Quote (haxorz @ Jun 21 2018 07:32am)
i don't see a good reason to disallow sop on es sorc, other than a preference for not changing the rules. the same complaints Garciaparra@ make can also be made against some other the existing rules.
tbh, just like Truonk@ said, the current rules, as written, *allow* sop on an es sorc as long as FR <= 180. so hypothetically if i had built an es sorc yesterday i would have used a sop and been pretty surprised & confused when anyone told me it wasn't allowed.
the current "no more than 450CR against a cold sorc" rule exists, yet it can also be abused. in practice games, i have _accidentally_ broken this rule before and didn't even notice it myself! my vs cold setup using exactly 53CR from scs in order to get exactly 450CR total, and one time i misclicked when swapping scs and had 452CR.
at least it's possible for the es sorc to quickly check their FR via the character screen. and at least it's possible to somewhat-enforce* the "no more than 180FR on an es sorc with sop" rule via a single screenshot of the character screen. neither of those properties hold for the "no more than 450CR against a cold sorc" rule, yet it still exists.
similarly, the current "no more than 55 single res from scs" rule also exists and also can be abused and there's no way to somewhat-enforce it via a single screenshot. actually, i would be willing to bet 420fg that someone has broken this rule in a ladder match before. it's a pretty dumb rule imo (as in, it's easy to justify breaking it if you're a cheater) and it's very simple to break by having lots of life/singleres scs. afaict, all this rule does is punish poor people by requiring them to have decent enough gear where 55 single res from scs is sufficient. as an extreme example, in a matchup vs a cold sorc all this rule does is make a vs cold setup a lot more expensive than it does otherwise. i don't see the reason to have a rule that doesn't change gameplay but instead increases the fg needed to be viable.
in summary, for the sake of consistency (both with existing rules and the way the current ruleset is written) i don't see why sop on an es sorc should be disallowed.
*i say "somewhat" because a cheater can swap gear before taking the screenshot. to make this more foolproof, you'd have to e.g. require the screenshot be taken in the moor and have it be the opponent's responsibility to spot the cheater going back to the stash to swap gear.
I said the same thing ages ago, they changed the page 1 rules lmao, probly to accommodate Vincenzo's Vex Btal.
plus full bmana es build is for dimwits
as a user of 0-1 bmana, I'm playing fair game here with SoP as compared to 10x bmana users on es sorcs
This post was edited by Wyrmvater on Aug 3 2018 10:56am