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- Limb Counter - Fracture Relapsing -
"Honestly, I just love that it counts limbs." - Mizik Corten
As time passed, these aliases got small checks added, a parry tracker, a shield check, stand first, etc. Then they became keybindings where I hit 1 key and Borran does 9 to 10 instant checks, creates a combo that will bypass whatever defenses, find what limbs are not yet setup, avoid shield, avoid parrying, paralysis check, stand.. there is so much going on, and now classes are getting separate balances and added effects... Does anyone else feel like it's getting too complicated? I wish I could go back to when the most complicated thing was the fact that I could not punch before I kicked in a combo.
This is a good thing.
I know many scriptors are programmers, but that's not really hope I like to spend my time. But the alternative is turning Borran into a flower-picking pacifist. Love combat, hate scripting.
To solve this, I scoured the forums and the Internet to scavenge other people's scripts (and got some from benevolent friends). Which was working.. until I found that people's offenses now are automated to find the best affliction per balance. Tried using AK to build my offenses and messed up something, causing a client crash, so I had to start over. So I'm back to square 1 and thinking maybe I just don't want to.
Automated offense is not required in the least. Ak has benefits, but at the same time it has draw backs. Once you code something 100%, it's hard to add flexibility to it. Don't let people coding offenses detract from your experience or deter you from having fun. I've saw a -lot- of offenses over the years. Trust me, most of them suck.
If you need help getting ak setup or you're having issues, just ask. I don't enjoy hand holding, but I don't care a bit too help, particularly if you're doing something I've never done!
Am I going to see a large difference over the level two? Or is it marginal.
If you want to test the artefact prior to purchase, shoot a message or email to Makarios and he will hook you up.
Several people who I consider top tier were successful back then too.
Personally, I feel like I would have much more success if we rewound to 5 years ago versus right now.
I compare it to the old conversation in the NBA Era v era. Sure the 'top' guys equal out but that mid tier is far and away better than its ever been. Regardless of how they're doing it, that's a good thing as we have more opportunities for substantial PK that isn't just rolling some scrub hard enough that they have no idea what even happened.
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
I program by hobby so it's let me dive into lua pretty easily (seeing as I've wrote scripts for other games on it) -- I have AK and SVO and very likely could write a fully automated robot, but won't.
Why?
I don't think it's required. By and large the biggest help for me so far has been to make triggers to change colours/text size/boxes to let me know what the hell is going on, as text sails by at a breakneck speed even with small font on a 1080p screen. (Although it kinda looks like a scene from a hacker movie so that's p cool.)
other than that I would not want to give up the flexibility of being able to decide what I'm going to do or change with different circumstances.
The thing with automation is, unless you write an AI algorithm the same thing is going to happen each time, so once someone sees it you are predictable anyway.
I just ended up making a series of 3 letter aliases and CTRL-F CTRL-R etc macros to fire the things I want.
I am not good by any means but I've gotten a few kills now and some arena wins. Definitely don't feel hopeless.
Plus I think it just boils down to intimate knowledge of the game. I am sure a Jhui would whip me even if I put him on a vanilla mudlet install.
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
dsl finkle right leg curare
I'll get to type the next great achaean novel going
instill target with clumsiness;command bloodleech at target
I want some short hand too =(
A lot of the issue is that i think were still in a transitional period for combat as a whole. I used to be -really- good because my offense was great but now im not on the same level because now lots of people have great offenses due to scripting. The 'skill cap' really seems to be shifting towards defense rathet than offense. Familiarity with the opponents class rather than your own.
As to the whole auto-affliction thing, i know for a fact that all the people who are real threats with it are people who manual their afflictions and just use the tracking to help them rather than their system. I personally feel like the -fun- part of combat is watching the cures closely and tracking what they have in your head but thats really hard for some people and i understand just wanting to play the damn game rather than practice endlessly till you can tell the difference between two afflicion cures by the split second difference in their next cure action. And honestly, id rather have those extra people to fight that we get from scripted offenses than i would a bunch of old school purists.
I think at the moment the glaring issue in the combat scene is not scripting or anything player driven but rather the trend thats going on of things being built around fleeing. Generally, when im fighting, i want to fight that person. When i die and go huh what am i supposed to do there how do i cure against that and the genuine answer is "run away" thats just annoying. I dont know of a single person who enjoys this mechanic be it with alchemist 2h occie priest whatever. I think serpent is a good example of how this -does- work well where leaving the room on a snap can save your life but that allows you to go right back to fighting, thats a strategic movement rather than just ceasing the fight for several seconds because thats the "cure". Its annoying to fight against because it feels futile and its frustrating to fight -as- for the very same reason. This too, i think is partly a symptom of the transition of combat to account for 'perfect' offenses being more common place but i think it needs some urgent attention because ive seen a few newer players disappear because of it and a lot of older players take extended breaks from fighting because its so frustratingly countered to what we actually enjoy as fighters.
- Limb Counter - Fracture Relapsing -
"Honestly, I just love that it counts limbs." - Mizik Corten
2. I think the issue with running is that it's easy to use it as a substitute when you don't know the right course of action. I have no idea how to hinder a momentum class... run a sec and come back when you can catch your breath. Then go back and try again.
3. Not an important point, but wanted to but it in anyways. As a serpent, I hate when people automatically run on snap. I have to illusion snapping and custom emote snaps to throw them off and hope they get tired of all the false alarms long enough to lock.
It has its drawbacks in classes that can fluidly use two weapons (2h, serpent, dwb) but it is extremely nice to be able to be level 3 artefacted in any class that uses a single weapon (2h, s&b, bard, monk, priest, serpent, jester sort of but not really, sentinel). It has a hefty balance time, so if I'm bashing in serpent and it's a lash, I have to wait 5 seconds of balance to make it a Thoth's fang.
Serpent running trigger:
Kelp stack for sensitivity, pinshot, give em darkshade and paralysis, snap, start sniping em with curare. As long as youre on a straight away i think youd kill most average health people. I never experienced serp with an artie bow tho so could be wrong there but thats how i won my alts midbie fights at least.
- Limb Counter - Fracture Relapsing -
"Honestly, I just love that it counts limbs." - Mizik Corten
Not to say that L2/L3 Scims aren't good, or that L3 axes wouldn't hurt, but I tend to measure artefacts by what capabilities they allow me that I didn't have before. It's why all the things I own are "utilities" like chitin greaves, ring of flying, lorewarden shard/insignia, and the aldar diadem instead of weapons or tanking arties, those things let me do things that I could not do before, where with most weapons you're just paying to get slightly better at what you could already do.
Like DWB flail artefacts are still worth buying despite their obvious disparity in cost, I think, because they raise the health threshold that you can effectively mangle-lock. It's right around 4500 unartefacted, but with flails you can push that number upward and mangle tougher and tougher opponents. That's neat. But scimitars don't let you do anything "new" at any level, they just give you a smidgen more damage and speed at each stage. It's noticeable, but it's not enough to be game-changing at any point, so $900 is a pretty outlandish cost for such a small boost in effectiveness.
Buy a level 2 dirk. I kept mine just so I could hunt serpent and still be 99% effective if someone starts stuff. My only issue is rotation of the weapon types gets hung up sometimes if I start attacking too fast (g lash from pack, put crummydirk in pack gets eaten)
Regardless, it's still a curse. No way you'd go shaman, sylvan, magi, druid, alchy, or abostate and not sometimes still regret it(Still love mine)
Edit: tried to remove weird semicolon, doesn't exist in editor. May be crazy.
got gud
got gud