“Are they though? Do you have any metric research to prove “half are solo”, because this is far from what i know to be true.”
I think the issue here is everyone can see your obviously talking out of your ass and if you have any experience at blizzard it was probably as the coffee boy…
Not this Joker again. Stop impersonating wow staff. If you think DF added to the decline of wow I don’t know what you are smoking. Removal of gear sets added to the decline. Addition of weekly Movable goal posts added to the decline of the game and the wow token was the nail in the coffin. Because it hyper-inflated the market and gave rise to the booster’s who sell bosts to fund there mythic progression.
Haven’t read the entire thread yet. Just giving my quick response before reading the book above.
There are too many crazy ideas and opinions about what they should and should not do.
The only thing they should NOT do is listening to every crazy person on the forums. They need to trust themselves and go forward with what they think is right for the game. Read all feedback, but take it with a grain of salt. Some feedback are great ideas that they can build upon, but most are not.
Let’s just cross our fingers and hope this nonsense is not something they decide to listen to.
Yea just about to quote that.
Not a good sign lol
That ship sailed when they turned their pvp game into a wow clone lol. Been a cascade of things you shouldnt put into an mmo ever since lol.
Well there is still hope in my opinion. I love the game, much because I think it has more potential than any other mmo on the marked. So far it has been a rollercoaster, but I try to stay positive.
Yea same. I will adjust.
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They do that to us… and I’m guaranteed out. I love that this game has a viable ranged alternative to caster weapons, and it isn’t just the reskinned projectile animation like WoW
(What would be the point of zone capture then?)
Though I do think they need to have an “underdog” buff when one faction is very clearly being pooped on in a server. (Soft pressure.)
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Musket is in a good spot and should be effective at range it compliments its “ultimate” with the x3 zoom.
Bow needs help and is already a close range weapon and you want to remove its potential effectiveness from range?
Bow users can’t kite without switching to a second weapon and you want to force them into even more unfavourable circumstances?
Besides hitting moving targets outside of 40-50m with a bow is hard enough already due to drop and projectile velocity that players who get lucky or get a skill shot in like that should be rewarded!
You must be a melee player - chuckle
40-50 meter musket rofl trollolo
half of players are not solo. Only 6 % female, 5% males. And Yes, Lots of data from professional companies that specialize in collecting all kinds of metrics on many things (including games)
Na, I was in charge of mail and collecting all the cosplay costumes.
Nope, I main rapier bow-hatchet, and i am currently playing frostfire, shadowfrost or shadowflame
Now I’m curious, why do you think reducing bow and musket range to 40-50m to equalise it with fire/ice is a good idea?
I don’t. I actually think that elemental damage should mostly be casted at < 30-35 meters. Bow should be from 30-35 to 40. Muskets need to have more range then bow, but do not need to have over 50m. The weapons should have “zones” they perform optimally in, and with some skill can perform out of (but not in excess of). For example, if bow users are skilled and know how to handle magic they should be able to fight at closer rangers then say 25-35m (or what ever the cap values are, subject testing and feedback).
Muskets should get a range nerf to perform well in the 40-50 range, and in theory with skill and the right abilities (probably sticky and trap) should do well in close range. The abilities should work as tools. Traps is a close range tool, and it should excel at dealing with close range threats. RIght now the current meta is just stack range and outside anything before it comes. get 2-3 buddies and set up counter sniping points (where they can snipe melee on their team mate while being 100m away). This tactic is providing way to much control and power, to much counter play to melee and non-musket classes. Its for that reason it should be nerfed first. Second, it should be nerfed in range because it will not have a good position in arena, even if it is a larger map, because musket is broken right now due to the ability to stack it x10-15 times in opr.
So on its own its weak and broken, in groups is strong and broken. It is the extreme of both sides, and subsequently requires “balance”.
Elemental damage should be the highest in the game, or have a tactical benefit like lots of “remove absorption” effects (20-30%) so that its damage is the most consistent across all armor types. I’d like to do that first by looking at better mechanics for the specs, then better perks. For example most ice gauntlet perks are “mana regen” based and do nothing really to buff damage on spells like ice storm, the gusty thing etc.
I’d also like to rework gems a lot to help provide the stability to between the two.
Think about it like this, we are working on a cyclical design system. its the concept of you can change rock to beat paper if you pick x talent, gem, etc.
By default weapons should counter other weapons. For example traditionally (but it does not have to be this way) in mmos magic counters heavy armor users because they have less “magic/elemental resist”. The cyclical design aspect of this for counter to that is to make a single gem that resist magic, a single gem for physical and not ones that do both. This will force tanks to choose either tanking weapons master builds (ga/ham) or frostfire (fs/ig), shadowflame (vg/fs) or Shadowfrost (vg/ig). I think we should look at yeeting out the “physical gems” in place of just having “thrust resist” or “strike resist” (for physical). Things like oynx should be converted to something like “ignore armor absorption (aka armor pen)”.
Bow needs a lot of tweaking imo its the most broken weapon in the game but its not broken because it does crazy things like musket. Its broken because at times its extremely weak (sub level 45) and at other times its extremely strong (@60 when it can do 11-13k headshots). The reason for this is the +20% damage talents. So removing them and buffing the arrow damage modifier would almost perfectly balance the bow damage wise but then we have mechanical issues like slow arrow speed, heavy attacks dealing less damage then lightx2, etc. for that reason the 20% damage talents there were yeeted to obtain damage balance should be replaced with +40% faster charge up on heavy attack, or +30% faster projectile speed (base weapon change as opposed to talent for the projectile speed)
Guilds in WoW since the perks were removed were no longer required. Why do you think there are so many guilds for people to use as their personal banks now. Or you get some guild with the auto invite addon to annoy an entire server.
Most guilds that I’ve seen and I’ve been in WoW for a long assed time, currently will have a core 30 or so that run stuff on their own while the rest of the guild is doing their own thing standing around in a major city waiting on queues vs going out in the land to do stuff.
I see both sides of the story, but honestly something of that nature does need to exist. It’s increasingly difficult for new players to progress without friends. On my journey to 60 I ended up paying approx 4.75K gold to find people to help with dungeons. Late game, same story. Healers and tanks are next to non existent compared to just after launch and compared to most mmos. It makes end game extremely difficult, especially with the increased HPs.
I’d happily flag in such system to help out, be it Amrine or a higher difficulty dungeon. Tanks and healers are a rare breed at the moment. There’s no incentive to be one. Healers are squishy and tanks are super jank with healers pulling more agro than a tank. Even with the taunt ability and a 300% gem.
You forgot the link to the quotes.
And for the Musket range… well, it was already pointed oit how stupid this demand ist.