Verry nice post coglin :
Like i told my english ain’t that good and there are misunderstandings .
1) “The hard hitting skills are still the hard hitting skills”
This is normal , and it have to be like that (what would be the point of burst classes if they don’t burst), but what’s not normal is runes / sigils are highly increasing the damage and making a burst doing to big amounts of damage , i agree if some one hit’s you for 70% of your life with a burst and for some reason you couldn’t dodge it , block , etc …your are going to be in trouble but you still got 30% life left to do something against it (getting in a safer rez position , healing with long Cast time heals (thinking of necro) , escaping , or landing your damage, etc..) on the other hand (with might sigils and runes for exemple) if you’r left at 10% Hp you got 20% less counter play time and you can be shut down before getting in good rez spot , or you may not have the time to respond with your burst , etc … it’s not really about how much it hurst, it’s about the “time laps” you get to make a counter move.
But It’s not only about direct damage burst , it about conditions to… but i’ll answer to that part tomorrow.
2) “I mean which is it, do you want passive damage you cannot avoid at all, or players stacking might to boost over all damage?”
NOT AT ALL ! Actualy i wan’t good animations high burst (but reasonable taking of 90% is to much; 70% is way better and force ppl to time their burst to make a kill, these numbers are not realistic they are exemples, not facts.) with less overall damage on “white hits” . When i say : “Sigil of energy tends to be replaced by Air/fire” i also could have said sigil of energy tends to be replaced by sigil of might (they take might or Air/fire instead of energy … and both are passive, while energy is an active sigil).
3) “But you just explained previously how those sigils are the minority, in trade for sigils that are more defensive. Am I misunderstanding what you are saying here?”
Yeah it’s the opposite , ppl leave defensive active sigils to get passive offensive , cause they are more effective and let less defensive moves left to the ones your facing. (This ain’t true in all situations , it’s just a generalization … )
4) “Well, test server availability might be nice, but your limitation of “for some teams” is a terrible terrible idea. Everyone needs access to the test server or no one should have it.”
Your right on that point , it’s a bit to elitist not allowing every one. I was wrong there !
The other replies will comme tomorrow i’m tired right now, but i’m glad you made a constructive reply. (I’ll talk about the condition thing which will take a bit time )
Cheers Abimes !
