kierg10 wrote on Sep 5^th, 2013 at 7:48pm:


I think my problems might be more severe than that.

Your quality of experience running with Axer depended largely on what class you were playing, and how willing you are to sacrifice your enjoyment for his.

On my wizard, things usually went smoothly (and he was in the habit of sending me /tells to try and recruit me when I was on Elochka). Occasionally I'd be irritated by his requesting I do something mind-numbingly dull, because he wanted the spotlight, but a lot of the time, I could just run the way I liked to on my wiz: throw a few buffs, CC and insta-kill stuff, keep Haste going, light nuking.

On a paladin, however, forget about it! Totally fucking obnoxious. He liked trying to relegate my mana pool to redundant buffs for a whole raid party, insisting that I had no use for my SP, then insisting that I back off on bosses constantly, because I was stealing his aggro (when I wasn't trying to), while insisting he was a better tank with less AC (when that mattered), HP, saves, and threat than I had. After a few runs like that, I just made it a point to steal aggro as often as I could when I was on Ferrumrym or Bruucelee in his runs.

He was certainly a character. I miss his forum presence.

Bigjunk wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2013 at 11:53am:


Are they that bad?  I've not played one in a long time.  Never liked them at all, really.  Always felt too cookie-cutter.  Only two viable level splits, only one PrE, only one or two viable Feat maps.  Max Strength and Con.  Shit on the rest. 

I didn't even really look at their trees much.  Just saw a bunch of clickie type stuff, though.  Which is the norm.  Even Barbs and Fighters play like a pally or a monk these days.   

Asheras wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2013 at 1:11pm:


Looks to be that way unless somebody finds some ubber-combo that nobody's though of yet.  The damage they do in Sobrien beat-down tests don't compare to fighters or in some cases rangers (I strongly suspect that to be dungeon scaling based on class though).

Pre U19 a barb needed a life-support system to be all it could be and nobody played like that anymore.

Asheras wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2013 at 1:11pm:


Kensai+monk synergy is retardedly strong.

karatekid wrote on Sep 5^th, 2013 at 11:51pm:

As opposed to Tuesday.