Orc brutes are funny to use and see actually.
In reality it doesnt always attack, and 90ish wrestling + zero hit chance increase vs typical 120 skill 45dci player doesnt do too much.
Actually with 90 weapon skill (orc brutes typically have higher than that), an orc brute has a 27% chance of hitting a player with 120 weapon skill and 45 dci. That's significant, and with UO's whacky rng that can easily translate into two or three consecutive hits. By comparison a fully trained hiryu with exceptional wrestling skill, 108, will hit the same target 31% of the time. And the hiryu doesn't time it's attacks with it's summoner.
Brutes can be killed fairly easily with slayers, I can take one down with eoo and my spawning bow (repond slayer) in a few hits, especially they dont do anything unless the user is meleeing you.
Clearly the orc brute is a summons for melee combat. That isn't the issue here, but lets stick with facts. The orc brute is maybe slightly easier to kill than a hiryu, a
four slot pet. They are both vulnerable to slayers, they both have similar hit point ranges, a fully trained hiryu will have slightly higher weapon skills and better fire and phys resists, but it's lowest resist, cold, will be lower than the orc brute's lowest resist, which means it is more vulnerable to hail storm and consecrate weapon.
And the issue here isn't really about how easy or hard the orc brute is to kill, or how much damage it does, or how often it hits.
The issue here is about how effective it is in comparison with other pets and summons, and especially other one slot pets and summons. Any pet or summons can be easily killed by someone who knows what they are doing. But the
fact is, and you can check the numbers, I've posted them in this thread, that the orc brute is easily as effective in combat as any other three or four slot pet, and because of it's special abilities in some ways is more effective than any other three or four slot summons.
And if you want a real laugh, start comparing the orc brute to any other one slot pet or summons. There simply is no comparison, and there is absolutely no way an orc brute should take only one control slot. Absolutely no way. And in my opinion it should also be attackable in the same way that any other pet or summons is.
The next strongest one slot pet or summons that I can think of is
the frenzied ostard. Go look at it's numbers, then go compare them with those of
the orc brute. If you can't see what I am saying, you are either trolling, trying to protect an unfair advantage for yourself, or are simply stupid.
The reason why I see this so clearly, when so many others don't, is because I play an advanced tamer. I don't just pull out a greater dragon or a dread warhorse, say "all kill", target, and stand back and do my thing. I understand the strengths and weaknesses of pets, in a way that few others in the game do, and when I play a tamer, I work with my pets. There are lots and lots of characters with taming in UO, but there are actually very few who play a truly advanced tamer, and even fewer of those post on Stratics, and even fewer of those are heavily into pvp.
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