This is arguable because it exists in League of Legends/DotA hehe.
It’s just reasoning. Right now, damage is carefully balanced against sustain. If damage got harder to land, it would need a buff (or sustain would need a nerf).
So higher damage but fewer hits…in other words, a couple of skillshots would define most fights.
Well damage in general is too high, it wouldn’t need to be buffed, just add more risk to attacks or make them require more skill to pull off.
My point is that that would effectively lower damage. Which would be a bad idea, because tankiness/regen in general is already extremely powerful.
They’re both a problem.
Okay, fair enough. Maybe dps is too strong and tankiness is too strong at the same time.
We could equalize things—for example, remove both crit damage and healing power as stats. That would be essentially what you’re looking for, I think. Less damage, less healing. You can still have bunkers and glass cannons, but the difference between them is smaller.
But I can’t really agree with that option either. I think the diversity is pretty cool actually, and I definitely don’t think a pre-alpha level change should be implemented over a year after release.
Well, it’s like there’s either super high dmg, or super high tank builds, with, I guess warriors in between having a large portion of both. I think the extremes should just be tapered off.
I had an idea I posted in the general forums about making everyone DPS, and I was going to post it here, though it is probably too much of a rework too happen.
The idea is that everyone will have a fixed amount of dmg from gear/stats. Essentially everyone would either be something like high Condi/Prec, and high Power/Prec/CritD, so like Zerker/Rabid, but maybe 75% of that. So essentially everyone would be capped to like like Knight’s stats dmg levels.
Then, with everyone being “dps” you get to choose your secondary stats, which could be Healing, Tough, Vit, etc, or even Boon/Cond duration. It would work better if there was like, support or control stats that actually MODIFIED your skills like in GW1. But you would basically be choosing your secondary role besides “damage”, to specialize in with gear, which could also split up tanky stats and healing power so you can’t be beefy as well as “sustainy”.
TBH though, it would probably be easier to to just do 2 things : remove any PURE dmg stat sets like zerker gear, then nerf “support” to be a bit nerfed on yourself, and buffed for others like Healing Breath. That would eliminate the super glass cannon and bunkers (somewhat).
I’m the LAST person who would see variety and build options be REDUCED, trust me. But I don’t think the build variety should really be focused on the really limited stats available for gear. I think it should be 90% based on traits/skills/runes/sigils, that’s where the interesting build choices lie, I would prefer having way more options in this area than we do now actually, on top of the stat adjustments.
You could still focus on a high end dps build just through stats/runes TBH, so it’s not like everyone would be homogenized to being the same exact offense/defense levels.
Look at it this way, there’s a reason MMO’s with pvp have seperate gear for pve and pvp, pvp gear is usually always loaded with extra defenses while giving up some damage in order to make the TTK more reasonable, (this has nothing to do with the massive HP direction WoW went with recently). But with people in full zerker gear, it’s like people walking into pvp with full PVE gear and doing insane dmg while being insanely squishy, which then is only really used on certain classes that don’t rely on stats to stay alive, notice how Thief/Mesmer get away with glass cannon so easily?
Just like when Rogues in WoW would dominate when the TTK was low during low resil periods.
