On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Ryan Honeyman wrote:

>
> I miss grouping for effectiveness and tactics. Nowadays,
> there's really no skill checking for my bard in his parties.
> Basically, nothing really goes wrong. You just kill kill kill.
> Jump on the exp train and steam off until 50. I don't ever
> question whether I can take X mob, or what song should I play.
> It's just the same button mashing over and over. If you see
> 3 LDCs, you just zone, no questions asked. Definitely not
> the harrier who was almost 10 levels higher than me, who
> after slaying gave me the warm feeling inside I used to get
> when an accomplishment was made. No, higher level life is
> either really easy (boring) -or- really hard (frustrating).

Yeah, that's a problem I see with the game too. Verant, in
their zeal to make things difficult at higher levels to slow
us down, has so narrowed the margin between easy and hard that
there's very little room in there for good tactics to make a
difference anymore. At lower levels, you could take on a
close fight and good tactics could make the difference between
barely winning, or realizing halfway through that you're going
to lose and running. At higher levels, the margin is so slim
that the luck of the die rolls can easily swamp out the effect
of good tactics, and you'll die before you can run. So you
resort to doing the easier fights, which don't require good
tactics and tend to be rather boring.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...