07-30-2004, 09:25 PM
Hi,
The problem with having a button on the talent pane to reset talents is that then people would switch their talents around based on individual fights.
Good. Then the best combinations for individual types of encounters can be rapidly figured out. And when things get changed then the effects of the changes can be seen at once. When the retail game comes out and we get to PLAY it instead of TESTING it, then we'll know (as will everybody who reads strategy guides) what the trade offs are. At least until the nerfs start rolling out (which I figure is the day after the game ships).
I think the mistake a lot of people (including you) are making is that you're thinking in terms of playing, not testing. Testing involves a lot of different trials of a lot of different combinations. The more combinations are tested, the faster the best builds can be determined, the better the developers can do their job of balancing things out. It is a lot better for one person to be able to try thirty builds in one day than to have to spend a month to test one. Ideally, in testing, you should be able to build a character at the log in screen of any class, race, level, with any combination of stats and any gear (from what is possible). You object, saying, "Then people would just build uber characters"? My answer, "the players will, the testers will not." And right now, testing is the objective. Or so it seems to me.
But, hey. Just my opinion looking at it from the "I want to learn everything that's knowable" about this game. And from the "I want them to put out the best damned game ever."
--Pete
The problem with having a button on the talent pane to reset talents is that then people would switch their talents around based on individual fights.
Good. Then the best combinations for individual types of encounters can be rapidly figured out. And when things get changed then the effects of the changes can be seen at once. When the retail game comes out and we get to PLAY it instead of TESTING it, then we'll know (as will everybody who reads strategy guides) what the trade offs are. At least until the nerfs start rolling out (which I figure is the day after the game ships).
I think the mistake a lot of people (including you) are making is that you're thinking in terms of playing, not testing. Testing involves a lot of different trials of a lot of different combinations. The more combinations are tested, the faster the best builds can be determined, the better the developers can do their job of balancing things out. It is a lot better for one person to be able to try thirty builds in one day than to have to spend a month to test one. Ideally, in testing, you should be able to build a character at the log in screen of any class, race, level, with any combination of stats and any gear (from what is possible). You object, saying, "Then people would just build uber characters"? My answer, "the players will, the testers will not." And right now, testing is the objective. Or so it seems to me.
But, hey. Just my opinion looking at it from the "I want to learn everything that's knowable" about this game. And from the "I want them to put out the best damned game ever."
--Pete
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