Re: Hack and Slash

From: ccs012@mr-ranger.ucdavis.edu (Dennis Cleary)

Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 16:15:53 +0000

The Wizard of Oz (David A. Ondzes) writes:

>Why do you fell that 21's are a waste of 4 points ? It seems to me that a
>21 Wit does alot for a warrior.

There are two reasons why I feel that 21's waste points.

First of all, in almost every stat, the range from 18-20 gives no skills.
In a lot of cases (I don't have my charts here with me, so I can't say for
sure), raising from 13 to 17 will give a lot more skills than raising from
17 to 21.  As you pointed out, WT is one of those areas where this isn't
true.

However, in my experiments, 21 WT's learn about 2.5 skills/learn,
while 17 WT's learn a little over 2.  Thus, to me, the "genius" rating is
highly overrated.  I'd much rather put those 4 points into WL or DF, than
into getting an extra skill every 3 to 4 fights (only about 6 skills in
his regular AD career).

Secondly, once you've maxed out on skills, it's ridiculously easy to raise
WT from 21 to 25.  The problem is that once you get to 25, you're stuck.  You
can no longer improve in those areas.  If you had left it at 17, then you've
got 8 trains 25, which is tougher.  In addition, though, rather than training
WT from 21 to 25, and DF (say) from 13 to 21, you can now train both WT and
DF to 25, giving the _really_ nice skill bonuses those afford in two areas.

For instance, all those WT/WL/DF 17 characters are potential Gods, almost no
matter what their skill base.  You give me a character with 25's in the
3 most important areas, and he'll womp anyone (almost).

>About your slasher, I never said I was perfect. 1 skill from expert in
>Initiative is close. His expert in Decisiveness should help alot. Try to
>fight offensive styles, until you get your expert in Attack.

Well, I'd say that your slashers are a lot closer to perfect than mine are.
That 9 WL makes him a Nowhere Man, and he's probably not looking at Expert
Attack for a good long time.  I'm definitely going after offensives!

Donald Trump

P.S.  Congrats on your _two_ Bloodgames victories.  Were either of the
winners not warriors designed from scratch?

References

re: Hack and Slash
dao@d62iggy.mitre.org (David A. Ondzes)
Wed, 20 Nov 1991 14:29:02 +0000