[Scott Hebert]

Originally posted by johan osterman:
She was altered to be be on par with the lich, a comparable immortal.

Well, give me a few hours and I'll have this revised to compare her to a Lich, which IMO she'll stack up better against, but I think I'd rather have the Lich. Let me do the math, though.

It might smack of silver bullet or whatever. Fact of the matter is Kristoffer had thought it unthematic for AE and SG for a while and decided to restrict it, and JK agreed so it was implemented.

I don't have a problem with the reasons, unlike some others. I just have a question regarding the narrowness of the reasons. If you argue that the VQ is unthematic for AE and SG (which unfortunately hurts BE, but that's minor, since so few people seem to play BE), I feel that similar questions of 'theme' should be applied to others. Why does Pangaea, the nation of life, have access to Undead pretenders at all? And so forth. Personally, I'm all for having much more Unique pretenders, on a nation-by-nation basis.

And, if I may, I want to explain the 'silver bullet' term. To me, it means that a change was done to fix too narrow of a problem. The VQ changes, _in general_, were good and IMO necessary. It's just the 'only removed from Ermor' thing I have issues with.

There is an annoying tendency amongst some posters to assume that illwinter is blown about like helpless leaves by the winds of whine.

Er, I don't think anything of the sort. Norfleet may, but he sounds more like sour grapes over losing his VQ strategy than anything else. I hope I'm not getting lumped in with Norfleet in general attitude towards the patch...

I also wish to categorically deny that illwinter is wire tapping Norfleets phone.

Er, okay, but I didn't mean to imply anything of the sort... sorry if I offended anyone.

Scott