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No MMO does casters like DAOC [Locked] |
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DAOC is the only mmo who gives 'glass cannon' any real meaning. Keeping the distance from your target should be essential to success as a caster. Other mmo's make casters no different than melee when you stand toe to toe which is utter fail. DAOC makes it into a challenging strategy to keep the distance with the many forms of CC, and finally a one last ditch attempt with quickcast. Deciding whether to use your quickcast for an offensive, a quick retreat or to gain some distance for another assault makes DAOC the challenge other mmo's lack.
Casting class game mechanics without interrupts is no caster class at all. Just a melee class in disguise.
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Sin_of_Onin  Posts: 1,307
Registered: 2005-6-29 08:21:12
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That is because it is a stupid game mechanic.
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Yossarian_42 Title: RUSH > ALL
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Registered: 2002-2-28 11:23:20
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DAoC definitely did it the worst.
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In other mmo's, resisted spells mean nothing because when the target closes the gap you will just slug it out like mindless tards. In DAOC, interrupts can be devastating to a caster as you must stratergize your escape in order to open the gap again.
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Sin_of_Onin posted:
That is because it is a stupid game mechanic.
It's a stupid game mechanic without collision detection.
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Collision detection is nothing but a term elite fools like to use as if they really know what they are talking about.
Collision detection has never contributed anything worth wild that has benefited gameplay in any meaningful way.
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NuEM Posts: 1,007
Registered: 2004-3-2 09:08:11
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In most MMOs melee is really just short range magic. DAoC is like the only game that did it right.
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Sin_of_Onin Posts: 1,307
Registered: 2005-6-29 08:21:12
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Building a game around half the players just running after other characters is stupid.
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Tych2 Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
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Registered: 2005-3-1 06:56:47
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It's to easy to interrupt a caster and keep them locked down. There are many fights we get into that my bainshee is totally locked down for the entire fight and all I can do is run out of range until it clears then get back into the fight if its still going on.
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NuEM Posts: 1,007
Registered: 2004-3-2 09:08:11
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Glass cannon. As it should be.
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