06-25-2003, 05:29 PM
the Langolier,Jun 24 2003, 06:58 PM Wrote:Melee characters have always been less powerful than ranged and spell casters. Who cares? That is the way it is supposed to be - look at Diablo 1. If you don't like it, don't play those characters. If you want to play an amazon but don't like the fact that they are over powered, then don't use strafe or multishot. Don't use an item that grants 100% pierce. Use skills that fire one arrow at a time which only hit one enemy at a time. You might find that an amazons low damage starts to become an issue when you are shooting one frenzytaur out of five who are charging at you.Yeah, well, the trouble is that if I try to play on b.net with my more fun/less powerful character, I get sompletely effing smoked by everyone else in the party. I played my elementalist druid through to a Patriarch, soloed Hell Baal, raised him to Level 85 and hunted down the best equipment I could find for months. And the second I would hop in a game with a Sorc, Barb or Zon, I may as well have been standing still for all the good I was doing. That is not any fun.
The reason I want balance so desperately - and in this case, balance is just a lack of uber-builds - is so that I can try out new classes and strats and still have them be viable (if unexceptional) for mainstream b.net play.