Reducing Skill Tiers from 6 levls down to 3 will add a MASSIVE ammount of build variety for users.
The biggest issue with skill tiers is having 1 or 2 skill tiers pretty much is useless end game. Unless you are running at least 6 your skills are pretty much toy variants.
By Reducing them down to 3 Skill tiers + Overcharge you suddenly have skills which become useful with 1 or 2 dedicated gear items in them.
It makes no sense that you want to Remove fantastic features from the players because some Balancer has an MMO ****** and reminencing about their days playing Everquest.
On a seperate note
For God sake do something with Meele attack its been 2 years.
Whats the point of having a DEDICATED KEY for meele, to be useable for by single weapon?
I think its balanced how it is - if you go full skill build you loose on everything else such as weapon damage critical hit and chance so you take a hit for it - on the other end your weapons more powerful you have more critical hit and chance and do a lot more damage with your weapon. There is an in between but sacrifices have to be made. Choose weapon damage over skills or skills over weapon damage. The balance is there.
That isn't Balance, that is just Holy Trinity Cult Fanaticism.Originally Posted by BT3241 Go to original post
In reality, what is happening is No skills are useful for Red Builds which is REMOVING features from the game.
As you progress and become stronger you Gain features not remove them.
Simply put not only is not balanced, it is Trinity Mantra.
On my long list of weird suggestion (that i think i posted once) i once wrote about giving each specailization different values for skill tier, for example: If you play technician, main core skill tier roll would actually be +2, while gunner or sharpshooter would have regular one +1, survivalist and demo could have 1 +1/3 (so with 3 skill cores you would instead have 4 skill tiers) or something crazy like that, there's really no reason to build towards certain things with certain specialization, so they just fee clunky and unpolished
Having the actual agents as the ones presented in the fake gameplay trailer of the 1st Division game?! Now that would be something.
I hardly doubt that Massive will allow players to become that powerful. Maybe the other studios that'll be brought to fix this game will make this happen.
Outstanding idea in my book!
Yep, i agree with that, the skills arent exactly widely used because of how poor they are to anything, to be quite frank, below 6. The imoression i got is they're meant to be powerful for each agent or at least viable. Most of the time they're useless. Skill builds dont take my fancy as they're very weak in everything else and to be quite frank, skill builders are laughed at because the game basically wins it for you rather than having any influence from the user.
I honestly hate that about this game and div 1.Originally Posted by BT3241 Go to original post
The skills should be integral to the character, not a 'go all in for good skills' type thing.
Its basically trying to be the 'wizard' class, when no, skills should be more like a MMO class's skills.
Give each color a set of the skills and let the amount of blue, red or yellow you have, improve the power of those skills.
Classify the skills as Offensive(Red), Defensive(Blue) and Support(Yellow).
From there, its based on how much of the given color you have.....
If you go blue, you should be able to have powerful, say, Flame Turret, Shock mines, Goo chem launcher, Healer Hive
If you go red, you should have access to powerful: Seeker mines, and various high damage skills
if you are yellow, you should get powerful healer drones, the different artillery and sniper turrets, armor chem launcher, things like that.
I feel its a big flaw in this game, that we are supposed to be these high tech agents with cool gadgets, but unless you spec 150% into the "Skill Builds", your skills are little more than something to fill the skill slots.....Then if you DO go all skill, then your agent is like this completely incompetent, decrepit geriatric who can do nothing but sit behind a wall throwing balls or firefly drones at people....