AK Mouths Off Yet Again

[CelticHound]

In fact (I just thought of this), the most powerful and easy to play classes all have one thing in common: their ability to stay out of harm's way.

Hmm... I see you've just discovered something that Sirian had been ranting about for quite some time. Any attack in D2 can be neutralized, via distance. There is no "threat level" in D2, except in a couple tight, sardine-can spaces that people tend to avoid. Bliz has tried using one-hit-kills, but they aren't a test of sklll, they are a lottery. You can create threat by pushing the edges, but few people do.

I hope I can get my current Paladin to hell cows before 1.10 comes out. Even if I manage to get my ideal set of gear, he'll only be able to take on three cows at a time, max. The whole cow level will be grueling - a couple steps forward, hope I don't wake up too many - run in panic to string them out, praying I don't wake any additional mobs. Knowing that if I get surrounded, it's all over - even a four row belt of big purples will only delay the inevitable.

-- CH
(At one point, Foxbat thought that, in Seven Lances, he had rebalanced the game away from the ranged attackers. I played a Paladin there, and my experience was that it pushed him to become a ranged attacker, as well.)