http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=413711

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Mmmmm dark side juice.

Carpone wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2013 at 12:07am:


No such thing.

Now he's admitting a vaca from the forums is likely...  Yup...

Who is playa_eric in game?

Wow that's a nice gem. I'm half-tempted to dig up Shade's old posts about how twitch was absolutely intended and good for the game etc. etc. to see what happens when two self-deluded narcissists try to chest-thump each other into oblivion.

Slug wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2013 at 1:49am:


If he's who I'm thinking of, he was a previous applicant to Over Raided and was a decent player but ultimately rejected because too many OR members were concerned that his membership would make OR seem like a bunch of elitist pricks. Let that sink in for a minute...

Vanshilar wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2013 at 2:37am:


OP has a point and the THF twitch is totally different than the unarmed twitch that makes this work.  The way it's used is a clear and obvious exploit and it shouldn't be touted as "AoN usability." 

There are lots of players who are very anti-exploit, including a few CE guildies and the resident loreseeker rabbi.  Remember there was a time when people were actually afraid of being banned for exploiting? 

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Okay, so let's accept your reasoning for a sec: it's not an exploit.

Guess what, it's still massively unbalanced and makes every other melee destiny a waste of time.  It's broken and needs to be changed.

AtomicMew wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2013 at 6:30am:

Given the choice between AoN and Blitz, I'd choose Blitz every time for quests.  Unless you specifically create a build to maximize spirit gain, you'll be lucky to sustain AoN form 30% of the time.

sure you can do that, i do it too, that still doesn't cuircumvent the fact that once you enter tree form you run out of spirits about 20s later unless you have something like a cleric aura going since you can't cast in tree form and lose 4 spirits every couple of secs while only regaining one from hitting stuff.

Blitz in a quest where you can sustain it basicly indefinitely if your party works with you is superior in every way.

Vis wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2013 at 2:08am:

Vanshilar wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2013 at 2:37am:


Thank you both.

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That aspect of Turn of the Tide is indeed fucking stupid.  Which dev thought that "Super Trash Destroyer" was a good epic moment   

karatekid wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2013 at 9:17am:

That's SOP for Paygne.  He's a drama whore.

More irony: He accuses others of using shears, but his BFF Hiromo abused the hell out of them.

That dude has gone full retard and its making my morning lol Im loving reading this nonsense lol.

AtomicMew wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2013 at 6:16am:


I thought it's supposed to be that running changes your attack animation, resulting in more swings per minute compared with the standing swings per minute (i.e. moving swings/min is much greater than standing swings/min in tree form). Hence it's pretty much how twitch works, i.e. (standing + moving) swings/min is greater than standing swings/min -- twitching increases your number of swings per minute and hence your DPS, just like this moving tree thing. Am I misunderstanding something? Shows you how much supposed "exploiters" know about these things.

I'd be fine with Turbine banning people who used the shears exploit by the way, since nobody in the guild would be affected other than that we'd have less competition for EE content. Maybe I'm just being elitist.