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My feedback is that there has GOT to be some sort of full resist system for DD's. Recent changes made casters very very powerful with their damage, as anyone that's tested it out has seen. It's going to take a looong time before people have the resist gear that they are testing/playing with right now, and spells are hitting for a lot of damage as is... so basically at the start of the server, and until people are completely decked out AND have bard resists in their group, they are F'd if they run into a wizard that has mana.

I think, at the minimum, if the rest of the recent spell damage changes stay the same, a 1% chance to fully resist a nuke for every 15 of a resist, is more than fair, and is easily lower than it was on classic (as I remember it). This would give someone with 150FR (which is actually pretty damn high, lets not lie to ourselves) a 10% chance to outright resist a fire based DD, 300 FR a 20% chance, and it can cap there at 20% (or should it?). Leave all other recent caster DD changes as is for now, add this into the mix, and see if casters still seem OP. If this seems like too much, scale it to 1% chance for every 20 resist. For the normally geared player, on a brand new server, either of these would still add up to an extremely low chance of full resisting. You've got to remember, people's resists are going to SUCK when the server goes live, and for a long time thereafter. The recent changes mean casters will dominate melees, 'til Velious. This would be throwing melees a small bone, but even still, it's not much, but every little bit helps.

This proposal, by the way, is far less than the chance to full resist than I recall on classic live. If you ran around with 300+ elemental resists, you were only being hit for full with lures or taps, full and nearly full resists on normal DD's were common. Granted we don't want people to be immune to everything, that's just dumb, but we DO want resists to account for something, you know?

And with the current changes, I am most definitely rolling a caster, and my alt will be a caster. Next alt might be a bard. Was debating a melee main, and after the recent changes was thinking maybe a melee alt, but then I thought "why would I do that to myself?" heh. Even with my proposed change, I'm rollin' a caster. They are just too stacked, and nobody is going to have the resists that things were just recently balanced around.