12-23-2007, 05:54 PM
hate, that process you describe on ***** is exactly the same as how it happened on IN, but we managed to find a way to balance it and still maintain the diversity in pvp and allowing the good players to fight the odds and survive alone.
instead of making GH scrolls take 60 mana, we capped the amount they could heal at 35, Flamestrikes only cost 20 mana to cast, we had powerful weapons which added variety and did enough damage to be a must in pvp.
GH pots went over the cap and the stat cap was 120 adding yet more diversity. wop spamming existed but noone really used it because lets face it, it takes virtually no skill whatever to do and theres just no pride to be taken when you kill someone that way.
the reason IN pvpers arnt liking the system as it is, isnt because we find it hard (Not in SINs case at least, tbh i dont really know about the other INers) its that its just got no diversity, theres no thought involved, its the same repetative process over and over.
see, we dont care if a fight takes a long time, infact we enjoy a good long fight, because it takes skill and puts on the pressure, it becomes intense. the best memories i had of IN were fighting numbers up to 5 vs 1 and coming out ontop not because i could spam kal vas flam so people didnt know what i was casting, but because despite them knowing exactly what was coming i still had the skill to pull off the impossible, thats what SIN was about. and its just not possible to do here.
the pvp here isnt balanced badly, infact its pretty well balanced, but its balanced at the cost of PVPs diversity and skill and that in my opinion is why people just arnt bothering.
sorry for the epic wall of text
instead of making GH scrolls take 60 mana, we capped the amount they could heal at 35, Flamestrikes only cost 20 mana to cast, we had powerful weapons which added variety and did enough damage to be a must in pvp.
GH pots went over the cap and the stat cap was 120 adding yet more diversity. wop spamming existed but noone really used it because lets face it, it takes virtually no skill whatever to do and theres just no pride to be taken when you kill someone that way.
the reason IN pvpers arnt liking the system as it is, isnt because we find it hard (Not in SINs case at least, tbh i dont really know about the other INers) its that its just got no diversity, theres no thought involved, its the same repetative process over and over.
see, we dont care if a fight takes a long time, infact we enjoy a good long fight, because it takes skill and puts on the pressure, it becomes intense. the best memories i had of IN were fighting numbers up to 5 vs 1 and coming out ontop not because i could spam kal vas flam so people didnt know what i was casting, but because despite them knowing exactly what was coming i still had the skill to pull off the impossible, thats what SIN was about. and its just not possible to do here.
the pvp here isnt balanced badly, infact its pretty well balanced, but its balanced at the cost of PVPs diversity and skill and that in my opinion is why people just arnt bothering.
sorry for the epic wall of text