/rant sick of balance complainers

The Fox

The Fox

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Awwww! why must everyone complain about the balancing? Even if you complain enough to get everything tweaked to the point that "you" think it's balanced, six months from now, we'll all hopefully have a new chapter and the balancing will be messed up all over again, and then in another six months, hopefully it'll get messed up again! So basically I hope everyone will just have fun with what they have and live with it. The game is incredibly balanced already. It is possible to counter any build.

Getting a character's skills adjusted after having planned a character to function under certain criteria is rather annoying. Maybe you're one that doesn't plan, in which case re-balancing wouldn't effect you, but for most of us, this is not the case. Sure I don't like looking at the big hairy warrior/monks, but it doesn't bother me either. I'll never be one, but they make good punching bags. did i just irritate half of the new players who are using warrior/monks? GOOD! I hope so... cause all this balance complaining is irritating me.

Sorry guys, I use to be a big Diablo fan and have came to despite a game that changes my charater after I've already made it.

dorn

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Fox
Awwww! why must everyone complain about the balancing?
Some people play these sorts of games and they want to play a certain setup or class and it's only natural if they like to compete that they be upset about any imbalance they see. Of course most people are apt to see imbalances where none exist but that's another topic.

Other people play purely to compete and only want to learn what works and then use it. These people obviously get annoyed at the first set of people because they just want to exploit the flaws and when those flaws are fixed they just find new ones equally imbalanced and they therefore become baffled that anyone tried to change anything in the first place because no net improvement was achieved.

Of course not even remotely everyone falls into these categories but there are enough people in these categories to generate huge flame wars on forums :P.

Kershent

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

I think the OP's point as what there IS no imbalance. Every strat can be countered, and a strat that counters everything won't counter anything very well. People who complain about balancing are just jumping to conclusions, and probably havn't played enough of the game to realize that when your character sucks, you have to fix it.

The Fox

The Fox

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by dorn
Other people play purely to compete and only want to learn what works and then use it. These people obviously get annoyed at the first set of people because they just want to exploit the flaws and when those flaws are fixed they just find new ones equally imbalanced and they therefore become baffled that anyone tried to change anything in the first place because no net improvement was achieved.
Well i wouldn't call a strategic combination a flaw... , but I do agree that no matter what they do, people will find something new which will be seen as the best combos or "imbalances". Because something will always be seen in this matter I would prefer to have a standard imbalance than a changing one which messes up builds. ok, maybe i'm just one of those "purely to compete" people... BUT still, the game shouldn't be so "perfectly" balanced that someone can just throw and skill combination together and be as good as a planned out build. If that was the case, there might as well only be one class and 8 skills for the whole game! hehe I'll stop complaining. It will not do any good anyways.

I don't want to create a flame war. I just want to persuade people to my way of thinking in order to better the future of us all, by not having to suffer through the catrastrophy of nerfing/balance changes. hey that was some good sounding B.S. Plus, there was a lot of debating about the level 20 cap, which seemed to have a productive outcome, and debating is fun.