"MaGeZ SuXoR!" and Other Thoughts

[Jarulf]

For those who haven't played Mages yet, and don't see what all the complaining is about, imagine playing a warrior where every time you are hit, you have to wait an additional 2 seconds to attack.  So if you take on 2 monsters at once, and they can (combined) hit you at least every 2 seconds, think you'll get an attack off?  Now combine that with low hit points and paper-thin armor.

Ehh, my warrior attack once every 2 second (or a little more than 2 seconds). And that is using a one handed weapon I think. I have had situation were monsters attacking me and "interupting" me so I could not atack. Particulary some lion like monsters over in horde land. With two of them I almost never got an attack off. Not sure if it was something special. Have not played a mage though so can't compare.

I mainly play a warrior, and perhaps I play him all wrong but I find myself having some problems. One is that I deal very little damage compared to others at my level, I might have missed something. Compared to mages, it is a joke. IN a group, I hardly get to make the first attack before the monster dies in flames of fireballs or whatever those spells are. Part of the problem is that after the first spell, monsters typically ignore me and run for the mage but still. It is a bit booring always "missing" the fight so to speak. When monsters DO attack me I handle well though being able to take damage much better, both due to more HP and higher armor. I have probably missed some good tactics and skills though, I usually don't "get it" until later after a while :)