07-16-2003, 12:00 PM
I wholeheartedly agree with what you're saying regarding party experience and efficient parties. I too, really liked the old D2C model, although after a while being assigned to a certain area got old. Still, since we have A5 now, there should be enough room to accomodate everyone, as long as 1 area is not incredibly exploitable. I'd take that any day over 2 sorcs and a zon having a gaggle of leechers parked at the red portal, or following a screen behind pawing through what the chars who kill leave behind. Instead of raising the difficulty (aka making it harder on the capable players), there should be a focus on getting rid of the leechers. This 2 screen radius thing doesn't help too much. 2 capable characters often drift more than a screen apart, and leechers can still stay a safe distance behind the real players. Everyone should have to pull their weight.
That being said, if this were ever to be instated, there would need to be some actual attempt at game balance, such as sorcs and zons losing their ability to clear out 20 enemies in the time it takes other classes to kill 2-3, and the necro actually having some sort of offensive capability besides CE (good luck killing hell diablo with a necro).
That being said, if this were ever to be instated, there would need to be some actual attempt at game balance, such as sorcs and zons losing their ability to clear out 20 enemies in the time it takes other classes to kill 2-3, and the necro actually having some sort of offensive capability besides CE (good luck killing hell diablo with a necro).