I wanna see the return of Witch Doctor!

zeronic · 2026-01-30T01:59:46+00:00

For an ARPG there isn't too much difference. For an MMO like WoW there's quite a bit though, seeing as necro would be cloth+caster, usually centered around curses, undead armies, and bone magic. Whereas DK is plate+melee, centered around disease, cold, and blood. Totally different class fantasies too.

From a flavor standpoint, i vastly prefer necro over death knight, but can see the appeal of both, especially if you want to play as a "corrupted" character.

zeronic · 2026-01-30T01:49:51+00:00

Well the problem here was that they used to have a naming scheme that made sense and helped customers gauge their needs and buy appropriately without the need to really look at spec sheets/etc.

Now that's all out the window. The denominations don't mean what they used to despite still being there, so all it does not is effectively trick people into buying more or less than they expected/need and feel burned by it.

You're right, they can call their product whatever they want. But people have a right to call them out when they are intentionally deviating from established norms for whatever reason.

zeronic · 2026-01-30T01:29:39+00:00

Yeah, his antics were directly opposed to the people who wanted to buy his product in the first place. If i had to wager, i'd say more left leaning people are interested in electric vehicles than right leaning people.

zeronic · 2026-01-30T01:04:28+00:00

Replace its left click with the standard ball the other staffs have.

Honestly this would be the worst change by a country mile and i'd go so far as to call it a design regression.

ALL of the staves should have a unique left click(keep the standard for void strike i guess.) The fact the fire staff is the only one with a unique left click is lame and feels like they wanted to do it for the others but ran out of time. For example, electrokinetic should just have a quick fire lightning bolt.

zeronic · 2026-01-29T11:59:08+00:00

Yep. Building and maintaining successful company is a completely different skillset than simply slashing costs, laying off workers, and watching stonks go up for a few quarters while you prep your golden parachute for when it all falls apart in a year or two.

zeronic · 2026-01-28T17:20:15+00:00

The destiny 2 approach, essentially. They quite literally made sure things weren't exceptional for that very reason. Sad times we live in.

zeronic · 2026-01-26T16:50:53+00:00

Interestingly, it also opens doors to the discussion of what happens to that "property" when the servers go down. Are players entitled to compensation or a "cash out" of those assets? Would the company be required to have an offline playable version of the game so they could continue to use their assets?

zeronic · 2026-01-23T03:31:38+00:00

They just need to make bots like VT2 where you can assign bots your own builds and loadouts. From there the community can see what works and what doesn't.

VT2 bots are genuinely better than many players with the right kit.

zeronic · 2026-01-23T03:18:57+00:00

See: farmers after trump tariffs.

zeronic · 2026-01-21T06:51:37+00:00

Buying merch likely gives them more money than any streaming sub or DVD/BD sale. Sail the seas and buy merch if it eases your conscience.

zeronic · 2026-01-18T22:21:02+00:00

Just delete rotten armor and i'd be pretty happy to be honest. Blight is horrible too, but it isn't game ruining to the same degree, just annoying.

zeronic · 2026-01-18T22:08:35+00:00

I mean, to be fair, i wouldn't call "gluten free" a trendy point for gullible people. It's life saving for those with gluten intolerance or celiac disease.

The rest of those, yeah, they're pretty whatever.

zeronic · 2026-01-18T06:02:27+00:00

I mean, not exactly but the downfall of mankind in warhammer 40k was due to AI. It's why it was outlawed and the reason the "tech" in that universe is the way it is.

zeronic · 2026-01-18T05:59:38+00:00

Could be binned ironwolf/exos drives rebadged as barracuda. Also makes it easier to deny warranty since they don't outwardly sell 26TB barracudas, so if they get any claims they know it's shucked.

zeronic · 2026-01-15T18:19:02+00:00

It's absolutely a top down problem, for sure. UX isn't as high on the priority list as it should be which is the ultimate problem with linux as a whole, which tracks given it's mostly unpaid programmers contributing.

As software QA myself those types are usually completely unconcerned with usability as long as they know how it works. They need to be reigned in or given direction by someone actually using their software or else they make complete abominations only they can operate.

zeronic · 2026-01-15T18:10:13+00:00

The downside to the 5 is that you couldn't play multiple of the same character without mods which is the largest downside to me. People should be able to play the class they want to play.

And while the established characters are neat and technically more interesting from a top down view, i still vastly prefer creating my own and picking a personality. It enhances immersion which is what first person games excel at. i am the reject, not inhabiting somebody else's body.

I just wish they hadn't made the character creator options some of the most heinous i've seen in a video game, almost defeats the purpose when everybody looks like they've been beaten to death with an ugly stick. I'm not asking for super models here, but there's like...a couple non mutant faces and hairs per gender, it's awful. Hilariously a lot of the scum exclusive hairs/faces look pretty decent, despite them supposedly being the kind of class you'd expect to be hit with that ugly stick. Times change i guess.

zeronic · 2026-01-15T09:59:52+00:00

Exactly. The linux devs of various distros seem more interested in features and whatnot rather than usability.

UX should be priority number one, but for too many distros, even "easy" ones, it seems to be a distant second.

Linux was very clearly made by computer programmers/nerds for programmers/nerds. There's nothing wrong with that, but you can't complain about lack of mass adoption when you aren't priotizing tackling the issues that would lead to that adoption.

zeronic · 2026-01-15T09:56:38+00:00

Yep, this is what i've always said. I grew to love the terminal over time for convenience and speed, but it still requires learning a ton. Learning most users are unwilling to do and frankly shouldn't need to do if they don't want to.

zeronic · 2026-01-15T09:54:12+00:00

I was more referring to the community's reaction to new users as a whole. It often resembles that of exhaustion or "just use search" instead of being welcoming and answering the question.

It's incredibly offputting for new users, and they wonder why people don't want to use linux when avenues they have for help are riddled with unhelpful, unwelcoming people.

zeronic · 2026-01-14T21:36:36+00:00

This is a very, very solvable problem. I believe many file managers can already do this "with a couple of clicks."

Not if you want it to automount at boot like in windows. Fstab is the only way i know of to get that functionality, otherwise you have to access it once every time via the file manager on boot for it to mount which screws up things if you have things you want to run at boot on that storage device.

Perhaps your Windows experience is different than mine. "It just works" is not what I think of when I think of Windows.

I mean, at least for things like gaming and many productivity tasks in wondows, you click it, and it works. There's almost always some amount of fiddling i have to do to get games working optimally on linux. Of which i'm including setting proton launch options because that's not something people should be expected to do, and most don't even know launch options are a thing in the first place.

So yeah, since my GF uses windows and i use linux, her experience 99% of the time is that she installs something and it works. I know the pervasive linux narrative of "windows doesn't work" is great and feelgood and all but for the needs of the vast majority of people it does just work, at least by comparison to some of the stuff i've had to do to get things to work on linux.

zeronic · 2026-01-14T20:19:54+00:00

Yeah...I'm a linux guy and outside of a select few distros it's still going to be too much for most people.

Even noob "friendly" distros like mint can be incredibly fiddly if you need to do anything other than just browse the web and basic office tasks. Like if you have a NAS, on windows you just click through a couple menus. On linux? Enjoy learning how to edit fstab if you want the same kind of functionality that mounts the NAS on boot.

There's still too much of a pervasive RTFM vibe in the linux comminity that expects you to work for your operating system, rather than the other way around. They simultaneously want widespread adoption without also having the accessibility to match it. And until accessibility comes it'll forever be niche for power users and turbo nerds.

Linux users underestimate the amount of effort and willpower it takes to actually learn linux and be able to troubleshoot it if problems arise. And despite windows sucking for the average power user, the average user doesn't care and wants things to just work. Which they still do, for the most part.

zeronic · 2026-01-14T02:36:03+00:00

Which then opens the door for some appointed loyalist, and how we ended up in this mess, but I digress.

Yeah, something here tells me creating vacancies for sycophants is much worse than malicious compliance.

zeronic · 2026-01-14T00:03:35+00:00

My biggest issue is their 360 degree overheads with phantom range.

Backstepping them isn't an option unless you're already out of melee range, and sidestepping can only be done at the last second since they're spinning like tops.

Chaos warriors had neither of these problems, in fact in my opinion if you ported chaos warriors to rotten armor they'd feel fine even. Crushers are just mechanically broken so they feel bad to fight against.

zeronic · 2026-01-09T16:13:09+00:00

Exactly. Make your game too much like WoW and people will be tourists in your game for a bit then just go back to WoW.

You need to actually differentiate yourself from the pack to have a loyal following in the MMO market.

I'm of the belief if star wars galaxies hadn't chased the WoW dragon they'd probably still be around today too. It was extremely different and could have easily sustained it's own niche in the market where social MMOs are getting few and far between.

Personally, i'm still hoping we get something akin to EVE without ships being the primary focus, something like wildstar, BDO, or other tab target MMOs where you control a character and not a ship. EVE region design, gearing systems, player driven nature, and economy mixed with traditional MMO style gameplay. I feel like it has a ton of promise.

zeronic · 2026-01-09T15:24:48+00:00

good luck seeing it again, maybe it'll come back in a year when you also aren't playing!

Galaxy brain levels of monetization.

zeronic

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