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Originally Posted by Zuranthium
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I assume you were replying to me. I will address your points:
What does solo ability matter at all? Everyone is going to get to max level quick by grouping on this server and everyone is going to be in a guild or else they won't accomplish much anyway.
Melee damage is sustainable, spell damage isn't. Melee also have much more Health/Armor than casters.
Casters should have a decent chance of beating a melee. The overall "power" level should be a on a sliding scale with utility. It's not as if melee get no utility anyway. Only Warriors are in that boat. On the caster side, Mages have basically no utility. They are a damage class. What's the point of a damage class that always does less damage and dies easily?
With Velious equip melee do insane damage and most spells do pretty much nothing. If you want to remove an entire aspect of gameplay then okay, you've got it.
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I dunno, casters inherently have a lot more utility than melee. Bind affinity/gate, invs/see invs, summon food/water, etc. Necros get FD/harmshield, mages get summoned items/CoH, wizards get ports/yonder, enchanters get runes, mana regen/steal mana, mez...all that is utility besides just doing a nuke.
Keep in mind the health increase in velious is across the board, not just melees. The weapons don't get that much better - maybe a 20-30% dps increase, but casters HP/MP double. No more getting instagibbed by a disc'd rogue.
Velious was the most balanced of all the expansions when it came to PVP, imo. Resists weren't high enough in classic, melee discs and resist gear made kunark melee tilted and velious kinda balanced it all out. Keep in mind Alecta already stated that in Velious we'll be going back to the original resist table so spells will become harder to resist as general resists go up from Velious gear. A geared to the tits melee is always going to be a tough fight as it should be.