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Morning Discussion
by Chris Faylor, Oct 14, 2008 6:41am PDTHey hey hey, welcome to Tuesday. This means two things.
First, those in North America should be able to find Dead Space in stores tomorrow. I think it's worth a look, as I came away impressed, and a little scared.
Second, we're one day closer to Friday, which, coincidentally, is when my Xbox 360 comes back from ye olde repair shop. Come home soon darling, I miss you :(
Oh, and if you're one of those Diablo fans, you pretty much need to check out the mind-boggling display of Diablo 3 information that Nick has compiled in his Diablo 3: What We Know So Far preview.
Simply put, I'm having a blast. I traveled down the left wing of Bastion Stair a few times last night and, like all of the T4 content, it's awesome. The environment, the mobs, the PQs, and the bosses are awesome and can at times be hilarious (see: centaur that rapes people in seconds using electricity). The scenarios can admittedly be just as frustrating as those in T3, but hey... no lava!!!
Now, lately, I've noticed a great deal of discontent for the game, especially with T3. I'm not going to try and convince anyone to stick it out because I've found that even if I do manage to convince someone, they still end up never playing and eventually quitting anyway. I will say this though, every single MMOG I've played, whether it be DAoC, Ragnarok, Shadowbane, LOTRO, or Wow, has it's very own "T3."
The game has been out for what, about a month now? To expect Mythic to have every single tier decked out with uber exciting scenarios and easy-going leveling is as absurd as expecting them to have every single bug fixed. Yeah, this statement is coming from a pretty big Mythic fan but as I stated above, this is true across the ENTIRE BOARD.
If you want to take a break or head back to WoW / some other MMOG, that's cool. I just wanted to toss this perspective out there to see if anyone else could relate.
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The difficulty with the DoK is that you're pretty much forced to play inside one of two boxes for healing:
1) direct healing effects, which means you try to boost your willpower over anything else, and spec into the Dark Rites tree. When playing like this, more often than not you're not completely down in the thick of melee - instead you stand back and pop AOE heals and sacrifice to recharge your soul essence.
2) "leech" effects, which convert damage into healing, which means boosting strength, weapon skill, and defensive stats over willpower, and spec'ing into the Torture and Sacrifice trees. This is the playstyle for DoKs that want to be elbow-deep in the assist-target's back, throwing leech heals at the tanks and melee.
DoKs are really restricted by which playstyle they choose to play :( If you gear up and spec to leech, you're completely ineffective at the other playstyle - the inverse is also true.
PS: DoKs need a restructuring of their mastery paths, as Rend Soul is in Dark Rites, which is complete crap - it relies entirely on damage done for increased heals, and is a better fit for one of the other trees (please move it to Sacrifice, I'd be so damn happy).
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