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Stabilis -> How to: Balance (Part Two) (11/11/2013 16:10:41)
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These are tips for when you decide to discuss balance...
»»Give arguments, provide evidence for them, and use logic.
»»Do not use personal experience or opinions as evidence. What happens when you play, will not happen to anyone else.
»»If you are wrong, people will disagree. If you do not like this, then the balance forum is not for you.
»»Admitting that you do not know something and then learning it, is smarter than pretending to know something and stay stupid.
»»Do not make blank claims. This means do not give arguments without proving them. They are not worth anyone's time.
»»This is not the general discussion or suggestions forum.
»»Treat balance like math. Balance is a numbers game.
»»Do not be biased. This means do not give special treatment to anything. If you want to balance something, you have to respect everything equally.
»»Find problems and show that the problems actually are problems. Find solutions for the problem. Show that the solution works.
»»Compare and contrast skills of the same category. Do not compare classes. A set of 12 skills cannot be equally compared to another set of 12 skills. A class is not defined by its skills, the skills of a class are not permanent. No matter where skills go, they are what needs to be balanced.
The categories are: health skills, energy skills, basic stat skills, melee skills, poison skills, stun skills, ultimate skills, and ranged skills.
»»Break down the skills into smaller parts that are easier to work with.
Skills break down into: energy cost, requirements, cooldown, warmup, improvements, and its unique effect.
References: what's in a bad argument?, a general summary of logic
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