Community elected item item balancers.

[San]

Would be nice to have more. It usually takes feeling somewhat strongly about something since you have to create your own topic in order to express your viewpoints.

[Jeade]

If not, then what exactly do they have to offer, that the average person couldn't?

A "board of advisers" is exactly what I was talking about, really.
I'd never suggest granting 20 cRPG players the rank of item balancer, but instead, have a "board" of sorts whose responsibility is to give feedback and suggestions.

[Rebelyell]

That's partially the idea behind the "Item Advisor" rank. Unfortunately, we only have XyNox at the moment with this rank. More importantly though, aside from just being "trustworthy, well-known, longstanding community member", they also need to have the appropriate mindset, as well as a significant amount of game mechanics knowledge beforehand. Their knowledge doesn't need to be perfect of course, but they need to know enough, to be able to ask the right questions and be able to test things properly(as well as the desire to do so). If not, then what exactly do they have to offer, that the average person couldn't?

Lately I've been interested in finding more Item Advisors to recommend, especially with me picking up the pseudo-Item Manager role, as well as the Event Management stuff. What we really need is more EU representation. (Un)fortunately I'm just not familiar enough with the EU playerbase to make and further recommendations than what I have already done.

Stevee and bagge may be good for archery side
Teeth seams to have valid points in almost every balance disscusion around here.
I would suggest Blueknight but you are probably full of him atm.

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Also asking players what they think about some classes would be nice idea.
Different play styles may give totally different results with certain builds and eq setups because that game is balanced around player skills and that skills are not always the same or equal in some situations.

Even control settings may give different outcome in fights, some weapon setups are better on siege wall fights and other are just good in crowd rush fights and that niche roles should be included during balance proces.

It pains me when players compare kdr's when that statistick is more shady than anybody would think.
There are players that just avoid dangerous sytuations and gang or just play super safe to feed kdr(I am not pointing anyone here) with pesant kills ect, and that players may end up with high kdr but low kill number for his lvl.
On other hand there are playes with low kdr that are constantly pushing and fight on frontline for most of the time and they give 0 shit about KDR.
On first glance player with higher kdr may look superior to others but his impact on
battlefield may be minimal and probably smaller compare to other players.
Win Lose ratio would be very intresting statistic that would help see thru through statistics.

Maps play even bigger role when it comes to balance.
Some maps just are better for cab archers 2h 1h ect and there is handful amount of maps that is somehow balanced.

Some players cry that cav or archers are op but problem may be that maps are to well designed for them and someone should check them(look on kdrs of some archers on strat siege battels and then field battle with lots of cavalary and 0 cover).

and I have feeling that you just balance stuffs only factors who can kill more and you try to make all classes equall
dam that shit feels to me like some wierd combination of class emancypation and class-socializm

it is why i think that nerf to h cav was bul.... and some weapons have statistics out of the ass

/gibrisch


tl;dr one point of vive will be always invalid

[GOBBLINKINGREATLEADER]

I would ask to be an advisor but I'm just to bad at the game and I have played only like four builds over the last 18 generations. It takes a special player to be a item team member, I presume.

P.s. put me on event management ty

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

Vote frank for buff to Abdulla.

[XyNox]

Well Rebelyell, dont be fooled. The way I talk to you is obviously not the way I talk among people who I know are capable of leading discussions in a mature manner. I dont even know who you are really or what your problem is, yet I have seen you a few times feeling the need to attack me in here. I am not the one to assign any ranks of course but it should go without saying that this kind of attitude is a good example for character attributes which are not exactly "appropriate" for any rank.

[Rebelyell]

Well Rebelyell, dont be fooled. The way I talk to you is obviously not the way I talk among people who I know are capable of leading discussions in a mature manner. I dont even know who you are really or what your problem is, yet I have seen you a few times feeling the need to attack me in here. I am not the one to assign any ranks of course but it should go without saying that this kind of attitude is a good example for character attributes which are not exactly "appropriate" for any rank.

I didnt implay that to you but to guys that I proposed

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but your respon give me somethint to think about....