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Ankyrean Anguish - Aetolia-based RAGE
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Rawr
Amusingly, one of the other classes is the one that you say you hate the most, and is the most broken. Not that I'm disagreeing - it's just funny.
Berserk is one of the reasons I love lycan. The other things include shed, rage, hardening and a few utility things like quietus and neckdrag.
I also like the speed of limb damage classes.
But Amberlea has a point - prerestoration is just too easy if done the way she says, and if you keep track of your own limbs, if you ever find yourself slipping behind you just need to throw out a round of hinder - which could be shield if your class lacks this - and you gain an extra round of safe pre-restoring. Back to square one.
enhance balance just didn't do what Agile/Dex did it was still .2+ slower then them speeds which the class needed.
Two years ago it was still possible to be a neutral balance lycan. That was one of the things I particularly liked about the class. Having faster balance sure helped, don't get me wrong, but it was still possible.
@Ezalor Lycan may be tanky against some classes, but all the tank in the world is meaningless if your offense can basically be ignored.
@Xiuhcoatl I know you are a big fan of brainsmash, but I hate the idea of it being the preferred method of killing with lycan. Considering our skills had limitations put on them to specifically discourage the use of weapons (for some very good reasons) I feel like it goes against the spirit and theme of the class.
I love lycan RP. I love the concepts behind lycan combat. It's so close to begin so awesome, which is why I get frustrated by it
Rawr
Everything was slowed proportionally - rend/hamstring alone have never been able to outpace salve speed, and this continues to be the case.
If there's a fundamental problem with the setup, that's another issue entirely and definitely merits liaison reports. That being said, lycanthropes have a couple of new interesting tricks this round, including:
- a new ferality attack to caused delayed prones, so setting up non-groin jawlocks should be a fair bit easier.
- howl interchange, to let you swap all three howls instantly
- brand new damage-oriented abilities for each lycanthrope subtype based on jawlocks themselves
- other wonderful things to follow
Additionally, hammer tattoo is receiving a significant speedup this round, which should at least partially mitigate the problem from shielding. I won't delve too far into lycanthrope tactics, but the interchange ability and the existence of a berserking howl might also help with shield issues...
Berserking howl isn't too great. It's not particularly useful to have in your normal 15s howl tics because it doesn't contribute at all to the kill route. I sometimes bay it at people if they shield but often it gets cured before it tics because bays don't get masked by snarling. The option is there, technically, but hammering is the better choice and doesn't have a monstrous cooldown.
Rawr
Most howls are pretty meh, in truth, because they just don't stack well (I understand that guarenteed triple affs you don't want to give lycans easy-auto vlocks or anything). Paralysis Stupidity Anorexia is honestly the only combo that does much because (ignoring tree + endgame, hopefully they are off bal at the same time the second or third howl tic into the fight) it forces a 1.07s salve application which is your ultimate tiny window to push some breaks. A smart opponent parries the limb that was still broken, so you need to go for another double break instead of mangling. Pray they don't remember that they can restore and cure all of those at once.
Rawr
MY RAGE IS NOT HAVING MORE PEOPLE AWAKE IN DUIRAN.
Disrupt is a fair trade for paralysis. I don't really spinerip much anymore, but I like having the option to.
Rawr
Also @Illidan was the only one who put in decent ideas for lycan combat. In reality, anything I put in would have been similar to his so I decided not to. His best report, and what the class really needed was rejected. Everything else unless it's implemented drastically different than the suggestion/approval message is going to do absolutely nothing. Anyone who thinks otherwise, please explain to me in a logical linear fashion how it will do something. His best ones were rejected. So we're left with brainsmashing. Anyone that thinks differently, is either a low level combatant, hasn't been a combatant in a long time, or expects to use this class against low level opponents.
Rawr