Blindness changes

[burrahobbit]

WHY!!!!

If your blind you should lose all your dex ac dodge etc. Your making it so a high ac char can walk through any non mage at will. This doesnt make any sense to me at all.

I like mages too but this is getting a little out of hand. I might be off but it appears to me that this is a nerf on WoF, a clerics last hope at a win. WoF was already nerfed when you lowered the duration of the blindness. Most of the time you get countered anyway, NC cant counter anything beyond lvl 6 spells. Might as well delete the faction. Your making it next to impossible to pvp in NC.

Blind fight was fine the way it was, you got to reroll on a conceal miss, blindness doesnt need any changes.

[cRaZy8or5e]

I don't agree that it was a nerf on NC only.

However I do question the need to change a very pivotal element in pvp. Was it because people were scared away from playing drow and svirfneblin? I understand the fear, my CoT is drow and at lvl 40 was once killed by a lvl 16 mob cuz of a flamestrike. Talk about humiliating.

Or is it that we all are still in love with dex based toons with uber AC? I'm no one to talk, all my melee toons have been dex based or at least partially dex based, save for my first toon on the server, Ajax Rix. I thought we were trying to make it less feasible to use dex based toons and encourage more strength based ones. One of the only sure ways to take down a high AC toon like a pure bard was to blind them, if you don't have mages to get em with spells.

Really sucks for me, my melee cleric Painfinder SyN was built around WoF lol. Only has 60 AB self buffed. Not the greatest for a melee cleric. I guess I still got a decent touch attack.

Seriously, I really would like to know the explanation for why the staff felt this dynamic was one that needed to be changed. Thanks for your consideration.

[Tal]

I agree with with those guys. Not a fan of the change. The ac dexers can get is already ridiculous. This just pretty much makes then even harder to kill.

[burrahobbit]

I don't agree that it was a nerf on NC only.

Of course its not a nerf on NC only, but NC has limited options when dealing with high ac chars. Now its even worse. I tend to post from an NC'rs point of view, this acutally made most of my MA chars tougher.

[Alkapwn]

Termendous bonus for the blinded races, Pretty much made WoF useless which is one of the most useful pvp cleric spells. So it goes.. Dex mania here we come!!!

[LinuxPup]

The short reason is blindness is hideously broken in NWN... and this makes blindness function a lot more like it should.

... this doesn't affect NC anymore than the other factions.

We're working on balancing issues with dexers going out of control with AC... and maybe a new twist on WoF. Don't panic.

[Amoenotep]

p.s. we hate you and want your toons to suck

[Alkapwn]

T... and maybe a new twist on WoF. Don't panic.

*snuggles back up with his clerics*

[burrahobbit]

... this doesn't affect NC anymore than the other factions.

Sure it does, its NC's easiest way to deal with high ac chars, other factions spam igms.........

I guess you can fix the problem by giving NC sorc's, problem solved.

[Amoenotep]

whats really funny is that for years there have been complaints about how broken blindness is and how it needs to be reworked....when you do it all of a sudden we hate NC.


sometimes i wish you guys would make up your minds

[Alkapwn]

I'm glad we have people to make up our minds for us

[burrahobbit]

Who complained about blindness, thats new to me........

You should know by now that i would complain no matter what you do. If you changed the color of the grass in avendale I would argue that it somehow screwed us in NC, and i would be right......

[Amoenotep]

what would you know from right..your just there to scoop poo

[burrahobbit]

correct

[mgrjebbo]

Yeah cant say i ever heard or saw a complaint about blindness other than one regarding the change to drow.

Blind fight was already a must have feat for melee builds.

Mentions his idea about removing damage resist on armor with base armor of less than 4 again.....