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A Balancing of the Classes?PVP Balance
Over the past few months this is what I've seen:
1. Alot of arguing over how the "mage" class is the dominant class. Why , because of high powered range attacks and the ability to have massive melee defense o top of having ck defense. Then I noticed we had a patch which dropped the gt rate. Now correct me if I'm wrong , but by dropping the gt rate it makes it much harder for players to get defense sets thus making it much harder for a nuker to have 1.5k+ defense let alone 2k and up. Now like anyother change implemented anywhere , you will have those players that had their def sets PRIOR to the change , thus they will be alot harder to kill. But the new waves of ppl flocking to nuker class will find themselves in a much different predicament than those of the past 8months. Speaking primarily gb lvl and down , where you have the most new players , I have watched nukers get owned by well built warriors (not hybrids or healers as much , due to the fact there is no closing move, but if you have sp33d pills ). Nukers without melee defense are , hm dare I say it , like warriors with no ck defense..... So it appears that some attempt at balance is being made .
Now some of you might get a little steamed and say "well warriors want def sets too" All non nuker classes can add melee def so easily as str is not you pen stat (as it shouldnt be), so whats your beef?
2. Griefing~ I have recently put 2 characters through jinan, and am amazed at the number of melee roles that complain about high lvl nukers pking them. 1st they arent high lvl most are just fd-sm lvl ppl who want their bk and want to take it the easiest way they can. (FYI no I dont karma hunt from grinders.... I get mine from pking pkrs , usually the ones that try to jump me with my back turned). I dont like this , but i understand it and as long as its that 1 time an hour , im not gonna go off the deep end. But i digress. In that same breath I notice that there are alot of ppl there not grinding and not pking , but hunting pkers. So while acclaim wont do anything because "b]we are in a pk server[/b]" Players have taken it upon themselves to "police" our own. Which in a society left to itself , will inevitably happen. There have been many times ive been griefed (and all that does is make me grind harder), and when it happens I will speak out in map chat on it . And many times that pker has been hunted.
3. Around the time they cut the gt down , acclaim introduced those yin yang body and soul talismans. Im like is this garbage....and nuggets cmon. Think about it though , you have a warrior with high smashes and 30% crit..... vs a nuker with high nukes and 30% crit ... the only difference is what ..."RANGE ", and that is how it is supposed to be. But mages can cast defense shields.... well FYI those yybs dmgs ( i foget which the nuker is ibuffed against, but you get the point) go
through those defense shields.. idk sounds in theory like balancing to me.....
From what I can see (with the exception of hybrids <3 .. cuz they pwn ) the scales appear to be tipping toward balance, ppl will have to adjust their playing style and really think about what they want to do in game.
So non mage roles .. get some buffs, get some sp33d pills or sp33d clothes and do the dmn thing.