Class Talent Trees/Specs

One of the things that forces me to leave a game is the simplistic cookie cutter specs. As a main tank I realize that I will not have many options in terms of being a top tier tank. There will be a meta for pve/pve and then probably others will be for fun. This will likely change when balance patches happen and that is great.

My hope is that Intrepid Studio will find the balance between the cookie cutter specs that WOW eventually offered and Path of Exiles extremely in depth and high learning curve. I LOVE what POE has done with their talent trees but I can't stand the game play haha. What are your thoughts on what would work best for AOC to create a fun/unique style of spec choices?

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Lore Dynamic

I'm simply hoping that the "pure" Classes, like; Guardian (Tank/Tank), High Priest (Cleric/Cleric), Assassin (Rogue/Rogue), Hawkeye (Ranger/Ranger)...etc...aren't so perfectly over-powered that each of us aren't disqualified from a party/group if we didn't go pure.

Hopefully having our favorite/fun/astatically-pleasing Secondary Archetype doesn't make us pariahs in group dynamics.

daveywavey

I've got faith in them that they'll do us proud. There's a lot of game experience in the IS team.

Khronus

daveywavey wrote: »

I've got faith in them that they'll do us proud. There's a lot of game experience in the IS team.

It is refreshing that as a community we get to have faith in this company. Too many games are coming out that immediately make me think "yeah that's going to be garbage because XXXXX company" and sure enough, it comes out and fails. Intrepid has the opportunity not ust to create this amazing game but also to do what is right for their fans and HOPEFULLY create new IP's from the content they successfully deliver here.

Siyreouz

I feel like some people are confused how the primary archetype/secondary archetype have been described. Your primary archetype ie. Rogue can never change once you've created your character. Your secondary archetype ie. Rogue (because you're The Boss) chooses your "class," which would make you an Assassin. Your secondary archetype can be rechosen, augmenting your primary Rogue abilities as applicable. To say that there will be cookie cutter builds is absolutely true, and changeable. For instance let's say there's an encounter that requires a certain augmented ability like a group dispel. Would you not ask your support class to change in order to achieve success in your endeavors? It's not permanent. I do like to think asking is a rather nice option, and I dont think people will be excluded from content due to their secondary archetype pick.

I just want to see all the classes in action.

Siyreouz

Lore Dynamic wrote: »

I'm simply hoping that the "pure" Classes, like; Guardian (Tank/Tank), High Priest (Cleric/Cleric), Assassin (Rogue/Rogue), Hawkeye (Ranger/Ranger)...etc...aren't so perfectly over-powered that each of us aren't disqualified from a party/group if we didn't go pure.

Hopefully having our favorite/fun/astatically-pleasing Secondary Archetype doesn't make us pariahs in group dynamics.

I can see your concern with Pure builds. I just feel like pure builds would be very niche in the sense. What happens when you roll into a dungeon that has heavily physical resistant NPCs and all your dps are physical dps. I'd like to think the dungeon will still be completed just at a slower pace than if everyone was rocking elemental augmented abilities. Really, all the concerns with cookie cutter builds is entirely dependant on how you gear and augment your character. I think there's too many factors to try to create cookie cutter builds because no one truly knows what "cookie cutter" looks like. Many many months down the road after release, we'll see.

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