I am a Role Player. I like to read books, and lots of them. I like to play my characters, as designed, for the Role I intend for them.
My Warrior, Sturm, is just that, a warrior. If anyone recognizes the Brightblade name, they may also recall his loathing of magic and most, if not all, magic users.
Point being, I have a couple of Magery characters, but Sturm is not one of them.
I intend for him to remain pure warrior as long as I can. As it stands, I already have 30 magery to Recall around, but I'll be dumping that as my other skills GM.
Many people are going to say how boring this is, and how it would only cater to 0.1% of the shard, but I really think it would motivate people to branch out a bit and not be just another mage in a shard overrun by them.
No, I am not saying any warrior has a solid shot against another player, without magery. What I'm saying is that those of us with warriors would like to have events to take part in as well. No Tourney is really good for a pure warrior, unless it's multiple people and they've got a mage to back them up.
This all stems from my misunderstanding of what 'Pure Dexer' means on UOSA. I thought I recalled that being a reference to non-mage warriors with high dex, but apparently I'm wrong. Not really bent about that or anything, but if that's not the term, I am assuming Pure Warrior would be more appropriate for designating those without Magery.
I entered the Pure Dexer tourney, only to realize after, that I was competing with a bunch of Hally Mages, so whatever. I took my loss, cried like a girl and moved on.
However, here I am now posting in the Suggestions forum looking for the support of my fellow Warriors.
I know we are few, and we are a dying breed in these lands of magic, but that doesn't mean there should be no Staff Run Events or Tourneys for our style of play.
I'm not asking anyone, who doesn't care, to watch the events or tournaments, so no, I don't really care how boring YOU think it would be to watch.
I like the idea of having some battles with other Pure Warriors, 1v1, or teams/multi-teams, etc.
Maybe we'd see a rise in the use of Platemail armor. Hell, i don't even know where to get a GM set of Verite plate (my fav) without special request from the smithy.
My appologies for being old and wanting good Role Playing in the online version of the best Role Playing Game series ever created, my bad.
Nothing says 'RPG' like 'If you don't use Magery you're gimping yourself'.
Well, that's about it, unless I think of more things to dump in here. I'm going out on a limb here and assuming this will turn into an 'I hate warriors' flame fest, but no worries, I wore my GM asbestos undies today.
