03-07-2009, 07:27 PM
Heiho,
moaning about Teleport like it is done at first and lst page of the thread (I didn't care to read about 30 pages in between) misses one main point:
most of serious balance issues and indeed the overall party-denying qualities of LoD result from all that crossclass skill stuff. It destroyed the unique-ness of the classes, already with LoD release and the most important curses available to anyone. To bring me back to bnet would require to remove all this stuff, so I'd have a reason to play or ally with a Pal because of his aurae, a Nec because of his curses, a Barb because of his cries, a ranged class because of its abilities to dispatch the nastier bosses (FE O_/ MEAT) etc.
But I'd be really surprised if blizz would show the balls to remove this stuff, because it's always hard to take a step back; and the majority of bnet population wouldn't honour this.
One can do amazing things with the according technical properties, but this needs a lot of care regarding item/affix design; it needs for sure more care than just adding another heap of new items which will be either only interesting to overall-collectors, or shooting balance even more through the roof. Or than adding another Uber Event which is only solvable for players with no limit in resources.
I myself don't need more items, quests, classes. I want to play a game which is balanced so that I can play it completely through the acts/diffs without the need of endless hours of grinding, if only I spend some care into the character's skill design - and not into its equipment as main focus. I can do this currently, but not online, because online my chosen char is - regardless of class - unattractive to party with, because it can't offer anything useful to a party which won't already exist item-wise.
Without a party there's no reason to play online. /players x is sufficient.
moaning about Teleport like it is done at first and lst page of the thread (I didn't care to read about 30 pages in between) misses one main point:
most of serious balance issues and indeed the overall party-denying qualities of LoD result from all that crossclass skill stuff. It destroyed the unique-ness of the classes, already with LoD release and the most important curses available to anyone. To bring me back to bnet would require to remove all this stuff, so I'd have a reason to play or ally with a Pal because of his aurae, a Nec because of his curses, a Barb because of his cries, a ranged class because of its abilities to dispatch the nastier bosses (FE O_/ MEAT) etc.
But I'd be really surprised if blizz would show the balls to remove this stuff, because it's always hard to take a step back; and the majority of bnet population wouldn't honour this.
One can do amazing things with the according technical properties, but this needs a lot of care regarding item/affix design; it needs for sure more care than just adding another heap of new items which will be either only interesting to overall-collectors, or shooting balance even more through the roof. Or than adding another Uber Event which is only solvable for players with no limit in resources.
I myself don't need more items, quests, classes. I want to play a game which is balanced so that I can play it completely through the acts/diffs without the need of endless hours of grinding, if only I spend some care into the character's skill design - and not into its equipment as main focus. I can do this currently, but not online, because online my chosen char is - regardless of class - unattractive to party with, because it can't offer anything useful to a party which won't already exist item-wise.
Without a party there's no reason to play online. /players x is sufficient.