jobo11b16_ESO wrote: »

Cydone wrote: »

Cooldowns are probably the easiest way to balance out combat in this game. Each ability, depending on its power, would be instant cast but have a cooldown associated with it. Like Snipe for Bow.....right now has a 3 second cast time....which is an ETERNITY in PvP when ppl are almost always moving in and out of cover. It deals a damn good amount of damage though. Having it instant cast, just by itself, would be OP. BUT, you add in a cooldown of like 5-8 secs and it's completely balanced.

Cooldowns go in the completely opposite direction of the games design, resource management is the cooldowns for this game. The bash problem is solved by reducing the base damage by 1/2 to 3/4.

I think it's funny that you think managing a rotation because there are cooldowns ISN'T resource management.

jobo11b16_ESO wrote: »

Cydone wrote: »

I think it's funny that you think managing a rotation because there are cooldowns ISN'T resource management.

It must be incredibly easy to make you laugh then. Magicka/Stamina are resources, how much you have determines how many times you can use abilities, which means you can choose to hit one ability over and over if you want and blow through you resource pool or switch up which pool you use from or even just use cost free abilities. Cooldowns mean you can only use an ability once and then you have to wait for it to come off of cooldown, you can roll your face over your keyboard and hit all of your skills if you want and you'll do fine since you can only use abilities as often as the devs have seen fit to allow.

Beyond a VERY few abilities that have a cast timer, how is that not possible with what they have right now??

EDIT: Oh and the last real good MMO I played was SWG. An MMO that had cooldowns on ALMOST everything. Beyond a few abilities that did a little bit of damage, that you could spam. Yeah, you could face roll your keyboard, but half of your "resources", as you put it, would be completely gone.....if not more than half. Balance, or something close to it, brings longevity to a games PvP. Increase the costs of some abilities if needed, add cooldowns...with some exceptions to abilities that have low cost/low damage, and you achieve balance. I could care less if it flies in the face of their "vision". If it brings balance....that's all I, or you for that matter, should care about.