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Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
Thoughts on my time as a Tank, and on other general gameplay.
AidanNaut
Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
I'm going to be getting some quick thoughts down, and then add more detail tomorrow after work.
1. To get this one out of the way, I really am not a fan of how melee auto attacks 100% lock you into a movement.
1a. As a tank, whenever I was in a group being the front liner for a boss, leaning ever so slightly to one side while auto attacking would cause me to jettison forward. This would result in turning bosses around. If that boss was a dragon, that meant the rest of the melee damage characters are now getting a face full of dragon tail. Not good.
1b. As any other class, using any melee weapon was a huge detriment. With a wand you can fire off a few quick blasts in between spell casts and maintain good distance. However those that use staffs could end up throwing themselves into danger and miss out on crucial casting time.
1c. I can appreciate there being some sort of forward momentum, but it resulted in some pretty drastic consequences. I would propose instead of a completely forced forward movement that melee auto attacks just add a general amount of velocity forward that can be then modified by the players chosen direction. For example, If one were to backpedal constantly, they would move forward much more slowly. Strafing would result in diagonal movements forward, and full on W+M1 would be hefty lunges.
2. I absolutely loved the Brinda(?) questline. More questlines like this please.
3. Outdoor dungeons are a great concept, but I feel they are a bit one dimensional. I would personally appreciate if there was more than one reason to go to an open dungeon. The two at the starting zone kind of do this, but you would essentially do everything in a single run through anyway.
4. Either Tank threat generation is too low in general, or Tanks are in need of more snap threat generation. Rank 3 Javelin is good for ST stuff. Once a second mob came waltzing in though, good luck ever getting threat on that thing during a fight.
5. I'm hoping that we will get to build fully fleshed out classes soon (as opposed to just using the tank archetype by itself), perhaps a fuller implementation of this system will solve most of the minor gripes with Tank power and gameplay.
1. To get this one out of the way, I really am not a fan of how melee auto attacks 100% lock you into a movement.
1a. As a tank, whenever I was in a group being the front liner for a boss, leaning ever so slightly to one side while auto attacking would cause me to jettison forward. This would result in turning bosses around. If that boss was a dragon, that meant the rest of the melee damage characters are now getting a face full of dragon tail. Not good.
1b. As any other class, using any melee weapon was a huge detriment. With a wand you can fire off a few quick blasts in between spell casts and maintain good distance. However those that use staffs could end up throwing themselves into danger and miss out on crucial casting time.
1c. I can appreciate there being some sort of forward momentum, but it resulted in some pretty drastic consequences. I would propose instead of a completely forced forward movement that melee auto attacks just add a general amount of velocity forward that can be then modified by the players chosen direction. For example, If one were to backpedal constantly, they would move forward much more slowly. Strafing would result in diagonal movements forward, and full on W+M1 would be hefty lunges.
2. I absolutely loved the Brinda(?) questline. More questlines like this please.
3. Outdoor dungeons are a great concept, but I feel they are a bit one dimensional. I would personally appreciate if there was more than one reason to go to an open dungeon. The two at the starting zone kind of do this, but you would essentially do everything in a single run through anyway.
4. Either Tank threat generation is too low in general, or Tanks are in need of more snap threat generation. Rank 3 Javelin is good for ST stuff. Once a second mob came waltzing in though, good luck ever getting threat on that thing during a fight.
5. I'm hoping that we will get to build fully fleshed out classes soon (as opposed to just using the tank archetype by itself), perhaps a fuller implementation of this system will solve most of the minor gripes with Tank power and gameplay.
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Everything else I agree with you on.