On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Kimes, Dean W. wrote:

> Interesting, I saw it go for 50pp last nite and thought that prety
> reasonable. I personally couldn't kill Dvinn without getting extremely
> lucky in a big group. Why would you want a barbed whip at 150pp if you
> could get a dirk at even 50pp unless you just didn't use piercing weapons?

The way I see it, combine weapons are for the L10-20 range,
well-balanced for the L20-30 range. Dvinn is easily killed by
a coordinated group in the high teens/low 20s. My small
group, L21 rogue, 20 cleric, 20 bard almost managed it with
just the three of us (the AI was smart enough to attack the
cleric every time she tried to heal us - kudos to the dev team
for that). When I was there a couple days before with a full
group of L18-21, we killed him and nobody dropped below 3
bubbles.

He yields a weapon that easily outclasses a well-balanced
weapon much less combines (which are in the 50pp range), and
he yields it every 15-20 minutes. It is out of whack with the
difficulty of obtaining any other similar weapon.

--
John H. Kim
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