Is the REAL problem with VQs...Norfleet?

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Chris Byler:
The VQ (and Vampire Lord, and Sanguine Count) would also be affected by armor encumbrance, which discourages vampires from fighting in heavy armor (really inappropriate to *any* vampire literature or movies I've ever seen).

Neither these two units, nor normal vampires, are particularly overpowered, so there's no real reason that they need to be changed at all.

[Norfleet]

http://www.kludgemush.com/~norfleet/dom2/ctis.trn

There's your turn of a fully equipped VQ being shot down by a group of 4 Sauromancers spamming drain life, guarded by a turn's worth of Reanimation from said Sauromancers. One of them dies, but this can hardly be called more than a token effort to kill one: The VQ is allowed to fully buff itself, and it still goes down.

Not so difficult, is it?

Originally posted by Chris Byler:
but it will make them no longer immune to mind bLasts, stun effects and a few other things

Uh, Chief? Vampires are NOT immune to mind bLasts and stun effects. Stunning them with lightning, if they aren't wearing immunity to it, is actually a very effective way to mow down a VQ. SquidbLasting works just fine, until they start wearing tons of +MR.

[ May 19, 2004, 18:40: Message edited by: Norfleet ]