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Ludullu_(NiKr) wrote: »

Flanker wrote: »

In other words, listening to feedback is always a mistake, cause someone will always complain.

Finally. Time to close forums and stop posting / whining. Win - Win all around.

Not be balanced completely based on stealth. I'm in it for the mobility, evasiveness and survivability. If stealth is so strong that it's a requirement to be effective, with no other viable strategies, then that will be extremely disappointing.

I'd even go so far as to trade Stealth for more evasiveness with a tank augment - making me 'blurred' and harder to hit, but not actually making me invisible.

I've encountered these moments in every MMO I've played, where mechanics can be cleverly used to gain an advantage.

In Ragnarok Online, as a Wizard, I discovered a trick with Ice Wall. Normally, you couldn't trap creatures inside it. But by kiting them strategically from the south or west, you could freeze them in place. Then, by placing a second Ice Wall behind them, you could negate the knockback effect from Jupitel Thunder, or you could lay down a large AoE to farm them effectively. It was a fantastic farming method that took full advantage of the game’s mechanics.

In World of Warcraft, as a Mage, you could double-dip on the Shatter talent, which gave a big crit chance against frozen targets. First, you’d hard-cast Frostbolt and immediately follow with Fire Blast for massive damage. Another Mage trick was using Blink to negate fall damage, and Priests could time Shadow Word: Death perfectly to reflect damage (since the target wouldn't die), making it a sneaky way to dispel Polymorph. As a Rogue, especially in Subtlety spec, you could use Sprint to close the distance and sap mobs that could normally see through stealth.

All of this reminds me of a Beethoven quote: "Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine." These little tricks and techniques feel like glimpses into the hidden mastery of a game, turning you from a player into a true artist of your craft.

I feel like a point that could be missed here is that, high level mats for processing or gathering at freehold will not be risk free… due to materials always being droppable transporting them to and from freeholds from the node is a risk, also for the case of gatherables we don’t know for example if seeds are single use for higher tier items.

I understand that the main point here is player access to a system required as progression for professions should not be able to be gatekeeped by other players.

But

I don’t particularly see an issue with the current design, part of the design ideas that I have seen from intrepid is exclusivity, and large achievement should require group effort, your complaining that the top 5% of processing/crafting shouldn’t be gatekeeped by other people but realistically only the top 5% of guilds will even have access to those mats from world bosses a solo player was never going to get access to those mats in the first place.

In the side of player experience earning your way into a freehold should feel like an achievement and should be achievable with effort but I still lean to the side of freeholds should be group owned. Always in node housing for casual players… which I will be

Blip wrote: »

Defenetly, lets hope none of the kits are final.

They've previously said there'll be 40 skills for each archetype, with players selecting 12-15. this was a long time ago and may have changed.

I very much doubt this is the final version - just enough to be playable from 1-25.

Bard feels the most developed of them. The other classes need another pass to bring them up to the Bard's level.
Remember the max level currently 25, with different specs and path so as not to have all the skills. Bard feels like the only class truly at 25 with full choice - the others feel like they are 'locked in' to one path (except mage which feels like its locked into being a generalist - it needs about double the amount of skills for each element)

Mages have the fewest skills because they're swinging the biggest dicks on the field. I heard you need two hands to handle their staff.

Myosotys wrote: »

Noaani wrote: »

Zehlan wrote: »

for the person who has work, kids, wife aggro, the people who are the average players it does and the game is already going to put enough pressure on those casual players you don't need to pile on more.

Keep in mind, Ashes is not being made for the average gamer.

It is being made for Steven.

Steven is a gamer who will use his millions of dollars to get a guild that is basically fanatical, and will do what ever he asks them to do in game, because they want money from him (note, a number of staff at Intrepid are guild mates of his).

That is why this game is built top down - that is how Steven seems MMORPG's.

Steven is used to "the little people" just being there, because that is what he knows. He probably doesn't even realise that this is how things have been for him because those people wanted money from him, not because they were enjoying the gameplay experience they were getting.

This is why I have spent years arguing on these forums. My arguments have all been around the notion that this game needs to be more aimed at the average gamer, not at Steven. If you look back at any argument I have ever found myself in on these forums, it has been about me trying to get this game to focus less on the type of gameplay Steven thinks is what makes an MMORPG, and more in to the type of gameplay my understanding of the average MMORPG player would expect.

This is about your imagination and naive interpretation. The reality is you don't know shit about what Steven will do.

Perhaps I do, perhaps I don't.

I see what is put in front me of, I think back to Steven when he was playing Archeage, I see parallels to how he played that game and how he is developing this one.

I could be right, I could be wrong. However, I would rather speak up and be wrong than keep quiet and be right.

Edit to add; I will state that a lot of people (here on the forums, as well as not here) get actually angry at me for my take on the game. Not so much because they have any way of saying I'm wrong, but because they don't want to hear it.

They want Ashes to be that game that (to them) saves MMORPG's, and they know that if I am right, it absolutely will not do that. They don't want to hear what I'm saying even if I turn out to be 100% right.

Fact is, anyone that legitimately thinks I am wrong would have no reason to get angry at me, or to lash out at me kind of like the above (not that the above was much at all). People that get angry at what I say seem to only get angry because they know there is a good chance I'm right.

" Shadowmancer " seems already to be the darkest, though.