05-10-2003, 11:16 PM
Quote:And just what judgement call would that be, praytell? We already know that sickeningly "good" items are going to be thrown in. That right there kills any chance for balance.
We know of three items that are going to be thrown in so far, the phase blade, the jewel, and the barb "shifting" helm, the rest is our favorite word of the day "Speculation". The latter two aren't uber at all. The first is. When I think of balance, I think of a player that is legit. A legit player will never 'probally' find these items. And IF the player does, he damn well deserves it. And if you are a balance freak who attains one of these items, you can A) sell it to charsi or B) do it what I do, balance it yourself. Put it on a character that you would least expect using such an item.
You know you don't have to use these items? I don't use 1.09 items that I consider unbalanced.
Of course there is always the hackers/cheaters, but that is a entirely different issue. PVP is also a different issue. (PVP is too hard, and hackers/cheaters is "unrelated" blizzard's balance issues)
Quote:Want me to be blunt? There's virtually no way for a two-man group to balance anything. Period. It's just not feasible. There are simply too many things that, regardless of how good you are at spotting broken elements AND fixing them, you'll miss. And we've already seen that the Q&A department, at least in the past, has been much less than adequate (for TWO games now, they've flat out stated that they "don't test the game in Nightmare or Hell difficulty"? Come on, guys...). I'll be the first to admit, given the amount of time this patch has been in development, it does show at least a bit more potential (potentially ) than previous patches. But, again, look at the history
I never played your mod, but you say it is more balanced than LoD. Yet you are only one person :P
I think you see where im going ;)
It is two programmers, they had other's people opinions too. Entire battle.net for that matter. (Not that is a good thing mind you :) )
Quote:Care to point out where I commented on something that "doesn't exist"? I'd be really interested to see this. And if you can call me on it, I'll gladly eat my words. Because, for the life of me, I can't think of a single instance.
Sure, this one is easy, it is in this very post that you meantion something of this sort :).
Quote: and 2) skills
There is no documentation of 1.10 skills as of yet ^^, only speculation. (actually I am jesting, and tired so I could of misunderstood you on this)