Chrlynsch wrote: »

ZOS should have unlinked max magic/max stamina from the damage calc a long time ago. If they wanted us to properly balance our characters. Damage should come from the combo of spell damage, weapon damage, pen and crit..

I posted this a LOOOONNNNG time ago.
Damage strength should not be tied to the same stat that also helps sustainability. It means the stronger you are the more you can use your strongest hits.

It also would help balance very much, making dodging and blocking and break free easier on everyone, by making max stat pools and possibly even recovery numbers finite and equal across all characters. This would allow us all to have the necessary amount of resources to block/break-free/dodge/cast skills as much as is needed in the design. We wouldn't need escalating skill costs with levels either.
That would be better balance, but I would also leave in cost reduction options as it should be allowed for somebody to build for infinite sustainability at the cost of some damage but not a lot of damage.


I liked how City of Heroes, with and without soft caps to stats, allowed for building a very balanced hybrid for solo and group play in this way. I build to be infinitely sustainable and relatively defensive, not a glass cannon or full tank, and I very much enjoyed it along with most of the players. Every role had a place as the tank was there to bunch enemies up while the controller(stuns and immobilizes) was there to keep them there despite knockbacks and in case anything got other ideas while the healer supplemented the durability of the tank and other melee characters through heals and buffs and debuffs the tanks didn't have, though pretty much everybody was built to be able to self-sustain and do good damage.
Yes, City of Heroes had the "holy trinity" but it wasn't ever considered "unholy" as many other games that have done it wrong. It worked because they realized that it wasn't meant to be "necessary" to have any role but it made things easier with utility. You didn't have to pigeon-hole a tank into being useless damage and unable to properly solo, nor a healer or controller; everyone could solo large groups of enemies at an acceptable pace which was augmented by "how" they did so which made it cool, such as the Mastermind class having pets do pretty much all their damage while they commanded their target choice and buffed them with long and short buffs.

I think that's what every game needs. Make roles useful in groups through utility but not mandatory and not severely "gimped" in everything but their "main utility" such that the trinity is mandatory.
That's why it sucks to queue as DPS while people queue as "fake-tanks" and group composition is such a problem. The "holy trinity" has become the "unholy trinity" because of how mandatory it is.