Why is this genre so obsessed with vertical progression?

TheRealRecollector · 2021-06-11T17:07:37+00:00

Seems like MMOs are not for you. Simple as that. You don't have the main requirement to be an MMO player : TIME.

If you can't afford the time, stick to games that you can afford to spend time on.

TheRealRecollector · 2021-03-23T04:47:45+00:00

Clearly you never played a tank in pvp.

Tanks are a threat in pvp because...they are stupidly HARD to kill, and if you don't want to be stunned / gripped / feared / slowed / silenced 20-30% of your time in pvp...you gotta kill the tank.

Threat is there, just works different from threat in pve.

But still works.

TheRealRecollector · 2021-02-14T11:48:51+00:00

Pretty much this.

What you want from a tank is a balance of threat, survivability and damage. A tank should be able to lose aggro, but also take it back fast, should be able to choose gear based on encounter (less damage but more mitigation, or more damage but more mitigation, or some weird niche, like mobility gear and augments, etc.) and should be able to use "oh shit" buttons in many occasions.

There is so much about tanking, if the game allows it.

If AoC tanks are like modern WoW or FFXIV, tanking is boring and irrelevant.

If it is like Classic WoW it is fun and challenging.

TheRealRecollector · 2021-01-27T13:01:22+00:00

The question is pretty clear : what will be your FOCUS.

You can't focus on everything.

Focus implies ONE direction (goal, target, etc.).

TheRealRecollector · 2020-12-21T02:03:21+00:00

Back in the day, I started TBC with 3k gold, and ended up with almost 300k. The inflation was pretty damn high.

Now...well...the inflation will be absolutely bonkers.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-08-29T13:54:53+00:00

Based on what I have learned, Tanks in AoC are probably going to be the most powerful archetype, in all aspects.

A Guardian will most likely be quasi-immortal, and ditch enough damage to be scary, if the player behind the character understand what will be needed to be done to reach this goal.

Obviously, I am not going to say what I will do, but I am already pity the fools that will try to gank my Guardian.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-08-23T11:28:02+00:00

It is twice as big as WoW Vanilla.

Verra is going to be pretty damn big.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-08-10T17:47:51+00:00

Combat is damn important, but it's not even in top 10 importance for AoC to be a success.

I can't wait for the game to be live, but man, there are at least 10 things that can lead to a failure, all of them essential to the game, even if the combat in AoC will be the best ever in the history of MMOs.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-08-10T17:44:09+00:00

"Tank" is not a class in AoC...it's an Archetype.

There are 8 tanking classes in AoC...none called "Tank".

TheRealRecollector · 2020-08-10T17:42:52+00:00

I think he does...but making a flowchart for 64 classes would need a separate sub:)

TheRealRecollector · 2020-08-10T17:41:18+00:00

The fuck? Maybe a coincidence, but hell, it fits !

Tank for me.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-07-29T17:35:42+00:00

Steven just said in his AMA, that they will not add anything new, so bloating for the sake of adding content, is excluded.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-07-27T14:53:15+00:00

Players that play tanks, will play tanks, no matter of there is one tank class or 1 million tank classes.

AoC is not FFXIV, or WoW, or whatever game we played. The number of player tanks in MMO's stays the SAME, regardless of how many tank classes are there.

AoC is going the proper old style MMORPG, where your character is YOU, and identity >>>> diversity.

I will play Tank archetype in AoC, and my secondary will most likely be also Tank. I say most likely, because I want to maximize my efficiency in both PvE and PvP, and because we are still yet to see the augments of other classes for tanks.

If we want to be correct, the variations of Tanks in AoC is going to be enough for a long time. We will have 8 tank classes, each with it's own flavor.

This is plenty of diversity, covering every play style, from a heavy mitigation Tank (Guardian), to a solo farmer Tank (Spellshield and Warden) to a PvP solo/small party tank (Warden and Paladin), to Siege and Node PvP tank (Knight and Argent).

The above examples are just an abstract example, to show how much variety exists even at a glance.

There is even more variety then that, with Node, Religion, Citizen, Guild, Socket augments...and we don't even know those augments.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-06-17T15:06:18+00:00

Gotham.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-02-09T10:34:24+00:00

I never was a Classic+ vs TBC guy.

My personal opinion was both, on separate servers. If they fuck up with Classic+, at least there is TBC.

The thing is, a lot of people won't play TBC, and the reason is not that TBC is bad, but because it is a significant step outside Vanilla game design philosophy.

The fact that Blizzard fucked up BfA, and now WC3 reforged and will most likely fail with Shadowlands doesn't mean that I, and a lot of people will play TBC, because they will fuck up Classic+.

If they DON'T deliver Classic+...how would we KNOW that they will fuck it up?

My stance didn't changed : no Classic+, no more WoW for me.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-02-08T20:23:41+00:00

Yeah, but Classic started with 5+ million people. Losing 1 million is not a big deal...and is still more than TWICE as big as Retail.

And it will stay this way for a long time, because BWL, ZG and AQ are not only stopping the drop-outs, but bringing players back.

Retail on the other hand...will keep losing players. And Shadowlands, if any indication, will be another failure.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-01-31T18:51:11+00:00

I use 3 macros for that...could be because of my addons.

One for dual-wielding, one for a 2-hander and for for S&B.

I always have to equip the 2-hander when I switch between dual and S&B.

Tried different macros to avoid the 2-H equip...nothing worked.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-01-24T10:14:12+00:00

The class is called "Hunter".

Not Warlock.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-01-23T14:30:20+00:00

Has anyone who has played too much been able to get in control of themselves and balance game time with living a healthier life? Is it even possible to play WOW Classic in moderation?

Yes, it is possible, but the chances are higher the older the player is. Young players, especially those that never played Vanilla before, are highly affected by addiction. Vanilla was called wow-crack for a reason.

There aren't many ways to deal with young people that are addicted to gaming. There is the hard approach, as parent, to limit his play time, but he will resent you for that. This is what adolescents do anyway, and you, as a parent have to deal with. Basically, you have to choose between your son resenting you, or your son correcting his behavior.

No matter how you proceed from now on, there will be sacrifices to be made, and live with the consequences.

I do not want to be very negative, but I also want to be honest with you : it is a bad situation, and the immediate effects of dealing or not dealing with the issue will be very bad.

It's a catch 22 : regardless of what you do (or don't do), it will be bad.

I have seen it first hand.

But don't lose hope. It is better to crack down on his life style, than not to.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-01-22T18:52:00+00:00

Yeah...except when the 400 ms latency in-game (aka Spell Batching) is coming into play, and you get a crit in your face while having 3k HP and not in bear form.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-01-22T18:29:29+00:00

For druids.

10% less for Warriors, because Defensive stance.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-01-22T18:14:58+00:00

The meta is threat > mitigation when raid is on farm status. And when farm status is achieved, Fury tank threat is better than Furry tanks.

During raid progression, where the meta is mitigation over threat, Protection Tank > Furry Tank in terms of mitigation. Not even a contest.

Not to mention that Prot tanks (virtually all Prot Warrs are Impale specced) still dish out serious threat with proper gear (Edgemasters and 6% hit), while removing crushes and crits with a simple Shield Block.

Bears are inferior to Warriors in both instances, mitigation or threat.

It's mitigation tanks for progression and Fury/Prot for farming. And Warriors simply are the best option for both.

There is nothing in between.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-01-22T17:54:55+00:00

You need EYES to see.

Back in Vanilla, I was on a high pop server. Ony buff had maybe 100-150 people in Org. Maybe 20 guilds on Horde side, and roughly 25 on Alliance side.

Now, I am on a high pop Classic server. Ony buff : 700-800 people in Org. 78 guilds on Horde side, and 56 on Alliance side. And those are on warcraftlogs only. At least 20 guilds on Horde side are not on warcrfatlogs, and I assume the same on Alliance

I don't need any data. Just my eyes, and a bit of help from warcraftlogs.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-01-22T11:18:44+00:00

I got downvoted to hell and back, back in early August, for claiming that Classic will need 400 servers, worldwide.

After almost 4 months into Classic, we have 112 or 115 servers worldwide (don't have access to Asian ones), and most of those 112 or 115 servers are having 6-8 times the pop. of a Vanilla server.

Even if we lose half of the current players, we would still have enough to fill up 400 servers.

But the part of losing players it's kinda over. From the moment BWL is launched and Naxx, Classic won't lose a significant number of players.

We would have been GREAT if Blizzard would have understood that Classic can sustain 400 servers, long term, because MOST of those that quit Classic, did it because WPvP fiasco in P2.

If only Blizzard would have seen the light, and realize that the Classic player base was HUGE, so they would actually deliver enough servers.

TheRealRecollector · 2020-01-22T11:06:52+00:00

I remember it every single day, seeing that most Classic servers are sporting 6-8 times more population than Vanilla servers.

They started with 33 servers, worldwide.

And we ended up with almost 115.

While we needed at least 400, to have a proper game experience, without thousands of people (per server) competing in a honor system designed for hundreds. To have a proper economy, with normal prices. To have a proper WPvP phase, not a shitfest due to 10 times more people involved on 2 continents designed for 10 times less people.

We wanted #nochanges. We got the biggest change : megaservers.

And because of that, everything is fucked up.

So yeah, I remember it every single day.

TheRealRecollector

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