adamantine,Sep 11 2003, 03:38 PM Wrote:so the already overpowered crescent moon(even with just chance to cast static field it'd be overpowered) is even more powerful,As the owner of a Schafferdin, I disagree. In fact, I stopped adding any points to Static Field on my sorcs for awhile. It didn't make sense to me to get excited about the ability to drop 50% of monster HP. I thought it was more important to be able to damage any monster successfully (i.e. a 50% dead monster can kill you if you don't get it first). The attraction of extra monsters is not important, there are a limited number of spaces that monsters can attack you from, additional monsters beyond that are generally to your advantage [1]. I stopped using the Schafferdin because the performance beyond 50% HP was lackluster. I just remembered the event that triggered this thinking, encounting a CI/FI. All those points in SF meant that I couldn't do anything to that boss, since I didn't have a useful third skill.
[1] Two exceptions:
a) Ranged attackers --disengage and target them or separate them.
B) When the monsters weapon is longer range than yours. After getting beat up by this a few times, I decided this great disadvantage needed to be reversed and began using range 6 melee weapons. The lack of block is irrelevant if you can stun the monster when it first gets in weapon range (hint: Fury).