I was lucky enough to be both defender and berserker with the same char. And here are my thoughts and rantings. (long flame about defenders and improvement sugguestions)

I was lucky enough to be both defender and berserker with the same char. And here are my thoughts and rantings. (long flame about defenders and improvement sugguestions):
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Posted by Fayesheng on June 28, 2000 at 11:26:28:

In Reply to: ex defender.. imms position on double block and stuff posted by Sierothe on June 27, 2000 at 23:03:33:

Berserkers are diffently much more fun to play. I thought defenders would be cool to play, but I was dead wrong. Defenders are not as fun berserkers, but it's nice for a warrior to be able to heal themselves, since you can't use healers and all. But bandages can't be used in battle so you need to flee to bandage. Why not make it like assassin's bandage? I don't want to flee! I want to make the other poor blastard flee with a few deathblows, and with the help of bloodthirst and pononchos. Defenders really lack in the area of in battle skills. Here is a sugguestion on how to fix that. Allow field bandages in battle, but make the duration of the bandages made in battle last longer. So if use it in battle you have to wait longer to make another one. I've challenged a lot of people to duels, and a defender fights lasts longer than berserkers fights for obvious reasons. So lose double block and give them increases resistance. I found double block to be pretty much useless since I didn't travel in groups much. Sierothe makes lots of good points that I totally agree with all of them. It was a pain to have the whole village TELLING you to bandage them, but that's okay I'm a team player so I just spent a lot of time sleeping. Then I was told that the village is NOT about team playing, so then what's the point of being a defender? So for those of you that are deciding which to play. I diffenetly sugguest Berserkers unless changes are made to defenders.

Thanks for your time.

> > > I have played defenders and I totally agree, but I put some thought into it and I don't think there needs to be change.

> > > The village is about rage. If there were equal parts defenders, scouts, and berserkers I wouldn't think of the village as 'ragers', but more a well balanced cabal of stragedy and judgement.

> > > The powers lend to a village consisting of mostly berserkers, with a few defenders and scouts, the way it should be. I am guessing the Immortal's intended it to be this way.

> I talked to Thror, and others about it.
> but Thror made a good point that double block requires concentration, so it should not be automatic skill.
> I thought it was utterly useless to block for people, since mages (masters) dont do any damage from phyiscal attacks, mainly I died from Novas and fire balls.
> that is what I was trying to point out too
> Sierothe was felar and I died to area spells so often it is not funny.
> Defenders SUCKS because you have the whole village to bandage, and no body wants to be defenders cause they suck, so you have 1 defender for every 4 berseker.
> that does not work.
> since no body in the right mind will make defenders.
> The village will always be short of defenders.

> I agreed this point long before.
> but the imms think other wise.
> All I really want is some damn incentive to play defenders
> they have no area spell protection.
> and double block is only good for ranking purposes
> GIVE them something useful god damn it

> enhanced resist would be nice
> any thing would be nice

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Comments:	> Berserkers are diffently much more fun to play. I thought defenders would be cool to play, but I was dead wrong. Defenders are not as fun berserkers, but it's nice for a warrior to be able to heal themselves, since you can't use healers and all. But bandages can't be used in battle so you need to flee to bandage. Why not make it like assassin's bandage? I don't want to flee! I want to make the other poor blastard flee with a few deathblows, and with the help of bloodthirst and pononchos. Defenders really lack in the area of in battle skills. Here is a sugguestion on how to fix that. Allow field bandages in battle, but make the duration of the bandages made in battle last longer. So if use it in battle you have to wait longer to make another one. I've challenged a lot of people to duels, and a defender fights lasts longer than berserkers fights for obvious reasons. So lose double block and give them increases resistance. I found double block to be pretty much useless since I didn't travel in groups much. Sierothe makes lots of good points that I totally agree with all of them. It was a pain to have the whole village TELLING you to bandage them, but that's okay I'm a team player so I just spent a lot of time sleeping. Then I was told that the village is NOT about team playing, so then what's the point of being a defender? So for those of you that are deciding which to play. I diffenetly sugguest Berserkers unless changes are made to defenders. > Thanks for your time. > > > > I have played defenders and I totally agree, but I put some thought into it and I don't think there needs to be change. > > > > The village is about rage. If there were equal parts defenders, scouts, and berserkers I wouldn't think of the village as 'ragers', but more a well balanced cabal of stragedy and judgement. > > > > The powers lend to a village consisting of mostly berserkers, with a few defenders and scouts, the way it should be. I am guessing the Immortal's intended it to be this way. > > I talked to Thror, and others about it. > > but Thror made a good point that double block requires concentration, so it should not be automatic skill. > > I thought it was utterly useless to block for people, since mages (masters) dont do any damage from phyiscal attacks, mainly I died from Novas and fire balls. > > that is what I was trying to point out too > > Sierothe was felar and I died to area spells so often it is not funny. > > Defenders SUCKS because you have the whole village to bandage, and no body wants to be defenders cause they suck, so you have 1 defender for every 4 berseker. > > that does not work. > > since no body in the right mind will make defenders. > > The village will always be short of defenders. > > I agreed this point long before. > > but the imms think other wise. > > All I really want is some damn incentive to play defenders > > they have no area spell protection. > > and double block is only good for ranking purposes > > GIVE them something useful god damn it > > enhanced resist would be nice > > any thing would be nice

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