Actual real Master Level Information and other comments

[old.Ramas]

Some comments from a Mythic tour report....

Master Abilities lines will be assigned to classes individually. So each class will have two available paths of MLA's. Each group of classes is likely to have similar, but not neccesarily EXACTLY the same selection. So for instance, among assasins, Shadowblades, Nightshades, and Infiltrators will not neccesarily be given precisely the same selection. There is a line called "Spymaster" to whcih they will have access, though. The actual list of MLA's is still not finalized at this point.

One of the Hibs asked about Savages. According to Mackey, Savages got off easy. Mackey wanted to nerf them much harder. "They need more nerfing."

Faeyr asked about the desire for 8v8 fights. Apparently the character of RvR on various servers changes from server to server. Some are highly zergy, others are far less so. "The goal of DAoC is to be an army on army game. That doesn't mean it's always 100 on 100. But we do want it to be multi-groups vs multi-groups. And there's going to be a lot of changes coming up with what we' doing with MLA's and Frontiers expansion that will address exactly that." They're trying to make it so that it's not just biggest zerg wins or most uber 8v8 group wins.

But right now, in Mackey's opinion, Determination needs to be nerfed, and he can't nerf it enough. He's not sure how yet.

Mackey has a L50 in all three realms.

The "Style Review" and "RA review" are things that Mackey wants to do, but aren't neccesarily on the overall Mythic radar. They're really ongoing processes. Mackey wants to try to do the RA review in 1.68, but there's no promises, it might wait end up with Frontiers. Spike said it was painfully obvious which RA's are broken, because no one has them (Skald, Friar). They're exactly aware of which ones are broken.

One of the things they're thinking about is taking the class-specific RA and making five levels of it. Examples included Group Purge and Bunker of Faith.

I then asked about buffbots.

The response was Mackey wants to reward people who are specced Aug/Enhance/Nurture, and reward groups for having a real player in the group instead of back at the PK. That's about all Mackey said on that subject.

Sanya again reiterated that much of this is just Mackey's opinion.

I asked about the survivability of ranged DD casters, and if it was on Mackey's radar to look at that. He replied that they do very badly in 8v8 situations, where they're too squishy, but that according to the data they're getting, they do get a lot of kills in big RvR fights.

Mackey did say they've learned a great deal about the game since release. For instance, if they had to do it all again, not all hib casters would have baseline stun.

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