Erevan wrote:
...Secondly, My hammer merc was turned to utter -shit- after the great changes in the combat system. For a large period of time, dex mercs were uttter crap. Also, both my specs were RP-based. One of them turned up good, the other always sucked. I still played said character for a good year before I left SK when WoW sucked me in :p
That's such bullyang. The combat changes came in when I was about mentor, maybe expert, with Alphrenor (I remember the timing because I cunningly suicided in Teron a few seconds before the changeover in what was possibly my worst ever PK attempt [I was rushed]), and he was definitely a defensive dex merc. Admittedly it took some time while I experimented with subtypes to find a suitable one, but high-dex mercs beat the pants off any single other class in the game from then until art came along. My proof is the consistent beatings I delivered to giant mercs.
The only exception to the "mercs were the best" rule was Mystra's fist shaman, Ashiya, who could beat Alphrenor (+royal guard) almost half the time if she had all her skills fired. As it was pre-art though, she didn't really have the ability to keep anyone in one place while she fought them.
I'd say your mistake, if there was one, was picking bad spec types.
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