09-19-2022, 11:13 PM
(09-19-2022, 11:03 PM)Touc Wrote: I'm going to play devil's advocate in favour of rebirths.
Some builds don't have a chance in hell at fighting other builds. Anyone who's played melee (unarmed or armed) into minefield will get what I mean. Ent players who played against blood users in Esshar will also get what I mean. Hard counters are more prevalent than a lot of people think.
This essentially leads to a scenario where you're not allowed to leave a settlement unaccompanied when your rival is online because the moment you leave, you're going to be on their short list for people to scout for easy Ws.
Rebirths empower you to get around that, to change your build and have a fighting chance against said person. Sometimes an amnesia just plain isn't enough to deal with it, after all.
Given that rivalries often kick in at or around 200, 200 is a little low to be the build-changing cutoff point. At minimum, maybe it should be 205 to have a literal middleground.
EDIT:
Addressing Seeker, you can't learn Occultism if you've learned Holy magic and vice versa. Both kinds of magic literally corrupt your system and if you were to try to learn one after learning the other (even with a rebirth potion) I'm fairly sure you'd explode.
This! I was thinking this exact thing and should have added into my original post. If someone is just hunting you down and their build counters you sure you can maybe outplay it but sometimes that's not an option. If you cant well your either stuck in your settlement or house or you gather a group to leave with you and hope you beat them. Then what I said originally also is in this boat. If we are going to lower the level at least make it 205 that way we have a chance to test out builds with masters. Master spells sometimes save a build sometimes they don't. I know someone will say the fights will lead to dev and my reply is sometimes someone just wants to leave their house or settlement to gather some materials without having to worry about running into that one guy that will possibly cap you and kill you when you really cant fight back.