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Where is the info for the 'TLDR'? I want to read more about that newly 'mage pump'.
I dropped from 1% overall pump to normal. | | The only part from the Admins was the bit I posted on the first page. There is then a bigger discussion in Russian, which yesterday when I looked was 11 pages, and I presume is much more now. I read it yesterday and it did not give any more clarity and so am not inclined to look further. By all means head across to the. Ru forums and look. | generally i do like this update (because i benefit from it heh), but there are some problems with it.
firstly, the definition of mage build is too loose. nobody knows for sure what it means. is it just the wizard faction, or are there thresholds for primary skill points distributed to knowledge and spell power? should meme builds like mass decay darkness necro and firewall nature unholy necro be considered as mage build?
secondly, the high level mage is cooked with tons of penalty. mage is not exactly meta in high level (except hellfire), but with many players having CG 13 + MG 14/15, the exp penalty is high.
there should be a clear set of criteria or formula to determine what is a mage build, along with some sort of icon or indicator in the homepage to show what is the current build.
if the main purpose of the change is to target the 0hg 0tg wiz, the criteria can be something like if more than 80% of all skill points available to be distributed (including points from erudition) are distributed to knowledge or spell power, then it is considered mage build. we can even go a step further and look at chaos talent selection too if needed.
personally i think a simpler solution is to have something like attack/defense and primary points have different weighting when calculating the total sum of guild points. currently initiative is 0.5 point while attack/defence/primary skills are all 1 point. i suggest primary skill points to be considered as 1.5 points due to the flexibility it gives.
admins, hire me as a consultant and i will give you a more in-depth analysis :) |
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