05-05-2004, 01:57 PM
Hi,
I hope you don't mind someone outside you group posts a bit
By all means, please do. This is a learning experience for all :)
Regarding charge, I have found that the main problem (almost only problem for e right now), is that your character seems to end up just short of being able to start making attacks (or simply needs to be moved for some reason). I usually do the charge, and move forward a tiny bit, and the fight starts.
I've been trying this, and it sometimes works. Sometimes, though, charge seems to put me where the mob was when I initiated it. If the mob moves while I'm charging (very common) I could end up anywhere within a short distance of the mob, facing any direction relative to the mob. Sometimes I have to do my impression of a top just to reacquire my target. The funniest is when I end up directly on top of the mob, with us facing in opposite directions.
Now, since rage seems to climb too slowly and drop too rapidly in this push, by the time I do the twist and stagger dance to get the mob in front of me and within striking range, a lot of the rage is gone. I don't even get one attack out of it. At that point, recently, I'm changing to defensive stance (trying out some of the defensive stand "attacks" like shield bashing) and so I lose all my rage from the charge without doing anything.
Sometimes, when I charge and end up close to and facing the mob, I can tap the w key and everything works fine. But still, I think that charge is broken. It should *always* put you adjacent to and facing the mob and it should trigger an attack. When I can train level 2, I'll be interested to see if it works better.
Interesting about the fishing. My experience so far is that none of my characters have eaten or drunk much, just once or twice early on to check it out. Maybe my playing style is different or maybe I'm just still too low level. Whatever, I don't seem to have a need for food, and putting skill points into trades that generate food just doesn't appeal to me. I might be eating those words when my characters get bigger :)
--Pete
I hope you don't mind someone outside you group posts a bit
By all means, please do. This is a learning experience for all :)
Regarding charge, I have found that the main problem (almost only problem for e right now), is that your character seems to end up just short of being able to start making attacks (or simply needs to be moved for some reason). I usually do the charge, and move forward a tiny bit, and the fight starts.
I've been trying this, and it sometimes works. Sometimes, though, charge seems to put me where the mob was when I initiated it. If the mob moves while I'm charging (very common) I could end up anywhere within a short distance of the mob, facing any direction relative to the mob. Sometimes I have to do my impression of a top just to reacquire my target. The funniest is when I end up directly on top of the mob, with us facing in opposite directions.
Now, since rage seems to climb too slowly and drop too rapidly in this push, by the time I do the twist and stagger dance to get the mob in front of me and within striking range, a lot of the rage is gone. I don't even get one attack out of it. At that point, recently, I'm changing to defensive stance (trying out some of the defensive stand "attacks" like shield bashing) and so I lose all my rage from the charge without doing anything.
Sometimes, when I charge and end up close to and facing the mob, I can tap the w key and everything works fine. But still, I think that charge is broken. It should *always* put you adjacent to and facing the mob and it should trigger an attack. When I can train level 2, I'll be interested to see if it works better.
Interesting about the fishing. My experience so far is that none of my characters have eaten or drunk much, just once or twice early on to check it out. Maybe my playing style is different or maybe I'm just still too low level. Whatever, I don't seem to have a need for food, and putting skill points into trades that generate food just doesn't appeal to me. I might be eating those words when my characters get bigger :)
--Pete
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