So, I have been playing with the new stuff intensively for about a month now
and I decided to post my opinion about them. Don\'t take this as a whine, I do
realize all of this was a pure upgrade for locs. Still there are some flaws
I\'d like to point out.

Kiss of death:

Kiss of death is pretty horrible to use in parties. No party leader wants to
wait 10 seconds before every monster. In fact I find myself skipping kiss of
death even when I\'m leading a party myself. Also you can\'t use it at aggro
monsters. The skill is ok when soloing, but I\'d hope to use it in parties as
well. The skill duration should either be shortened to 1 round or the skill
should be made worthwhile losing the 10 seconds.

Aura of chaos:

Wow, this thing drains sp _fast_. For me it\'s currently 7-11sps per
heartbeat, that\'s like having -90spr that ticks in combat aswell. No way
anyone is going to give up using spider demon for this spell. I can only
imagine myself using this spell if I was a level 50 loc without any other ways
to use sp.

The masteries:

At first getting these masteries seemed to be laughable easy. But it seems
that the slope is increasing fast. At a bit over 30% it\'s already pretty
slow: I think I did about 5m exp while getting my wrath from 33% to 34%, and
I used vb a lot. I can imagine it getting painfully slow at about 50%. But
this might have been intentional so it\'s not really a problem.

The actual problem with the masteries is that as far as I have noticed, the
size of monsters you kill doesn\'t affect it in any way. The fastest way to
get masteries seems to be to kiss and vb down ~5k monsters. This is in
conflict with the fact that most things in batmud encourage partying. There
should be a difference in killing 5k mobs and 200k mobs.

Anyway, I love the new abilities and they are probably the reason I still
haven\'t reinced out of locs. I think that the biggest problem with locs at
the moment is that reavers are superior in every way when it comes to reincing
to hybrid evil relig tank.

Yes, I can definately see the problem here. There are spells/skills in the
guild that best serve someone who is NOT level 100 and always in a party
killing HUGE(tm) eqmonsters.
This is definately against all the principles of batmud. Everything must
immediately be tuned to only benefit the top players. Also, disable character
creation, newbies are fucking the game up.
Furthermore, there's not enough honey on my suffeli, I demand some more.

So you are actually using aura of chaos and enjoying the fact that kiss of
death takes 3 rounds to use?

Killing huge eq monsters has nothing to do with this. It\'s not like anyone
wants locs in their eqparties anyway. I\'m killing the same stuff I would kill
at level 50. And when did I suggest that everything should only benefit top
players?

The reason I mentioned level 50 locs was that currently aura of chaos is a
spell that you use if you don\'t have anything else to spend your sps on, and
locs without any secondary guilds really don\'t have that many spells to use.

About the masteries, I\'m merely pointing out that it\'s silly that you get
more masteries out from soloing than partying. It\'s a bit same that the best
way of getting exp for you would be to kill small critters in newbie
mountains. You wouldn\'t like that either.

Currently, if I want to get my masteries up, I go to diggas or such, put on
parry (more skills/spells per mob) and start killing raven guards.

Anyways, everything I asked for in my post would be an uptune for you as well.
So why are you actually getting so emotional about it?