Plato's Cave (Dev IC Twitch Stream D -7)

EnOeZ

Following tonight stream on twitch on Monday 24th...

No Head of Dev departement seemed to run a tree Melee PVP warrior in Heavy Armor... and did not notice a DK if there was one.
All dev "surprisingly" (cough...) playing range, with bows, staves and a templar with occasional 2H... Brawler ??? What the Heck !!

Brawler is just the least used skill in 2H line in Cyrodiil, being highly inefficient in a PVP configuration against competent players.
This stream confirming that they just cannot understand what they do not play. Especially when playing at that level...

No offense, but where are the top PVPers helping design the game ?

Get out of Plato's Cave ZOS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave

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FYI IC on PC, next monday (confirmed live)

Greg

lol, let them play what they want, they may just not be min/maxers. and want to play what they enjoy

Ahzek

It has been quite obvious time and time again that the devs are not actually "hardcore" gamers of their game. Taht might mean they lack a certian bit of insight in some departments, but i honestly dont think its a bad thing. In the end its their free time and I can imagine it to be quite bland to spent most of my day with only one game, be it desiging or playing it.

Additionally, if you really think those 4 devs are the only ones playing their game and that there are no dragonknight represented in their roster whatsoever you are delluding yourself. In fact we have seen quite some footage of devs playing DKs (and all other classes), even in the days of closed beta. I personally recall a group of devs taking down a dolmen, with a DK pyromancer taking a decent chunk of the spotlight.

I take it you believe DKs will be underpowered with IC and that the sky is falling because of all these incompetent devs deciding the worst crap ever, but in the end most of the balance talk about IC atm is really only talk. With battle spirit mostly (entirely ?) fixed there really dont seem to be that many issues between the classes in my opinion. Of course there will be stronger and weaker classes (and builds/speccs), but nothing can really be said about that yet.

Xendyn

So who said only top pvpers get to design games?
And who says it would be any good if they did? lol

Recremen

Ha ha, wait a minute, so they both totally know what the meta is by playing all ranged, but they also have no clue what's going on because one of them is using Brawler? Your message appears a little contradictory. ;-)

I'm sure they're just simultaneously having some fun and showing folks that they do in fact play the game. Just because they play, however, doesn't mean they're trying to make the most competitive builds and pwn the nubs.

EnOeZ

Recremen wrote: »

Ha ha, wait a minute, so they both totally know what the meta is by playing all ranged, but they also have no clue what's going on because one of them is using Brawler? Your message appears a little contradictory. ;-)

The other way around:

They ALL play range therefore range archetypes are doing well but melee archetypes meaning warrior/berserker style do not.

But indeed ONE of them used brawler in a templar setup. If I do understand your remark, my point was to highlight that what they all play works well and that when they DO play a range ability in PVP, it's one of weakest one in its line.... strangely a good PVE (especially solo PVE) one.

I could have used better wording with more subtility, but english is not my mother tongue.