BUFFING BECAUSE EVERYTHING IN THIS GAME SHOULD BE OP AND I WANT TO FEEL POWERFUL AND I WANT THIS AND I WANT THAT AND IF ZENIMAX DOESN'T PROVIDE THEN I WILL ACCUSE THEM OF LEAVING THIS GAME IN BETA SO I CAN GET WHAT I WANT


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MasterSpatula wrote: »

Give me enough manageable fights to make me feel like my character is extraordinary and enough challenging fights to make me feel like he lives in a dangerous world, and I'm happy. Variety. Making every single fight hard is as much pandering to brain-dead, drooling imbeciles as is making every single fight easy.

Exactly. They shouldn't nerf everything, but they shouldn't buff everything either. In general, if one skill is too powerful, the most logical reaction is to nerf it so that it's more in line with the other skills. Vice-versa with weaker abilities.

If you only choose one, you're left with either a game that's way too easy (WoW), or a game that's so difficult it's ridiculous (Dark Souls, although admittedly enjoyable).

Any good game will do a bit of each where it is required. You buff underperforming powers, and nerf overperforming ones. If the Devs are any good at what they do, they should have started off with a sense of where they wanted the player power level to be at, and then once the game is in the hands of the players, they can see where powers put the player in terms of the expected powerlevel. If they are below that level, buff. If they are above, nerf.

Nerf if something is overperforming
Buff if something is underperforming.


It's not rocket science. Always buffing just leads to inflation (and a lot more work as you have to buff EVERYTHING to catch up to whatever is overperforming) Always nerfing just leads to deflation (and a lot more work as, like always buffing, you have to nerf EVERYTHING that isn't underperforming.)

Unlike some things, in this case, there actually is a correct answer.