As the next few days pass by, I will be posting very, VERY specific INTRICATE details on balancing EVERY single class, but tonight is going to be the most obviously game-breaking and discouraging one.
You must ALL trust me on this. I have played pvp heavily since 2003. Killing people mindlessly in 1 hit? It's honestly retarded and will NEVER be balanced unless one of the two options below comes to reality
1: All classes can 1 shot all classes without trouble 1v1
2: No class can 1 shot each other 1v1
Crickets Chirping? I think NOT.
That is all there is to it.
To the GMs, If you want every single detail and gamefix to make people happy, mail me a message on here. Im not trying to "look cool".
If you want to make this game good message me then hear me out and apply the changes I suggest. Otherwise this game will always be unbalanced.
By the way, I am not trying to be rude, I am trying to help you fix this game and make it better. Zen is not the problem with sura, as it would only affect the monster kill rate. The goal is to fix woe/pvp rooms. Not monsters. People do not care about killing monsters as much as being strong in woe or pvp. Once maxed out monsters are no longer hunted. We all know the abuses people do to monsters, so just let them do it since exp rates are far too harsh as is. Fixing woe (the true "spirit" of RO) is what needs focused on.
Problems with WoE/PvP:
1: Everyone seems to bypass thoughtful playing/using real skill with Ales/Mastela Fruit spam, including spam with injected programs that spam packets
2: Buff 2-1 classes, HEAVILY, and I mean VERY heavily, if you want to see less complaints all around the board. They do no damage and/or have no survivability skills, when compared to 2-2 classes. (I will be posting more specific balance NEEDS on this tomorrow when I have more time)
3: By buffing them, I mean giving them 1 hit kill attacks and/or attack blocks that nullify 1 hit kill attacks, like all 2-2 classes have.
4: Sura has them all. Period. Take away the AoE debuff from Sura that rips the Maestro songs off of people (people dont talk about this at all because they dont want it debuffed, its too powerful to make it public) And also instead of nerfing zen, put a 1 second global delay on Snap, and make the +9 kvm fist reduce G fist Cast time by 50% of its ACTUAL, and ORIGINAL cast. +9 kvm weapon reducing anymore than that, is playing pre-renewal mechanics while everyone else cannot, and much less everyone else do it with a ONE SHOT skill. Common sense needs applied.
5. No matter how much these Suras cry, constantly killing people in 1 hit without giving people a chance to counter in a 1v1 situation, OR when ganged is UTTERLY ridiculous. Period.
Those are just a couple points that had to be made, since this new recent change to Zen was not what was needed. Now onto GENERAL changes that NEED implemented.
Ok people, you basically have two common sense options here. If you want real skill/reactions involved.
Give every single class a 1 hit KO, and every single class some sort of better counter-skill mechanics, otherwise, you are going to continuously have a broken game that people who get 1 shotted are going to QUIT, while every single person in the whole game who remains will slowly all become suras.
OR,
You could reduce all damage, very heavily, that people do to each other, no matter where they are, or what they are doing, by 60%, while ignoring the complaints of the people (Minority of community but rising) who are just plain 1 shotting person after person.
One shots do not happen to other players, in any other MMOs. End-game = pvp. Everyone eventually reaches end-game and it is inevitable.
Pick your poison and apply it to the game.
Please apply common sense. Less greediness and ignorance would be better for the community who is quite active now in some type of pvp. These are the only true realistic options. Having GM-quality cast-time on a one hit KO attack (dont know how they even considered making that attack speed up at all considering its power) while nobody else does, is just breaking the game. Well the part that matters.
Edited by veteran2003, 27 May 2011 - 04:00 PM.