04-26-2024, 01:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-26-2024, 01:41 PM by Nubius Maximus.)
I have been a staunch hater of Rebirth Pots since their addition even if I'm not very vocal about it.
I hate Rebirth Pots because they of the the ability to change one's entire kit so long as they are not above the certain RPL. This means that whenever a major change happens, chances are a lot of people will revamp their entire build. The master of energy based magics will become a master biomancer at the drop of a hat because "insert x here" changes happened to his build or because he got beaten (badly enough) by one and doesn't want to lose anymore. They encourage a certain problematic behaviour.
Though as chance said, the newbie that just ended up making a frankenstein of their purchase should be able to get their build refunded.
Another big problem I've realized is that people will oocly create a build and then play a character. Now, this isn't particularly bad persay because those people can still make great characters but the problem arises because they meta build to the point of it not making sense icly for their character sometimes.
Not everyone who ends up strong using a certain kind of build is someone that metabuilt, either - a prime example of that recently being Mikoto who wanted to be a ninja/assassin type of character and thus pursued unarmed shadow and occult. However, that then encouraged a surge of people doing the same thing which just made a whole mess of the trees later when they got nerfed/redone and ect.
Unlike others however, Mikoto firmly remained in his chosen trees as an established character whereas some have swiftly changed their builds following those changes. (Note, this isn't an attack or anything on anyone but I just used it to prove a point.)
Now, I can't say I haven't done the "hm, this looks cool so I want to do it" before making a character myself, but I mostly limited it to things like "hey, I want to make a paladin" so I combine holy and armed but only holy and armed, and energy shield because it fit with the aesthetic and protective role. There was no light, because it didn't fit the aesthetic of a holy warrior to me, especially given that its not so much a control over something 'holy' but of colors even though in the past, lightspeed not being a master made it extremely strong for almost any build but especially armed and the rest of the light tree was also pretty good.
If someone wants to redo their entire trees they should app for it. This has always been my opinion about that.
Mana Amnesia's are fine, because sometimes certain changes will cripple a spell that you've been using but for as long as you're remaining within those trees, shuffling spells around is fine, especially because usually, those that reach a certain age and RPL within those trees should be considered masters of them. (An example being dropping one armed spell for a new within the tree.) However, when it got to such a that a character will pop one after every fight, they needed to become limited. Not everyone is like this, of course and the current cap of 100 is more than enough unless you're actively trying to make a metabuild.
I hate Rebirth Pots because they of the the ability to change one's entire kit so long as they are not above the certain RPL. This means that whenever a major change happens, chances are a lot of people will revamp their entire build. The master of energy based magics will become a master biomancer at the drop of a hat because "insert x here" changes happened to his build or because he got beaten (badly enough) by one and doesn't want to lose anymore. They encourage a certain problematic behaviour.
Though as chance said, the newbie that just ended up making a frankenstein of their purchase should be able to get their build refunded.
Another big problem I've realized is that people will oocly create a build and then play a character. Now, this isn't particularly bad persay because those people can still make great characters but the problem arises because they meta build to the point of it not making sense icly for their character sometimes.
Not everyone who ends up strong using a certain kind of build is someone that metabuilt, either - a prime example of that recently being Mikoto who wanted to be a ninja/assassin type of character and thus pursued unarmed shadow and occult. However, that then encouraged a surge of people doing the same thing which just made a whole mess of the trees later when they got nerfed/redone and ect.
Unlike others however, Mikoto firmly remained in his chosen trees as an established character whereas some have swiftly changed their builds following those changes. (Note, this isn't an attack or anything on anyone but I just used it to prove a point.)
Now, I can't say I haven't done the "hm, this looks cool so I want to do it" before making a character myself, but I mostly limited it to things like "hey, I want to make a paladin" so I combine holy and armed but only holy and armed, and energy shield because it fit with the aesthetic and protective role. There was no light, because it didn't fit the aesthetic of a holy warrior to me, especially given that its not so much a control over something 'holy' but of colors even though in the past, lightspeed not being a master made it extremely strong for almost any build but especially armed and the rest of the light tree was also pretty good.
If someone wants to redo their entire trees they should app for it. This has always been my opinion about that.
Mana Amnesia's are fine, because sometimes certain changes will cripple a spell that you've been using but for as long as you're remaining within those trees, shuffling spells around is fine, especially because usually, those that reach a certain age and RPL within those trees should be considered masters of them. (An example being dropping one armed spell for a new within the tree.) However, when it got to such a that a character will pop one after every fight, they needed to become limited. Not everyone is like this, of course and the current cap of 100 is more than enough unless you're actively trying to make a metabuild.