05-19-2008, 04:40 PM
Quote:Hi,
First, let me point out that that should be 'than' not 'then' -- but that's a nit;)
I don't really believe there are 'better' characters, just better players. In the words of the JDAM song, given the ease of CD, "Well, hell, even Jerry's kids could do this #$%&, too." So if you've got the skill and get bored of being invulnerable, you look for the handicaps. It keeps the game interesting. Of course, if you need god-mode to enjoy, or even just to play, the game, then you go for the gear.
--Pete
Yes, a player should judged on his skill before his items, this I agree. Still, at high lvls when you are playing in the more difficult realms (in particular hell/hell) playing the more off-beat variants becomes more a "drag" then a true measure of challenge. I play a rogue with low ac and no ms in hell/hell at a very fast pace, which makes for exciting gameplay in co-op. Pretty much 3 hits from any melee monster is certain death, even with using the best items.
I could see a build using TFOS being interesting in the lower-mid difficulty realms, but rather unlikely for chars playing in hell mode.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)