Samson wrote: » Steven has already answered why 'Tank' is named the way it is. The name of your class will be chosen from the 64 classes that are available... your class name will not be 'Tank'. It's time to move on.
Samson wrote: » your class name will not be 'Tank'
Atama wrote: » Samson wrote: » Steven has already answered why 'Tank' is named the way it is. The name of your class will be chosen from the 64 classes that are available... your class name will not be 'Tank'. It's time to move on. No it won’t, you don’t pick from 64 classes when you play the game. You pick from 8, one of which is Tank. You can’t get a subclass until later in the game. It doesn’t make it any less ridiculous, lazy, and wrong. Intrepid has done a lot of really good things, it’s silly that they’ve done something this blatantly stupid.
Hurf Derfman wrote: » Atama wrote: » Samson wrote: » Steven has already answered why 'Tank' is named the way it is. The name of your class will be chosen from the 64 classes that are available... your class name will not be 'Tank'. It's time to move on. No it won’t, you don’t pick from 64 classes when you play the game. You pick from 8, one of which is Tank. You can’t get a subclass until later in the game. It doesn’t make it any less ridiculous, lazy, and wrong. Intrepid has done a lot of really good things, it’s silly that they’ve done something this blatantly stupid. Technically old chap, you pick an archetype and are playing as an archetype until level 25 at which point you choose a second archetype and form your class. It wouldn't do to be inadvertently spreading disinformation. Now, would it?
Atama wrote: » Hurf Derfman wrote: » Atama wrote: » Samson wrote: » Steven has already answered why 'Tank' is named the way it is. The name of your class will be chosen from the 64 classes that are available... your class name will not be 'Tank'. It's time to move on. No it won’t, you don’t pick from 64 classes when you play the game. You pick from 8, one of which is Tank. You can’t get a subclass until later in the game. It doesn’t make it any less ridiculous, lazy, and wrong. Intrepid has done a lot of really good things, it’s silly that they’ve done something this blatantly stupid. Technically old chap, you pick an archetype and are playing as an archetype until level 25 at which point you choose a second archetype and form your class. It wouldn't do to be inadvertently spreading disinformation. Now, would it? Now that is semantics. What they call an archetype is really a class. Intrepid can make up terms but gamers know what things are. In no way is a class as Intrepid calls it, a class. Your weasel speech is unimpressive, and sorry but there is no “gotcha” here pal. In reality, no you’re stuck with a stupid class name for 25 levels if you want to be any of the 8 sub-types of the class Intrepid is calling a “Tank”. Hopefully they get around to fixing this sometime in the next year or so.
Atama wrote: » Hurf Derfman wrote: » Atama wrote: » Samson wrote: » Steven has already answered why 'Tank' is named the way it is. The name of your class will be chosen from the 64 classes that are available... your class name will not be 'Tank'. It's time to move on. No it won’t, you don’t pick from 64 classes when you play the game. You pick from 8, one of which is Tank. You can’t get a subclass until later in the game. It doesn’t make it any less ridiculous, lazy, and wrong. Intrepid has done a lot of really good things, it’s silly that they’ve done something this blatantly stupid. Technically old chap, you pick an archetype and are playing as an archetype until level 25 at which point you choose a second archetype and form your class. It wouldn't do to be inadvertently spreading disinformation. Now, would it? Now that is semantics. What they call an archetype is really a class. Intrepid can make up terms but gamers know what things are. In no way is a class as Intrepid calls it, a class. Your weasel speech is unimpressive, and sorry but there is no “gotcha” here pal.
Noaani wrote: » The bulk of players are not going to restrict themselves to one "class" as Intrepid are currently defining them. Rather, they are going to look at their archetype as being their class, and all choices of secondary archetype as being potential builds for that class. A Scryer, Preditor or Knight will be a to Ashes what a fire mage or fury warrior is to WoW - whereas the 8 basic archetypes are to Ashes what the 12(?) basic classes are to WoW.
CaptnChuck wrote: » Noaani wrote: » The bulk of players are not going to restrict themselves to one "class" as Intrepid are currently defining them. Rather, they are going to look at their archetype as being their class, and all choices of secondary archetype as being potential builds for that class. A Scryer, Preditor or Knight will be a to Ashes what a fire mage or fury warrior is to WoW - whereas the 8 basic archetypes are to Ashes what the 12(?) basic classes are to WoW. I don't think so. We don't know how difficult it is to change your secondary archetype. I don't think that it will be as easy as WoW though.
maouw wrote: » I don't like that your name has the word "butt" in it. It could be really offensive to someone.
Noaani wrote: » maouw wrote: » I don't like that your name has the word "butt" in it. It could be really offensive to someone. While your sarcasm is obvious, your name has Mao in it - also offensive to some people.
maouw wrote: » Petition to rename: Rogue --> DPS Melee Ranger --> DPS Ranged Mage --> DPS Magic Cleric --> Healer Then all will be right in the world.
TheGoodzilla wrote: » The "class" system is deliciously flavorful. But meta is a thing. And 64 unique identifiers is needlessly complicated, and, when given a choice, most people will go for the simpler/more intuitive option. For that reason I suggest one of the two options: - borrow from gw1 and use the first few letters of a class name to make a combination - number each class and just use that (example: fighter fighter would be 1/1) Like it or not, the game community will bypass the 64 class naming convention in discussing builds. Better to figure out a simplified way to do that now.
