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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9042961" data-attributes="member: 6790260">That is not what being a &quot;swordmage&quot; means to me.That is closer to what being a &quot;swordmage&quot; means to me, but is not quite there either. I want the sword-ing to be part and parcel of the mage-ing, and I want the mage-ing to be part and parcel of the sword-ing. A single, harmonious whole.Like...it's the difference between a blended smoothie and Neapolitan ice cream. Neapolitan ice cream is not bad (I quite like it, though my mother despises it.) But if what you actually want is a chocolate strawberry milkshake, Neapolitan ice cream will always fall short. I hope that this analogy communicates what I am thinking when I say &quot;a harmonious whole&quot; as opposed to disparate parts simply layered sequentially.1: We will probably have to end up agreeing to disagree, then.2: I was not judging the Fighter. I was judging PDK alone, and what it is alone is bad.3: That the uses are so horribly limited is, in fact, part of why it is bad.4: That it is better than some of the worst options in the game is not a selling point. The only way to damn it with fainter praise would be to say that it is better than day-one Beast Master.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9042961, member: 6790260"] That is not what being a "swordmage" means to me. That is closer to what being a "swordmage" means to me, but is not quite there either. I want the sword-ing to be part and parcel of the mage-ing, and I want the mage-ing to be part and parcel of the sword-ing. A single, harmonious whole. Like...it's the difference between a blended smoothie and Neapolitan ice cream. Neapolitan ice cream is not bad (I quite like it, though my mother despises it.) But if what you actually want is a chocolate strawberry milkshake, Neapolitan ice cream will always fall short. I hope that this analogy communicates what I am thinking when I say "a harmonious whole" as opposed to disparate parts simply layered sequentially. 1: We will probably have to end up agreeing to disagree, then. 2: I was not judging the Fighter. I was judging PDK alone, and what it is alone is bad. 3: That the uses are so horribly limited is, in fact, part of why it is bad. 4: That it is better than some of the worst options in the game is not a selling point. The only way to damn it with fainter praise would be to say that it is better than day-one Beast Master. [/QUOTE]

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