So Ass-lick is out?

NitzHairspritz · 03-02-2009, 10:24 AM

Message board speculation seems to be increasing that Ass-lick has been removed from running the fighter revamp.

It's dead, Jim.

Dulissa · 03-02-2009, 10:55 PM

i keep hearing this too and have even asked for one link for proof and have yet to get any proof...not holding my breath on this one honestly

Gisallo · 03-03-2009, 04:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Dulissa

i keep hearing this too and have even asked for one link for proof and have yet to get any proof...not holding my breath on this one honestly

If you look at his sig it now says something like "no in charge of game mechanics" and Krities says "Game Mechanics supervisor." Also a dev (I forget which one) was in the ww sk channel saying that "Aeralik did not get demoted he only got a supervisor" Basically semantical bullshit to save his pride. Basically Aeralik did not get demoted in terms of a pay cut but he now has to clear his shit changes through someone else. Thing is though if that someone else is as ignorant as he is then he is then its not going to make much difference.

Ower · 03-03-2009, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Gisallo

If you look at his sig it now says something like "no in charge of game mechanics" and Krities says "Game Mechanics supervisor." Also a dev (I forget which one) was in the ww sk channel saying that "Aeralik did not get demoted he only got a supervisor" Basically semantical bullshit to save his pride. Basically Aeralik did not get demoted in terms of a pay cut but he now has to clear his shit changes through someone else. Thing is though if that someone else is as ignorant as he is then he is then its not going to make much difference.

If this is true... this has to be the best news in the eq2 world since... well a long time.

gungo · 03-03-2009, 04:16 PM

Aerilik never was in charge of mechanics.
There was always a team discussion on what was being changed.
He did handle the changes they decided for spell and combat arts and AA's and stuff.
The difference is now the TEAM has a supervisor.

Have you read the new posts from the new team leader?
She doesnt really have a good grasp on game mechanics/balance.
Hopefully she did pull the plug on all the recent changes.
Because if she is a good enough manager she doesnt need to know the answers, she just needs to know where to find them and seperate the bullshit from the facts.

CriticalOvrLoad · 03-03-2009, 05:09 PM

So does this mean they will push back the changes again? They better hurry, thought GU51 was due out soon.

Gisallo · 03-03-2009, 06:49 PM

A guy over at Kazam told me that the fighter change is going to be pushed back to gu52 per a meeting he was part of last week. This was of course based upon them trying to stick with their tentative 3/10/09 release date goal. Not gospel from SOE but kazam often does have the inside scoop.

grandmasterub · 03-03-2009, 10:41 PM

tbh i think they should scrap a large part of these changes. keep higher taunt values and the revamped d-stances (with tweaks).

keep new agression and taunt crit mechanics

NitzHairspritz · 03-04-2009, 11:27 AM

Taunt crit is crap. If keeping aggro depends on getting a taunt crit and losing aggro means a wipe, then the fight is basically a dice roll. Players want fights where focus and cohesiveness of the raid/group matter, not crit rolls.

Lyger · 03-05-2009, 05:08 AM

none of the devs have a firm grasp on the mechanics, sad to say. shit is over their heads and honestly probably over anyone who doesn't sit crunching numbers 24/7 as well. there's just too many variables now like level variances, gear, balancing versus other classes, buffs, you name it and it creates imbalances. the only thing you can do is hope to do your job and be happy doing it, i haven't been happy because i suck.

seeing most of the shit that is on test would make most zerks not want to ever see it go live because it negates most everything the class was original built around and is still mainly built around. sure we could marginally hold aggro against a nuking warlock, maybe, but we still suck as bad at defensive tanking as we always have.

now taunts and dps are getting scaled back further, yay, so why did i roll a berserker again?