Kamion
10-20-2006, 01:08 PM
For most people, the only debate left in the stance issues is when it's offically going to be pulled. Since this process is taking longer than expected...
http://eqforums.station.sony.com/eq/board/message?board.id=druidbalance&message.id=10517
After 1.5+ years of debate and bickering, I hate seeing the word "stance." I'ld like the devs to say -offically- that druid stances, as they were proposed during class re-envisioning, will never go live.
If stances were added in the near future, it'ld be like the devs saying "We considered your class under-balanced for the past 1.5+ years while you were paying the same account fees as people with balanced classes, but...." I'm not saying I think our class was out of balance for 1.5+ years (only since TSS imo), but if the devs intended to add stances this entire time and took this long to happen, that'ld be the messege I get.
My final word on the subject is...
There are druids who like to nuke more than they like to heal and vice versa, but the bottom line is that there isn't any such thing as a 'healing' or a 'nuking' druid, there is only one type of a druid - A Druid. To be "A Druid" you need not to go into a 'mode' or label yourself to your prefered ability -- you need to be able to do what is of most effectivness at the given moment. There are druids who enjoy doing a certain side of class more so than another side, but any skilled druid is expert at all aspects of the class, and doesn't go through a single play session with out using both healing and DPS extensivly. Druids are likely the last class to be considered one-sided, and promoting one-sidedness over ability-concurrentcy will do nothing but hurt the class.
http://eqforums.station.sony.com/eq/board/message?board.id=druidbalance&message.id=10517
After 1.5+ years of debate and bickering, I hate seeing the word "stance." I'ld like the devs to say -offically- that druid stances, as they were proposed during class re-envisioning, will never go live.
If stances were added in the near future, it'ld be like the devs saying "We considered your class under-balanced for the past 1.5+ years while you were paying the same account fees as people with balanced classes, but...." I'm not saying I think our class was out of balance for 1.5+ years (only since TSS imo), but if the devs intended to add stances this entire time and took this long to happen, that'ld be the messege I get.
My final word on the subject is...
There are druids who like to nuke more than they like to heal and vice versa, but the bottom line is that there isn't any such thing as a 'healing' or a 'nuking' druid, there is only one type of a druid - A Druid. To be "A Druid" you need not to go into a 'mode' or label yourself to your prefered ability -- you need to be able to do what is of most effectivness at the given moment. There are druids who enjoy doing a certain side of class more so than another side, but any skilled druid is expert at all aspects of the class, and doesn't go through a single play session with out using both healing and DPS extensivly. Druids are likely the last class to be considered one-sided, and promoting one-sidedness over ability-concurrentcy will do nothing but hurt the class.