Khannibal
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Hi guys, i've not been on in a while and, like I do every other 4 months or so, i've visited to see how things are going :]
First off I'd like to talk about tech mages, ever since the Beta stage of the game I believe they've been the underdog of all classes, and with the release of the new classes that's no exception, what with their lack of a defensive passive and inability to heal as well as previously. I'm curently tying out a strength TM build which isn't bad, but without Bloodlust or shields it relies on a higher damage output and some blocks. I noticed the surge of SC builds of late, and I was pleased to see it to be honest, people finally found a way around one of our weaknesses, gong against everyone's idea of powerful battle mages, and using the spells we were given. Which is great.
I was a bit sad to see how an epic high tech 2v2 build using Plasma bolt and Rain had to be nerfed because the staff deemed it overpowered, despite tech mages having no buffs in around two years, and Support Mercenaries dominating 2v2 since the start of the game (Which was eventually remedied, good job on that by the way :]) but it saddened me to see how hastily a useful TM build was nerfed, many players use high strength bloodlust builds these days, and a tech mage with a high damage output stood a good chance pre-nerf.
I reckon mages should have a skill that increases either the effectiveness, or speed of heals, or perhaps a heal over time skill to make up for their non-defensive passives, that perhaps relies on support, so there's less of a chance that people could abuse SC and the heal skill, I think that'd really throw a spanner in the works and balance out some of the ingame issues, but as a whole I'd like to congratulate the staff on how they've been dealing with balance of late, I feel the game's finally getting to a point where classes rely on skill instead of cookie cutter luck builds.
My second discussion is about Factions. When I joined there was Lords, SavageKillers, DSX, Legit, TSAAS, ED Gladiators, BKoC, KotR and more, each packed with top tier players, some better than others, but the competition was fierce, which is EXACTLY what a PVP game needs to be sustained. I dislike repetitive battles knowing it's getting me nowhere, there's so little drive for competition between factions these days, understandably due to many old players leaving EpicDuel and such, but I feel factions need a major revamp giving the best players that celebrity status everyone loved, and worked towards becoming. I know when I joined, I saw Smokinaces, Dax, Angels Holocaust, SavageScream, Gamal, Shaniqua, Comical, V3gitlX and co. to be absolute legends in every right and I worked my backside off to be acknowledged by them, and fight against them, they were literally some of the celebrities of Epicduel, and everyone sought to make new builds and try new weaponary to become great.
I really disliked the update whereby you could equip an item 5 levels before you could use it, it tore a huge rift through the game as the level difference from 29-30 meant nothing but a stat point. I also feel that players using higher levelled equipment at a lower level are a bunch of overconfident, disrespectful little buggers, but that's besides the point.
At 29 I was using Dark Leviathan, Imperial ACP and beta gear with Founders armour, and couldn't wait for 30 to get Cupid's Bane, Azrael, Frostbane etc.
I feel new players buy 10k varium, copy the mainstream builds, repeatedly spam F4F which i'll be getting to next, and then shout a load of abuse at other players because they can't afford varium or they've lost. Everyone respects people like Bee and Comic being top tier players, but there are so few solid factions that nobody feels they need to be better than anyone else, they just copy builds and troll, which is a shame, I'd love factions to have more uses, whereby players stand out for being unique and powerful again.
FAME 4 FAME!!!111!
I absolutely despise it, like 100%, it's ridiculous, linking back to level 29s with 34 gear, I get asked virtually every battle to fame them, and get called allsorts for declining. I reserve my right to fame who I want, but it's not fame, it needs to be renamed, because it can be traded like free hugs, nobody loses anything by doing it. If someone askes why I don't fame them, it's because they're not famous, they've not earned the right to be famed, they've not spoken to me or beaten me in battles and their characters look identical to everyone elses, I won't remember their names a lot of the time and they've just not earned it. I sound like such a snob, but i'm really not, if you speak to me you'll understand, but respect has to be earned and it's not at the moment. I think there needs to be a fame revamp of some sort too.
That's all at the moment guys feel free to post below sharing your opinions and ideas, good or bad, I just want to hear from the community again which seems to have dwindled the past few months. Mods if there are any issues in this topic please let me know and i'll correct it almost instantly, and if this gets deleted due to too many issues i'll make a video discussing the topics :]
Ciao, Khannibal
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