Posted by Domenias on September 20, 1999 at 21:36:56:
Let the ranting and raving begin...
Ok Nepenthe and other Immortals, How is a near-naked Rager supposed to survive a Nightgaunt? I've beaten them down with groupmates, and solo when I've been stacked, but lately I don't even have a chance to hardly fight it before being carried away to 3 waiting foes. Sure, like someone said, maybe there is some simple way to dismiss them like saying a word or something, but I've tried alot of tatics (holding lights, running indoors, etc) and haven't found anything to work short of outright killing it. It also says in the helpfile there are limits to how far it will travel. I've been carried from Dol Guldur to the Master cabal, from Galadon to Kiadanna-Rah, from the Empire cabal to the forest west of Galadon, etc, etc. Getting from and carrying to cabals is also rather unbalancing. This world-wide summon with half your hps is really pissing me off, and I don't get pissed off much. I don't know what a conjurer goes through to send them, maybe they sell their soul and 1,000,000 gold, but it doesn't even matter. Everyone should have a chance to survive. At least you can avoid normal summons by avoiding popular areas, but this nightgaunt is ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, you're not automatically dead when dropped off by one, but anybody with half a brain and trap and kill a half-dead Rager (got caught between two sets of Centurions today). I know, I'm bitching and moaning about something new and different and I don't know everything about it, but damn if I want to sit here and loose con after con trying to figure these things out. Bah, I've pretty much given up on trying not to die much. If one of your ways to avoid nightgaunts is to run around in groups, fuck that, thats all we need, another reason for people to run around in little gangs. Put a conjurer in the hand of someone that kills naked people over and over, and the naked people have no option but to quit now. At least until the "solution" is discovered. Why not put a hint in the helpfile? On a side note, the player being dropped off by the nightgaunt might should automatically look right after being dropped. Hell, maybe its cause I'm level 42 and that means I have no chance against high level conjured nightgaunts. Who knows. Another side note while I'm ranting, how about a "Thanks alot" to the two ragers that grouped for all of 10 minutes, just enough time for me to get from 41 to 42 before they both quit while still 41.
ok, thats all for now. I feel better.