DoorknobMLF posted:
Sneakers.Matri posted:
Vyxar posted:
Hibs running casters has nothing to do with tanks it has to do with the idiotic number of pet classes alb has.
Dude are you for realz?
People run casters because they want the overpowered DPS it brings. Cut their DPS in half across the board, and let casters work their utility, pets and interruption as their main role and not dps.
what would be the point of interrupts if casters didn't have DPS? You could interrupt the healers, but if you cut casters DPS in half, why would they need to heal anyways?
Cutting the DPS in half will result in people getting killed by casters in 5-6 seconds instead of 2-3. It brings caster dps more inline with melee dps, but they would still have higher dps then any melee class could produce ( bar maybe vamps ). Most people who actually do well in this game or even the ones who have played it for a few years will know this to be true. Might not agree with it 100% since they like their DPS machine with crazy surv and mad utility, but nevertheless I think most would see it as fact.
Casters should be working their stat debuffs, stunns, roots, mezzes, pets, dots, snares, haste debuffs, long range amensia rupts and so on. The way it has been for a very long time now is that casters just do the highest dps, has most utility and given a good template have insane melee survivability aswell.
DAoC in a nutshell is a bunch of casters standing around the main keep/bridges waiting for smallmens or 8 mans to commit to fights so they can swoop down and do mad dps, soon as they get targeted they blow all their OPed tools and make it back to the saftey of the NPC guarded structures. This has to change, for everyones sake.
Yes, 8v8 still exist in agramon and that is all good, 8 man crews will always have like minded people to fight on pre arranged spots away from the caster zerg.
But for all the solo people, or the casual small mans, or dedicated smallmans there is not many spots to go to during prime or off prime other then the main keeps, bridges and as I said they are swarming with casters adding that rely on rediculous DPS and also have extremly high melee surv. The effort it takes to nuke down a person is so much smaller then what it takes for a melee to drop a caster who knows what they are doing.
Rework caster dps or change the frontiers so there are incentives to go somewhere else then the mainkeeps/bridges wich is an adding casters wet dream (oh jaa they love nuking from the bottom of all the retarded little 'rivers' and water holes) and even more so now when the bridges got reworked to give LOS from the keep gates basically. Yah how ironic isn't that, if casters had the range they would be nuking from the gates and never set foot outside a keep.
With that said, sure daoc has many quirks and things that are less then fair or optimal but the way RvR is conducted these days ( not talking about 8 manning in agramon with no add policy and rest spots etc ) is retarded, and I don't know how anyone can get any enjoyment out of either killing ppl in 2 seconds or getting killed in 2 seconds with 0 effort, strategy, tactic or consious decision making. An unconsious person could probably get rps coastguarding on a caster, thats how bad it is.
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