07-23-2006, 03:18 PM
Quote:Hi,
Found a rather nice response in the battle.net thread by a user called Spirit_x33x:
I'm not so sure about point 2), but the rest of it sounds fairly reasonable.
I had crafted an answer to the corresponding AB thread which I can't access now, but several points adressed by this user were in it, too.
Greetings, Fragbait
Very interesting ideas, thanks for the post Fragbait - and hopefully when the AB opens back up we can bring in some more discussion from both sites.
I have to agree with our friend Spirit_x33x about number 1. Increasing the rune drops would help out the legit player - I haven't seen any of the top 5 runes drop, let alone find one myself, in 3 years worth of solid playing. And getting rid of the absurd high end runes would help everyone out immensely. The super high end words create a class disparity, one that a legit player can very rarely overcome. Through trading it is possible for the legit player to get their hands on one, but if you are morally against high end trading (due to the high chance of trading a bot hacked/duped item) there is no hope.
As for number 2, I have to disagree. As much as I'd like to think revealing a map would curb Maphack use and make it a level playing field, from what I can glean map hack adds features not available in the game - meaning it will be around regardless of map reveal. Not to mention having the map revealed everytime would make the game a bore.
The suggestions about spells by Spirit_x33x are solid suggestions. Although at the moment I don't have any concrete ideas about how to do this, but will some one for the love of god fix the barbarian class? I'm not a large barbarian player, but for good reason - the class has basically been broken since 1.10. For a class based entirely on brute physical strength, they play more like a mouse than a lion.
As for the necromancer, sigh. I love the necromancer class immensely, but it still needs some polishing. Poison Nova, Bone Spear, and Bone Spirit need some kind of slight boost to be hell viable. Other spells like Poison Dagger have a whole lot of potential, but no real pay off.
I'll have to mull this over some more. Good idea for a post Fragbait,
Cheers,
Munk