02-18-2005, 03:12 PM
Bolty,Feb 18 2005, 08:00 AM Wrote:I've already accepted as fact that each player thinks their class/talent spread is the "worst soloer" in the game. The grass is always greener on the other side. If you look at the general class forums, players of all classes constantly think that their class is underpowered and can't solo as well as all the other ones. I think this is reinforced by group play - after all, you kill things so much faster in groups, so it has to be the other classes that are doing so well, right? So whenever I hear someone say how their class is such a terrible soloer, I just let it go. :)
I play a Holy/Disc priest. I kill very slowly. I also can't be killed unless I *really* screw up or try to take on 4-5 baddies at once. I realize that's the tradeoff, and have played enough other classes (warrior, warlock, mage, rogue) to know that things are pretty well balanced.
-Bolty
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This is a problem in EVERY online game. It was this way in the World War II combat flight sim I flew for six months. Everyone swore the opposing side's planes were uber/unbalanced/whatever.
I've been playing WoW all of ~3 weeks. I started playing on the 28th of February. I now have 10 characters, a 22 Human Warrior, a 15 Troll Warrior, and the other 8 are one of each class, some Horde, some Alliance, all of those 8 in the lvl 10-12 range.
All of those classes have a ton of ways they can be configured. I'm having as much fun exploring as anything at this point, and I switch chars a lot. I spent all this week getting some of the young chars to 10, to their class quests, and doing those, then I went back to my then 18 warrior, and have leveled her to 22. It's nice to be able to walk through the Wetlands and whack the monsters that have killed me so many times on the Teldrassil/IF run. Then I turn around and grab X class and level it some more, to see how it works. It was fun finding that darn edge-of-the-mountain trail in Durotar for the shaman's Call Of Fire quest.....
I pretty much ignore balance whines, as I don't think anyone here has played enough of all the classes to really know for sure. Every class has its easy areas. And its hard ones. Bolty has it right, I think. Balance is pretty good, it all comes down to what you want from it.
--Mav