Arrhythmia wrote:Siegurt wrote:Arrhythmia wrote:[quote="Siegurt"]I guess the question is, is 'recommended' intended to be "the best or one of the best" or is it intended to be "pretty decent, or at least good enough"
For comparison, a TrFi starting with a flail has an avgeffdmg of 2.0 against a hobgoblin and an HOFi starting with a flail has an avgeffdmg of 1.8
The former.
Why do you believe that to be the case? I mean my impression of 'recommended' has been to give novice players some sort of indication of "this isn't going to totally suck", which a troll using a flail doesn't (it's not as good as a troll using claws, but it's better than most non-trolls with a flail start)
Did you miss when sandman posted that a troll using UC was
twice as good as a troll with a flail? Compared to UC, yeah, M&F totally does suck.[/quote]
Trolls with a flail is certainly not as good as claws, by a large margin, but trolls with a flail do as much or more damage than an orc with a flail, does that mean we should also not recommend orcs?
It isn't that i don't see a disparity between the two, but if a new player was to say "i really want to play a troll with a mace start, do you think that would work ok?" I would say "not the best choice, but it would probably be fine" not "omg that is going to be a horrible pain in the ass"