Revelations from Patch 2.55 [SPOILERS]

[Rannie]

Granted, however they were proposing a full no win fight with 8 against 1 and we were all by ourselves when it was 2 against one in the storyline and were able to defeat those two and i think they were on the same level as Ilberd is. Unless they meant 1v1 even then we could take on two people at the same time and defeat them of about the same power range.

[Dualblade]

Ilberd was still quite young when Ala Mhigo was taken over by the Garlean Empire. He wouldn't have been able to do anything even if he tried. Now, several years later (I forget exactly how many), things are obviously a lot different.

As for all our feats and accomplishments, we weren't alone. We had several other skilled and capable (heh) adventurers alongside us to achieve those victories. Ever since Sastasha we've been told to find other adventurers to accompany us on those forays into the unknown.

Pretty much this for my thoughts, though in some ways I wish they would also showcase which fights exactly are ment to be us alone and which ones are with other adventurers. Castrum and Prae would defintly be in a party, but its kinda hard to figure out how 7 other adventurers came to help us against Nabriales.

Granted, however they were proposing a full no win fight with 8 against 1 and we were all by ourselves when it was 2 against one in the storyline and were able to defeat those two and i think they were on the same level as Ilberd is. Unless they meant 1v1 even then we could take on two people at the same time and defeat them of about the same power range.

If we even just had a four-man team (plus or minue Raubhan), I would cry foul myself if we lost, but 2v1 with just Raubahn on our side an unwinnable battle could have worked, imo. He would be considered boss level which even for fates can be considred difficult, and would probably be tuned either to take us down to 1 or something. Again, Beatrix is what I'm thinking here.

The part about us being more or less helpless without our weapons is starting to annoy me. I know the level of the character is not nearly as important a factor in determining the outcome of a battle as in 1.0 but does it really all come down to what weapon/gear we have now, i.e. ilvl? Is that all we are after all we have accomplished, just as good as the tool and with a poor weapon our skill, strength and experience counts for nothing except to allow us to wield better weapons/tools? That's a rather sad way to look at character progression if that is the general gist.

Consider it more that we specifical train in certain styles of fighting, and thus being deprived of our weapon severly hampers our ability to fight. Monks are the closest you could say to asking "well why couldn't we fight!" even if you couldn't pull out a weapon, though they never fight barehanded, and hitting armor would probably still hurt alot. My explanation anyways.