're taking ranged combat down a peg. Let's see if they do the same to monks.

Arditi

Dunn said:

LoS has been the metagame for the last two months.

Before that, it was "Find most fortified and unrushable position, use unmatched area attacks, laugh at other cities' inability to touch you".  I'd say it's a good step towards making the game more interesting and tactical at the expense of "He with the most ranged, wins".

Strata

Shunsui said:

thurisaz flood prevention is definitely a rave, nothing more frustrating than being a runie and fighting a magi/person with flood stick

I thought those flood sticks weren't sold anymore? So that limits it to Magi.

With L2 and L3 health arties, SoA, 18 dex, weaving, mounted, I still have to stay the hell away from unartied runies on land. They refuse to fight on water - which is not surprising.

You couldn't ask for an easier class to play from both PVP and Cyrunie dragon alt hunting perspectives. They need more buffs though. :P

Makarios

Just to clarify, you can still go onto a naturally watery room to mess with runelore. The issue was that two classes (or a lucky sceptre owner) could shut down an entire skill just by flooding, which was disproportionate.

Daklore

I love my flood stick. That's a rave. Even with thurisaz preventing flooding for a time, still best investment ever as a runie.

Sceptre of Aqueous mastery. (still pretty sure I got the very first one...)

Shunsui

Strata said:

Shunsui said:

thurisaz flood prevention is definitely a rave, nothing more frustrating than being a runie and fighting a magi/person with flood stick

I thought those flood sticks weren't sold anymore? So that limits it to Magi.

just because they stopped selling them doesn't mean the people who own them just up and died

Nemutaur

Shunsui said:

Strata said:

Shunsui said:

thurisaz flood prevention is definitely a rave, nothing more frustrating than being a runie and fighting a magi/person with flood stick

I thought those flood sticks weren't sold anymore? So that limits it to Magi.

just because they stopped selling them doesn't mean the people who own them just up and died

And if you win an auction for a past Shop of Wonders item you can still pick up the staff. But those are too expensive

Mishgul

Rave for moss

Exelethril

Since area-wide attacks are being nerfed, here's to hoping area-wide kai choke/crush/radiance get addressed eventually as well  [-O<

Dunn

I can see choke, but not crush because of the lock requirement. Telepathy probably won't get touched.

Shirszae

Exelethril said:

Since area-wide attacks are being nerfed, here's to hoping area-wide kai choke/crush/radiance get addressed eventually as well  [-O<

I agree with most, though changing radiance in that regards would be a bit hard. Would be stupid if the implemented a limit of distance on it. Might as well make a completely new ability.

Caoimhaen

Belated rave. @scarlatti and @kai-shen (dunno if I can tag him) for an amazing role play experience. You are awesome. Thanks for putting in the time.

@eld and @jacen for helping me find solid ground to stand on and someone to lean on. Being able to rely on house unity in his hard time is awesome.

Nizaris

Sure hope that they get the monk classlead done quickly, because they are now just a teansy-bit overpowered at the moment....

EDIT: And let's not even begin to talk about veiled monks fortified indoors when a particular city has no veil-users active at the moment. I suppose that I don't mind monks ranged abilities not being nerfed if it was somehow incompatible with veil.

Dunn

They're going in alphabetical order and they're on S.

Nizaris

Dunn said:

They're going in alphabetical order and they're on S.

Damn. This is what I get for working 22 hours in two days.

Kinilan

Dunn said:

They're going in alphabetical order and they're on S.

Seafaring comes before serpent. Right guys?

Right?

Guys?

Damn it.

Mishgul

Kinilan do you like my mascara

Kinilan

Mishgul said:

Kinilan do you like my mascara

Too busy admiring your sexy wrists to notice it.

Tecton

@Triak - That one wasn't a misclick - seewhatididthere?

Triak

Verily

It's been a nice day! A fun quiz (despite doing just awful during it), followed by Verily getting to meet someone she's idolized for some time now.

Kyrra

@Fitz for giving up quite a bit of his time to watch me work.

Mizik

Watching @Tesha combat spar against @Earionduil Ugrach Scorpion + Retardation.

~*Quality*~

Harmonia

@Alynna, @Taraza, @Daitya and @Tiamat - cannot say how much I enjoy the rp we've all had lately. :-)
& @Nizaris for cracking that whip.