11/05/2018 02:30 AMPosted by Motors11/04/2018 12:29 PMPosted by StrideIsn't Taelia supposed to be a paladin?Makes no sense...No but there are Night Elf Paladins in the actual game and we can't play them either, but hey Troll Paladins are a thing now. Seems about right. Kind of like the few dozen Void Elves in all of existence are playable but the THOUSANDS of High Elves are too small to be a player base. Yep, still seems about right.Thousands? There are almost 0 high elves. The vast majority of what used to be high elves are blood elves.

11/06/2018 07:44 AMPosted by Salhezarhttps://www.polygon.com/2018/11/5/18064290/blizzard-diablo-immortal-reaction-explainer-blizzconI agree with everything this article said, as well as DanFriedMan81's comment which I will quote below:[quote]There is a reason there is a Blizzcon, and not an EACon or an Ubicon. There are only a handful of corporate entities in gaming that represent something that gamers support and idealize the way they do Blizzard. It’s really only Blizzard, Rockstar and Nintendo that inspire these kind of fandoms among big corporate entities.Blizzard inspires that fandom beca…

I also just have to chuckle at something. When referring to realism in RPGs like D&D.D&D is a game where you don't have to worry about eating. Where the injuries you receive from a giant, poisonous wyvern, are magically healed when you rest for 8 hours.And yet, tracking how many arrows you have is central to the "realism"

11/05/2018 12:19 PMPosted by Kegsmashin11/05/2018 12:08 PMPosted by Mayaloos...I think this is where we fundamentally disagree.WoW, to me, was always the more casual experience. It was FAR more casual than Everquest, despite the annoyances we've already discussed. And every time they made content more accessible, it got better, in my opinion. I don't think the intention was to be "in between" since there was nothing to be "in between." There was Everquest. All other MMOs were very hardcore. WoW was by far the more accessible one.Oh I see what you mean.On your spectrum, I was putting Everquest …

One of the best things about D&D is its flexibility. The other is its level of realism. Just like making sure you have proper supplies, you also have to actually traverse a world - you can't just shrug things off or even outright ignore some real-world mechanics.To each his or her own. The "realism" is the most annoying part.

11/05/2018 12:08 PMPosted by EspurYou do realize that, "one of the best" does not imply there is only one single best feature, right?Explain? I'm not saying it's the best. I think it's the best feature, personally. This is the way we play it.

11/05/2018 12:04 PMPosted by KegsmashinThe philosophy of Classic WoW was that of an "in-between" where the game was accessible to a larger playerbase while also maintaining the RPG aspects that are core to the genre.I think this is where we fundamentally disagree.WoW, to me, was always the more casual experience. It was FAR more casual than Everquest, despite the annoyances we've already discussed. And every time they made content more accessible, it got better, in my opinion. I don't think the intention was to be "in between" since there was nothing to be "in between." There was Everquest. Al…

11/05/2018 11:59 AMPosted by Espur11/05/2018 11:48 AMPosted by MayaloosThis is one aspect of role playing. We still have many of these aspects now. But there is a line that these things cross that just make them tedious. The best parts of playing D&D are exploring, fighting monsters, casting spells. The worst parts of playing D&D are having to worry about how many frikin' arrows I have in my bag at any given time.Are you serious? One of the best parts about D&D is how magically realistic it can be. I only have five arrows left, so I need to conserve them. I need to use my other weapon because …

11/05/2018 11:55 AMPosted by Jooky11/05/2018 11:48 AMPosted by MayaloosThe worst parts of playing D&D are having to worry about how many frikin' arrows I have in my bag at any given time.I was an avid player of MUDs (multiplayer online text rpgs, a MMORPG precursor) back in the day.I played on one where you had to have arrows to shoot. Pretty annoying right? Well, you could buy and make different quality arrows. And different arrows had different affects. So I would choose to use more/less expensive, and more/less powerful affects on different creatures.It was pretty cool. I had infinite …