03-07-2009, 11:06 PM
Quote: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.
I slightly disagree on this point. Personally, I think Oskills\cross-skills are not necessarily the problem, but Oskills that involves a high level skill such as Teleport.
Quote: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.
Yup. Considering what I've seen of the majority of b.net actually wants, I agree that the forecast ain't likely.
Quote: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.
Yes it's a bit of a downer, despite my carping on bliz they can and do make at least a technically stable, and addictive games. But yeah what you just said. Bliz is not exactly known for a light touch when it comes to D2. I wouldn't be surprised if this will be just another case of more of the same. I'd be happy if I was proven wrong, but we'll see when it comes out.