Post by grävling on Nov 29, 2012 23:07:10 GMT -5
So I have made a selection of characters and started them 'the hard way ' -- no racing to Texas Roadhouse and the Bar of Birds to get one glorious day of high paying jobs as day 1, before the game catches up with you.
The new monsters are easier to kill. But they are still very good at killing you.
I wonder, perhaps, if 'easier to kill' is not the solution we want to the problem. My dead knights demonstrated the problem that a clubber or a dog that can whack you will kill you.
My Knights are all wearing Combat Coats early -- B:6 D:3 Dodge:-1 for Y975. Soft and not nano-ready, of course. I think these are the most effective armours you can buy for under 1K. But you still must not get bit or whacked with a club ...
The single best thing I have found for new char longevity is to get them a taser glove (if they are capable of it) and the Strumwhelger M2 if they are not. Later they want to walk about with a Mk251 Bounty, but at the early stages, AP:4 is too steep and the M2's AP:3 is what you need. Better weapons are a higher priority than armour.
Thus, if the point of the exercise is to make the game easier for newcomers, who complain that it is too hard, I fear that 'weaker enemies' can only do so much. Perhaps if their sticks only did a maximum damage of 1?
Just thinking out loud here. But I have lots of dead knights that indicate that getting whacked with a stick is as bad an idea with the weaker enemies as with the stronger ones. Instead of enemies that are easier to kill, it may be that enemies who are rotten at killing is more of what we need.
The new monsters are easier to kill. But they are still very good at killing you.
I wonder, perhaps, if 'easier to kill' is not the solution we want to the problem. My dead knights demonstrated the problem that a clubber or a dog that can whack you will kill you.
My Knights are all wearing Combat Coats early -- B:6 D:3 Dodge:-1 for Y975. Soft and not nano-ready, of course. I think these are the most effective armours you can buy for under 1K. But you still must not get bit or whacked with a club ...
The single best thing I have found for new char longevity is to get them a taser glove (if they are capable of it) and the Strumwhelger M2 if they are not. Later they want to walk about with a Mk251 Bounty, but at the early stages, AP:4 is too steep and the M2's AP:3 is what you need. Better weapons are a higher priority than armour.
Thus, if the point of the exercise is to make the game easier for newcomers, who complain that it is too hard, I fear that 'weaker enemies' can only do so much. Perhaps if their sticks only did a maximum damage of 1?
Just thinking out loud here. But I have lots of dead knights that indicate that getting whacked with a stick is as bad an idea with the weaker enemies as with the stronger ones. Instead of enemies that are easier to kill, it may be that enemies who are rotten at killing is more of what we need.
