(08-30-2023, 02:55 AM)GSM Wrote: And if he is only limited to one invuln, his build will be forced to get more aggressive, because if he messes up even slightly, he explodes. Xarxes has 12 perms, has been around for more than nearly every other character currently active with exceptions being in the low single digits, and has earned every single inch of power he’s gotten, but every time he displays how good he is mechanically with what he has been given, he is consistently thrown under the bus.
I'm too lazy to go to the specific spot I want to respond to, but hearing the mechanically good with what he built thing really brought something up into my mind. This is probably going to be a hot-take of sorts.
A lot of people lose to certain people who are just good verbers and aren't completely build carried, and they end up getting mad about losing and complain about the trees that the good verber is using rather then just giving the verber their props for just being good and knowing how to use their build/ play around people that 'counter' them. Sometimes they fight people with 20+ levels on them and like 1-2 sigs over them with straight uniques and wonder why they lost and got destroyed 2-0 with 60% hp each round.
Most fights later on at around 220 rpl end up being close fights that solely depend on how well the users time/land their skills no matter what build, with few exceptions. Most of the people that make it to 220 have a really good understanding of their build.
This is how I feel about some of the balance complaints i've been seeing. Sometimes it feels like a "I lost to my op so they need to be nerfed." more then a "X is negative for the current state of the game and should be nerfed."
Rant aside-
Right now, the Skarnfel Antags are currently lacking, and Xarxes isn't even that active when out patrolling nor does he really do anything crazy aside from when he participates in public events, a right that all players share. Now I would be delusional if I said I thought he was beatable(I did get close to taking a round off of him like once or twice), but with the way he is narratively in my eyes, he's someone that shouldn't be, he's literally a peak E4 character just like Jokul and the imperfects. I feel like he'd needs a chainverb or a jokul 2.0 to reasonably take him down.
Would be lame if some random 15-16 year old pulled up and killed Xarxes who has been hyped up to be as dangerous as lyseroth IC at times (yes he has you cant tell me he hasn't)
Xarxes is an outlier in the invul argument, and he's also apart of the good verber/peak e4 character thing. I feel like the invul issues are more directed to the sustain/dr builds that cycle 8k+ healing rotation while being invul for most of it.
Without the sigs/Aether/Gear aka a normal Fae, he wouldn't be scary or at least as scary, and if you give xarxes build without those to another player I doubt they'd find immediate success.
Nerf Cinderella