I am going to assume you are not a dueling mage or the question about how a necro mage is overpowered wouldnt even really be a question.
I only duel pure-mage (pure being 0.0 Scribe & 0.0 Poisoning & no weapon, preferably with a lantern) and no pots (should go without saying regardless of who you are).
I see no reason to duel with other skills (not that I couldn't i just choose not to because well.. mystics have healstone and pretty much 50% of the time its a mystic asking for such fights.. and the other 50% of the time its someone with poisoning lol? )... why would anyone duel temp vs temp unless they're the same temp as each other? clearly the one needing the nerf should win.. unless they're absolutely horrible at pvp...
Poison strike is overpowered with poisoning due to damage not because it has a chance to poison,thats the 2nd time ive pointed this out now.
Ahh, detail is key, otherwise people think your crying. Poisoning being the issue, not necromancy. I don't have poisoning (the reason i probably wouldn't notice such damage increase, I also VERY rarely use poison strike anymore), and i guess i've not fought many (if any) necromages with it, however most of the people i fight are Throwers, some type of Archer, or Mystics, and most of these have poisoning as well. Poison strike damage is fine (Without poisoning), and the damage bonus from poisoning to poisonstrike should be removed, but i also think it shouldn't have a chance to poison, nor should bombard have a chance to stun. IMO (atleast not against Anyone with Resisting spells equal or greater than the casters Spiritspeak/Focus.)
This is actually a funny thread all the people i have been fighting for YEARS agree with me almost completly, while most the trammel people sit and argue roflcopters.
I couldn't agree more. although i do have one question for you, What template do you play mostly? I'm assuming a Mystic mage,(I play almost every template) I pvp with my bard and my wammie quite often, its more fun than using a pvp temp because well... its more challenging.
The only way to truly assume something is overpowered, is by testing the issue from multiple perspectives, you can't play one template, die to another, and say its OP. (this could be the reason for some changes made already)
people do too much complaining before testing the problems...
BTW if you see the devs screw with stone form BEFORE they fix poison you know they are just asking this game to die.
^^^ I assume you use stone form alot... lol?
and This part of your post tells us what template you play... a Mystic
So basically, your saying nerf poisoning & the poison strike damage bonus, before Stoneform because Mystics can live through most everything else with ease ?
Poisoning is OP no doubt... but my point is before poisoning got buffed up, what was the most OP template?.... Mystics both mages and dexers, however they nerfed spellplague to Only go off on spell effects.. so it completely ruined mystic dexers, which removes yet Another template from UO.