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Originally Posted by Haynar
And we use a softcap system, not a hardcap based system.
Warriors get a 45% return above softcap.
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Is simply not classic. FWIW, I think in a vacuum your system is probably better, as Warriors in particular will cap AC easily. Verant agreed with all of us and eventually changed their mechanics. But the point is to recreate classic, right?
I suppose you probably feel I have some sort of vendetta against you or something, Haynar, but really I just want a classic server. And it has bothered me for a long time that this project has an almost fanatical attention to detail in terms of replicating typos in NPC names and reconstructing little used quests, but we have gaping holes in really important mechanics. I mean Kunark has been out for 4 years, and we just figured out that warriors are taking *three quarters* of the damage they should be with evasive discipline on. That means
all raid tanking just became 33% harder. That is going to have a huge, huge impact on everyone whether it's Sky or VP or whatever. It also means Paladins and SKs just got a lot better, relatively (only 50% worse, not 100% worse).
I would really love to see some test code where we select a bunch of different tanks with different AC and pit them against a bunch of different mobs and create a big spreadsheet and then try to tune it to match classic. I don't actually think it would be that hard: really its just a double for loop that then runs the 'get average hit' 10000x and reports the results. Hell, I'm not even saying your system is necessarily wrong. I just think we have to tweak the system first before adjusting individual NPCs.
Really, I appreciate this project a great deal. I have had big personal projects before, so I know how much work it is. So please don't take this as a personal criticism. All I am suggesting is that you guys apply the same rigor to game mechanics that you do to quests and NPC names and such.