Dispite all this, some of those bowazons out their disgrace the rest by using multi on big crouds, small crouds, single monsters, a maggot.... you get the point. Sure it increases chance to hit... but if I remember correctly we zons pump dex and generally have a 90% chance to hit...

Personally, my zon needs more hotkeys as I use 8-9 skills and IIRC, I could use 9-10 skills easily...

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Vormaerin

"Why do the Zealots of Atheism think they are not tarred by their own brush?"

--Quark

Sometimes religious belief is the cause of a dispute, but more often it is the *excuse* for it. Anyway, my private message box should work if you wish to go further with this. Its not exactly "armory" material.

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Vormaerin

"KILL ALL FANATICS!"

No doubt you've heard about Horowitz's article in college newspapers around the US about slave reparations. What I found interesting is that more often than not students went to the newspaper editors and demanded the thing be shut down or for the editors to resign or whatnot. So much for freedom of speech. What happened to Voltaire's "I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it"? Rather than combat what they felt as something offensive with words of wisdom and intelligence, they tried a "brute force" mob tactic.

So it has come how the meaning of "tolerant" has changed these days. I'm sure the students would not have called themselves intolerant, yet that's precisely how they were acting -- rather than tearing Horowitz's arguments to pieces, as an intellectual would, they sought to have his writings repressed by strong-arming the presses. It's the old "the pot calls the kettle black" thing. Make sure you don't become the monster you seek to vanquish, etc.

Eh I think that was the point Volmaerin was talking about.

Oh yeah. In my old age I'm getting senile, and I'm digressing again. So what I talking about. Oh yeah. The multi vs strafe thing. I personally think they're both useful in their own situations. If you're up against Izual MS isn't gonna serve you well. If you're up against a bunch of maggots strafe isn't gonna serve you well. But this isn't really about MS vs strafe.

Hmm. Well about the decline of strafe. 1) MS is more visually impressive. More eye candy, with all those arrows firing in an arc. 2) MS is easy to learn to use. Aim at pack, shoot. 3) Strafe-lock is a newbie experience. People who know the class well know how to avoid it, so it isn't a problem. It's mostly a problem with people who go into a pack of maggots and decide to strafe. Bad idea. For the most part, if you die to strafe-lock, it means you should've used another skill instead in that situation. 4) Less damage pre-1.03 = less of the rabble playing the class. Just look at how we treat barbarians. 5) Of course the fixing of the strafe bug deserves a mention. The strafe bug was fixed. 6) The mome raths outgrabe.

I personally play my amazon as a jill-of-all-trades. I use the four major PvM skills, MS, FA, strafe, and immo, depending on the circumstances. So with the fixing of the bugs naturally I use MS more often now, but that's largely a relative measure from before, when I hardly used MS because each strafe arrow = 2 MS arrows. As for the speed, keep this in mind: That delay in strafe firing takes the same time as every firing of MS, and the same as every firing of a regular arrow. It's the firing lag speed. Of course MS fires its arrows all at once, but I'm just pointing out that it's not as if strafe has some extra-long delay or something.

As for the strafe speed itself, I'm still confused about the recent strafe speed data thingy myself, so I'm not too sure about it, but it seemed like each arrow after the first fires at roughly 1/4 to 1/5 of the regular speed (no that's not the exact formula), so I would say strafe more useful if you have 5 monsters or less, MS more useful if you have more. That's just a general thing though, obviously there's plenty of exceptions.

The MS zon has little mass killing power. That title falls to the FA zon =P. MS is a rounded skill that's easy to use, which is why so many people use them. FA doesn't leech mana -- oh no you have to learn to use a mana regen skill as well! Strafe has strafelock -- oh no you have to learn when you should and when you shouldn't use strafe! Immolation arrow's fires work over time, not instantly -- oh no you have to learn how to keep monsters still! MS doesn't really have much of a learning curve, and it provides a pretty good bang for the buck, which is why it's so often used these days.