07-09-2003, 11:55 PM
I mean, the necro is a low damage output character, for the most part. CE is the best thing going, it sounds like, but here's a thought: make a summon necro able to kill things at a reasonable pace. Why NOT double, or even triple the damage of skellies and magi skellies?
How about a point of reference: I would like to see 20 points in Skeleton Mage and 20 points in Skeleton Mastery do the same damage per second to a stationary target as does lvl 20 Hydra with lvl 20 fire mastery.
Hydra is a just-about-balanced skill. So is that too much to ask? That way, they're both spending 40 points, they both can cast other things while their shooty-type friends deal damage, and the utility and versatility of Hydra offsets the tankability of skellies. This is a good comparison, no?
I mean, it makes far more sense to me to make the skellies pretty fragile, so that you have to resurrect them often, yet make them kill faster so that there are more corpses around more often for you to do so! That would make a summon necro kill faster, but also require much more attention and control on the part of the player. I am SICK TO DEATH of playing a summon necro and falling asleep at the wheel. I'd rather have more risk, and kill faster, thus increasing difficulty while simultaneously increasing rewards (in terms of killing speed).
Anybody agree with me?
How about a point of reference: I would like to see 20 points in Skeleton Mage and 20 points in Skeleton Mastery do the same damage per second to a stationary target as does lvl 20 Hydra with lvl 20 fire mastery.
Hydra is a just-about-balanced skill. So is that too much to ask? That way, they're both spending 40 points, they both can cast other things while their shooty-type friends deal damage, and the utility and versatility of Hydra offsets the tankability of skellies. This is a good comparison, no?
I mean, it makes far more sense to me to make the skellies pretty fragile, so that you have to resurrect them often, yet make them kill faster so that there are more corpses around more often for you to do so! That would make a summon necro kill faster, but also require much more attention and control on the part of the player. I am SICK TO DEATH of playing a summon necro and falling asleep at the wheel. I'd rather have more risk, and kill faster, thus increasing difficulty while simultaneously increasing rewards (in terms of killing speed).
Anybody agree with me?
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