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This is what urkes me...

MaeEyeMaeEye Member UncommonPosts: 1,107
in Ultima Online
So my brother and I both have been playing UO since 1999.  Of course many of times we quit then came back (x4).  We are here again, waiting for the graphic expansion just to see what it's like. 



We were dueling a couple nights ago.  My brother is a Paladin and I'm a mage.  We dueled 9 times.  2 out of that 9, he won...hitting me twice with his axe killing me.  The other 7 times, I murdered him with an Explosion and Flamestrike attack.  Killing him in 2 hits.  I just play smarter I guess.  Well, then my brother goes out and finds a set of armor that gives him this.







Ok...what the fuck?  Now I hit him with Explosion and Flamestrick and I only do a total of 35 damage, compared to my 1xx damage combo.  I'm a GM mage.  I understand how he resists, but what makes me mad is how I am a dominator one day, then the next day I'm basically SHIT compared to what I used to be.  Now he dominates me.  This just pisses me off.  UO used to be TOTALLY about skills.  If you were good, you were good.  Now, all you have to do to be good is get some money and buy a million dollar set of armor.  Plus, from the looks of it, I guess mages can also become tanks.  This is why uo just isn't uo anymore.  I miss the days where if you raises in magic resist, then you had decent resist against mages.  Now, resist only covers a small proportion of useless spells, while armor does the rest. 



After I saw this set of armor that he had and how much it bascially nerfed my ass, I just logged off and got on WoW.  This is not the UO I used to love....this is the reason why PvP in UO now sucks and this is why UO does not stick out from the rest of the games.  The only thing UO has above other games is the customization of skills and having houses.  Other than that, UO brought itself down to the basic cut of every other MMo out on the market.  I want my Vanquishing weapons back! 
/played-mmorpgs

Total time played: 9125 Days, 21 Hours, 29 Minutes, 27 Seconds
Time played this level: 39 Days, 1 Hour, 24 Minutes, 5 Seconds

Comments

  • lyonman24lyonman24 Member Posts: 855

    too bad your not a nox mage. they rock in pvp even with suites like that get deadly posion to hit and just hide mmmmm mmmmm good

  • richard22182richard22182 Member Posts: 31
      meh they always switch evrything but anyway the armor and stuff isnt too bad its the ebaying i think. plus i like dexxers the most : P ( my mains always been a dexxer for the last 4-5 years, even when nerfed) dexxers are the hardest to be bad in uo which is y ur bro is able to beat a low level mage like urself with a low level dex just cuzz he got more resistant armor armor honestly means almost nothin if u do a good combo tho or lower his resists. Its not skill if u just come up with a bad tactic and repeat it. all goodmages come up with specific combos designed for their chars in a fight basically . casters with a wep skill are most overpowered in game once u guys get better unless he gets very skilled  at using a dexxer pvp, mages ussly end up beating dexxers but there the most annoying and hard to kill with in pvp which is y i like them it gives ya a challenge havin people run off heal then use cheap ass spells and disarm : P( THEY NEED TO GIVE DEXXERS ATLEAST1 LONG -MID RANGE ATTACK : ( ). its y i have one of teh few straight dexxers with just healin bushi etc designed for pvp. most of the real ones are archers or mages or some gimp dp 4/6 chiv thing thats basically a mage even if its a dexxer by name . thnx for listnen to my rant : P

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  • PhoenixFhirePhoenixFhire Member Posts: 33

    UO's switch to item-based play from skill-based play was probably the main reason for my FINAL departure from UO (proud to say I've been UO-free for over two years!)

    I, too, was a GM mage.  Unfortunately, they severely nerfed mages.  What once took a couple of electricity noodles to kill started to remain alive even once my mana gone...Lame =P

    Whole game has gone down the hill IMO.  Thank goodness I got out early.

     

  • richard22182richard22182 Member Posts: 31
    wtf? about 2 years ago they kpt switchin it back and forth between mages and archers being severely overpowered. before that dexxers were overpowered, now there the nerfed ones, it always goes in a circle like that, the problem ios every time they try to balance the pvp they mess up and make one class too weak because it was too strong and make another class stronger because it was too weak. : / the item based thing definitely changed it a helluva lot, but asides from ebayers, it made it so the players that invested more time did better... altho it was allotta fun runnin to grab some new armor runnin back and continue to pvp...  although it was fun it wasnt very fair that a noob cud get a group of 5 noobs w/o armor go and kill a vet player or 2. and currently mages are still the strongest class in pvp plus gm mage means u were a noob for pvp a straight gm mage wud have a tuff time killing a skilled player who put hundreds of hours into their char : P

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