Ckorik wrote on Aug 29^th, 2014 at 9:46am:


That's an excellent point. Easily knock out wiz life on a melee that way. And probably stick with it bc OP.

Rubbinns wrote on Aug 29^th, 2014 at 1:25am:


I don't.

Melees are the lowest skill toons in this game. Playing them is both intellectually and physically lazy. They should exist in game -- for children, and for people who are simply too clumsy to be playing a game with an active combat system.

Sev's stated goal is to make them competitive with casters and monkchers -- toons which at least require a modicum of skill to play.

That, in conjunction with the fact he is trying to radically alter the game balance while clearly not having a fucking clue as to how things currently work, makes him one of the worst Turbine devs.

One. Of. The. Worst. Turbine. Devs.

Granted, there are things worse than that. Pedophiles. Mass murderers. Cordo. Still no one I would bother feeling sorry for.

GermanicusMaximus wrote on Aug 30^th, 2014 at 5:06pm:


Funny, I always felt the same about most casters/caster splashes.  Made my wife a pale master/rouge toon for her to play cause she sucks at video games, I'd never expect her to be able to handle playing a melee.  Always figure casters were for our girlfriends to play.  Well, and dorks who got picked on in school so they can live their little fantasies of 'if I were magical you'd respect me.'

GermanicusMaximus wrote on Aug 30^th, 2014 at 5:06pm:

that is because your skill level is low. not the character.

Skoodge wrote on Aug 30^th, 2014 at 6:19pm:

dont tell him that. Youll hurt his feelings.

Jelly_Muffin wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2014 at 3:47pm:


Make it like you're wielding dual Cloudbursts!

Jelly_Muffin wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2014 at 3:47pm:

But how do you apply that cosmetic look after getting the cosmetic item? There's no slot currently.

Rubbinns wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2014 at 4:07pm:

My god... it's... beautiful...

Now my bard can run around without a fucking ship's wheel strapped to the forearm!

Flav wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2014 at 3:52pm:


Lame.

I was hoping to be able to glamer a pair of Levik's onto main hand and off hand, then flap them whenever I winged.

Alex DeLarge wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2014 at 5:28pm:

cba to read to the whole thing. what are excited to reach for our wallets for again?

Rubbinns wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2014 at 6:35pm:

do the new slots have bonuses like the pre order mask from motu?
EDIT: yay for a newly implamented mechanic that is bound to be ridden with bugs we can take advantage of

So sad. I thought laughing at melees would generate more outrage. I obviously forgot to consider the fact that most people who play melees are probably illiterate, and hence were incapable of reading my post.

Still, I will just have to work with the outrage I received.

Skoodge wrote on Aug 30^th, 2014 at 6:19pm:


The last part seems unlikely. Melee players were likely the scrawny kids or the fat kids in school. They lacked the physical ability to defend themselves, and are now living out their pathetic fantasies of being some bad ass who runs around and beats the shit out of people, much like they had the shit kicked out of them all those years ago (and probably still do from time to time.)

The part about your girlfriends is just funny. Only a melee player would consider his right palm to be his "girlfriend".



Rubbinns wrote on Aug 30^th, 2014 at 10:47pm:


Sure, sure. With the new update, melees will be able to waddle up to mob(s), have their taped down mouse button taking care of the attacks, while rolling their fingers over a few buttons to generate some extra damage. That is some killer skill you guys have got going there.

That will leave you one arm free so you can spend "special time" with your "girlfriends".

DDO players are just about the laziest group of people I have ever encountered in my life. As a group, they always take the easy way out, which makes it unsurprising that they like to play melee toons in this game.

We are well into the phase of the game where Turbine is just milking stupid people for all the money they can. It is good business to give the stupid people playing melee toons a huge boost in damage, while making it virtually impossible for them to die in quests.

"We iz uber! We have skills!" Ka-ching!

Stupid undeserving fuckwits are easily played.

Not to worry. If this release is not enough to make melee players feel uber, Turbine will not be deterred. The next phase will allow you to simply click on the mob. The game will run you up to him, handle the auto attack (because taping the mouse button down or finding the existing auto attack featue is hard -- for melee players), and perform the added damage attacks without the key presses.

BadAss Melee universal enhancement tree -- 995 Turbine Points. You will be really uberz then! 

Rubbinns wrote on Aug 30^th, 2014 at 10:46am:


Most shiradi records are the result of getting lucky with joy of the queen.  Or even worse, actively fishing for joy of the queen.  This is in no way representative of shiradi or caster power.  The caster records that aren't the result of joy are almost assuredly due to lack of interest by end game melee players, as you say.  It's easy to hold the record when there are only a handful of entries. 

Not sure what you mean by your "end game population" comment.  The only end game I see currently is 1) raids and 2) artificially challenging yourself by running things really fast.  There are no 6 man quests that are currently end game.