Strategic vs Tactical flight. Lava and deep water.
Posted: Monday, 14th November 2016, 20:49
Strategic flight: Some vaults have areas behind deep water or lava which you can reach only by flying. These areas typically have items that you want. If you don't have a temporary or permanent source of flight, you have to ctrl+F for one, go get it, and come back. If none has been generated yet, you have to remember to keep an eye out for one. If you are in a portal vault that needs flight, and have no flight source, you are out of luck, except that portal vaults sometimes include free potions of flight for just this reason.
In my opinion, strategic flight is uninteresting. A gear check to gain treasure is dumb. If you can kill the monsters on the level, you should get the items.
Tactical flight: You can use flight to gain an advantage in combat against monsters. Examples include:
Move over normally uncrossable terrain, where most monsters will be unable to follow you.
Fly over shallow water, where many monsters will be penalized in combat, but you won't be.
There is a spell that does less damage to flying players.
That's a short list, but at least it is interesting, and has potential.
I'll put my suggestions in the next post.
In my opinion, strategic flight is uninteresting. A gear check to gain treasure is dumb. If you can kill the monsters on the level, you should get the items.
Tactical flight: You can use flight to gain an advantage in combat against monsters. Examples include:
Move over normally uncrossable terrain, where most monsters will be unable to follow you.
Fly over shallow water, where many monsters will be penalized in combat, but you won't be.
There is a spell that does less damage to flying players.
That's a short list, but at least it is interesting, and has potential.
I'll put my suggestions in the next post.