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You can never have a perfect world in a PvPMMO

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EpicDuel is in a testing phase, and as such,

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I think balance needs some testing. We have seen nerfs, buffs, and more nerfs, and nothing seems to work. Old players are discontent that the game is not what it used to be, and new players dislike the fact that the RNG hates them, failing to realize it hates everyone. I think its time the developers stopped with the content, stopped with the wars, and focused ONLY on balance for ONE month. During this time, the design team could work on new skill icons, and update animations that have become outdated, and the story team (person?), could work on planning out future events and story lines.

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So what month?!?
Probably not June, maybe July, but August could work...really any month that the developers are comfortable with.

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What kind of changes might we see?
-PTR Server

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What could/would this achieve?
Hopefully it would get a lot of our suggested ideas into the game.

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I think the month would have to start off with the launch of a PTR. The developers could constantly funnel balance changes to the PTR, and get them tested by the user base. This would in turn, allow for a quicker turn around, and a better and faster idea of what was working, and what was not.

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Alright, why a month?
A month to start...I think. If the developers can get all of their/our balance ideas to a PTR in a month, then that would be it. They could then start moving the things they liked over to the main build of the game. If however, they needed more time, I think they should continue until they are satisfied with the state of PvP in the game.

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What are you thinking? How would this help?
I think this would allow for an amazing amount of productivity in a short amount of time. I know the developers are constantly telling us that they are so short on time, that they just cannot fit balance into every update, and cannot release the major balance changes that we want. Hopefully this would fix that issue!

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No it isn't

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Only a month?

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August.

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We should already have this.

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Most suggested ideas are bad, and come from people with no real experience with game design.

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This is what they should have done as soon as they left Gamma. Everything up to the end of gamma was a testing phase. Delta and onward are releases.

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Not quite. There needs to be both a private and a public testing realm. NOT on the dev server. Dev server and testing server shouldn't even be the same right now, let alone with a REAL balance testing system in place.
As i'm sure you're aware, some people are more qualified than others.

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I wouldn't get your hopes up. They need more staff. The reason that they are so short on time for balancing is because they have nobody in the dev team with the passion and in game experience required for balance that remains fun.
The fact that the two people who are in charge of balancing are programmers is one of the biggest faults in the staff setup.
If you are programming AND balancing, you should be ONLY programming balance.

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Programming and balancing are both EXTREMELY time consuming, and are much much more volatile than artwork or storyline. Making a mistake in code OR balance will throw the entire game off. Making a mistake in art does very little and just needs a minor fix.

Hire a dedicated balancer.