07-09-2003, 05:44 AM
Nicodemus Phaulkon,Jul 9 2003, 05:24 AM Wrote:Who said running away wasn't condusive to combat? Stringing out groups of monsters to more effectively deal with them isn't allowed? Who's rules?Oh, for god's sake. Quit being such a ridiculous pedant. We all understood what was meant by the question, and honestly it seems like a pretty reasonable one. We don't need clearly delineated markers to tell us whether a character can handle it, it's an intuitive thing. Like, can a Hydra sorc handle Hell better than a Teeth necromancer? Do we really need a ten-stage diagnostic to get the answer?
How do you measure "able to handle"? Does the fact that you may die from a single-strike Rot Walker, yet recover your body to fight deeper into the act mark your character as "unable"?
Are you referring to the ability to kill the denizens of Hell difficulty? Are you referring to the ability to weather their damage, but at the expense of doing damage yourself?
My werewolf can kill anything in Hell difficulty, survive their attacks, yet cannot deal with physical immunes.
My paladin can become a Patriarch by himself, and even thrive in p8 settings, yet can be laid low by a unfortunate combination of less-than-full life and a Rot Walker tag... or running willy-nilly into a boss group of aura'd Pit Vipers... or discover a nicely snoozing club of Hell Lords that seem to wish to be PI, fanated AND frenzied when they wake up.
My amazon or sorceress can handle anything the game gives her, allowin them the "luxury" of running, teleporting or otherwise stringing the combat out to their advantage; except that under some circumstances the situation will be untenable and she'll be killed in a blink of an eye.
The randomness of the spawning with this patch casts the ability to "survive" into a wide open paradigm... not some pigeon-hole.
And then, of course, there's the situation of multiplayer, which takes everything I've just said about wide-open interpretation and blows it out into the vastness of space.
Try asking pointed questions of specific nature in order to fulfill a standard that you can measure by. Your current query is the equivalent of "What is the meaning of life?".
Everyone else understood the question just fine, and responded appropriately. What's your problem?