wargrimnir wrote:Sometimes we just leave threads open to let you guys keep busy. This "issue" was responded to a while ago, in another thread, far far away.
I'm not quite sure the level of unbridled panic (evidenced by >160 posts) is really matching the actual danger level of encountering a full conq-equipped melee shadow warrior. Stacking more initiative tends to counter a bunch of other crit-based classes, not like it's a bad thing to practice by any means. The off chance someone decides to bugger around with a conq-geared ASW for more than the 20 minutes of novelty it provides, at least you'll be well defended.
We will continue to monitor the lakes for a wave of ASW's dominating all in sight. My personal expeditions thus far have been disappointing.
Aah the good old 'if only you were wise enough to understand' argument....
The issue is not just full Conq geared SWs double debuffing people by themselves, the trouble is there's one ini reducing tactic that stacks with all the other chars ini reducing abilities 'of which there are many'.
Maybe addressing the issue instead of snark would result in fewer 160+ post threads about what a lot of people clearly see as a valid concern.
To put it simply:
1) Debuffing no other stat has as big an effect on damage a character receives as debuffing ini. The standard toughness /armour debuffs have nowhere near as big an impact.
2) Stacking ini gives extremely poor returns. This problem is made even worse when trying to stack enough ini to cover a double debuff. Going from ~220 ini to ~300 ini has a negligable effect on your chance to be crit.
3) Stacking ini can only be achieved through talis, which means not using the armour/toughness /wounds talis normally used to give you an acceptable level of defense.
4) Only one side faces this issue. One side can run all the usual defensive options, the other side is being told scrap all your usual defensive choices in order to combat one over performing tactic.
