Best Of

Maligorn said:

Deichtine said:

Artifact weapons are pretty bad right now.

Maybe an exaggeration but you can win easily enough without a single weapon artifact as a warrior or monk. The benefit of having an artifact weapon is pretty much next to nothing.

What did the winner of Death challenge use? Honest question.

My impression that death almost never if ever goes to a person with a single attack.

2016 knight
2015 monk
2014 knight
2013 knight

Was a bit of a pain to find earlier winners so I stopped.

There's a wide range between, requires some effort to compete and no one should have to have any levels or artifacts to compete. I still think this depends a lot on if there is going to be some ingame way to earn goop.

While balancing many different skillsets and interactions can be very difficult -and trust me I know: Hartstone druids share skillsets with something like eleven other classes - I don't think that making the entire game more generic will really help. 

I think that the simpler and more elegant fix is to just split the copied skills. Instead of Wiccans and Druids and Warriors all learning totems and sharing Moon/Stag in different ways, make Stag its own self contained skillset (containing all of totems+Stag), Moon its own skillset (Containing totems+Moon) and give warriors a choice between the two if you want, and let them balance separately. Split the druid skills between Hartstone and Blacktalon - even call them "Hartstone" and "Blacktalon". 

This should be way easier on resources, and removes the problem of entanglement allowing more elegant and self-contained balancing to occur according to the needs of individual classes. The bigger problem is how that balancing itself happens, not that orgs get unique(ish) skills. 

A big ol issue IMO is the Curing Overhaul itself, as I pointed out strenuously and at length during said overhaul. When you think about org synergy, it is not a coincidence that the org generally recognized to have the best synergy overall does so outside of the curing overhaul's purview. What we need is to, as a playerbase and with administration, sit down and have a big think about niches that need to be mirrored in each org, how each class in the org should "match" the ability of the other orgs to fill those niches, and change skills accordingly. A project like that was happening in the old envoys but got tabled and then dropped with the series of changes. Merp.