Most overpowered class?

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Originally Posted by makarios68

If everyone has more resists/evades, then the rules are the same for everybody. So the change you mention applies to everyone. So i still think that warl and hunter are quite well balanced.

On that point I agree, but on the next I made -- that Archers including Hunters did not use Evasion at such level back then, you see that's what makes the difference. The evasion a Warlock has is already too much imho, and an evasive Archer will evade 3 times the Warlock.

Originally Posted by makarios68

It has been mentioned before, and i agree: i would like to see the game based on spells which hit whatever, rather than spells that might hit, depending on your luck...

This will probably never happen, because it would need a major overhaul of the spells each class has. For example, if a hunter can't evade the warlock's huge dmg - he needs better dmg spells himself...

Imho the Hunter needs more combat controls spells and control over his pet which should have powers too. Ie your Ignean orc could have a dizzy spell while a snake could have a damage over time. A pet 1x level pet should have 1 spell, a lv 5x pet 5, which with different cooldowns (lv 50+ pets should have an area as last spell maybe). They would have their own mana and you'd have to manage both. That's how I always pictured Hunters. Petless hunters could still exist, but in anyway Evasion has to be changed if NGD expects class NUMBERS to be balanced - ie 1/6th of each class as active players across all realms. Now most Warlocks changed to other chars because the situation sucks.

A bit of history: this game has been "balanced" through empiric method, ie experimentation, tiny change, repeat. Most of it happened in the beta. However before a few month ago, no one used Evasion, so it has *not* been balanced. In beta, most Marksmen skills were disabled -- they were no real feedback. A few months ago, Confuse was bugged -- no feedback here again. The late change to the cooldown of Confuse is ridiculous since the skill makes Conjurers unable to play: no wonder why most of them stopped playing too (at least in Alsius).

I only hope that Megrim will look into it once NGD's reorg is finally in order.