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Originally Posted by Lime
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Alot of iksar hate on forums but Iksar is definitely a top race contender.
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Everyone likes to jump on the Ogre/troll bandwagon here, and they make excellent shamans but being fat is a major drawback. Even if you illusion to be smaller (which is about the only way you can bearably play a large race in pvp) you have to deal with the emulator illusion bug, which makes your illusion huge, aka Giant AoN Skeleton, Giant Dark Elf to others.
Case in point, screencap taken from Lite's 4v4 video. Large race Warrior, with dark elf illusion. As you can see he is super giant and this is not something you want on a support character that has to kite and juke people to get casts off.
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Also AoN has some drawbacks being that it is/was prohibitively expensive, it removes large race bonuses like slam and frontal stun from working (currently), and in zones like SolB, zoning in and AoNing immediately can give away your surprise attack to others with a "Enemy Red begins to cast a spell." Along with a possible negative faction for being skeleton which may make it unusable in some zones currently or in the future.
Iksar/troll also gets +80 hp/minute more than ogre standing/running/plugging, which is great when zone hopping and kiting melee trains especially in situations where you can't get away to cast torpor.
Ogre can get crucial casts off slightly better in some situations, but iksar/troll will be getting slightly more hp or mana per second from regen to get more spells off or turtle longer.
My advice is play the race that you like playing, and don't worry about the min/max peanut gallery, because it matters alot less than player skill. |
Lime knows his shit, basically every other day i think about rerolling iksar... i mean shit you could get into the high 100s for regen with the regen potions on top of iksar regen, and fungi (obviously trolls can too).
Slam is the dumbest fucking thing on this server specially with the AC changes ( which iksars benefit from greatly). The only way you will land slam effectively is if you hit them in the back.
Also, iksars look dope as fuck and with velious coming they will get some beast planar gear AND will be able to wear plate. So all in all you are losing an extremely overrated bash, and frontal immunity..
THE ONLY REASON im staying barbarian is because i am the last of my kind from classic (no ames, burt, cholk, mendan, ghost)....plus i got dat server first epic in my hands and i get to be a FUCKING POLAR BEAR in velious
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