Traps

Metavirulent · Post by **Metavirulent** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:30 am

Has anyone found good use for traps?
My craft trap skill is limited (10) so I can only talk about average traps but they are mostly useless at best. Might as well throw the ingredients directly at the opponent instead of going thru the hassle and craft the trap, carefully set the trap, lure something into the trap, etc.

Are there any plans on making them more useful. I mean using traps is harder than just chopping away at something as you have to set them before the fight begins and lure stuff into it (the more the merrier) which is often hard as sometimes a single creature fires it and eats all the meager damage.

With all the hassle, I cannot really be convinced by the really meager damage they do. Ontop of that, I heard that you don't get xp if they do the final blow. Not that that is very likely with the damage they do right now.

Anybody putting them to some use?

Seaward · Post by **Seaward** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 6:24 am

I have a char can do all types of deadly traps except deadly gas trap.But in fact,even deadly traps are useless.......I never do more than 20 damage with traps. Tangle traps and sonic traps can slow and stun enemies,but i dont know the DC of them.I dont think it would be high for strong gas trap's DC is only 20......useless

Terminal Insanity · Post by **Terminal Insanity** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:30 pm

traps are horrible!
and extremly usefull at lower levels... xfer trap making equip to your new rogues for a easier leveling experience

Post by **cely** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:00 pm

Terminal Insanity wrote:xfer trap making equip to your new rogues for a easier leveling experience

What?! You wouldn't be encouraging metagaming would you? I thought you said metagaming was bad...
http://www.nsrealm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=2221

lord_modred · Post by **lord_modred** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 4:02 pm

frost traps can freeze people, counts as being held or paralyzed... pain in the [censored] when you hit one...

Terminal Insanity · Post by **Terminal Insanity** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:01 pm

cely wrote:
Terminal Insanity wrote:xfer trap making equip to your new rogues for a easier leveling experience
What?! You wouldn't be encouraging metagaming would you? I thought you said metagaming was bad...
http://www.nsrealm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=2221

to a point its fine...

Throst54 · Post by **Throst54** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:38 am

bah.... if you know what your doing you can kill a lvl 40 w/ traps alone....

traps are awesome...

learn to use them...

Metavirulent · Post by **Metavirulent** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:28 am

Care to elaborate a little bit on that Throst54?
I don't think that there is some undiscovered aspect to traps other than that they do marginal damage only but I'd be more than happy to be proven wrong.

lord_modred · Post by **lord_modred** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:32 pm

*waits for throst to recount the time he killed a lvl 40 barbarian with only traps*