The Infinite Unbalanced BGTSCC Mechanics Thread

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In general, we have always tried to do things based on what the average player can be expected to do or learn to do. If you balance the server on the worst player there is no challenge and thus very little reason to play PvE after the first week. If you balance it on the best players the challenge level is so high that 95% of players will get frustrated and leave. There needs to be enough challenge that MOST players take a very long time to learn how to handle mobs and especially bosses in PvE. By doing it this way the server offers a reasonable challenge that keeps players interested. Likewise, in some ways it encourages RP or at least forging relationships with other players in order to get help with bosses/area's you can't solo.

Unfortunately if you try to balance on the top or bottom you will end up with a game that very few players will enjoy.
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Fluff RP... that mess is way OP. So is the OOC'ing.

.... oh, mechanics. Umm, elves? No! Drow. Tieflings too. They're like, everywhere, dressed up like they all have 18+ charisma when we all know damn well they have 8.

Wait.... OHHHH, mechanics. Uhhh... rogues. Definitely OP, need balancing. Yup. :ugeek:
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DMs

they are way too powerful :lol:
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Snarfy wrote:Fluff RP... that mess is way OP. So is the OOC'ing.

.... oh, mechanics. Umm, elves? No! Drow. Tieflings too. They're like, everywhere, dressed up like they all have 18+ charisma when we all know damn well they have 8.

Wait.... OHHHH, mechanics. Uhhh... rogues. Definitely OP, need balancing. Yup. :ugeek:
I'm only here to say that Snarfy is unbalanced. :whistle:
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Snarfy wrote:Tieflings too. They're like, everywhere, dressed up like they all have 18+ charisma when we all know damn well they have 8.
My tiefling has 16 Charisma! 0:)
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Aikura wrote:I'm only here to say that Snarfy is unbalanced. :whistle:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ... guilty as charged!
Arn wrote:My tiefling has 16 Charisma! 0:)
LIES!!!!!

As far as I'm concerned, when any tiefling uses the appearance changer, the only outfits that should be available to them are a burlap sack or mud. Devil-spawns are repulsive!

On that note, the appearance changer is totally OP :dance:
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Snarfy wrote:
Arn wrote:My tiefling has 16 Charisma! 0:)
LIES!!!!!
No lie! She has levels in Divine Champion, so I felt like her Divine Wrath and Lay on Hands should have at least some support.

Does THIS devil-spawn look repulsive? Such graceful. So charisma. 0:)

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Arn wrote:Does THIS devil-spawn look repulsive? Such graceful. So charisma. 0:)

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That is not a skirt, it is one massive hoofed feet.

The horns have the blood of innocent babies on them.

The cheeks come with fiendish ritual scarring.

The eyes are black void that suck out the souls of the weak willed.

The hair is actually just a wig made out of straws.

The red skin comes with the obnoxious stench of sulphur.

The bottle on the belt is filled with erm... 'male vitality.'

The leather armor she wears is made out of the skin of sentient beings.

The cloak she wears has stars on it, and therefore a sign of absolute lack of fashion sense!

The book comes with fiendish rituals to ruin as all!

:lol:
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D: They're onto us! *flees*
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Sun Wukong wrote:
The cloak she wears has stars on it, and therefore a sign of absolute lack of fashion sense!
I could have forgiven everything else...just not that.

Not that...

It's not even black...!!! *lifts the claymore*
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Bard’s Curse Song...should have a DC. :twisted:

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