New Strider lvl 4. useless?

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New Strider lvl 4. useless?

Postby stickman » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:25 pm

So i just unlocked lvl 4 and tested it out... basically you can continue to raid ant hills as your being attacked


So why is this useless do you ask:
-Early world... like right now... having 4 ants attack you for duration of the ant hill raiding will quickly get your taking way to much damage then the ants are worth. your bat cape will be shredded after only a few raids.

-Late world... you wont care about ants anymore. and if you do like making bug boards or ant farms you can kill the ants in 2 hits anyway.

Can you change it to something more useful? honestly i thought it was going to make it so ants dont attack at all when i first read it... which would be pretty cool.
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Re: New Strider lvl 4. useless?

Postby Audiosmurf » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:27 pm

Works for bees, too. Being able to raid hives with only 1-2 bees for free is pretty sweet.
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Re: New Strider lvl 4. useless?

Postby Sevenless » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:33 pm

You can raid a hive with a bee attacking you by spamming defenses with enough combat weight anyway. It does sound pretty marginal to me.
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Re: New Strider lvl 4. useless?

Postby MadNomad » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:45 pm

raiding beehives is useless when you already have like 10 hives
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Re: New Strider lvl 4. useless?

Postby Sevenless » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:48 pm

MadNomad wrote:raiding beehives is useless when you already have like 10 hives


Not when you have 3000 tiles of flax to cover and each hive only fully uses ~50 tiles of flax.
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Re: New Strider lvl 4. useless?

Postby Audiosmurf » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:53 pm

MadNomad wrote:raiding beehives is useless when you already have like 10 hives

Being able to easily grind wax + honey + larvae (for food) ain't too bad. I'm getting quite a bit of use out of it, at least.
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Re: New Strider lvl 4. useless?

Postby Zyean » Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:39 pm

It's pretty useless, even with ant dungeon boost, should be changed completely or make it so raiding nests/ants/bees don't aggro you, maybe lower the chance of ranged weapons breaking? (spears/arrows/rocks)
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Re: New Strider lvl 4. useless?

Postby Sevenless » Fri Apr 03, 2020 7:53 pm

Zyean wrote:It's pretty useless, even with ant dungeon boost, should be changed completely or make it so raiding nests/ants/bees don't aggro you, maybe lower the chance of ranged weapons breaking? (spears/arrows/rocks)


I think lowered breaking would be closer to what people would expect in power level. Whether or not that's impactful on pvp in a bad way I don't know though.

Alternative suggestion: Slowing animal movement speed to make archery hunting inland less horse stamina consuming? I'd think at least that armor would prevent it from being abused with mammoths more easily than other cheese mechanics for them.
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Re: New Strider lvl 4. useless?

Postby terechgracz » Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:03 pm

It could give you immunity to being aggroed by animals.
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Re: New Strider lvl 4. useless?

Postby DDDsDD999 » Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:08 pm

It's not like this is the only "useless" credo buff there is. I'd rather credos were a bunch of things like this, that were nice to have but weren't required if you wanted to be competitive.
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