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Originally posted by SixOfSpades:
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Originally posted by Nerull:
Oh, and the exceptions to the above are the Weimer classes (overbalanced shapeshifter and anti-paladin). They are beyond gouda.
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To give him his due, though, the Generic Archer is almost 100% fair--the only part that's a little unbalanced is that a Fighter Archer gains levels faster than a Ranger Archer, which means it always has a better THAC0, Called Shot, etc., and also gets I think an additional 6 HLAs.
The only way a Generic Archer can get truly cheesy is by Dualing to Mage. [/QUOTE]especially since, due to my experiments giving poison weapon to non assassins, i suspect that called shot, like poison weapon is an ability you get the higher benefits even if you are dualed to mage, and no longer progressing in the archer class...the ability i think works like this...if you are a certain level, like i think level 15 or so you get to drain strength, so even if you dualed at level 9, when your mage class reaches level 15, your called shot will drain strength...
now combine called shot at higher level with...TIMESTOP!!!
the cheese!!! not only is every attack automatically a hit under timestop, you can easily attribute drain dragons...
now then archer mages are powerful enough, what about archer thieves???
once you progress high enough, you can set up ambushes like no one's buisness...
a timetrap set up, then go to mr dragon, improve haste yourself, then sting him, so he follows you to the timetrap, gets frozen and quickly attribute drained to death..no fuss, no mess...
the only archer dual that isn't cheesy is archer cleric...hahahhahahah!!!