Crypt Cleanser
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Joined: Sunday, 3rd June 2012, 13:10
Give Formicids their giant clubs back
GSCs are not very good in the early game because of how slow they are. It takes training to make a GSC good, and Formicids at are a disadvantage to Ogres here; +0 aptitude vs +3.
So what do you get after you've trained all of that skill? Well, a big-ass hulk-damage beat stick is what you end up with, but all that damage comes with a nasty opportunity cost: the loss of your shield. +30 SH cannot be understated. The loss of your shield is a really, really, big weakness.
With GSCs you become a glass cannon. You get to dish out 1.1x more damage but take thrice as many hits. It's a weapon that's risky and totally not worth it if you're going for streaks.
Why are we removing choices from the player?
Executioner axes are the best weapons a Formicid can hope for. In fact, they're better than other weapons by a pretty large margin, and it's a no-brainer to pick axes whenever starting a game with Fo. The introduction of Riposte didn't help things at all. Triple swords used to be a fun and semi-viable choice for ants, but now they're absolutely terrible and worse than great maces. Remember great maces? Yeah, those things used to be very common and found all over the dungeon, but now they're rare.
To get back to my point: Axes are the best weapon for Fo by a large margin. That's boring. We should fix that.
thanks for the gym equipment
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