I wish i did not have to be a mage...

Living proof is right here that you don't need to be a mage OR use potions. It all depends on what your priorities are when you play I suppose. For the record, I'm perfect happy with my choice.

 

I'd still like to see something like a tree with resistance innates that either don't stack with attunement resist or are somehow mutually exclusive. Then people could gain resist either by learning magic or without learning magic, but not both at once.

 

To the OP; like Shakespeare or some other guy with too much time on their hands said “To be or not to be”.
@Sara Dreygon said on an earlier post that us melee would be forced to be “Tank Mages” and it is correct. So take it from one who is used to having to adjust and adapt by getting 80 attunement to all magic schools and GM the spells that have utility for defense and damage. Maybe one day @Chris will go through with the magic resist tree he promised and then reneged on. For now he has the ear of some mages who don’t want us melee types to slice em up and can them like sardines. R/Boris El Pirata.

 

The game would have to shift to a class based game to get away from this or just give everyone a base level of resistance, based upon Adventure Level.

We're all Avatars in game, we aren't Paladins or Wizards or whatever else the NPCs are limited to being.

 

I'm with you. All depends on play style.

 

I don't want to pay taxes, but here we are! Embrace the game. Trust me when I say that grind is not so bad.

 

I heard recently that the resist from attunement is currently not working at all. Anyone have any experience with this, or data? I wish I could remember who said that.

 

All I know is, with 250+ death attunement, or 120 death attunement, when a high level elf mages at half life hit me with a crit death ray, it hits for 400+ damage either way, and people with 80 death attunement are getting the same result.

 

@Hornpipe Condescension is a poor substitute for meaningful discussion, don't you think ?

 

I just popped in to read the comments, but had to comment after reading this. You are one of my heroes. You truly are.

 

testing.

 

Sorry, had to see if I was able to reply on the forums, trying on another thread and it's refusing to post.

 

Ugh. I really enjoy this game, and I know there's only a small team behind it. But it really causes me to question my expenditures when very basic game mechanics are broken, and ignored month after month after month.

 

When people simply remain locked in their opinions despite all the reasons that can be argued, there is no discussion, and even less meaningful discussions. I don't need any substitute for things that, obviously, don't exist at all.

This subject has already been brought to those forums dozens of times and people continue to write the same nonsense again and again to justify the unjustifiable.

The fact is that we all want to welcome new players to finance this project and make it live, but there are always some few people who say that things are very good as they are without even a part of an argument just to silence the complaints (because they have, personaly, no problem with things as they are ; good for them !) even when, three months after the launch, the largest public voted : no, they are not good.

 

Probably a bug but that doesn't adress the things as they should be if those were working as intended, I think.

 

I was training up Fire magic skills (mostly because sorcery warding items do absolutely nothing) and when I got to Immolation, I said "why the hell am I not using this skill?" So, now I have GM Immolation.

 

This is pretty much what I thought.

 

Do you hit them for 400+ with death ray?

 

Not the mages, but the archers and warriors I can if I am at half health.