| I said it multiple times in multiple places and in multiple topics: this game is not far from greatness, but remains average because the dev team should do what is considered too much work or possibly too risky work in order to make the game awesome.
I'll sum it up:
- redo completely melee combat, it sucks badly. I said completely, get rid of mana for melees as well.
- consolidate 24 classes into 12, add one or two interesting classes, say "fuck off" to the archetype system and to dps tiers.
- redo the buff system: it's useless and boring. Really, it's annoying to even look at the buff bar. Melees with 5-8 buffs... wtf?
- make content more challenging: when we play with a full group, the only limiting factor on how many mob we can pull is... drumroll... LAG. We managed to wipe because in Kaladim we filled the screen with mobs and I went down to 1-5fps (with an 8800 video card).
- get rid of encounter system, put back some pulling tools, wider social agro and make CC or pulling tools useful.
At this point, you have a very good game. While you do that above SoE, please have someone work on the engine and improve it. | 