Yet they still all suck... imagine that... if you really understood the changes to Taming you would see that the tamer isn't any better off or doing more of anything much than they were with a GD...
If I really understood the changes to taming......
SUCH a moaning trammie.
Hehe he lost to a sampire? That's funny.
A Greater Dragon on a good day does one 10th the damage any dexer, mager or anything else can do so what exactly is your point????
Soooooo you want people to be forced to play the templates you like to play?
I would not say with ease..
I was thinking if there is any issue with balance, leave sampire where its at, and make other skills more viable/on sampires level. Sampire has been around since... well when did bushido come out again? lol
You will simply never be happy no matter what change is made in this game.
You're wrong. A TAMER (note I said that and not just a GD) should be doing plenty of damage if they have planned their template correctly and are doing more than just sitting back and say "All Kill".
Playing in the biggest guild in UO... hardly anyone brings their sampires to EM events... or multi-boxes. People bring throwers, tamers and mystic mages.
Dozens of bugs? Messing up their pets from complicated imbue system?
Tamers shouldn't be able to auto pilot a champ spawn. For that matter, Tamers should be WEAK on champ spawns since they are incredibly strong in almost every other encounter in the game.
Mages are still a viable PVM option and the majority of PVM content requires a team. What they need to do is introduce new content that is DIFFICULT and cannot be solo'ed by any template. But then the people on dead shards who can't get 5 people together will cry they're unable to experience the new content and it doesn't jive with their refusal to play in a group or attempt to experience any template that might require a little work on their end. In short, either way, someone is going to moan and complain.
lol... every new pet has the stats you listed or better, and Sampires are still more powerful (than anything that doesn't have rune corruption) because of mana leech allowing for chained AI/double strike, if nothing else. I don't think samps need a nerf because of how expensive they are, the difficulty in playing/gearing one correctly, and the high risk factor. If anything it's time for mages to get a pvm boost, everything else is fine.
I don't need to change a thing with my sampire template to run 5 lessers. Bushido is the only requirement
You owe me a coffee. I just spit it out lolThe only thing that needs nerfed is this damn losing connection due to synch error with log in servers... that crap is OP and need to be stopped
^^^^ This.
Been saying this for a while.
What do you even propose be nerfed?
You do realize you can't train them and have them remain 1 slot right? If you train them they go up in slot and require taming to control. :/I don't need to change a thing with my sampire template to run 5 lessers. Bushido is the only requirement
* think I was unclear with previous post. Sampires got a great deal of extra firepower in this publish. Ai's for 180 plus 5 lesser plus onslaught equals DAMN!
I think there are plenty of viable non sampire melee templates. 120 chiv, healing, and 100% hit life leech weapon are perfectly viable. My last warrior used vamp form, but not bushido.
Have yet to have any of them increase in slots. Those are natural stats at level 1.
If I said that I'd be banned lol
But I mean you could always do that, that's how they have always been. The patch didn't give them anything unless you train them.
The have grasping claw which drops physical resist. That combined with onslaught gives you hits for about 20ish. Times that by 5 and I'm adding nearly 100 points of damage. That plus my 180ish ai adds up real fast.
or as he would say "trollololololololol"
Yeah, I just don't see it being a whole lot more effective than it ever was. GC really isn't super noticeable, from what I've tried.
The Sampire itself isn't so much the problem but rather a symptom of a deeper problem. The underlying issue which likely no one on this forum will agree with me on is the "dark triad" of armor ignore / double strike => mana / life leech => damage modifier (slayer, EoO, honor) that allows a player to chain specials to achieve damage levels that shouldn't really be possible. I don't say this lightly, as I have sampire and sampire-like characters myself and use them regularly, but I don't allow my playstyle to blind me to the obvious imbalance at play here. It's not that mage templates are behind the curve, it's that warrior templates are way ahead. Power creep is a real issue in UO.
100% yes. I have been trying to point this out for a long time.
How about making slayer trinkets usable for casting, designing a usable pair of high resist SDI gloves, and finally allowing us to use Moiety for starters?
You aren't wrong, specials are absolutly imbalanced, and leeches are no longer optional. There is no easy solution of this, you can't just remove or dramatically depower those things without altering the whole rest of the game as well, since without them you can't really be a warrior, and any other class would instantly be superior in a big way. The people who didn't quit would become tamers, or face needing a group to kill a balron.
At what point did I ever compare pets to player intelligence? Please, go back and point it out to me. I listed the abilities that pets could have and I compared the offensive and defensive capabilities of pets compared to a greater dragon.
You put chivalry on a spawning pet and expect it to not sink like a rock? Double damage, that's like giving it half resists and expecting it to stay alive.
What's it's Mana regeneration, What's its intelligence, what's it's mana pool, what's it's meditation and focus, what other abilities did you give it. If you are running chivalry in a spawn I question everything from now on.
I would agree, but I would suggest that while power creep is an inevitable result, it could be better controlled. The very moment I first saw the crimson cincture however many years ago it was introduced, an item for a slot that until that moment never had any special properties available, I knew exactly the path we were headed and here we are. It seems like every time a new round of artifacts are introduced, they don't (at least, in my view for whatever that's worth) have any rhyme or reason. Attributes are put on slots that never before had them. Legendary artifacts contribute to the problem. More and more, the concept of trade offs diminish with each new artifact. And some artifacts never get used because of how blatantly useless they are. Ultimately the point I'm driving at is that, I am not entirely convinced the devs are taking power creep into consideration, or that there is any kind of overarching, fundamental design principle being applied. Instead we're playing whack-a-mole with the various templates and "classes" and eventually ending up with this kind of rube goldberg system that lacks as much elegance as it lacks challenge and meaning.
Wraith Form grants Mana Drain. Only difference between it and Mana Leech, is that it actually takes Mana from the victim, which has it's ups and downs. If the victim runs out of Mana, you can't drain any more Mana from them, but it also means the victim won't be casting anything. When AoS first came out, there was a bug that allowed Curse Weapon's Life Drain to affect spells, it was hilarious. You could literally sit in the middle of a Champ Spawn in Wraith Form and spam Wither, and never die.
That must have been a fun time.
