[Duelist Kit revisited] Feedback and suggestions, to not let the Duelist die out
shevy123456
Member Posts: 265
There is an old discussion here from 11 years ago:
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/1458/fighter-kit-duelist
There is at the least one mod with a duelist. I played the duelist in my recent play-through
or the one before, and I found the duelist to be fairly underwhelming. In part this is because
the features this toolkit offers isn't that great, IMO. I rather take Korgan, berzerk into tank
mode and then whack down on opposition. Or a spell caster or so, even the hivemaster
Paina with lots of spider-poison fun. Whereas the Duelist is .... hmmm. Mediocre, in my
opinion.
I think it would be nice if someone could have a look at the duelist again.
One new feature that it could have would be feint or taunt or riposte or so. The idea here
is that it could help debuff an enemy slightly, even just THACO decrease would be nice.
Possibly no save and working at some range, a bit like the druid doom spell, but a bit
more powerful. Could be semi-higher level too. The idea would be that the duelist
would pick ONE enemy and taunt the enemy "Your mother was a hamster! That's
how you are fighting, you worm!" (e. g. against a dragon). The debuff should not be
too powerful of course but still somewhat useful. Other ideas could also be put
to good use here, like an earlier whirlwind ability "duel-dance" or something, with
a bigger THACO penalty, but an earlier whirlwind-like ability. Another idea could
be to throw some glitterdust into the eye of the enemy. Things like that.
As it is right now, I rather pick other kits, simply because they seem more useful
than the duelist right now - at the least the one mod that offers a dedicated
NPC. The idea is NOT to overpower these kits, but to make the more useless
kits more useful again. Because a dedicated duelist class, as idea, is pretty
nice to have, but right now I don't see people really WANT to pick the duelist
at all. People tend to pick other NPCs for various reasons (such as in my case
Paina, the NPC is so much fun, even if weaker than Jaheira and more restricted
in weapons and armours).
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/1458/fighter-kit-duelist
There is at the least one mod with a duelist. I played the duelist in my recent play-through
or the one before, and I found the duelist to be fairly underwhelming. In part this is because
the features this toolkit offers isn't that great, IMO. I rather take Korgan, berzerk into tank
mode and then whack down on opposition. Or a spell caster or so, even the hivemaster
Paina with lots of spider-poison fun. Whereas the Duelist is .... hmmm. Mediocre, in my
opinion.
I think it would be nice if someone could have a look at the duelist again.
One new feature that it could have would be feint or taunt or riposte or so. The idea here
is that it could help debuff an enemy slightly, even just THACO decrease would be nice.
Possibly no save and working at some range, a bit like the druid doom spell, but a bit
more powerful. Could be semi-higher level too. The idea would be that the duelist
would pick ONE enemy and taunt the enemy "Your mother was a hamster! That's
how you are fighting, you worm!" (e. g. against a dragon). The debuff should not be
too powerful of course but still somewhat useful. Other ideas could also be put
to good use here, like an earlier whirlwind ability "duel-dance" or something, with
a bigger THACO penalty, but an earlier whirlwind-like ability. Another idea could
be to throw some glitterdust into the eye of the enemy. Things like that.
As it is right now, I rather pick other kits, simply because they seem more useful
than the duelist right now - at the least the one mod that offers a dedicated
NPC. The idea is NOT to overpower these kits, but to make the more useless
kits more useful again. Because a dedicated duelist class, as idea, is pretty
nice to have, but right now I don't see people really WANT to pick the duelist
at all. People tend to pick other NPCs for various reasons (such as in my case
Paina, the NPC is so much fun, even if weaker than Jaheira and more restricted
in weapons and armours).
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