(01-24-2015, 01:31 PM)Zyrusticae Wrote: I thought it was interesting to note just how big the difference was between Lahabrea's fight and Nabriales'. Lahabrea was particularly easy - a total cakewalk - in comparison to Nabriales, and I think a lot of that is down to the power of Hydaelyn's blessing. Shorn of our blessing as we were, what would otherwise have been an absurdly easy fight became a serious threat to our mortal existence. Where even the pathetic ilvls (an abstraction to represent our personal power) we had at launch was enough to ignore most of Lahabrea's attacks, we needed all of our skill, might, and mental faculties to defeat Nabriales without falling victim to his (and note that we had improved by leaps and bounds since the time we fought Lahabrea).
I'll be very curious to see how they handle these things moving forward. Will Midgardsormr serve to bolster our strength in lieu of Hydaelyns' Blessing? Or will we be forced to carry ourselves on our own two legs against such supernatural might?
Nabriales actually makes a specific comment at the start of his fight that he has no intent of holding back at all against you, unlike Lahabrea. Considering that all Lahabrea did was stand there and fling a few minor spells at you when presumably the two of them have similar powers and abilities, even if we were somehow weaker against the Ascians because of the lack of blessing, it's entirely plausible that Lahabrea simply didn't care to go full out. Nabriales implies that while we had the blessing we couldn't really be harmed, so it's entirely possible that Lahabrea was aware of this too, and was merely testing the limits to how much that protection had sway; IE he was just doing whatever to try and discourage you or even just to test the limits of the actual protection we had since he knew doing anything serious was ultimately futile as long as Hydaelyn had watch.
Regarding Echo vs Protection:
The player always had the Echo, but did not always have Hydaelyn's Protection.
