DPS nerf. Killed arcanite reaper beginning of "normalization" of vanilla where Blizzard started changing anything that wasn't working the way they wanted (in the case of 1.6 nuked slow weapon DPS which made many blues better than purples). It's too bad, because if Blizzard had embraced things like the Arcanite Reaper (like SOE did with FD splitting) WoW might have become a good game.
But how? They would have just introduced new weapons at 4.0 speed instead of 3.8. There would be absolutely no difference.
I suppose you played DPS then.... play tank or heals and run the damn grp.
Did you not play WoW at that point? Instant attacks made slower speed higher damage weapons better. So slower, high damage weapons like the AR were better than purples with faster speed but lower damage.
I did and I know. What I'm saying is, how did the adjustment of those rares change anything? If they didn't normalize that stuff, they would have just created new epics with the same attack speed as the blues, but more damage.
It screwed over the hundreds? thousands? of people who had spent time getting those weapons in particular Arcanite Reapers and/or who had passed on faster and less useful rares.
It helps if you read the thread before dissing the fanboys. I and others have pointed out several times that EQ allowed for multiple playstyles. If you want to be doing something all the time (no downtime) you played a puller, if you wanted a more leisurely game you could play a DPS. If you wanted a social game you could play a Warrior or Cleric and run groups. You could find a class to fit your playstyle. In McMMO all you can do is smash buttons, no matter the class.
My bad for not being clear in the original post - was a long time ago. Maybe they should have done what you suggested ;-)
Wait so you get to be the judge of what proper MMO combat is? Or EQ gets to dictate the genre because it was first? I'm not following your logic here.
No wonder nobody takes you seriously. Your snarky, flippant attitude aside, guess you better stick to EQ where the combat is proper. This isn't the game you're looking for.
Hahahah. Ad hominems when you've got nothing better to say.
Yep. I saw which way Blizzard was going and quit a few patches after that. SOE's guilty of similar things removing items they considered OP, so I'm sure if EQN is any good the best years will be the first year or three.
I think the same patch both got rid of my rare and prized broken tooth's speed bonus, and fixed the glitch that gave my warlock double bonuses from having the pet out and sacrificing them ( <3 goblin jumper cables.) I was doing all sorts of hilarious and fun challenges like breaking into hyjal before it was opened, soloing stuff no one else could because of the warlock glitch. It was unbalanced as hell, but you know what? It was really fun. A lot of the magic and fun died for me when they fixed all the fun shit and standardized the pets. I logged in every few hours to track that damn broken tooth for days, and when I finally tamed it it nearly murdered me and a fellow hunter was just standing back watching and waiting. That's one of those high adrenaline "holy shit this is fun and I'm emotionally invested in this!" moments that later wow expansions didn't have for me.
No, what I describe is what GW2's combat was supposed to be. And, for most classes, is. You have your auto-attack, then a bunch of situational abilities (notably dodge) on cooldown/short-term resource. Press 1, then react using 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 depending on what's needed. Alas, a lot of classes still have a "plain DPS" button or two (or more) where you don't have to think: press them when they come off cooldown.
