03-02-2010, 02:07 PM
Quote:Actually, though, this feels like further dumbing down the game. It may just be a shift in how we understand the game, but I'll have to see it to believe it. It does make sense for Blizz to dumb it down from a business stand, I guess. There are a lot of people that want to just kill stuff and get phat lewtz, but I have always preferred to have to gain knowledge along with skill. I think that the easier they make it, the faster people lose interest. It is quite a way off yet, so I have no doubt there will be huge changes in what we actually see.
In some ways I'm glad that some of these changes are going in - I hated juggling around the defense minimum and arguing with idiots that there isn't a defense CAP but a minimum. And trying to have a conversation about diminishing returns was useless. Further I hated that if I hadn't kept current on a weapon that my threat sucked for tanking.
It also annoyed me to no end that it was always far easier to level up weapon skills on Sharanna my paladin than Shalandrax my warrior.:P