Snake Sneak
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Club stabbing (was: Elyvilon Reform)
RIP in peace clubstabbing
we hardly new ye
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Sar wrote:Let's be honest here: do you think you would ever notice clubstabbing exists if you didn't read about it somewhere?
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and into wrote:I don't see how club-stabbing offered much of a play style (unorthodox or otherwise).
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mechanicalmaniac wrote:"I can hit this sleeping hill giant with a dagger and maybe instakill it or maybe wake it up and have it instakill me with its giant spiked club, or I can hit it with a club to stun it and buy some time." There are uses for it. Without it, and without being throwable or snake-able, clubs are nigh useless.
When faced with an not-very-interesting feature, the Dev Team tends to say "Let's excise this tumor," rather than "Let's improve this and make more interesting."
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mechanicalmaniac wrote:"I can hit this sleeping hill giant with a dagger and maybe instakill it or maybe wake it up and have it instakill me with its giant spiked club, or I can hit it with a club to stun it and buy some time."
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Lasty wrote:Tumors are generally better excised than decorated and made more interesting.
Sar wrote:Seems a bit more reasonable to me than hoping that confusion thing procs (remember, it doesn't last as long as actual confusion) but what do I know
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mechanicalmaniac wrote:Clubstabbing could, I think, be made into a fully-fleshed-out feature, appendage, not a tumor.
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mechanicalmaniac wrote:"I can hit this sleeping hill giant with a dagger and maybe instakill it or maybe wake it up and have it instakill me with its giant spiked club, or I can hit it with a club to stun it and buy some time." There are uses for it. Without it, and without being throwable or snake-able, clubs are nigh useless.
When faced with an not-very-interesting feature, the Dev Team tends to say "Let's excise this tumor," rather than "Let's improve this and make more interesting."
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