Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-933831-20160127201216/@comment-25389303-20160129201858

I said I wouldn't make any more points, but there's so much which has just been said which I cannot ignore.

To Sideshot - best defense meaning being hit and not taking damage from it. Durability being being hit, shrugging it off and pushing onwards. I'd have to disagree, though, as Orion will take more hits on his Aura which will tire him out, while Ulric can take more on his shield without the fatigue. But yes, there is definitely a difference, and both matter considerably.

To Novice - I wouldn't say a lot of this debate has been 2 on 1. We've had as much discussion on Liath countering Viridis as with Ulric. You're simulation seems quite detailed, and flawed to say the least. You start out with Liath bombarding Ulric and Viridis from the get-go. At that range? No. Even if they are close enough together, his projectiles will not be fast enough to be of much worry to them. If anything, it will just tell them what his Semblance is immediately, and they'll back off a bit to consider a strategy.

You still seem to think that Viridis' arrows are of no consequence simply because of Aura. There's a major difference between instinct telling you somethings about to happen, and actually doing something about it. He'll move out the way, right? But where? Forwards, backwards, left or right, it's a gamble every time. In addition, unless you're telling me that Liath can keep up his overwhelming bombardment while simultaneously blocking arrows (as a result of somehow thinking about two things at the same time), the only thing keeping Viridis pinned down has stopped. Simply put, as soon as Liath starts blocking, he's gonna have to keep doing it until Orion does something about it.

And will it boil down to 2 1 vs 1's? Most likely. But that only enforces the point I made earlier of Orion and Liath being unable to support each other...at all, really, until either Ulric or Viridis are down and out. Not to mention, just because Ulric is not as fast as the others, it doesn't mean he'll be slowly marching about everywhere he goes. If he starts getting bombarded, he's going to charge straight for Liath with his shield above his head, reaching him after a couple of volleys. Sure, he'll take a few hits, but once he gets close it's pretty much GG for Liath.

(And as a side note, practicing with dust before knowing one's Semblance isn't going to teach him precision, is it?. That's like saying a weaponsmith who forges a sword can fight with it just as well as a trained knight, simply because he knows what it is. I'm not even sure where you got the correllation between practicing with dust and glyph accuracy in the first place...)