12-23-2003, 03:18 AM
:blink: Hm, sounds like a zookeeper on crack :P Have you playtested this idea yet? I don't think it would be very viable for many other classes than Necro and Druid, and maybe a thorns Pally, unless you twinked some ATD gear - and I don't remember the level requirements offhand for the lowest levels of those.
Ignoring mercs for argument's sake (since they're just cannon fodder for the act bosses most of the time anyway <_< ), how can a character who kills nothing at all get enough XP to level up to their summonables? (and how is a barb to get XP at all?)
However... :)
As a TEAM variant this has some serious potential for interdependency, and as such, Real Fun™! Zookeepers do the killing, barb warcrying crowd control, pally and (gasp) sorcie the ATD tanks...still no good ideas for assassins, though. Perhaps one of the more experienced variant scum (hehe) can help out with that one. Would be tough on a subpar system though, with all those summonables lategame.
What to call this team? The Peace Corps? The Sisters of St. Mary's? (Maybe not that one - ask your local Catholic schoolkid about the "pacifism" of THOSE nuns! :huh: ) Heh - the UN Security Council? :lol: Sends others off to the front lines while they debate about the legitimacy of it all? (hey, there's your warcry tree!)
Of course, as usual, I'm just bored at work, and this may all be a meaningless ramble. As usual. :)
Ignoring mercs for argument's sake (since they're just cannon fodder for the act bosses most of the time anyway <_< ), how can a character who kills nothing at all get enough XP to level up to their summonables? (and how is a barb to get XP at all?)
However... :)
As a TEAM variant this has some serious potential for interdependency, and as such, Real Fun™! Zookeepers do the killing, barb warcrying crowd control, pally and (gasp) sorcie the ATD tanks...still no good ideas for assassins, though. Perhaps one of the more experienced variant scum (hehe) can help out with that one. Would be tough on a subpar system though, with all those summonables lategame.
What to call this team? The Peace Corps? The Sisters of St. Mary's? (Maybe not that one - ask your local Catholic schoolkid about the "pacifism" of THOSE nuns! :huh: ) Heh - the UN Security Council? :lol: Sends others off to the front lines while they debate about the legitimacy of it all? (hey, there's your warcry tree!)
Of course, as usual, I'm just bored at work, and this may all be a meaningless ramble. As usual. :)
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