Please post up details of your Sampire template and playstyle with specifics on what is broken. It seems rather clear you do not play the template.
The game does require alot more than one person to be successful. Sampires can't "solo everything" without any other help.
SIMPLY NOT TRUE.
Simply not a true statement.
No - it hasn't. Over the last year with the pandemic, we have seen more growth in the community than in the 7 or 8 years that preceded it. Plenty of big guilds that do group events and offer a significant sense of community.
Further - not everyone should be forced into a play style where every single aspect of content should require a group to complete. If you want that style of content, consider creating an Elder Scrolls Online account.
You mean before you just decided to hate on every aspect of the game here on Stratics?
UWF on ATL does a hunt every single night except for Tuesdays. On Sundays, the hunt leader does an old school dungeon hunt. It averages anywhere from 8 to 20 attendees depending on the week. And that's just one example. The content is there if you know where to look for it.
And if the content is too easy for you - that's a content problem - not a template problem.
Again - has nothing to do with Sampires. Not sure how Nerfing sampires changes this.
So this isn't about Sampires. This is about certain people getting more EM drops than others.
Also - not too many Sampires at EM events... mostly Tamers, Throwers and Mystics... perhaps they deserve some nerfs?
Again, not sure how this relates to Sampires.
That's about the only actual game change example you've given. I don't agree with it, but that's just my opinion.
However, if you create a 'penalty' as you suggest, you'll just see more Sampire templates replace Chivalry with Anatomy. For traveling, they would use Runebooks with Recall charges. Your suggested nerf would have an easy way to get around it.
And worse yet - this would cause even LESS variation in skill setups and templates. Atleast now there is some variability in the skill setup and overall theory of the build, but this suggestion would make Sampire templates even more vanilla.
I see more Tamers acting Solo to do a majority of game content than ever before. The Taming Revamp and masteries gave Tamers a HUGE BOOST. Sampires did not receive anything close to the boost Tamers received with these changes.
The power creep in this game is gear related. This is something your precious Tamers benefit from as well.
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Beyond the Chiv/Necro comment, you've provided no real data or otherwise usable examples of why Sampires should be nerfed and what in particular is too over powered. Mostly a ramble about community spirit, which as clearly documented on these forums for many years appears to be much more of a personal problem than an actual UO Community problem.
I agree with pretty much everything you said and couldn't have given a better reply to a player that has obviously been disgruntled and resentful for the past few years. She typically doesn't give actual facts as evidence and generally falls back on the lack of community; but comes off as the cranky old curmudgeon that people wouldn't want to be around anyway.... I think that the community is there if you want it (many guilds do group hunts).
