Immersion is a bullshit term anyways since everyone has their own definition. I find WoW to much more immersive because of the things you claim impede it. Yay for arbitrariness!
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I remember in the early days of EQ when the mere mention of Ice Comet made Wizzies wet themselves. Would Frostbolt rank 9 have done that?
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Ice Comet made us wet our pants because it did 2x the damage of the previous damage spell and almost 5x the damage of the previous spell rank. If frostbolt rank 9 was a 5x damage up over frostbolt rank 8 sure as shit I would wet myself.
We ultimately end up acronyming it all anyways so it doesn't really matter.
If you want it to be more immersive, (which is a meainingless word to begin with but fuck it I'll roll with it), they need to work on how you get the spells. Not what the fuck you call it. You could name a spell "Mike Phelps mighty bong hit" but it wouldn't mean dick if all I do is go to a trainer and buy the spell after killing 300 antelope or whatever other retarded wildlife creature developers eventually start phoning it in with.
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Which brings me to another topic, one I've briefly covered before. ENOUGH WITH MUNDANE CREATURES. Go to the fucking store, get a DnD monster manual and start stealing shit. If I have to kill one more fucking wolf, bear, deer, cat, tiger, boar, giraffe or any other such creature I will begin to stab your staff, in real life.
There is no excuse. None. If you go, "But we have this cute series of quests where..."
No. Stop it right now. I don't give a shit if I'm level one and you want to express how weak I am where my first quest is to go kill garden snakes, I want you to go off yourself because the gaming community will be better off without you. You have made a terrible game decision and should be goddamn ashamed of yourself.
That's your homework assignment for Tuesday Curt. You go to your staff, you ask them "Hey, has anyone started implementing anything that involves killing wolves or boars or other boring shit like that?"
Then you come back here, the answer better be no or you need to go and slap some fools.
