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1 year ago ::
Jan 01, 2012 - 8:59AM
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As the title says, now that it's the new year, what would charop people like most to see in published products/Dragon magazines? Mine would be;
1. Support for the Ossassin to make it a viable striker. The Black flame stuff didn't really cut it.
2. More Themes that aren't total crap mechanically.
3. A total rewrite of the Seeker to make it half useful.
4. A nerf to KAM (yes I do know I'll be burned at the stake for this).
Happy new year all.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 01, 2012 - 9:31AM
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More Runepriest love! The Kara-Tur article was a great start, but we've got a long way to go.
I'd also like to see other classes getting a slice of the Fighter love without having to MC Fighter. Seriously, I've taken MC Fighter on way, way too many characters recently, up to and including a friggin' Invoker, because Fighters get all the best toys. Either removing the Fighter prereq from a few feats (never gonna happen, I know, but I can dream) or introducing similar feats without the prereq (there's precedent for this: Wary Fighter and Battlewise) would be really nice. I'd like to feel like I'm not nerfing myself by taking any other MC for any but the most specific of purposes. I have no illusions that this will actually happen, of course, but I can dream.
I'd like to see a little more support for the Psion and Ardent, while I'm at it. Books like Dark Sun and HotF have proven that WotC isn't averse to helping out specific classes outside of their main books, and I'd like to see that trend continued. Seekers, too, need a lot of help (much more so than the Psion and Ardent, it's true). If WotC would just keep supporting the classes they've already made instead of making stupid new subclasses (HotFK/HotFL/HoS style ones are stupid; ones that work with old material, like the ones in HotF, aren't stupid), I'd be happy.
Really, though, Runepriests. Gimme more Runepriest stuff.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 01, 2012 - 9:34AM
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I'll have to get back to you after the December errata comes out (next few days).
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1 year ago ::
Jan 01, 2012 - 10:05AM
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As an addendum, I'd like to see more backgrounds that aren't just "skills or a language." Yes, the Scales of War backgrounds, some of the FR backgrounds, and even a couple of the early general backgrounds tend to be better than the new ones, but just making more and more new ones that are all exactly the same ("choose one of these skills to get in-class, choose one of these skills to get a +2 to, or learn this language") isn't helping anyone. We need more new ones that are on par with the old ones, or we're never gonna see anyone take anything that isn't an old one. If an option is considered to be too good and is an autopick, making a bunch of weaker options does nothing to dissuade people from flocking to the old one . . . but I'm preaching to the choir.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 01, 2012 - 10:11AM
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Date Joined:
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4. A nerf to KAM (yes I do know I'll be burned at the stake for this).
What makes you say that? Half of all similar threads request nerfs to KAM and zone abuse, so I don't see why you'd expect a backlash for suggesting the same.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 01, 2012 - 10:21AM
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Mar 23, 2009
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I just figure that KAM has been around this way for so long that the nerf could be controversial, to say the least. There would be many on both sides I'd expect.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 01, 2012 - 10:56AM
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Date Joined:
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When a wizard can break a 100 dpr with KAM and melee training, you stopped hearing people defend the pp. For the most part anyway.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 01, 2012 - 11:14AM
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1. Suport for seeker (perhaps an essentialized version?)
2. Ossassin suport, and executioner bump-ups (they would be a good class if they had off-turn attacks)
3. A reworked vampire, relesed alongside the wearwolf.
4. Warlock damage feats.
5. Heroes of the Astral Sea.
6. A kill off of the binder, just make a new warlock subclass with a swich between controll and striking like the berzerker.
7. Runepriest suport.
8. Shaman AC fix.
9. More HoFW-type subclasses.
10. more essentialized hybrids.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 01, 2012 - 11:20AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 15, 2001
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As the title says, now that it's the new year, what would charop people like most to see in published products/Dragon magazines? Mine would be; 1. Support for the Ossassin to make it a viable striker. The Black flame stuff didn't really cut it. 2. More Themes that aren't total crap mechanically. 3. A total rewrite of the Seeker to make it half useful. 4. A nerf to KAM (yes I do know I'll be burned at the stake for this). Happy new year all.
5. Arcane Power II with ZERO support for the Mage/Wizard/Witch/Bladesinger(OK, maybe the Bladesinger) but heavy support for the ASSAULT Swordmage, Artificer, O-Bard and Sorcerers especially Storm and Cosmic who have been forgotten since the original AP.
6. Divine Power II for the sake of the gods, please just make the O-ssassin a sub-build of Avenger already. More Runepriest support, More Invoker support...
7. Primal Power II Shaman, Warden, Barbarian all deserve more support.
8. Start deprecating feats and Start with putting out boring Combat Expertise and Combat Focus feats and getting rid of all the chaff related to them.
9. Lets go for a whole year without releasing a new e-class, especially when that e-class is nothing more than a stripped down o-class(I'm looking at you Bladesinger)
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1 year ago ::
Jan 01, 2012 - 11:28AM
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Personally, I'd really like to see a Runepriest MBA option, even just adding a Runepriest Power to the list for Power of Skill would be nice.
Generally, I'd like to see:
Good support for the classes and races from PH3.
A Feat to increace the size of your Fey Beast Companion to Large, or a functionally similar Large "pet" option.
A Vampire Sub-class that's designed and specced as a Controller. And actually effective.
I'd also second the comment about more "Scales of War" style background options. I'd also like to see a generic "add a skill to your class list, or gain +2 to a skill, or gain an additionnal language" background, call it "Something interesting happened to me" and then we can stop seeing all the bloat in the backgrounds that do exactly the same thing.
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