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Xin Law
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I got some questions about the abilities:
Flying - A Gargoyle's powerful wings carry them over land as fast as a galloping horse and grant them access to special Gargoyle-only areas.
**Will Flying have a time limit on usage or are you flying 24/7?
**If so will bolas or dismount special be able to knock there speed down to walking pace, or is Gargolyes going to have the luxuary of never having to worry about.
**Will tamers be allowed to be Gargolyes? If so then what is going to be done, to prevent them from running around with the speed of riding a mount, while controling a 'Greater Dragon', throwing bolas at other players that are actually riding a mount to mow them down like lambs to a slaughter.
**What about dismount specials, bolas and riding swipe, all requiring you to be on foot in order to dismount others? Will they be un-useable to gargoyles, or will anyone that isnt a gargoyle be completely screwed over and powerless in this regard?
**Will archers/ninjas be able to use 'Double Shot' special with the Yumi Bow, since gargoyles are technically not on a mount?
** Will stealthers be able to become gargoyles, because this would mean they can stealth, move at mounted speed without having to polymorph into an animal?
** Since your flying around, will this mean that traps in dungeons or faction stongholds not be triggered?
** Will you be able to fly over houses, over mountains, ravines, rivers, oceans and all the other terrain features that we currently can not move past?
** Will gargoyles suffer a penality to their Hit Chance when they are flying, because if your bobbing up and down your accuracy should be affected?
** Will you be able to fly onto boats or into faction restricted zones? Or even the crossing over from doom to the doom guantlet?
Berserk - In situations of great danger, a Gargoyle's natural ferocity will take over, granting speed and power at the cost of defenses.
** Please dont let this give players a way to do 40-50 damage hits when stacked with the Damage increase from lumberjacking, 120 tactic, 120 anat, 100% Damage increase, hit spell effect damage, and immolating weapon spell. Keep in mind that doubles to 80-100 if double strike weapon special is used, and prolly 60-70 with concussion blow.
Master Artisan - A strong cultural emphasis on art and craftsmanship grants the Gargoyles an increased chance to imbue, enhance, and unravel magical items.
Deadly Aim - All Gargoyles are trained from childhood in the skill of Throwing, giving them a basic competence with missile weapons.
** This mean Gargoyles will be able to shoot arrows/bolts, shurikens/blowdarts, plus the new throwing weapons without having to devote any skill points to accomplish this?
In my opinion, i think all this is a bit much. I love most of the changes, will make UO interesting again, well at least for a while. But as far as I can tell, only a complete idiot not want to change over to Gargoyle Race. The abilities are simply to much to pass up, if you combined all the abilities of elves and humans, it would still fall a little short in comparrision to gargoyles. So maybe some 'draw backs' should be considered to be put in, nothing drastic but just enough to make it so human and elf races become instinct.
**Oh yeah, for the love of god please do NOT put this expansion out until it is 99% done, working, and not on life-support. No half-arsing, no rushing, take your time and do it right the first time. Because if the expansion comes out, us players play it for a few months, spending ungodly amounts of time, training skills, adjusting templates, adjusting armor and weapons, collect newer better weapons, or create newer better weapons, to have the entire expansion flipped over and completely changed because you all got carried away and didnt think about the implicaitons and problems with the features from the expansion. Seriously, it pisses me off to know end, luckily you all keep your location 'off the grid' because everytime you all revert, nerf, flip, destroy features or additions from an expansion I want to go down there and vent in person, and face to face (note: I am not a ******** piece of ****, so dont think I would resort to voilence to vent, I will prolly use almost every curse word in the english language, hell even some korean and spainsh bad words but thats it. To inflict pain onto others just because you dont get things your way isn't just childish its a pathetic way to deal with things.)
Flying - A Gargoyle's powerful wings carry them over land as fast as a galloping horse and grant them access to special Gargoyle-only areas.
**Will Flying have a time limit on usage or are you flying 24/7?
**If so will bolas or dismount special be able to knock there speed down to walking pace, or is Gargolyes going to have the luxuary of never having to worry about.
**Will tamers be allowed to be Gargolyes? If so then what is going to be done, to prevent them from running around with the speed of riding a mount, while controling a 'Greater Dragon', throwing bolas at other players that are actually riding a mount to mow them down like lambs to a slaughter.
**What about dismount specials, bolas and riding swipe, all requiring you to be on foot in order to dismount others? Will they be un-useable to gargoyles, or will anyone that isnt a gargoyle be completely screwed over and powerless in this regard?
**Will archers/ninjas be able to use 'Double Shot' special with the Yumi Bow, since gargoyles are technically not on a mount?
** Will stealthers be able to become gargoyles, because this would mean they can stealth, move at mounted speed without having to polymorph into an animal?
** Since your flying around, will this mean that traps in dungeons or faction stongholds not be triggered?
** Will you be able to fly over houses, over mountains, ravines, rivers, oceans and all the other terrain features that we currently can not move past?
** Will gargoyles suffer a penality to their Hit Chance when they are flying, because if your bobbing up and down your accuracy should be affected?
** Will you be able to fly onto boats or into faction restricted zones? Or even the crossing over from doom to the doom guantlet?
Berserk - In situations of great danger, a Gargoyle's natural ferocity will take over, granting speed and power at the cost of defenses.
** Please dont let this give players a way to do 40-50 damage hits when stacked with the Damage increase from lumberjacking, 120 tactic, 120 anat, 100% Damage increase, hit spell effect damage, and immolating weapon spell. Keep in mind that doubles to 80-100 if double strike weapon special is used, and prolly 60-70 with concussion blow.
Master Artisan - A strong cultural emphasis on art and craftsmanship grants the Gargoyles an increased chance to imbue, enhance, and unravel magical items.
Deadly Aim - All Gargoyles are trained from childhood in the skill of Throwing, giving them a basic competence with missile weapons.
** This mean Gargoyles will be able to shoot arrows/bolts, shurikens/blowdarts, plus the new throwing weapons without having to devote any skill points to accomplish this?
In my opinion, i think all this is a bit much. I love most of the changes, will make UO interesting again, well at least for a while. But as far as I can tell, only a complete idiot not want to change over to Gargoyle Race. The abilities are simply to much to pass up, if you combined all the abilities of elves and humans, it would still fall a little short in comparrision to gargoyles. So maybe some 'draw backs' should be considered to be put in, nothing drastic but just enough to make it so human and elf races become instinct.
**Oh yeah, for the love of god please do NOT put this expansion out until it is 99% done, working, and not on life-support. No half-arsing, no rushing, take your time and do it right the first time. Because if the expansion comes out, us players play it for a few months, spending ungodly amounts of time, training skills, adjusting templates, adjusting armor and weapons, collect newer better weapons, or create newer better weapons, to have the entire expansion flipped over and completely changed because you all got carried away and didnt think about the implicaitons and problems with the features from the expansion. Seriously, it pisses me off to know end, luckily you all keep your location 'off the grid' because everytime you all revert, nerf, flip, destroy features or additions from an expansion I want to go down there and vent in person, and face to face (note: I am not a ******** piece of ****, so dont think I would resort to voilence to vent, I will prolly use almost every curse word in the english language, hell even some korean and spainsh bad words but thats it. To inflict pain onto others just because you dont get things your way isn't just childish its a pathetic way to deal with things.)
