Honestly Solo'ers need something...

I’m pretty much against people trying to 1v1 in highly trafficked areas, although I won’t add on a /bow duel, nor will I add on enemy players fighting in said areas unless a realm mate asks for help. In a group I’d add on any fight. I’d encourage everyone else to do the same, but this is just how I play when I play Daoc. It’s a lot more fun for me when fights are chaotic, than fighting knights that bow a lot.

Zerks get around 8%~15% chance to evade depending on the weapons of their opponents, and have no way of increasing evade even though that’s the only real stun they get. Spec in parry for defense and that gets cut in half by almost every vis melee out there because tanks don’t even hit with their 1h here. Can see why I don’t see savages soloing cuz their h2h is considered as a 1h weapon and they bring themselves closer to death every 15 seconds. It’s like we’re being told that IP is necessary and you’d have to RA dump to win solo unless you’re lucky. I’m really hoping to see things get better after I gain more RRs.
As a low RR zerk I do find it harder to solo here, and I can imagine other classes have a hard time as well, due the free rps you get every 30 mins after entering into combat with an enemy player, and above all, the love given to assassins on this server.

Correct me if I am wrong here:
Because poisons get added before the initial hit if a Perf or BS is perfectly preformed, getting hit with a level 47 con debuff is a guaranteed 400 dmg hit + the Perf or BS dmg. This is, of course, assuming these stealth openers don’t miss, the poison doesn’t get resisted, and the assassin puts the WS/con debuff on his main hand. (If these changes were added prior to the nerf in speccing high CS, it isn’t hard for me to imagine why it was nerfed)

Stealthers here don’t have to spec in MoS here, and so they have at least 10 points extra to spend in other RAs. (A sort of debuff to visibles considering they only get long wind for free. I don’t even know how much it is in terms of RSP, but I only ever needed LW1-2 if playing on another server.)

And ofc with the weapon swap macros it’s easier to add extra dmg each swing by reapplying dots.

+access to ToA weapon spd debuff poison


Now, having said all this, I’ve not played an assassin on this server yet, so I can’t really say they are easy-mode. They will most likely die 1v1 to shield classes (as they should), but unlike any other server fighting against 2 of these things with IP down will likely be a quick death sentence to any kind of melee. I don’t even want to imagine soloing on a caster here.

It’s kinda cool that sins are full-on Assassin’s Creed mode here, but giving this much power to the stealth class (that can pretty much chose when and who to fight, has escape mechanisms + can recover while stealthed) would kill off the solo and smallman action when said stealthers actually group up. Even more so for Albion because minstrels can stealth, CC, heal the group, SOS, and access to MoS? <Wth they can’t even be targeted first for bad stealth? + access to root with no immunity from scouts.

Yes not being able to vanish unless at least 2 enemies are around could be an improvement, but I much prefer the times when poisons applied after the stealth opener, Perf could hit harder, and meeting a stealth grp didn’t mean you’d have to just stay away from solo pvp for a while (since the other docks will likely be camped by that point), or run around naked giving free rps and getting a 700 rp tick in return.
I can see free MoS was a nice change although they don’t get the full bonus.

Just my twenty cents and time probably wasted rambling😂

Also: kudos to the devs for keeping the pop higher than live on a very old mmorpg. Loved the QoL changes. The changes to pvp not so much, but still playable even if solo.