Ranger209 wrote: »

There is really only one way to raise the floor and make things more accessible while lowering the ceiling to shrink the gap between high end dps players and low end dps players. That is to increase the base damage to all attacks/skills/spells, and reduce the scaling that raw stats (mag, stam, weapon damage, spell damage), and buffs do. Videos have been posted of players doing self buffed 3 million dummy parses and the same players with the same gear and stats doing twice the damage on the fully buffed raid test dummy. Twice as much if not more. Combine that with end game sets and the jacked up raw stats that end game players achieve from these sets that are inaccessible to most of the player base, and the power variance goes up to (3X) as much from low end to high end. if you really, honestly want to address those issues this is the only way.

I think improving the viability of overland and low level dungeons sets will help close the gap as well. Sure, Julianos is accessible but it's not on the level of trial gear. Make the more accessible gear stronger and stop locking it behind high level content that mid and lower tier players can't easily access.

there are not many oppurtinities in the game to actually learn how to fight well. the person who just does quest stuff is just killing low hp monsters and with help alot of the time from npcs.
the only time you get a chance to practice or discover weaving is a boss.
Most people can't think of doing a boss until near 50.

I think players need some higher hp fights lower down in the game to learn.

and who would think weaving is a thing without reading the internet?

If they want to raise the floor, they need to increase the damage of spammables in PvE.

It's the most basic way to play the game. I don't think light attack weaving is the difference between a good and bad player. Maybe the difference between a good and a great player.. but it's like what.. 10-20% damage difference?

That isn't where the skill floor is.

The skill floor is throwing your idea of what makes a cool character out the window and picking moves that are efficient at dealing damage, and managing the uptime on those abilities.

If you want regular old players to put up better numbers, raise the damage of the abilities they're spamming.

Honestly they need to rework how the class abilities interface with eachother anyways otherwise the best builds are always going to be the people who picked the most efficient dots and keep the highest uptime on them.

I wanna see more things like "Knocks enemy off balance" or "Does more damage to off balance enemies" or "Chills enemy" "Does more damage to Chilled enemies, but consumes the chill debuff" etc. So people can combo moves together instead of just rotating through dots.