07-07-2003, 10:23 AM
Yeah indeed, I dunno what ppl are whining about. I made a frenzy babo who's doing Act 1 nightmare right now. His weapons are quite lame, so he can't do more than players 3. If I were stubborn to try and do players 8 anyway, then the patch would indeed suck lol. But players 3 give enough xp already, so I have no problems with that. Plus I'm using lev 3 find item on every corpse to compensate the lesser drops. Leech is no problem because life tap wands are still there :) I don't get owned because I use a defiance merc to boot. (Right now he kills faster than me lololol.)
In any case there are some things that remain a problem. The boss vs. normal monster discrepancy is still very striking. Getting a decent weapon is still very hard and time-consuming. If I were in charge, there would be NO damage enhancement modifiers on weapons. All the weapons would do roughly the same damage and the pluses to max and min damage would come from skills, just like they do with spells. But that's another story...
As for the builds, I don't think my frenzy babo will be very different from the one I had in the Realms. I still need to max frenzy to get AR and speed. Double swing gives more damage, but I can't split the points 10/10 because I really need the AR. I think the classic frenzy build is fine. Left-overs go to double swing, but that's it.
In any case there are some things that remain a problem. The boss vs. normal monster discrepancy is still very striking. Getting a decent weapon is still very hard and time-consuming. If I were in charge, there would be NO damage enhancement modifiers on weapons. All the weapons would do roughly the same damage and the pluses to max and min damage would come from skills, just like they do with spells. But that's another story...
As for the builds, I don't think my frenzy babo will be very different from the one I had in the Realms. I still need to max frenzy to get AR and speed. Double swing gives more damage, but I can't split the points 10/10 because I really need the AR. I think the classic frenzy build is fine. Left-overs go to double swing, but that's it.