My rogue sucks

[JustMe]

AS only went down a little. DS went down a whole shitload, critters fucking dodge my ambush, I cant even pick a frickin box anymore if I even want to try to hunt. Ambushing is so fucking random I can roll a 90 and not crit whatever I'm hunting, then roll a 6 and crit them. My RT went up to 12 before I was even 1/2 fried. Might as well wear leathers due to the fact that training in armor cost A TON.

Being a rogue is no longer fun. I can understand ambushing was overpowered, but is there a point in totally nerfing rogues and pushing them 100% to one path or another?

I'm am not happy. Not a single bit.

[Xcalibur]

Can someone answer (you) a question of mine?

are crits totaly random now, or it's just ambushing crits that are?

[JustMe]

all crits

[Xcalibur]

So just 2X in cm, 1x in ambush and aim from open.

If you hit it by more than 101, it seems intelligent to do, you save the hiding round time.

[JustMe]

I 2x CM and 2x Ambushed. But Im sure 1x will work just fine too.

[Xcalibur]

Ambush just push ds down
sweep and aim from open, back wounds cause the most damage. I was killing banshees (impossible to death crit) in 2 shots, must be feasable still

[Latrinsorm]

I don't know if crits are totally random, I heard Delmax on the offiboards saying they were +/- 1, and that guy knows everything. My own data correlates with that.

Then again, I wasn't ambushing, so maybe that's where I'm confused.

[Xcalibur]

-1? a rank 9 crit on the eye changed into a crit 8 is still a death one, so why people are whining?

[Latrinsorm]

However, now instead of determining your crit, these factors determine your MAXIMUM critical. Your minimum critical would be half of your maximum. A random roll between the maxinum and minimum determines the strength of your critical exactly.

^
from the simu thing. Thus achieving maximum ambush benefit can result in only a rank 5 wound, which is rarely fatal.

[Xcalibur]

rank 5 wounds is fatal with a piercing weapon on an eye.

Short sword and you?

[Latrinsorm]

Rarely. I said rarely.

[Xcalibur]

A good rogue knows when to turn a "rarely" to a "often"

[Weedmage Princess]

Hmm..my rogue does okay...she isn't what she was in 3, but she's 3x pick, 2.5-3x disarm, 2x dodge, 1x cm, 2x perception and 1x shields and I'm stopping at 45 ranks of armor...and she knows up to 404 so she has self cast lores.

You know that perception is a big factor in ambushing now, right? How often are you training in it?

[Edited on 11-25-2003 by Weedmage Princess]

[StrayRogue]

Originally posted by Xcalibur
Ambush just push ds down


Wrong.

[StrayRogue]

You are either hunting stupid things, trained wrong or just lacking. Rogues, like sorcerers used to be a very easy profession to play. Not anymore. However, I have found that after the conversion, my rogues out of all my characters, are the best off.

[Warriorbird]

It's + or - 4, guys. That's a pretty wide stretch.