mesuinu
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Post by mesuinu on Feb 9, 2015 14:12:24 GMT -5
I'd just like to inform everyone that all the helpful advice has racked up 3 primary misses for me in the last day. So, thanks???
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Post by gloryhound on Feb 9, 2015 15:42:35 GMT -5
I think his point was even with the severe penalty of wielding a non combat weapon you still can be ridiculously good with it. Yep. |
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Post by sirra on Feb 9, 2015 19:33:07 GMT -5
I'd just like to inform everyone that all the helpful advice has racked up 3 primary misses for me in the last day. So, thanks??? ~17 more to go before you get a skill point! |
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Post by BitterFlashback on Feb 10, 2015 17:34:34 GMT -5
I'd just like to inform everyone that all the helpful advice has racked up 3 primary misses for me in the last day. So, thanks??? ~17 more to go before you get a skill point! |
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Post by gloryhound on Oct 21, 2015 0:32:30 GMT -5
They've gone to such great and ridiculous extents to make skilling up weapons extremely difficult, that basically you're forced to be a super twink with meta knowledge of the game to get past journeyman. I guess this ensures they can always drop in NPC warriors (or whatever) that are more powerful than a given PC, when it suits their goals. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2016 12:56:01 GMT -5
Staff is now saying on the GDB that the weapon skill you are using can go up even if you are parried rather than dodged. In other words, parried hits count as a success for the defender and a fail for the attacker.
What do you guys think of this?
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Post by jkarr on Jan 21, 2016 13:10:05 GMT -5
Staff is now saying on the GDB that the weapon skill you are using can go up even if you are parried rather than dodged. In other words, parried hits count as a success for the defender and a fail for the attacker. What do you guys think of this? this matches what happens with twohanded so maybe |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2016 14:02:27 GMT -5
Unless they changed it relatively recently, that's false. It wouldn't be the first time a staff member is dead wrong about game mechanics. Most players don't know how this stuff works, and most staff wouldn't know how to peruse the code to figure it out.
Two-handed is different. It doesn't check against misses, it has an invisible check to see if your two-handed skill triggers to give you its coded benefits. If that check fails, you can skill up.
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Post by jkarr on Jan 21, 2016 14:06:30 GMT -5
Unless they changed it relatively recently, that's false. It wouldn't be the first time a staff member is dead wrong about game mechanics or even deliberately so |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2016 14:57:09 GMT -5
parry can't melt steel beams
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Post by pinkerdlu on Jan 21, 2016 20:03:27 GMT -5
6 million parries in the twinkocaust. never again. never again will we be fooled by the staff. never again will we let the staff and max parry lead us astray,
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2016 10:20:15 GMT -5
Staff is now saying on the GDB that the weapon skill you are using can go up even if you are parried rather than dodged. In other words, parried hits count as a success for the defender and a fail for the attacker. What do you guys think of this? I think a successful parry is a failure of an attack and gives a chance for offense/weapon skill to increase. I think successful parry is a successful defense with no chance of skill increase for the one being attacked. But that's just this guy's opinion. What did staff say? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2016 10:26:52 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2016 10:28:51 GMT -5
As suggested by the screenshot, Nergal made this statement on a thread proposing the idea of 'nosave parry,' which would allow PCs to not attempt to parry attacks.
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Post by BitterFlashback on Jan 23, 2016 0:27:22 GMT -5
Hm. I wonder if this skill-up change is related to all of the lag. Perhaps the sparring is finally approaching the critical mass stage where sparring will still happen even without players to maintain it...
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