Shard Skin Barrels! Pretty Please!

Quik wrote: ↑

Fri 29 May 2020 4:51 PM

Riac wrote: ↑

Fri 29 May 2020 2:23 PM

He's straw manning at the least. He claims making shard skins into a barrel somehow caters to the elite (lol). when asked to explain how, he doesn't explain at all and rants about a slippery slope.
I'm pretty warm to the slippery slope idea in a lot of cases ,but this is dumb as hell. Being able to make a barrel of dmg shield is purely qol. The 10 use potion will still exist.
Isn't he a ranger player? I could be wrong, but it would sure as hell explain his dumb stance on buffs lol.

Because the changes NEVER END.

I have no issues with quality of life, but I have argued against everything that dilutes the classes.

Slippery slope means that once you start down a path it starts picking up speed...lets look at that...

People got buff pots and barrels on certain buffs, and immediately they wanted more. We got combined force pots/barrels and AGAIN they complain, this time it isn't long enough. They let you double up the duration and AGAIN people complain it still isn't long enough and on top of that now you want even more buffs put into barrels. That is literally the definition of slippery slope because it is never ending and for every buff they give the players want more and more and more. Every time.

Now look at horses. Some people wanted horses and they finally add them and what is the first thing people do? They complain horses aren't good enough and are already demanding they lift the restrictions they put on horses. So far the dev's have said they don't plan on doing that, but of course they also swore they would never had horses in the first place. This is the start of a slippery slope.

Soloers wanted a place they could go and solo in safety and they finally got the pvp zone. How did that go? Well some classes were mad that other classes were better at soloing and cried that they were too powerful and wanted restrictions on WHAT soloing classes could enter or how long they could stay?!?!

And as for why I don't want buff pots? They dilute the classes. Just let everyone have a freakin buffbot at this point because that is all this is. Remove all pots and let what makes each class special stand out. Yeah, I know it will not happen. I understand soloers love them and help them be much more powerful, but at the expense of what makes some classes special. I know pots won't ever leave, but I am certainly hoping they do not make them even more of a luxury.

Right now if a casual player wants to go out and even REMOTELY compete, they need to spend most, if not all of their plat on a temp, then on top of that they need to manage all the pots and they NEED them or they will get destroyed. The casual can't just be casual and do much unless they join the zerg.

Soloers complain that the zerg runs them over, but how do you think a casual feels when they go out solo and run over by a fully temped NS fully potted and gets every dot/poison/debuff/disease unloaded on them within seconds? The soloers are PART of the reason the zerg exists because casuals aren't interested in going through the needed prereqs just to be even remotely competitive.

I stand by my signature quote because I have always argued we need to do more for the casual player, yet we cater more and more to the elitist. BTW, Elitist is not a bad term, it simply means they micromanage every possible stat to be as powerful as possible, and there is nothing wrong with that, but it completely eliminates the casual of having a chance except the zerg.

My quote means everyone has a place, and soloers act like they have zero game here when in fact I see a lot of soloing all over. I was in EV yesterday on my bard and saw a SB and Infi fighting 1 on 1. The SB had like ZERO health and I could have kited him easily but I didn't. I watched and waved and moved on. This is not a rare occasion, I see it more and more even when in groups. Sometimes we slaughter them and sometimes we don't.

My quote applies more to me and what I would like to see in the game, then it does to half the soloing players because all I hear are bitches and complaints the game doesn't favor them more because the class they play doesn't have speed or str/con self buff or dmg add or whatever. I have no problems with people soloing, but I do not want classes reduced to a single class on each realm which is what it seems like people keep screaming for here.

Who wants to change the game more? Myself who wants each class to have the specialty it was designed to have, or the people who want every class to have access to every buff in the game?

Again, I stand by my quote because I want everyone to be able to play without giving more advantages to 1 group of people screaming the game is skewed against them, when the fact is, the game was designed to be skewed against them. Stealthers were designed to solo because they could hide and pick their fight, but now everyone wants to play every class and they want to be able to avoid groups who happen to have faster speed. They want horses that would allow them to be faster then caster/warden blue speed and only slightly less fast then yellow. The reasoning? Well apparently people don't like that only some classes get speed and others do.

I'm not arguing what classes should or shouldn't have. I am arguing to leave DAOC how it was designed, at least in RvR.

Every day there is another post demanding that classes be buffed or nerfed because they aren't the top of the food chain. The game is SUPPOSED to be balanced around group play, yet all we see are people whining that some soloing classes are better. Of course they are, its the nature of an MMO. I love my SDkald because he has speed, but I love my warrior because he hits hard and is hard to bring down, I understood that when I made both, and I will never whine and complain that my warrior isn't faster because I KNEW HE DIDN'T HAVE SPEED when I made him.