Go Dex so you can avoid tankingLol jk.
Go Dex so you can avoid tanking
I've been booted from a game for wearing a Raid set! Reason: "I don't like bow bears"Originally Posted by Ellyidol
Go Dex so you can avoid tanking
I don't know whether it's me but I'm noticing a couple of trends:
1. Impatient/intollerating players
2. Lack of courtesy in the event a game is full; I'm booted before I even get a chance to ask, "Room?" (extension of #1)
3. Overall no love for bears (I don't get the same negative vibe for being a Pally - but I don't think she's noticeably better/faster than my bear)
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I'd rather get booted by people like this than helping them run a dungeon.
+1. Now that I think about - same. Best to get booted than to run with these people - I highly doubt that they were a capable team.
I got booted yesterday from a Catacombs by some random guy as my mage for reason "pure int". First he/she said that I would hold back the team because I have low hp and then promptly booted me (can't remember name and quite frankly, I don't want to; too many people have randomly generated computer names these days; it was some pally who clearly had issues with pure int).
Last edited by WhoIsThis; 03-31-2011 at 09:30 PM.
Lol at paladin booting pure int - considering int mages are putting their lives in danger to deal extra damage for the party. Personally I feel like booting paladins who don't tank. I know from pvp experience how bad a paladin can be at killing anything compared to pure int, so my take is if you're going to be a paladin, you'd better be playing aggressively enough to justify why you need to be pally. Too often I see paladins just hang back with the group and play as if they were int mages. Haven't booted yet but I'm not exactly happy to see them in my groups either.
Anyways, hosts have the right to choose teams as they see fit, and sometimes their reasoning is wrong. I just move on to another group - plenty of games out there, and I don't want to be playing with a noob host anyway.
Kalielle - level 56 mage | Kaley - level 55 roundup bear | Clusterstorm - level 55 rush paladin
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I think I have figured out why a lot of them respeced to pally. There are 2 types of pallys:
1. Mage-bears (you yourself are like this Kalielle): They stay in front, they like to roundup, and they generally seem to be quite effective. They usually have very high K/D ratios. A few of these characters sometimes put 70% or even 100% of their skills into strength.
2. Former pure ints: These are players that usually respeced because they have had issues surviving as pure int. I suspect that the person who booted me was one of them - many of these players assume that all pure ints will have survivability issues and that nobody could possibly play a pure int without dying frequently. Many of these players have adopted a more conservative playstyle. A lot of hybrid ints also belong into this category.
3. Former bear players: I have been told that the transition from bear to mage is one of the toughest. If your first character was a strength bear and your second is an int mage, the transition can be very tough - many respec to adapt.
I suppose that a fourth category would be players that wanted to try something different.
Pally in a sense is "easier" to play in that it is more well, forgiving. I suppose that strength bear is like that too, which may be why many bears still opt for strength oriented configurations rather than the dex configurations. If your charge in, you are likely to survive as pally or strength bear if things go wrong. Tanking with dex bear is much more pot intensive and less forgiving (at least that was how I remembered it - on my to do list is to level a second bear). Pure int is even less forgiving than that - if you charge in, and your nuke doesn't kill, you need to be ready to act fast or you will be dead very quickly.
It has been said that a pure int does as much damage a pally with melee pot, but a pally is as durable as a pure int with tank pot.
Wow.
TBH, in PvE, I find bow bears better than tanking bears. Granted its a bit more expensive on pots, but your damage is just way way more.
Such logic does not enter into the minds of people who boot because they don't "like" bow bears.
I just wish that there were levels where being pure strength would be a great advantage and where a bear's skills were truly invaluable. Catacombs is close to that in the Sewers as is the Shadow Caves.
Edit: By difficult enough for pure strength to be useful, I mean a hypothetical level that a full fury pally or bow bear would have difficulties surviving, but a pure strength could manage it with some effort. It would significantly increase the value of bears again.
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