04-22-2005, 01:45 AM
personaly I think the lack of balance issue is a problem blizzard jumped into head first, while boasting about how they had EQ guilds leaders giving them advice on design. These people should of known better on the tipe of advice they gave, and warned them, but /shrug
Mainly what i'm talking about is the pvp class balancing vs pve balancing. powers that are pve balanced can be a ftw button in pvp. Blizzard then nerfs the power for pvp and that breaks the power to uselessness for pve.
EQ the game wow is most based off on, early on tried balancing pve with pvp like blizzard is doing. Finaly around the time of right before kunark xpac came out(I believe), they gave up and publicly said we dont' have the resources to fully balance for both. We're going to balance primarly for PVE, with pvp balancing a secondary concern.
blizzard is now trying to do the dual balance thing to now, and from what I understand, with just about the same comparative human resources that Veriant\SOE had on their core design team. Truthfuly in the long run i realy doubt they'll be able to do it
Mainly what i'm talking about is the pvp class balancing vs pve balancing. powers that are pve balanced can be a ftw button in pvp. Blizzard then nerfs the power for pvp and that breaks the power to uselessness for pve.
EQ the game wow is most based off on, early on tried balancing pve with pvp like blizzard is doing. Finaly around the time of right before kunark xpac came out(I believe), they gave up and publicly said we dont' have the resources to fully balance for both. We're going to balance primarly for PVE, with pvp balancing a secondary concern.
blizzard is now trying to do the dual balance thing to now, and from what I understand, with just about the same comparative human resources that Veriant\SOE had on their core design team. Truthfuly in the long run i realy doubt they'll be able to do it