I've been busy with school, otherwise I'd help with testing.
Don't cry about MR not working as intended with 10 casts on 25MR. Hardly anyone is going to run around with 25MR.
Test people with actual MR gear and who have levels over others, visa versa. How do these spells land on players who are 8 levels below another? What about 4 levels below? Is it harder to land on people who are higher?
Aside from the current tests going on, I'm conflicted about the resist ideas. I get that live made CC spells virtually irresistible after a certain point. There's an inverse to that, though. That can promote more grouping in PvP, just like having a different resist system could. It could be argued for either side. With spells not landing as much, people are likely to ask for help from classes with debuffs.
This isn't VZTZ. If some of you aren't familiar with that environment though, debuffs were almost entirely unnecessary in PvP. Root/ snares landed after a few casts despite being geared well. That definitely went hand in hand with the overpowered melee system-- stopping to attempt a debuff could be the difference in half of your life as a caster. It was pretty fucked up all around on VZTZ.
Just be careful to consider all the variables in changing resists. Some classes have a difficult time finding MR gear. That's something to consider.
I'm not saying it's anything like that on beta now, but I would avoid situations where debuffs are superfluous to PvP. There needs to be some balance there, a system that encourages the use of all the spells used in classic to win or survive in PvP. If the resists aren't classic, at least the PvP environment could match it to a certain degree. Maybe it already is that way. I'm curious.
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10-21-2011, 01:30 PM
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