After 12 months of absence and some fun of trawling through the forums for some update info, this epiphany dawned on me. It seems that there has always been much talk of NERFing and the likes in attempts of balancing. Please note I am not personally discussing dragons in this as I have never extensively played one, and believe my opinion on their matters would be extremely bias and misinformed; AND please know everything is of my opinion, so please debate it as much as you like
From the day the Boar’s Hide Masks stopped dropping to the severe reduction of the Pulsing Crystals and the shared timers on tiered spells, it all seems to me as though they are trying to make the classes more defined and trying to make some of the lesser played ones more important.
So here is my 2 cents:
I would like to see the NON-MASTERABLE skills improved greatly (perhaps not the damage shields though, having played a druid I feel I can say this. Loved COT to bits, but when I took mage, I saw its power grow immensely) I think the lower tiered ones need to be doubled in effectiveness, and the higher tiered ones even more; up to 4 times the power. Perhaps as a result the recycle might need to be adjusted, but some of them already have astronomical timers on them anyway. Keep in mind I’m suggesting the non-masterable skills only; I feel this would definitely help define the classes and make them more useful in groups.
I would even like to go so far as to say... making some of the current masterable abilities non-masterable (none come to mind to be honest); and if that’s a bit much for some to handle, I would think that a slight change so that only arcane schools (including their respective prestige classes) could use the arcane masterable abilities and similarly to the other schools. I’m sure many of you have already poked holes in this option though, as the non-magic schools schools get a bit shafted then, but if you then had the more ‘physical’ masterable abilities restricted to those schools.
Now we come to the hybrid classes:
To keep them from being overpowered with all the magic AND warrior abilities just drop the higher tiered abilities… now I’m kinda of rambling… but… letting them have only the second highest lvl multistrike (at most) for example. They still have their non-masterable class abilities ofcourse, essentially making up for those they don’t get.
I’m not going to really get into spells much, but I will share my quiet thoughts. I can’t argue much with the shared timers, but I would like to see them lessened a little, nothing drastic, just 5 seconds maybe. On the topic of shared timers though, I would like to see the shared timers on abilities removed, please
I know much of what I’ve said will never happen, but I would like to see some thought put into improving non-masterable abilities, especially the class specific ones, I think that would make a lot of people very happy.
Thank you to anyone who took the time to read this, hope to see you in Istaria.