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Why even bother? Why make one a niche tank and the other not? Why not just make evasion tanking another aspect of the tank classes themselves? Going back to Zehn the MMO again, the soldier, ninja and psionist all have a base 50% mitigation and 25% avoidance in similar gear. The solider again...

Yes. I"d post it again but we just discussed this like 3 pages ago and even then it was just a rehash of the discussion we had about it like 30 pages ago. Cliff notes though: DPS isn"t a class role. It"s just something everyone does. Done. Eve is one of those games I love to hear other people...

tl;dr version: We want smart mobs...but not too smart. Threat is mostly the result of not being able to properly block mobs and whatnot. What keeps mobs in DnD and whatnot engaged on your tanks is that you"ll murder their ass if they try to peel off and more often then not you can corner them or...

As far as tanking goes, holding threat isn"t really the fun part. While pushing dps is fun in and of itself, having to tab sunder tab sunder or mouseover sunder wasn"t that very interesting. You can go on all you like about "omg skill!" but it wasn"t really entertaining. You might as well give a...

Pretty sure you can still have level restrictions. I said merge, not replace. And even then you can have that ability C requires that you have ability A and B first. Think outside the bun. <3

Look Grave, you"ve got a fangirl! Awwww....Grave"s a big enough boy to stand up for himself. If he thinks I"m being a douche he"ll tell me. Silly little troll. You"d have to come up with a ton of idea"s which is why I think it hasn"t been heavily invested in yet. No reason to half-ass it and...

Fuck, there you go. Have the tutorial pop up while installing/patching. There may yet be some hope for you Grave. <3

I didn"t find the lotr one to be too obtrusive. I think after WoW most people are going to be familiar with general FPS/MMO controls. So long as a game doesn"t use some retarded shit like Aion and middle mouse button to swivel camera (seriously? damn crazians). So the tutorial is good for...

Unrest and Aviak"s. Welcome to what 80%+ of the people who had to group did. Not saying you couldn"t go somewhere else, just saying that most people didn"t. Unrest, Oasis, SK, HH, LGuK and SolB were pretty much it for most people once they got out of their starting area. Again, my main point...

And lastly! Tanking balance isn"t really that hard. Blizzard got close at the start of WotLK. All they really needed to do was normalize HP, give paladins another defensive cooldown and warriors/paladins were pretty goddamn close. They scaled similarly and had relatively close EH"s...

I don"t think the name really matters. Sometimes simple is really good as well. Is anything really as iconic to the casting class as "Fireball." No reason you can"t use a mix of both though. Would Ice Comet really be more awesome if they threw some random fantasy name in front of it? And as...

Wait a second, what? I think you"re misremembering here. Tirisfall, Mulgor, Durotar, Teldrassil, Dun Morogh and Elwynn Forest are all vastly different. And most of them bleed over into completely different secondary zones. Granted there"s little difference between kill 10 rats and collect 10...

Only because it gives me an excuse to google up pictures of Alyson. Yummy.

I love that interview. 100% of updates about Copernicus for the next year are going to be, "The game is coming along great, we really enjoy it and we have a good team. We think players will enjoy it a lot as well. It"s going to be amazing." Throw in a few buzzwords like innovative, ground...

All I have to say to that is, "LF1M healer then g2g"

Making healing interesting is only half the battle and there are a myriad of ways to do so. How do you solve the soft cap on tanks/healers then though? The easiest is to remove healing and make fights a zero sum game. You start with 10 million health as a raid and once that"s gone, it"s over...

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I do think the mountain pass thing is a bit overused though. Elwynn/duskwood/westfall use a river and that works fine and feels slightly more natural. That could be since I"m from the midwest and that"s how we do most of our borders out here. Everywhere else feels like Oregon with all the...

The real irony is if you get the multiboxer addon, it takes care of sending quest updates to all your slave accounts so all you need is for them to be in quest range when you do them. I use it when doing dailies with my warlock/priest/paladin setup. Personally, I want to be there when he...

Hat trick post?! I think it"s mostly for the on rails adventure. You"ll notice most of these narrow passages lead directly to a new quest hub. I think it"s done mostly because it"s easier for designers to say, "Okay...this is where they enter, now where do they go?" Plus they sorta kinda do...

-Fuck- reagents. That"s another nuisance that needs to die a painful death. If you get a hadron for the idea of material components for spells, then use Catalysts and don"t make it take up an inventory slot.

tl;dr version: Three class roles in tank (reduces damage to himself, controls agro), defensive support (reduces damage everybody takes via buffs/debuffs) and offensive support (increases raids dps via buffs/debuffs). Remove healing so that you aren"t locked into tanking minimum amount of...

Napkin math based on Sam"s current leveling speed shows that provided Blizzard continues with a roughly 2 year content release cycle for 10 new levels, it will actually be impossible for Sam to catch up to max level characters.

That would have been awesome. Isildur standing there with 7 elven healers spamming greater heal on him as he fought with Sauron. Everytime Sauron struck a blow and shattered one of Isildurs ribs, have Isildur plead with them to stop healing him so he could die a peaceful death instead of...

My post was getting ridiculously long so I cut a lot out of it. One of those being that yeah, you"d need to avoid hard counters like that. Rather then including 2 mobs that need to be CC"d....the two mobs can be CC"d, or if you have no CC"ers they can be off tanked, or they can be flat out DPS"d...

WoW has had a handful of fights that don"t use this mechanic and they"ve worked out fine. It"s pretty easy to design for and the best part is it really reinforces the "bring people who are good at the game" vs. "we need at least 5 priests to beat this fight, I don"t care if they are mouth...

Oh, and while it"s bugging me...as awesome and important as animations are to a game, don"t add an instant-cast ability and then make the effect go off only after a 2 second animation. What"s even more insulting is when it forces you to stop moving to play the animation. I bring this up...

Well, that"s kinda just what I said. Make everybody a hybrid. Nobody is pure DPS solves the #1 problem of having hybrid classes. You don"t have to abandon the damage/support archtype. You just have to abandon shitty design. Hybridism fails hard in the presence of pure classes because it never...

First off, balance is necessary for fun. Nobody wants to be the shit class. Trust me, after spending 2 years in every way inferior to Paladins as a Priest and then in a feat of massive irony switching to Paladin and spending the next 4 years getting more and more inferior to Priests...it isn"t...

Sounds to me like he did. Oh, and multiboxer does what Sam"s macro does, only faster and without the spam should any of your slaves/alts not be online. You just have to, y"know, not be retarded.

Then just do as Vinen and I suggested and have unique classes for each race. Why have ogre"s and elves be warriors but one is STR based and the other AGI based when you could make it so much more interesting by having Ogre"s be Brutalizers and elves be Rangers with completely different ability...

See, that"s an insane increase in workload all to what, make a retadin but call it an ogre-wizard instead? Rather then making players feel unique you"re just going to water everything down anyways. All you"re really doing is saying, "okay ogre"s warriors use attack power to cast magic, while...

It"s largely a semantic difference. Crit rating has 3 effects for me as a Paladin. How is that any different then what you"re proposing? What"s more important is making sure players understand an item is an upgrade or not compared to what they"re currently using. Design the system however you...

The real joke of it was even if you did lose your corpse, you could petition and they"d give it back. We had 3 people do that in our guild over the course of the first few years. At that point I no longer feared death in EQ in so much as I could lose my corpse. I only feared death because it...

Eh, it"s not entirely applicable. MMO"s are perfectly fine with killing you off. The difference between dying in a DnD campaign and losing some/all of your progress is then the DM can come up with an entirely new adventure for an entirely new band of adventurers. He doesn"t just bust out the...

Part of it is consistency though. WoW did this a little bit with certain tradeskills. The thing was some tradeskills/classes had a lot of mini-quests, other"s didn"t and rather then commit to making it interesting, they just said, "fuck it put a trainer in every city, no more class specific...

The goal is... 1) It allows developers to create more freebranching, campaign length quests. For example, there"s quest for Horde that starts in Darkshire, takes you out to desolace and back. The reward in WoW? 2k xp, some gold and vendortrash. This is probably the least done quest in WoW...

Did you really just suggest AA"s? Shame on you. You go to your room and think about what you just did mister. No dessert for you either.

While this only works the first or second time you do a mob, I feel all character progression should be done this way. Farming boars for experience points to ding a level seems...outdated and trite. Let me climb the wizard"s tower to learn to cast fireballs or fight alongside an ancient hero"s...

I"m not sure how I would feel about this. I kinda roll my eyes as is when I contact a GM and I get some psuedo-roleplay. "*THE CLOUDS PART AND FROM THE HEAVENS DESCENDS GM CYNBAD ON A GOLDEN CHARIOT DRAGGED BY TWO SPECTRAL HORSES ABLAZE WITH FIRE* Greetings, what can I do for you today?"...