Animists

Cryn · Post by **Cryn** » Sat May 27, 2006 6:53 pm

Been good thanks, Gen. Just got back from a week in Spain, so had some sunshine. Dunno about returning. Voice comms is still a bugbear for me and it seems a must for DAoC RvR now.

Then again, who knows? Nothing else out there is very interesting at the mo.

[EDIT]Sod it, can't find anything else to do, so I'll reactivate and see how it goes. Maybe I can start a stealth char or something to get around the voice thing.

Luz · Post by **Luz** » Mon May 29, 2006 7:04 am

how you can be so negative on the voicecom still confuse me
theres not a single negative thing about it seeing the majority of people use it.

Before I tried it, and even when I tried it first few times, it was uncomfortable (sp??).. but now after like 10 times its ok.

I can allmost make out what your weird Uk people say most of the time also!

Cryn · Post by **Cryn** » Mon May 29, 2006 8:43 am

I'm negative cos I don't like it. I understand that a lot of people do, but then alot of people like reality TV shows

I think it it kills the atmosphere of the game. Noone is luri, noone is firbie.

Also, it has made combat too quick so that everything happens suddenly and moves too fast. I used to enjoy the old frantic INC spamming and bit of confusion at the start of combat. It also made room for people who kept their heads and remembered to type info to be better than people who didn't.

Belisar · Post by **Belisar** » Mon May 29, 2006 9:03 am

Another downside.... you sometimes have to listen to Luz

Sharkith · Post by **Sharkith** » Mon May 29, 2006 9:39 am

Belisar wrote:Another downside.... you sometimes have to listen to Luz

or Drach telling you your a noob

Jarahl · Post by **Jarahl** » Mon May 29, 2006 9:44 am

On topic, Animists are really enoying to face. Especially if they popped RR5, really hard to spot sometimes and those bombers, ouch. I'd deffonately play an Animist if I had one kitted etc

Ebenezer/sol · Post by **Ebenezer/sol** » Mon May 29, 2006 10:04 am

yeh horlely have been actively playing his in ggs and other groups a several years. Sure he is around crau bridge a lot now, bu he enjoys a good roaming group alot:) I killed a fg together with him recently, and when he is alert anything can happend tbh:P He plays it very cleverly at times and must be very anoying to face. He ran first 3 years or so without bb or template:P But since he templated his ani he is even worse...

Cryn · Post by **Cryn** » Tue May 30, 2006 6:39 am

Jarahl wrote:On topic, Animists are really enoying to face. Especially if they popped RR5, really hard to spot sometimes and those bombers, ouch. I'd deffonately play an Animist if I had one kitted etc

Yes, you'd play it for a few days until you realised that being annoying doesn't mean being effective

In roaming, there's no worse spell-casting class than an animist. RR and gear being equal, you are better off with any of the others. We got almost no CC and our pets are almost completely irrelevant to a roaming fight. That leaves us wisps and lifetap. Both are good but flawed. Travel time and wasted power of wisps reduce their impact on a fight compared to straight nukes, and our lifetap is a level 46 baseline spell.

Maybe I'd have been better posting here "don't get me started"

Sharkith · Post by **Sharkith** » Tue May 30, 2006 7:54 am

actually Cryn I disagree the damage and aoe effect on those wisps is pretty effective and very hard to heal against. Also tanglers do cause interrupt mayhem. All in all I have had some good runs out with various animists in a roaming guild group and I would certainly not frown at one that is played right.

Cromcruaich · Post by **Cromcruaich** » Tue May 30, 2006 8:49 am

Cryn wrote:I'm negative cos I don't like it. I understand that a lot of people do, but then alot of people like reality TV shows

I think it it kills the atmosphere of the game. Noone is luri, noone is firbie.

Also, it has made combat too quick so that everything happens suddenly and moves too fast. I used to enjoy the old frantic INC spamming and bit of confusion at the start of combat. It also made room for people who kept their heads and remembered to type info to be better than people who didn't.

Can see how it kills one atmosphere - the roleplaying aspect of DAOC. However it creates a whole seperate one, it often gives a group a cameraderie that you could never have on voice. I personally much prefer to get to hear/talk and make friends with the real person behind the character than the character itself, this ofcourse isn't for everyone.

It does allow for much tighter play, it to some extent takes away the clunkiness of the interface and allows you to concetrate more on actually playing the game.

I can however sympathise with your point of few.

I'd certainly recommend giving it a go while grouped with people youve played with before.