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OverZealous
The problem with that, rankkorr, would be that if all classes took equal amounts of damage, you would build characters to make sure they have as little HP as possible, easing it for healers - since they would be able to cast small heals and still fill up the health bars of for example, mages.
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Rankkor
The problem with that, rankkorr, would be that if all classes took equal amounts of damage, you would build characters to make sure they have as little HP as possible, easing it for healers - since they would be able to cast small heals and still fill up the health bars of for example, mages.
that can also be fixed by having all heals restore a % of your max HP, thus if you have little HP you take little damage, and get healed for little damage.
but also, like I said on the third paragraph of my post, on paper it sounds easy, and maybe it would be if this was a new MMORPG, but wow is not a new game. Its a game that already depends too much on the "holy trinity" (Heal+tank+DPS) and to change that formula, it would require changing every single previous boss encounter, as well as retool every healing tree, and change every tanking tree into DPS trees.
Its a change too dramatic, and if not handled properly, its the kind of thing that can easily break the game, and kill it for good.
its why tanks are here to stay.
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Thror
And put yourself in the shoes of raid boss. Youll have like seven or eight people behind you stabbing you furiously with knives and daggers, poisoning you, as well as hammering away on your butt and lower back with massive sledgehammers and axes. All around you are people shooting arrows in your face, electrocuting you and burning you with gigantic balls of fire that explode constantly in your face.
Your ears are ringing from explosions, you feel excruciating pain from thousands of wounds and you feel the constant impacts of blunt objects hammering you hard from the back of your head down to your heels, your hair is on fire, your body shakes and your muscles cramp and spasm involuntarely from the constant electrocution. Poison course through your veins, you feel sick from disease, you stumble around on the floor which has gotten slippery from your own blood, running in rivers from several wounds, and your new clothes are all messy and torn.
Then there is one guy, right in front of you, mocking and taunting you, calling your mother a prostitute, spitting in your face while stabbing you repeatedly in your gut with a sword while bashing your face in with a heavy metal shield. That guy is closests, that guy is all you see in your tunnel vision of pain, blood pours down your face, blurring your vision and that guy just laughs in your face and keeps stabbing you. Offcourse you want to beat that guy, and beat him hard. Do you care about the five people in colorful dresses standing scattered around? No, not particularly. The guy thats in front of you is the one you are most angry with, that guy has to go down.
If I could make signatures this big, I would.
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