Return of Reckoning

Sigimund wrote:

th3gatekeeper wrote:"/tell them how to guard" or "write some guides on the forums".

Maybe not in the balance forum but perhaps the proposal should be for a repeatable quest to take 100k guard damage. That would make people remember.

Ninepaces wrote:"Magical Infusion and Shrug It Off will increase the value of heals that a target receives by 25% when active.

All these abilities are crap in standard spec anyway, so this becomes a formalized change."

This was a l2p issue.

StormX2 wrote:

Ninepaces wrote:"Magical Infusion and Shrug It Off will increase the value of heals that a target receives by 25% when active.

All these abilities are crap in standard spec anyway, so this becomes a formalized change."

This was a l2p issue.

Care to elaborate?

Ninepaces wrote:Absolutely not. Ive spoken at length about these abilities before and how people just need to think a bit to use them but was shut down by a so called "developer".

bloodi wrote:35 is a build that recommends picking the morale 4, 36 is Chizune, a moderator that is surely not a developer and 37 is Ninepaces posting a slayer build in the AM thread to show everyone how much he knows.

th3gatekeeper wrote:

Spoiler:

Tried this: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=17747

People QQd because everyone cares more about crushing PUG groups than making a fun/balanced game for all.

"guard is fine" "L2P"

I guess im just curious, at what point does the game get, where people realize that maybe creating an "organized-only" game probably isnt the best idea, that there should be a healthy balance between content for casual players, who may not have a guild, or may not have a bunch of friends online 24/7, but who want to play SCs and RVR?

Guard is one of the most pivotal abilities in the game, yet is rarely ever used except by a handful of skilled tanks, or in premade groups (both in SC/RVR) and its one of the biggest "gatekeepers" in making this game more accessible to all players.

As a MDPS, you are essentially forced into finding a guild, begging for a "guard bot" otherwise the game really isnt all that fun, hence ALL the comments about this game being so RDPS friendly... Everything stems around guard as being one of the pivotal key roles in MDPS avoidance.

Being a tank, and maining a tank, I would LOVE to see guard adjusted to be more friendly and intuitive to all players. The only solution I have seen proposed by seasoned players is "/tell them how to guard" or "write some guides on the forums". Its frankly a joke.

Id love to see some rework to guard, even if it meant something like guard turning into an "aura" where any party member inside 30 feet split damage with the tank. Or Guard being an "active" ability that is cast providing aoe mitigation rather than damage split, or a myriad of other "versions" where it still fills the SAME role but is more "PUG" friendly and MDPS friendly so a player CAN join a random warband in RVR as a MDPS and expect to be able to be viable without having to beg for guard or out of party heals...

Just my 2 cents from an NA player who has struggled to find active committed players to play with. I know many people disagree, because any deviation from "thats not how it was on LIVE bro" is seen as a threat to their glory days and the ability to re-live what once was....

Penril wrote:

coldnegative wrote: So he wanna kill MDPS classes because he doesn't like them? Nice. Crit damage is only thing that keeps MDPS alive.

Heals + Tanks + proper CC + LoS + situational awareness are the things that keep mDPS alive against rDPS. Unfortunately, it seems several people here are talking from a 1v1/PUG perspective.