The Shadow "knows"

[Crystalion]

Suddenly... I am not seeing much of a reason to use Master beyond the fantastic AI and the rare equipment she gets.  The number one reason I always chose Master was that she got resists and the warrior didn't.

Are we sure those resistances are used?  Shadow master also lists a resistance bonus in the params section, while the warrior does not.

The warrior gets resists. They could have coded it as something like ln12 with par1 & 2 being 4 & 4, but they chose to keep it simple... master uses the diminishing returns formula, so she has to have the matching params.

This means that a master at low slvl has better resists than equiv low slvl warrior. But the warrior quickly catches up. I suspect that, even though the master caps at 85 and warrior at only 75, that the dm formula still makes this a win for the warrior, for most builds... because neither 75 or 85 is immune, but low level Fade will push them both over.

Still, if you're using a shadow for melee damage output, the "fantastic AI and the rare equipment" are significant factors.

But yes, the LCS™ can be annoying even when it doesn't say anything (i.e. sins of omission) that you can claim it to be "lying" about.

I would certainly prefer to have an "identify" spell or npc in the game that you could ask for detailed information on items, skills and entities (hires/minions/monsters). Any game of this type is largely about information, which most designers ofpopular MMO games seem to have overlooked, atm.