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#1
22 Jan 2018 13:14
 
 
Heya,

I decided to write a bit 'fyi' post about Duergar for the reason that i bet no
one knows how it works nowadays (and got much inquiries) just because I'm
supposedly first duergar in few years now. For starters Duergar has a
racespecial in race commands that allows them to grow in size. How it works
is:

+ Gives size bonus that scales with levels up to 55->80 size at level 100 and
over (at least up to 106).
+ Nowadays no stat negs like was stated earlier in news
- Turning bonus active drains around 100sp and 80ep (-endurance discount) and
lasts 15-16mins at least on lvl100
- Cant use with spawn (also drops instantly if spawn)
- Camping drops it -> camping is around +/- 0 when got to redo special after
- Skillbreaks, stuns, uncs etc in battle drop it. Discipline helps a bit and
maybe levels. Really brutal with eqmobs that have skillbreak etc specials

Otherwise Duergar race is a fine average race. Nothing special or especially
good, nothing really bad. Has decent stats, good avoid, bearable prots and
exprate - and racial frenzy as a extra candy. Good skill/spellmax and quite
cheapish in the end. The other side of the coin is that in practice if you
compare it to something like troll, titan, draco on defside or orc, barso
(+the earlier) on offside or other more widely used race it just isnt worth it
imho... if you dont value to cool attitude and differing from the
'most-effective-tank-available' aka batmud-meta!

What confuses me is that the whole race is little contradicting with itself in
all ways. Its a tank/offtank race and thus really really needs that
sizespecial. The race is "evil only" but then the special wont work with spawn
what is the go-to thing for any evil tank nowadays. The special is coded in
very punishing way if want to use it outside offexp somewhere when mobs hit
also back. Also the race as as i see it is much better for lower end player
but then the special scales with levels both in power and usability. Race
offers higher spellmax, but then offers wussy defside, low wisdom, low hpratio
and hard to maintain special so it isnt your go-to pick for hybrid def
either... could go on with other aspects too but you get the point. It is
like, race is trying to offer choices but fails to deliver anything where it
would really shine. At least for my limited imagination.

Just my few until next reinc,
Z

TLDR: Cool race, such doge, fails to fit any role like a boss

 
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Zerks
3y, 217d, 13h, 3m, 59s old
Level:
106