12-16-2007, 05:29 AM
I'm suffering from a severe case of restart-itis.
In yet another attempt at seeing how yet another class works, I've now gotten a Rogue to level 13. And it's been pretty hard from about 11. It's just nearly impossible to solo more than one or two targets at a time, and many quests don't give you any choice. You can't exactly get in behind a target and sap it, so you can handle his buddy, if said buddy is watching the entrance to the house and the other guy has his back right next to a wall. Hello Rogue, come on in, get diced.
Oh and of course right as you start the desperate fight, a patrol you killed a few minutes ago has respawned, resumed his route and walks right by. He joins the fight ... and hello again graveyard. Quest failed for the 7th time.
It probably would be so bad if they didn't send me on quests into areas where all the targets are 1-3 levels higher than me.
The Rogue is ridiculously good one on one, but that isn't possible a good deal of the time.
So I tried the Tauren again, and right you are folks, I didn't have my camera zoom out option at max. Zooming out all the way helps, but it also has the side effect of making it seem like the character is really slow. This isn't my imagination, is it? Tauren aren't any slower than regular characters?
Which leads me to a couple more questions. Before I go with a Tauren Druid, it would help to know:
1. Does equipment matter for a Druid that shapeshifts? As in, do armor, weapon damage or enhancements carry over into the bear/cat form?
2. Is the Druid solo-able? Does he have crowd control?
I ask the second one because so far the little grouping I've done has been more frustrating than enjoyable. People seem to be clueless about the roles of other characters, or even simple things like pulling one target away instead of rushing in to fight all three. It's like D2 public games all over again.
In yet another attempt at seeing how yet another class works, I've now gotten a Rogue to level 13. And it's been pretty hard from about 11. It's just nearly impossible to solo more than one or two targets at a time, and many quests don't give you any choice. You can't exactly get in behind a target and sap it, so you can handle his buddy, if said buddy is watching the entrance to the house and the other guy has his back right next to a wall. Hello Rogue, come on in, get diced.
Oh and of course right as you start the desperate fight, a patrol you killed a few minutes ago has respawned, resumed his route and walks right by. He joins the fight ... and hello again graveyard. Quest failed for the 7th time.
It probably would be so bad if they didn't send me on quests into areas where all the targets are 1-3 levels higher than me.
The Rogue is ridiculously good one on one, but that isn't possible a good deal of the time.
So I tried the Tauren again, and right you are folks, I didn't have my camera zoom out option at max. Zooming out all the way helps, but it also has the side effect of making it seem like the character is really slow. This isn't my imagination, is it? Tauren aren't any slower than regular characters?
Which leads me to a couple more questions. Before I go with a Tauren Druid, it would help to know:
1. Does equipment matter for a Druid that shapeshifts? As in, do armor, weapon damage or enhancements carry over into the bear/cat form?
2. Is the Druid solo-able? Does he have crowd control?
I ask the second one because so far the little grouping I've done has been more frustrating than enjoyable. People seem to be clueless about the roles of other characters, or even simple things like pulling one target away instead of rushing in to fight all three. It's like D2 public games all over again.