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Game Balance Discussion / Re: Cmpx, you know why I am asking for it. Come here and see my suggestion.

« on: April 13, 2011, 06:11:52 pm »

  sounds like an idea to try out.

Now since we have pretty much dedicated xbow n archer gear can we pwwwwz have passive shields? I would imagine something like this could be done for dedicated xbowmen

Dedicated xbow equip
heavy xbow
heavy xbow
Bolts
Passive shield

Rawr epicness

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General Discussion / Re: Pew! Pew! Pew!

« on: April 09, 2011, 11:20:23 pm »

I agree it shouldn't be "rock paper scissors", but idiots always try to use the range>2h>shield argument and it's just fucking moronic.
1h+shield is just in good in melee as 2h, if not better, especially in cRPG where the 1h weapons are even better and longer than the Native versions. When a good 1h'er hits me, even in plate, I lose roughly half my HP.

I like this guy he writes TRUTH. Anyone who thinks 1h plus shield is a gimped class don't know squat.

What credibility do I have you ask? 10 gens as a shielder since before ze patch is what, suck it.

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Events & Tournaments / Re: NA Tourny Poll 2

« on: April 09, 2011, 10:51:17 pm »

Off-topic I like this guy he speaks funny words.

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Events & Tournaments / Re: NA Tourny Poll 2

« on: April 09, 2011, 12:56:22 am »

Make it Random teams with an emphasis on the individual and not the whole team. Each kill could be a point or something that add up to a total score. So instead of team X winning it will be individual Y then individual Z in second aand so on. Something along those lines... I'm sure some complicated formula can be dreamt up by those way smarter than me that wouldn't put an such a heavy emphasis on kills and the like.

This way people can be dropped and subbed in for teams as long as everyone plays the same number of matches.

Would be a bitch to put together clan matches would be oh so easier.

Oh didn't see it was already decided  next time then

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General Discussion / Re: Pew! Pew! Pew!

« on: April 08, 2011, 12:45:21 am »

That forces 1h.

If I use a shield as a 2h, and try to move at all, other melee just get up on me and spam attack as I have no offense with a shield.

Also, unless you dump massive points into shield to get decent shields, the shield is either instantly obliterated or they simply shoot over it.

Facts.

Fun fact they don't even have to shoot over it 1 shield skill using an old board shield I got shot through the shield into my arm and died. I know what your thinking oh xbows do that all the time except it was an archer and no I did not lower my block even for a fraction it was at the end of a round and it was me and him left. The recent nerf to shields is hitting 2handers/PA who use them solely for ranged protection harder than it is shielders, who seem to still have the force field effect anyways (at least with a Huscarl).

On top of this ,correct me if I'm wrong, but I hear that shield requirements will be forced in strategus meaning a two handers will have to put points into shields anyways if they don't want to be raped by these archer heavy armys I think were going to see. Imo it takes at least 3 points into shield to stop the BS from happening. we all might as well role shielders now.

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cRPG Technical problems / Re: Constant Disconnecting problem

« on: April 07, 2011, 04:52:44 pm »

I use wireless and I also get random disconnected. When I notice it happening a bunch I usually just restart my comp, that usually fixes it for a bit. If anything just reset the router before each session and it should happen less often. Now it won't fix if there is some kind of underlining problem that we don't know about but this is step one in trouble shooting  .

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Closed Requests / Re: [BAN] DrHorrible

« on: April 07, 2011, 01:59:01 am »

People have been banned for doing exactly this before...

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Shields don't affect swing speed.

« on: April 07, 2011, 01:54:49 am »

I know what your saying Rusty going from a shielder to a 2hander is rage inducing. Every time I get into a nice melee fight I get plinked by an arrow which rarely happened to me while I was a shielder. Good thing about shields is while even at rest it still sucks up arrows, I used to laugh when I was running with an archer to my left as he was feebly trying to shoot me with his crap tastic arrows only to get sucked up into my Huscarl...Ah the good ol days.

Needless to say I'll be going back to shields after a couple of refreshing gens away from them. 

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Announcements / Re: Strategus Progress / WSE Implementation

« on: April 07, 2011, 12:37:20 am »

Don't hate me too much chadz but I would like to have the old strategus up while we wait ^.^

Give us babys a rattle to play with while you put together our bikes!

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Shields don't affect swing speed.

« on: April 07, 2011, 12:29:35 am »

So you think ranged classes should not have a "counter" (very poor actually since most shields don't cover well and a few throwing shit can crush any shield to pieces) ? The only way to play safe with a shield is to use a throwing weapon. You can't be safe if you don't have ranged weapons, period.

Shields don't cover if you have a low shield skill true but with just 3 skill and a heavy round shield I rarely if not never got head shotted through my block. Shielders with a huscarl (90% of the shield population) don't have to worry about any ranged unless directly behind. This is way different than say I two hander with one shield skill (which I was) when I actually was shot through my board shield by an archer. Your far safer as a shielder from ranged than any other class it's a fact you can put any what ifs you want in there it doesn't change jack.

To the funny part now, when a shielder looses his shield. Option one is to loose all your time seeking another shield. You have some luck if you find a proper one. But often you don't have time to do that because your shield was destroyed by a big 2h axe. In melee, 1h without shield seems just like a fast and very short 2h, before you encounter someone with an heavy weapon. If you have to fight bardiches and the like, you are as good as dead. The stun makes it virtually impossible to fight.

The stun is the hard part about 1h no shield but after the first initial stun your free to block and spam as you please, this is only a small problem in my experience. There are plenty of Huscarls lying around from shielders who died before their shield did (this is the case most of the time for Huscarl users) as long as you have at least 4 shield skill you should be able to find a shield fairly quickly.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Shields don't affect swing speed.

« on: April 06, 2011, 09:00:06 pm »

I agree with most of the above except one shotting even to the head (unless its with pierce). Even with a balanced 18 18 build I could not one hit most people using the left to right slash. Besides that exaggeration the rest seems spot on. Although your 1. 2. and 3. on the list can do a little work. I think now the weapon classes are balanced in killing power with 1hands + shield being only slightly behind. This is a moot point tho since we all can throw in what we feel but this is just how it seems to me.

Being a shielder means you have the easiest play style: hold RMB facehug upslash repeat. That is what I did anyways and I did fairly well. Shields ARE a crutch they essentially bypass half of the "skill" in the game (i.e. manual blocking). To be a good 2hander you need to know how to manual block! period. To be a good shielder you need to know...how to feint?
(don't give me this BS about position, timing, and angles all classes have to worry about that to a degree.)

(edit)
With high shield skill (6) and a Huscarl I could just click RMB right before an attack hits me and still block it. Trivial blocking like this + their lightning speed makes 1+shield a deadly combo in the hands of the right people.

I think damage/speed wise 1hands are finally on par with the other melee classes. These absolutely should not be nerfed but something has to be done about the over used Huscarl that's both fast + highly resistant.

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Spam / Re: idiotic NA ban

« on: April 05, 2011, 11:51:13 pm »

Think this thread was made because He was still banned for unjust reasons. If shit like this happened to me and even after I was proved (was proved by gore stepping down) right and I was still banned because of it I would rage, probably harder. It's BS to get unjustly banned but it's even more BS for it to continue once every other admin and the general population agree that's it was a BS ban. Every minute you keep Zisa banned you shit on all of us.

Free Zisa and free him now or you'll never hear the end of it.

Actually it's probably too late for that. This is a PR nightmare for the NA servers.

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Closed Requests / Re: Ban Request PigeonTeeth

« on: April 05, 2011, 07:03:26 pm »

Shh you one more
You called me a spammer once when I killed you 3 or 4 times in a row in a siege ^.^
I think then I was Fallen_Crassius

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Closed Requests / Re: Ban Request PigeonTeeth

« on: April 05, 2011, 06:49:05 pm »

My in game names are posted right to your left, if you need reading comprehension lessons I know a few places that can help.

Or you can just go to school kid.

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Suggestions Corner / Re: Deployable Pavise Shield

« on: April 05, 2011, 06:19:41 pm »

Meh xbows wouldn't be the only ones who could use it tho but w/e they devs will do what the devs want.