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<blockquote data-quote="drnuncheon" data-source="post: 957914" data-attributes="member: 96">I think that this - and a lot of other objections - are true to varying degrees based on the level of the people involved.&nbsp; Ironically, the higher level you are, the more benefit you'll get out of many of the buffs - more attacks to benefit from hit &amp; damage bonuses, more levels to get extra hit points from, etc.On the other hand, the save boosts you get from the heightened stats can be livesavers at low levels, when they can double your weak save bonus, or give a decent boost to a strong one.One of the designers mentioned that in testing, they saw use of those spells dropping off to nothing, and then slowly coming back as preparation for the really tough fights.&nbsp; That suggests to me that there really is a use for them, and that a large portion of the online community is still in the 'denial' phase of grieving over their lost buffs.&nbsp; (I'll trust people who have actually tested something over Internet pundits working off of incomplete information any day.)J</blockquote>

[QUOTE="drnuncheon, post: 957914, member: 96"] I think that this - and a lot of other objections - are true to varying degrees based on the level of the people involved. Ironically, the higher level you are, the more benefit you'll get out of many of the buffs - more attacks to benefit from hit & damage bonuses, more levels to get extra hit points from, etc. On the other hand, the save boosts you get from the heightened stats can be livesavers at low levels, when they can [i]double[/i] your weak save bonus, or give a decent boost to a strong one. One of the designers mentioned that in testing, they saw use of those spells dropping off to nothing, and then slowly coming back as preparation for the really tough fights. That suggests to me that there really [i]is[/i] a use for them, and that a large portion of the online community is still in the 'denial' phase of grieving over their lost buffs. (I'll trust people who have actually tested something over Internet pundits working off of incomplete information any day.) J [/QUOTE]

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