Well, here's my reasoning behind the removal: in my experience at least, Reavers tend to just play like a weaker Conjurer early on (they start with only 1 MP and miscast often due to their lower intelligence, forcing them to pillar dance more if anything). The reaver playstyle is definitely a viable one, but not so much on D:1 - starting as a Conjurer and later picking up a good weapon once your spells are reliable always seems like a better option to me.
I'd even claim that the books (Wizard vs Conjurer vs Elementalist) are actually fairly well distinguished now, with Wizards having a wide range of low-level spells, Conjurers focusing just on damaging spells, and Elementalists each with their own mix of damage and utility (often encouraging a hybrid/reaver playstyle anyway). I'm quite pleased with the state of backgrounds after this change and the religious background overhaul, at least. Another option that was discussed in IRC was to add Reavers again once a good idea for a Reaver-specific spellbook is suggested, to solve the issue of duplicating books between backgrounds. On 19/02/2011 23:10, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:42:09PM +0100, g...@crawl.develz.org wrote: >> commit 1cc687962fc2b680d43a89788ed88c7025514f91 >> Author: Chris Campbell<chriscampbel...@gmail.com> >> Date: Sat Feb 19 21:41:28 2011 +0000 >> >> Remove Reavers at the next major save version > This was the worst option proposed. > > Reavers do something unique, unlike the six redundant classes (Cj/4*E/Wz) > (elementalists are not redundant with each others, but with Cj/Wz). > > I'd say, let's restore Re and remove Cj instead. All of their playing style > is already fully supported by the elementalists. > > Re also don't require as much pillar dancing: pure conjurers run out of mp > then run away screaming while reavers face opponents knowing well that the > spells are just an addition to melee. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list Crawl-ref-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
