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Lich is an undead race selectable in reanimation by characters reborn at least
1 time. Liches gain stats (some str, more dex, more con, more int and most
wis) from draining souls with their racial ability 'lich drain'. A life-time
lich could reach int/wis unattainable by any other race ( like way past
thrikhren intelligence and ent wisdom). Racial stat maximums for lich are 65
(naturally affected by training points), but in 5 days (of Beastlands grind) I
was already at +5str,+6dex,+8con,+13int,+14wis.
After destroying my brain cells running some Beastlands (20,000+ monsters) at
level 32 here's my train of thought about the race.
Back in the day, any lich could get soul value out of Beastlands or any other
small monster. Currently, lich drain soul value gets diminished by the
'inferior monster' code. This results in people who reinc to lich to have to
spend days, weeks or even months at low levels to overcome this 'inferior
monster' code and to get some decent soul drain stats.
This only to find that without a phylactery from Origo (removed from loot
table??!) you'll be losing most (over 2/3) of your work even if you reinced
straight back to lich, and everything if you did some other reinc in between.
Also, the phylactery that let's you store your souls for next reinc with
almost no penalty (requires a not-too-hard-to-obtain reagent), is completely
busted as it completely overrides almost the only downside of the race.
A few ideas how to "fix" this:
1) Make lich soul value save over reincs, with a regain system:
a) You start from 0 stats upon reinc
b) Up until 'old drain worth' you regain soul worth faster, maybe 10x speed
2) Remove phylacteries, or make it only skip the regain part
3) Cap lich bonus stats to, let's say, max(20, player level-40) wisdom
a) Beastlands grind low level to skip 'inferior code' would lose most its
worth
b) Life-time liches wouldn't lose all their hard work they put in years ago
- would still have 'the best wisdom race' in the game
c) Force reincs wouldn't totally fuck life-time liches over or require arch
intervention to save the stats
1 time. Liches gain stats (some str, more dex, more con, more int and most
wis) from draining souls with their racial ability 'lich drain'. A life-time
lich could reach int/wis unattainable by any other race ( like way past
thrikhren intelligence and ent wisdom). Racial stat maximums for lich are 65
(naturally affected by training points), but in 5 days (of Beastlands grind) I
was already at +5str,+6dex,+8con,+13int,+14wis.
After destroying my brain cells running some Beastlands (20,000+ monsters) at
level 32 here's my train of thought about the race.
Back in the day, any lich could get soul value out of Beastlands or any other
small monster. Currently, lich drain soul value gets diminished by the
'inferior monster' code. This results in people who reinc to lich to have to
spend days, weeks or even months at low levels to overcome this 'inferior
monster' code and to get some decent soul drain stats.
This only to find that without a phylactery from Origo (removed from loot
table??!) you'll be losing most (over 2/3) of your work even if you reinced
straight back to lich, and everything if you did some other reinc in between.
Also, the phylactery that let's you store your souls for next reinc with
almost no penalty (requires a not-too-hard-to-obtain reagent), is completely
busted as it completely overrides almost the only downside of the race.
A few ideas how to "fix" this:
1) Make lich soul value save over reincs, with a regain system:
a) You start from 0 stats upon reinc
b) Up until 'old drain worth' you regain soul worth faster, maybe 10x speed
2) Remove phylacteries, or make it only skip the regain part
3) Cap lich bonus stats to, let's say, max(20, player level-40) wisdom
a) Beastlands grind low level to skip 'inferior code' would lose most its
worth
b) Life-time liches wouldn't lose all their hard work they put in years ago
- would still have 'the best wisdom race' in the game
c) Force reincs wouldn't totally fuck life-time liches over or require arch
intervention to save the stats
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