[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
If it's not powerful Norfleet, then why do you always use the Vampire Queen

Simple: It's the chassis that best suits the strategy I prefer to play. If you want something that you can tweak into one of the best SCs possible, there's really only a few options: Vampire Queen, Allfather, Ghost King, anything with enough innate abilities to build on top of. I haven't ALWAYS used the VQ, only when the nation can spare the points for it. If I wanted to play a bless strategy, the VQ would definitely not be my first choice. It's entirely a stylistic preference: Change it, and I'll still pick the best basic chassis for tweaking into an SC and run with it: I think we can all agree that SOMETHING has to be the best at something, and for tweaking for an SC, few other options can match the VQ.

and always build as many clams as possible?

What else do you do with water gems? Summon Sea Trolls? Don't make me laugh. The underlying problem is that there are very few worthwhile water rituals, and of those there are, most are useful only under very specific conditions which occur infrequently. The fact of the matter is that there is very little you can do with water gems, and clams are a very attractive investment for a long-run thinker like myself: I plan strategies for the long term. Other people prefer to ignore the future and focus on the present. Both are valid approaches.

I wasn't aware that Blizzard games were ruined in any way shape or form by the rebalancing that happens. In fact, they are made better.

That's your opinion. I, for one, do not think that change just for the sake of change is a good thing. Often times I see Blizzard go about nerfing things that weren't in any way unbalanced or even popularly USED because they were weak....and yet they were nerfed anyway. It's clear that they like to mess with things sometimes just because it's amusing to screw with people's heads.

[ April 16, 2004, 02:09: Message edited by: Norfleet ]