Mages need to aim but destros dont? Have you not played this game in so long you forgot about AoEs that hit 10 feet away from your char? Like what the hell are you saying? Fucking 200 ping player was one of the best using AoEs??? Learn to aim?? You mean learn how far you can miss and still hit? Legit all you need to know on a mage is how to stormblast and reset a fight.
Hey @Itwas Luck seems you do not know what happened with the previous polls. I'm sure the HHH crew can tell you. It was a trainwreck full of double negatives, dysfunctional to say the least. BPG is just unable to press the undo button until they have a foundation that actually works with the least bugs and build on top of that. Instead they have been in this process of "fixing" bugs that end up with new "bugs" - and now the game is this pile of cargo cult programming big fat bug. The community needs short format pasta, you mofos. Fusilli, farfalle, strozza-pretti, orecchiette, penne, ravioli... Even gnocchi. Not this potato ass overcooked spaghetti shit.
I haven't played in ages so I might be wrong, or a few patches behind, but don't you basically have to hit an r90 as a direct hit now or it does fuck all damage? R90s should always do the same amount of damage no matter the range, but do less damage than bolts / rays / r50s, in their current state whats the point in them even being aoes. I feel like the main issue between destroyers and mages is the stat costs, between archery and magic, this is especially noticeable if the destro has city buffs. Also there is an advantage to having 200 ping, they are much harder to hit so people tend to burn stats out a lot more on them, which isn't as much of an issue for a low ping melee pusher. I remember in DF1 I had 180 ping, they moved servers making it so I had 140 ping and I noticed I was getting hit a lot more because of that. Don't get me wrong though the disadvantages of 200 ping out weight the advantages of it, but if you get good at the play style you can still do well. --- Post updated --- Pretty sure they said exactly this at some point.
I was just pointing out that Smurf put mages need to learn to aim but then forgot to say it for destros. Kid thinks aiming r90 is easier then aiming a bow. @Sorrow Avaritia
I gotta say I don't play this game for months now. My intentions were never to make people that play feel bad about the experience. And why do I keep posting? Because this (DF as a whole) is undoubtedly one of my favourite games of all time. Nevertheless, the more you boil the same spaghetti, the worse it gets - there is no other way around. And I'm out of this b.
But now days if you hit like that you are basically spending more mana to cast the spell than damage you do.
I am pretty sure one of the patches a while back made the aoe damage drop off really hard to the point where you have to almost direct hit it for it to be worth casting, although I am not 100% sure and it could have been patched since then, I haven't really been on in a long time so could be wrong.
that was on PTS with the armor patch before they ''reverted'' combat, so who knows if they put that in or not, id test but theres noone online
Either you didn't read my post, or your reading comprehension is drooler tier. We've literally had this conversation 10 times in as many years. You lost the day you admitted you play Destroyer (and don't want any cool/ skill ceiling raising archery/ melee abilities like Vamp strike or Trueshot or piercing weakness) because YOU cannot handle more than a few keybinds. You and Inkarnation are playing checkers, while top mages are playing 3 dimensional speed chess while still having to learn how to aim multiple different projectiles rather than just archery. Even with all the built in RoA hotbar/ macro improvements (which VASTLY simplify mage combat compared to how players like myself and Magnetic played in DF1), mage is still WAY too complex for your guppy brain P.S. If you're going to play brain dead Destroyer at least master the art of RIGHT-clicking too
To be fair once you get use to them binds basically become muscle memory. I think its easier to be a decent mage than a decent destro, but to be a top mage is harder than being a top destroyer, especially with the changes RoA has made destro is far more forgiven than mage, a low ping destro can beat most mages just by parry rushing.
There's numerous, relatively easy to implement changes which would fix the biggest issue (content). I could literally sit down and brainstorm 5 ideas right now in no time at all. Fuck, you could literally just make a big list of stolen ideas from other successful games, and then implement the easiest to code/ most relevant to darkfall ones. I want names of all the dfo vets who were initially on the dev team and allowed some of these changes to happen. I need to say mean things to them and make them feel bad.
You recently came back right? Seen as you are some1 who hasn't had ages to farm gear what do you think of the full loot aspect of the game? I find it kinda pointless seen as everything is so easy to get.
Smoody gave me his bank which was pretty stacked. I didn't have to farm at all. Everything below r70 and q5 is stupidly easy to get now. Villages dropping enchanting mats pumps about 800 q4 mats into the economy every single day and like 250 q5 mats. given the current population, this means there are people with literally THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of q4 enchanting mats. It's a joke and now the only way to fix it is to wipe, which won't happen. Realistically, at this point it's either take drastic measures OR perpetually be on life support. Seems like a no brainier to me.
