Ice_Storm

Yup! That's half the reason I love it. Like I said earlier it was the ammo swapping that really sealed the deal for me. They really seem to be putting an effort into making each new set have one small different gameplay gimmick so that it'll completely warp your character.

Even shields kinda did. I saw it as a very offensive defensive power set. Yea you got some defense and resistance but if you just sat there the mobs would slowly (or sometimes not so slowly) take you down. Instead of additional defenses you got Against All Odds and shield charge so you could take them down before they get you. Really made taking my scrapper to 50 a breeze.

I'm not against improving builds exactly. My problem is simply that I've seen too many games where "the best build" becomes "The build that everyone but noobs must have."

I've played games where people get kicked from teams because they decided to build their character the way that they want and people get angry because they're not doing exactly what the team wants. Even if the team is performing perfectly well.

Even in this game I had that problem. My very first character ever was an Ice/storm controller. I was around level 14 or 16 and I still had no idea how the game really worked. My most used power was O2 boost...:-( Well one day I got invited to do Positron. The team wiped on the very first mob and then the team leader started yelling at me for not using Ice Slick. I informed him that I did not have ice slick thinking that he should of bothered to check my powers before assuming that I did. It ended in me getting kicked from the team and getting more nasty tells from the leader.

Then later I was playing WoW (Yea, I know, I'm sorry, it was a mistake please don't judge me) and I decided to make a rogue. The FOTM rogue was what was called a "Mace Rogue" but I decided that I didn't want to be FOTM so I made a "Dagger Rogue." Later I had some trouble with something and I mentioned on broadcast that I felt that Dagger Rogues needed a bit of a buff cause they were underperforming. The response I got was "Well you should be mace" which completely ignored the fact that I didn't want to be mace and I wanted to use sweet daggers. In the later levels I started having to defend my build more and more until it finally got so annoying I just stopped playing him.

I think that ED was implemented in this game because of how much people were starting to just simply make cookie-cutter builds and the devs wanted to support individuality. In fact, the thing that keeps me coming back to this game is that individuality that is promoted. (well and also the willingness to make players able to make asthetic changes without altering actual function of things).

So I guess to be brief, I don't want this game to start trying to force people into a certain build just because people think it's got better numbers. I'll admit, I'm probably being paranoid and it's probably not ever gonna happen anyways.



Now, one last thing. I do notice a lot of posts on kheldian forums asking for build help. And they always have a decent number of replies so I think that what you're asking for is already kinda happening.

Also, I've heard it mentioned several times that we're not "getting the word out about how awesome Khelds are" or something along those lines. I have to disagree. I think that LOTS of people know that warshades are pretty much demigods. I don't exactly hear about PBs a lot, but it seems to me that any time people bring up being just generally amazing, WSs always seem to make it into that discussion. It's one of the reasons I rolled my WS after having HEATs unlocked for about 2 years (Yea I know my reg'd date isn't that long ago, I switched accounts recently) and muscled through the slow low levels to get to the high levels of love.


I feel like I mighta babbled a bit. Sorry about that.

Playerbase unwilling to do the work and research required? Dude this is a game. You can do all the work you want. Personally I'm gonna do what ever involves having fun. Having to go and do a lot of research just so I can make an adequate macro to change forms agravates me to no end.

True, in the end I did do it, but I still took the lazy route and simply copied someone elses macro. Now I would not normally have a problem with this, except that many other games have used and explained macros in a much more adequate way.

For the brief stint when I played FFXI I enjoyed their macro system. You hit macro, and it'd pull up a seperate window with tabs for powers, actions and everything. Say you want your boost to activate four times in a row after recharging. you don't have to type a thousand dollar signs and all that jibberish. You simply clicked the command for boost, clicked the command for wait, input the time, clicked the command for boost again and so on a so on. Also, you could activate a power, then have the system send you a tell or such after 10 seconds saying "Boost is ready".

Now, admittedly, you could also make a character into a bot in FFXI so they obviously got that part wrong, but in my opinion they did a very good job of making their macro system easy to grasp. I would love to be able to set up macros to send me tells telling me that my tier 9 will crash in 10 seconds or that I need to refresh shields.

I think it would certainly help players if we got a pop up screen with premade commands and you just had to fill in the blanks for exactly what you want.

That was another thing I was considering.

Aw man, that is so awesome. I've been dieing to have a whip for so long now. I just hope there's also a chain whip to choose from in the costum editor.