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People always complain of META as being bad for gaming yet, then, when it comes to avoid a given Template to become META and, thus, to have to have it be balanced out, for gameplay diversity, with other Templates, there is complaints....
Do we want gameplay to be balanced out, or do we not ?
If Sampires get too many more drops as other Templates, that is, they are grossly unbalanced, OF COURSE that then players who have limited time to spend in a game would favour usng that Template which is META, and not other the Templates....
And gameplay diversity gets hurt.... with players mostly if not all using the same one template to play....
So, do we want Balance among templates or do we not ?
The Potion would need to be "past" the Balance pass among Templates....
That is, Templates should be balanced out with one another WITHOUT a Potion applied (which the Developers can very well assess whether it was or not used in their monitoring....) and then, it would be up to single individuals whether they want to shell the cost of it or not.
Why ?
Worn Luck, for example, is "supposed" to bypass the "more kills" argument and "should" increase the number of drops with less kills.....
That is, to my viewing, a Sampire wearing less luck, but killing more often, should NOT get more drops as, say, a Spellcaster or a Tamer killing more slowly BUT, wearing more Luck with their suit....
And the same should be a for Rogue detecting hidden chests, picking locks, removing traps and all that.... their drop rate should absolutely reflect the slowness of their particular gameplay balancing it out with the quickness of Sampires being able to kill spawn in seconds if not fractions of a second....and thus the drop rate chance in hidden chests for Rogues should be, to my opinion, almost 1 per chest if not actually 1 per chest.... to reflect that of Sampires....
BALANCE it out..... that is what I am saying....
That is only because, so far, the Developers have not covered also Rogues as a template which players could use in the "Treasure of" Events Dungeons....
I am still hoping that, sooner or later, the Developers will want to add content and drops' mechanics also for this type of Template in the "Treasures of" types of Events.....
Even though I think there SHOULD be another event; the Devs / followers will say "there is already too much going on for the rest of the year between Trick or Treating / Halloween & the Huntsman / Artisan Festival. There simply is just not enough time to do it all!".
I think you need to explain more details about what you think is a balance between a warrior and a thief.
Example.
Warriors to kill 5 top level paragons or 100 normal monsters to get 1 drop.
This should be balanced by a thief to pick say 100 Crates to get 1 drop?
Assuming 10 players use thief, they will need 1000 Crates. This will take up a big space.
Give the Dev an idea of how this design should work. As u can see they are busy coding.
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What needs to be balanced out is TIME to get a drop weighted on the different time it takes for different templates to do their respective actions.
For example, if a Warriors can kill 100 creatures in, say, 5 minutes and get 1 drop (which it makes it an average of 12 drops/hour) but a Rogue in that same 5 minutes would only be able to detect hidden, say, 1 or 2 hidden chests, pick its(their) lock(s) and deal with the Trap(2), THEN, to my opinion, a balanced out Design would make it so that the Rogue was to have 50% to 100% chance at a drop per single hidden chest so to enable that Rogue to be able to get 1 drop in 5 minutes, average, just like the Sampire can.
This is what I see as a balanced out Design among different Templates have different gameplay mechanics and different times....
As in regards the number of hidden chests per dungeon, we need to remember that, once emptied, they decay and vanish making room for new ones to spawn....
The biggest issue here, though, is Paragons auto-revealing..... a Rogue which is a character with too many skills for its Profession (Magery, Hiding, Stealthing, Detect Hidden, Lockpicking, Remove Trap, Stealing, Snooping....), is not geared to have room for skills to make him/her able to neither attack the spawns of the Treasure of Dungeons nor be able to defend against them.... its most important defense is hiding and stealthing yet, as we know, Paragons totally kill hiding/stealthing as they auto-reveal at huge distances, across walls and all that.
If the Developers want to permit Rogues' gameplay with hidden chests in the Treasures of Dungeons, it is necessary to give to Rogues a way to remain hidden and stealthing regardless of the Paragons' auto-reveal ability.
Id go for a sick looking lantern or something for Halloween though.
I would love it!!! And the reprocussions.
Opps I thought I was in the Faire thread!
I know lot of people would love that