Infraction for Vvildcard: Whining

• Aldriana · 09/12/08, 2:00 PM

Post: [Druid] Feral talents/abilities - WotLK preview / discussion
User: Vvildcard
Infraction: Whining
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Yeah, you're a bit over the line. Not that you don't have some valid points, but if you could be a little less grumpy and whiny about discussing them, that would be great. Thanks.

Original Post:

Those weapons induce a gag reflex for me. I hate how blah all the itemization is getting. Those are the exact same weapons with 1 stat difference between the two. What fun is a game where everything gets reduced to it's simplest common denominator?

What's stopping us from just reducing everything to:

Random Armor of Illidan
Chest
Power: +1000

Random Armor of Kel'Thuzad
Chest
Power: +2000

(Note: To make sure nobody gets left out, I eliminated Cloth, Leather, Mail and Plate armor classes)

Everyone can just have one stat called Power that lets you know exactly how balanced you are compared to everyone else. This way nobody gets confused about trying to twist their class into something that wasn't as designed... blah blah blah... Boring game.

A big part of the appeal of these RPG games is figuring this stuff out. Yeah, it's a PITA sometimes but that's part of the reason we are here... we actually enjoy doing that. Stripping the game down to something so linear as having one piece of armor for each class/spec (or even worse, one piece of armor for 3+ classes/specs) is just bland and boring.

I hope I'm not over the line with my little rant here... I'm sorry if it is. The point I'm really just trying to make is that I feel like Blizzard has been pushing us (as players) into a mold and eventually everything is going to be so 'balanced' that the game's variety will be gone and the life will be sucked out of it.

Why can't classes have a niche anymore? Are things really so bad that we can't figure out ways to adapt to situations when the ideal setup isn't available?