Display MoreTalking from an outside point of view (im not leather xD) both things have good and bad sides.
Going full dex:
Good points:
- Economy: Pain would cost less and the most important thing, dex stats will finally worth something.
- Game design: Leathers are a constant "pain in the ass" (don't hate me ) in terms of loot. New inis like hoto or world boss have useless stats for them. And you need Leathers to clean them, every year is being harder to convince them to join xD.
Issues:
- Balance: It will require a balance in terms of numbers, make dex higher and str 0 like chains and cloths. Well guess this is a Byte thing and as long as final patt is the same...
- Time: As healers, it would require a buff transforming str into dex. It should be on for many months aswell as healers had.
- Runes: As some people said, runes change would be needed. Would be hard to do a npc to trade tyrant for dex rune for a few months?
- HP: It has been said, HP would be a problem without tyrant rune. It won't. Right now you have tyrant + dex/str transformation potion. With this change, would be no tyrant but dex/sta transformation potion. Would be exactly the same as cloth mdps users. Many many mdps are melee, and we survive, so this can't be an excuse. In any case, if a little bit of extra hp is required it's as simple as adding 10% passive HP buff to rogues, problem solved.
New ini is planned for next 4-6months. I think you couldn't change leathers to full dex when balance started because it started a month after the ini was released and many people had pieces done. I understand. I just don't understand what is the excuse to not do it now before new ini comes. You have enough time to prepare it and do it properly to fix all the problems marked above.
This is just a point of view from someone who is not a leather user. I think it is a necessary change for the game. Since tikal (in gorge was crazy) we had huge problems with pain users, killing each other to get stats while I still have 90 rofl deftness in chests from first months 🤣
Just think about it.
Regards, Madoxx.
Wow, I didn't think I'd agree with you: D
Adding a few things from my point ...
The argument that a rogue needs a tyrant is wrong, in our guild we do all instances of course, yesterday we also did WB and in our entire guild I am the only rogue who uses these runes and I don't see any difference in survivability to other rogues. Where it's really hard to survive (hoto), these runes have no power to keep me alive. About new ini, it hasn't come out yet, it can be adjusted if it makes a difference. Although knowing the devs and so defeat will be a rogue there, I remember the beginnings of rofl and that aoe ...
So ... As a rogue, I feel treated like a nuisance because:
1) My stats are some strange combination, I feel like an unwanted kid, every main class has its own type of stat: str/str or sta/sta or int/int ...
2) I have a lot less combinations than chain or cloth
3) Hoto stats are totally useless to me
4) WB is completely unnecessary for me, there is no offhand, for example, and the stats do not make much difference to me now, and if a new instance comes out, for example in 3 months, stats from wb will be totally craps
In conclusion, I believe that the administration has no idea of a rogue and does not know what it is. It was the only one that did not gain much gain on hoto, and it was the only one that did not gain much gain on wb. And in some time, when cloth and chain will upgrade themselves with new stats (unchanged at the rogues) the balance will be completely destroyed again.
I just want equality, be treated like other classes, have my own stat, dedicated and only valid stat, I want to be a target for new content - hoto & wb and I want more possible combinations for the rogue (by the way).
I am just calling you, when you somehow decide to change, do it professionally, give us time, information and the possibility exchange of tyrant runes.
I would also like to note that once wis/wis was useless and despite initial objections, everyone is rather satisfied with the change.
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