User talk:Yves

Magni the Bison builds
It looks like you've been adding some builds to the page on M. Bison. I don't want to discourage that, but I'm trying to maintain some standards in the single class builds section. I've personally completed the tournament with each build there several times (about nine of average), and drawn most of the earlier round opponents to see how the build fared against them. I saw no evidence that you'd done any comparable testing. Indeed, the build fails spectacularly against opponents that rely on blinding you. I'd expect Lukas to be trouble as well. I moved your build out of that section, but didn't delete it entirely.

Much of the point of the section is to avoid exotic gear requirements when possible. The 55 monk suggestion fails this spectacularly. Requiring non-minor runes on gear also fails it, though that part may not have been added by you.

I tried your build in the tournament five times, and failed all five (twice on Gwen, twice on Argo, once on Bison). I was suspicious of claims it would make M. Bison so easy, as I had 15 failures with earlier attempts at beating him based on blocking. Your build fared about as well as my previous attempts had. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, and I don't doubt that you beat the tournament with it at least once. But once can be a fluke.

My assassin build doesn't work as well as my builds for a lot of other classes. If you can come up with something that works better, that's great. But I'd like to see testing results, keeping track of which opponents you've beaten and which you've failed against, with most of the opponents attempted. Without that, it's often impractical to distinguish highly effective builds from random junk. Quizzical 20:29, 17 March 2008 (UTC)