On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, 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.
Removals are always very contentious, whether that's about species, backgrounds or anything else. It is true that a properly mixed background can be more interesting than the pure ones. (An example is Warper, or also Stalker.) However, I also think that Chris' reasoning is valid. David [Disclaimer: I did not suggest or vocally support the change. Chris asked me, and I honestly replied that I don't care for them. However, I am always in favour of our developers steppung up and taking responsibility. Providing that they have a plan and are open. I think both points hold for Chris' change. As usual, we can easily allow Re again.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
