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"Is there some other way to (passably) solo as a mage then?"
Not really. They aren't made to do that. Mages have always been your one-stop
shop for massive damage in a single hit, with multiple damagetypes, high spr,
and high spmax. When The Conversion happened, mages were put at the top of the
list in terms o "who can do the most damage in the shortest amount of time."
They are still extremely good at this, and they should be, because they don't
have much else going for them.
If we made mages in auch a way as they could also realistically tank anything
larger than a raven guard, we'd have some balance issues to work out. Most
fantasy icons of mages (I'd like to say wizards but, well, you know) are frail
old geezers, holding themselves up with a stick and wearing cloth robes with
the same armor potential as a dirty look. You don't see them taking two-handed
axe hits to the head and saying "is that all you got?" or laughing off arrow
hits. They just aren't that kind of fantasy icon. That's what soldiers and
knights and barbarians are classically supposed to do.
It is possible that someone in the future will eventually code a "battlemage"
guild that uses swords and sorcery. They haven't yet, but you can multiguiild
a kludged version if you wanted to. Until then, be used to casting fireballs
from the safety of distance, not point-blank. You'll live longer.
And it is supposed to be a _party_ mud after all.
Shinarae Lluminus
Not really. They aren't made to do that. Mages have always been your one-stop
shop for massive damage in a single hit, with multiple damagetypes, high spr,
and high spmax. When The Conversion happened, mages were put at the top of the
list in terms o "who can do the most damage in the shortest amount of time."
They are still extremely good at this, and they should be, because they don't
have much else going for them.
If we made mages in auch a way as they could also realistically tank anything
larger than a raven guard, we'd have some balance issues to work out. Most
fantasy icons of mages (I'd like to say wizards but, well, you know) are frail
old geezers, holding themselves up with a stick and wearing cloth robes with
the same armor potential as a dirty look. You don't see them taking two-handed
axe hits to the head and saying "is that all you got?" or laughing off arrow
hits. They just aren't that kind of fantasy icon. That's what soldiers and
knights and barbarians are classically supposed to do.
It is possible that someone in the future will eventually code a "battlemage"
guild that uses swords and sorcery. They haven't yet, but you can multiguiild
a kludged version if you wanted to. Until then, be used to casting fireballs
from the safety of distance, not point-blank. You'll live longer.
And it is supposed to be a _party_ mud after all.
Shinarae Lluminus
mostly right about the typical 'fantasy icon of mages' being generally frail
and not very armoured, you do see something often enough. It's not a matter
of being able to take a two handed axe hit to the chest and laugh at the
attacker, but more the fact that a powerful mage has been known to be able to
stop the axe hit BEFORE it hit, as in with some force shield or teleknenisis
(spelling error) or whatever. If a mage is expecting the hit, more often than
not he can defend himself with magic, no armour.
All that nonsense being said, I perfectly understand why in this game it is
not like that, I just wanted to argue about something for a change.
Rek out
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