2008-09-26, 03:52 PM
GummyBear Wrote:I guess it all comes down to play style and preferences. For me, I stayed at zombie, and I never find avenger any useful. When I could, I moved onto Viking. Back then, there's the left/right hitbox glitch and avenger was really good, but now, there're options like hoodoo/voodoo, FOG, etc that you hardly need to use avenger, and thus I would opt for 1% increase in damage at level 78 and 2% at level 79 just to get out of the "hell levels" ASAP. Beside, during that time, dexless hermit are still somewhat at their peak of their power, so I'd prefer to not waste time on avenger when I could L7 for more damage.
just for your info dexless can't viking because they can't hit them until the mid 80's.
I don't gauge how effective my attack is by dmg, but by how many hits it takes to kill an enemy. Do you really think 1% dmg is going to turn a monster that was a 2hko into a 1hko? I found that the best thing lvl 21 avenger did was bring stability to those monters that you almost 1hko. The avenger adds enough umph to get over the hump and make a consistent 1hko. An extra 1 or 2 % on that attack isn't going to make any difference.
Maybe you didn't use Avenger much, but then again, how long were you in your 70's? I was lvl 7x for along long time. I found many places to use it. I even used it on voodoo/hoodoo. Why did I use it there? When they spawn you can shoot one avenger and it aggroes all 4 voodoo or hoodoo, and they start to slowly walk toward you. You can then just sit there and blast away. Much less running and more efficient killing.
From what I can gather is you never used 1 avenger going through your 7x levels so you don't know how useful it could have been to you. It was a nice skill to have and was well worth the 1% or 2% less dmg that l7 did.