AK Mouths Off Yet Again

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And now, a response to the original post:

I agree wholeheartedly about the fundamental skill changes that must be made in order to achieve this 'balance" and Blizzard likes to talk about.

But I personally don't think that any of the classes truly suck. Each class can hold its own in hell. It's just a matter of who can kill monsters as fast as possible with as little risk as possible. Druids and paladins are formidable tanks and can be killing machines. But compare a melee-er with a ranged attacker such as a bowazon. For all the damage and blocking and speed and whatnot the melee-er can dish out, all the ranged attacker has to do is sit behind the meat shield (be it a merc, a valk, or other another player) and plink away with little or no risk involved.

In fact (I just thought of this), the most powerful and easy to play classes all have one thing in common: their ability to stay out of harm's way (well all right, the Necro can do the same...but he's an exception to the rule :P ). The Bowazon and Sorceress obviously fall under this category. The other uber-class is the Barbarian with his Whirlwind. Whirlwind is a special skill in that it's not only a melee skill, but it also moves the player away from monsters as the maneuver strikes so that the player will be out of range by the time monsters finish their attack animation. So in that sense, the Barbarian can also be considered a "ranged attacker".