Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-70.116.77.207-20130429054018/@comment-5443967-20130429062829

Before I start agreeing with you, the English major in me needs to point out how refreshing it is to read something on the internet that is not only intelligible, but actually genuinely well-written. So, thank you for keeping alive my hope for the future for a few more moments.

That being said, I've hated the Forsworn ever since I first encountered them, and I've been playing this game since the day it came out. Well, to be fair, there was the initial excitement of "Hey, these guys have new armor and weapons I haven't seen before! That's so awesome!" For the sake of accuracy, then, I'd say I've hated them every since I first encountered them, minus about a minute and a half.

And the more I play, the more I've come to hate them. Aesthetically, I don't have much of a problem with them (to each his own), but I completely agree with everything else you said. I am somewhat surprised, though, that you didn't make mention of what I've always found to be the most infuriating part: the Forsworn Shamans.

I mean, they're not really even shamans at all. They're just irritating cowards. Because even if I manage to gleefully hack all the others into slaughterfish bait with nary a scratch upon my blood-soaked armor (which is a rare feat given how overpowered they really are), the Shaman can still take me down with the single most irritating combat "strategy" in all of Mundus: slow me down with inexplicably powerful ice spells while running backwards so I can never catch up.

It drives me insane. More so than retreating for a few seconds to heal, only to find that in the time it took to heal 50 hit points, the troll I was just about to finish off now impossibly has more health than he did before I stabbed him twenty times. And even more so than the dragon who sees me says, "Oh, so you just spent the last 60 hours becoming an unstoppable god of melee combat? Well, guess who's never gonna land on the ground now, bitch?"

Seriously, the Forsworn suck balls.