One Shotting Is Here!

[Occhidiangela]

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This mirrors modern war pretty well. The battle of the first salvo is a long standing model for tactical success, as is the ever elusive search for The Initiative.

Why to I bring that up? Modern war, since the advent of the invisible battlefield with the introduction of rifling, long range artillery, and missiles, has been an increasingly sophisticated exercise of the sensor and weapon to target linkage.

You are playing a war game. That said, I understand that game should be emphasized, so that balance, like in chess, allows for an element of "fun and amusement" that war itself lacks.

Arms and magic (equipment bonuses are a form of tech magic so to speak) have once again been woven into Blizzard's in-game arms race. Not sure if Blizz is alone in this habit, but the ever increasing search for "the edge" that drives the RL arms race was also found in Diablo II: the Uniques and Runewords get ever more deadly.

It doesn't surprise me that sharp, equipment savvy players use every possible tool they can to achieve that decisive edge and approach the ultimate "sensor to shooter linkage" with a one shot kill. It is well grounded in what war games are reflections of.

I don't think folks playing WoW wish to replicate the kind of realism that some of the FPS (Halo anyone?) games bring in re "I see it I can kill it.

Or do they?

For my money, Mongo Jerry is taking the right tack in suggesting a re look at diminishing returns curves. That's a lot better than the nerf game, and better than the kind of simplistic fixes in Diablo II (just add more HP to monsters) implmented to counter to more powerful weapons/damage output.

Occhi