Shattered Kingdoms

Even the MC gets more high level guards than the Talons.

The Talon get multiple enchant armor casters and mentor+ sorcs and priests, as well as a high level taunter. They also get golden griffons, which are excessively powerful.

Oh my god is this thread brought up again, theres already a 20+ page thread in GD :/

(leaves the thread forever and ever)

bunch of cry babies & all over a stupid game

The MC also has (maybe had at this point) a high level sorc NPC for buffs.

I don't have a problem with the CoN NPCs at all. As has been pointed out, they only get three good NPCs which are pure tanks and nothing else. MC could use captains in gear and have equal tanking power.

Taslamar...omg...my two characters in the keepers had every spell in the game on them. They get paladins, priests, and sorc buffs...tanks..the works.

I actually have to agree with DA for the most part about the NPCs themselves. As far as the moot being the easist to get into, that's just [REDACTED]. The talon's hold that honor as all you have to do is kill one mentor level dwarf whose usually naked and you're in.

I will disagree with Gilgon about the talons though.

The talon's normal NPCs are balls. They absolutely suck. Yes, they do have THE most badass bounty NPCs in the game and for that reason I never bitched about their regular ones with dymytry. The dwarf mercs are crap. Basically they are equivalent to the MC legionnaire captains except size small, will never have the same damage output, and don't see to have as many hps. I equipped mine too in heavy armor.

The rogue NPCs are aboslutely useless.

Their buff NPCs wander around for christ's sake and YOU CAN NEVER FIND THE DAMN THINGS WHEN YOU NEED THEM. I can't count the number of times I needed buffs immediatly from those mentor sorcs (there's only two in the whole city) and couldn't find the things because they're never in the same place.

The centaurs would be decent, especially since you can mount them, but the centaur racial weaknesses pretty much made them null. They aren't nearly as good as the MC centaurs anyway. In full gear though, they're a bit better than the dwarfs. That might be better now with the recent centaur changes.

Balacha was a joke. Anytime you tried to use him, he'd get summoned away. That's their only good NPC really for using and you can't keep him with you ever.

Talons have sucky buffs, sucky tanks, and a suckily guarded hq. Balance that with zomguber bounty NPCs. At least the good thing about being a talon is that if the person ever gets banished, the city pretty much guards itself from newbies. Although really, the griffons aren't even that hard to get past if you know what you're doing.

omfg the whining is insufferable.. as someone recently coming back to SK.. i find the playerbase's constantly moaning and groaning to be pathetic. Some of you have been playing this game so long you think it should cater to your needs.

The game is fine.. stop bothering the imms and learn to deal with your problems IC.

Honestly.. dont beg for changes to help out your character. Grow a pair and plan a way to get around your obstacles in game.

/complaint on complainers.

Cannibal is the voice of reason in this thread. Impressive. I'm not even going to argue the points, it's a waste of time, DA, Cannibal, and several others already covered them easily enough.

P.S. Your words are like daggers JVJ. Daggers.

My God! What a bunch of lousy whiners some of you are!

No, I don't play a BH character, on the contrary I am leveling a lightie currently, but no-freaking-way is BH OP. Their HQs are perhaps the most easily penetrable HQs of the game (as long as you are not already outlawed) and all it takes to enter them is... explore. Their NPC that tells you about the PCs around can be a two-edged knife for them. Cause it can be used by ANYONE, including an enemy that has managed to reach it and find out if there is any of the BH around the area (something I have done myself in the past). Yes, their trio is indeed quite too powerful perhaps, but every tribunal has a set of good NPCs. After all, indeed a good paladin can rape those NPCs, but what kinda class does it take to rape ie: All those Peacekeeper Templar who spam BoG and HW and can rape entire groups?

For the record, my previous 'lock absolutely raped the entire town of Exile. Now, it sped things up when I had Inzy with me. I also, even more than exile, raped Menegroth with the same 'lock.

If you can get Sith's gates open, the rest of the city is a cake walk. Only 2 good NPCs (Sorc and Elemental).

I love you though.