Ranger Archive
Thread: Designed for a different era?
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DND_Cas
Fri Jul 09, 2004 6:25 am
#1
Does anyone else think the reason traps & harvesting are so bad is because the combat system is so out of whack?
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.....
We had no rediculous doc buffs or 80% composite armour. Therefore:
- players couldn't spam specials because of the ham costsand therefore traps would havebeen usefulalternative to the specials (because of thenegigable ham cost).
- players couldn't wear such powerful armor and therefore didn't have the protection we do now against higher level critters and hence couldn't bash them to pieces and survive solo even withan extra combat profession.
- because of the combination of the two would have had to go against lower level creatures in which they couldn't harvest as much and hence our harvesting mod would have been correct.
Hence our skills are in the department of rubbish because of the combat inbalence.
/awards himself the state the obvious award (tm) and dances off into the wildness
ChillWolf
Fri Jul 09, 2004 6:54 am
#2
I was something like the 6th Master Ranger on my server after launch. At that time some of the traps were very helpfull in big hunts. And the camps were almost a must in large group hunts on planets like endor.
But with the advent of super buffs and armor group hunting became less and solo hunting the mainstream. Now Rangers have been reduced to harvesting machines.
I always loved this profession and the first time I set up a Hi TechField Basewas still oneof the best moments in this game. I hope the combat revamp will revive both the Ranger and CH professions.
Bartholomew_Roberts
Fri Jul 09, 2004 6:56 am
#3
I agree with that whole broken combat system theory, but I still find traps to be pretty useful. I'd much rather fight a blind Faamba.
Nemo0
Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:43 pm
#4
Within amonth of launch, I was able to solo krayts (no armor or buffs). The combat system was never really in balance. At launch, some creatures were way overpowered (like quite a few CH pets--I was aRanger/CH for quite a long time and I had decided to do that before the game even launched) while others were way underpowered (like krayts). By the time they changed creatures around (and made other fixes like changing bleeds around) the servers were advanced enough that people could survive anything. Traps were useful but only on the lower level creature hunts.
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