Its about Rantings, melee, and Holiday Cheer.
To my knowledge no commy talking in this thread is asking for more damage. I'm quite ok with mine. Plus that wouldn't fix anything and would imbalance raids and other nonsense. What I would like is less def and hp buffs from other classes/armors/items that make a casters hp as high as a tanks or more resist/survivability for true tanks. I didn't become a commie for DPS, there's another Turan class for that. Im pretty sure Ninny was talking about being able to survive also. No true tank plays an MMORPG and goes "Damn my damage so low tho" it kinda comes with the territory.... Plus wtf is more damage good for if you're dead in 3 seconds o.o? You still have to be face to face with what you are killing. Beamslash is our only pew pew remember? And it has a pretty long cd even with maxed DNA.
Commie cannot beat Zerk one on one (it's actually impossible Smiley and I tested). Commie cannot beat Prot one on one. Commie cannot beat a GOOD sin one on one (they will just perma stun or slow and kite). Even if the theory that commies COULD beat any class one on one were absolutely true how many times in a battle are you fighting only one person? We'd be great at...Dueling...awesome...
I'm guessing you havent watched many of the FOC matches with commys in them lately. Try it, or borrow a friends commie and go... Very few commies ever have decent scores, and we who do is because we are geared out the butthole AND we don't just run into a group and sit there. You have to be op just to make it TO the caster.
We needs more hush or root? I agree, that's why I said it in the beginning statement where I did not say anything about needing more damage.
@Exile since they nerfed QA AA just would not be a great idea. Also we have skills that add pretty widespread aoe but its not very viable. It is a nice thought but the main problem is not our offense. But commies repping brass knucks would for sure be badass ^^
For YEARS now I have been writing long essays, to the amusement or irritation of everyone, probably building the image of a complete lunatic.
Perhaps a select few actually understand or have a CLUE about classes, about roles, actually about what the BLOODY FECK gaming, real gaming, and REAL RPGs are about. Maybe a few "oldies" that have actually PLAYED games with RULES based on LOGIC, and not what is the "current fashion" or what "feels good and easy", so hey, fookitall, just make that one super easymode so every "brainless" player (well, I am sorry) can play, and by investing a bit, can also feel a "little god".
This isn't the privilege of Requiem alone, but is widespread to virtually most MMOs out there, most of them having "balance issues", forever they do. Well they do, because in order to please the "want it now easy" crowd they will just fookup everything by not following LOGICAL rules, that already exist for decades.
After that, it just becomes a pointless Odyssey trying either to explain or to reach a point of compromise or agreement.
No, absolutely not, FFS NO, no one playing a Commander, let me put it in nice bold and coloured letters for you again, A FREAKING TANK CLASS (!!!!!!!!!!!!!), and I don't care how much you object and say, "bollocks, they are a dps PvP class", stop that crap already, you ARE talking bollocks yourself.
Commander comes from DEFENDER (care to look the word in a dictionary?) and like it or not THIS is the role, the additional perk being that they are also quite capable in combat having decent dps and being able to function in combat situation by giving, and receiving, damage. You might want to stop a second and think again about the receiving part.
While The Protector class, is all about receiving, and little about giving, being the absolute, total, unparalleled masters in this role. They should be, this is the very definition. As long as we have real classes, and not something that The Elder Scrolls allow, meaning, mix this and that, make what you please, even very weird and funky combos, but HEY, even there some rules still exist.
No one in their right mind would expect or ask for a Commander to be able to annihilate groups of opponents in their own capacity, especially rushing head first into the fray. Who told you that? Perhaps they are not even 1 to 1 masters in combat, maybe they excel in some situations but not in all (probably The Assassin is best suited in this role).
What I have been saying for god damn long years, and will keep saying till this Forum ceases to exist is THIS. The survivability of The Commander should be HIGH, like... very high. Probably second only to the Protector. It should be nowhere near any, and I mean ANY dps Caster. A dps Caster should DIE, if the situation is such as they find themselves unprotected, uncovered, in the front line, and engaged in combat with melee, heavily arnoured and physically strong characters. End of story. I don't give a flying pink elephant if the said Caster is all +30 or whatnot. Being in combat with an equally (or almost) equipped melee character should guarantee their death in 99 out of 100 situations.
And this, my friends, is what is NOT happening. In Requiem we have the opposite. Because quite simply a freaking fooking rotten Caster should NEVER be allowed, to MATCH stats like physical strength (i.e. HPs) or defense values to a melee character like a Commander. I don't care about +30 or +100. The moment you have 35k Casters with "maxed" defense, the game is already over, because the game is simply not fair. Perhaps the game would be "even" if said casters had half or 1/3rd of those stats.
You don't like the idea eh? I know you don't. Too much time has passed with this happening, it is considered the "norm". Uber Casters should have like 10-15k HPs max, and 1k def absolutely max. You compensate for those with ultra super high wow damage, looks quite enough to me. Do your job as you should, play your ROLE, deal your damage when you can, and do not fooking expect to play god-mode standing in the middle of festivities without batting an eye lid.
And it doesn't matter to me if you spent your pretty Dollar to +30 your toon, because I spent twice that Dollar, I really did. And by doing so, I still can not feel I am at a remotely even level. So, something is really rotten there.
Everyone will cry and moan and call names and everything, seen that for years now, it means nothing. "Kids" are too attached to their powerful toys to give them up, and THINK logically. It really doesn't matter.
And it doesn't matter because whatever chance this game had, it is gone since years. Nothing will save it now, no "class changes" and complete horsepoop. Its very foundations are rotten, because there is hardly any LOGIC there.
So all is good and well. Here I will end my long "rant" and tiresome essay too, people will have their laugh and "facepalms", and we move on as we have been doing for years. Hooray!