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I never said that anyone was forced to hunt in Psion. However, I switched from Sentinel to Psion because it made sense for a librarian to have a quieter class. It would be fantastic, I argue, to be able to have my RP AND my hunting all at once. I don't see why that's an issue.
The HELP DRAGONS scroll's creation was posted in Announce (11/10/2002 at 11:48), according to announce #1149. Sixteen years is quite a long time; I was nine at the time. To try and argue that there has been no power-creep in -16- years is foolish. The bar has been raised over the years, and all I'm arguing is that Psion should be somewhere around that bar. Below the bar would be fine, as everyone can't be the best. The ground, however, is too far beneath the bar.
The observable dynamic in bashing balance is "Naturally tanky classes shouldn't scale as well as squishy ones". This counts for both passive tankiness like platemail or regeneration and active tankiness like self healing. Similarly, classes with passive hunting perks like DW have lower scaling to offset their perks. Classes without much in the way of tankiness get better scaling on their damage. I presume the logic is that the glass cannon will have to hit and run or simply not hunt stronger areas, whereas the slow tanky class will methodically clear it.
This dynamic gets thrown out of whack when arties and talismans come into play, where a formerly squishy class like Serpent turns into an unstoppable death machine because there's so many ways to improve defenses -and- it scales so well with dexterity. Meanwhile, classes that started out tanky don't get that benefit because they simply don't scale as well. There are anomalies like 2H knights that can be both tanky and put out damage but that's more the exception.
The Rubicon has been crossed when it comes to arties/talismans, we're not going be able to undo that. The solution also isn't to nerf the glass cannons simply because that's going to mess up the lower end of the spectrum and make novices die if a gnoll sneezes in their general direction.
I firmly believe that every class in the game, with 15 points in their primary damage stat, should be just above dragon damage output, with small modifiers for base tankiness. Dragon should be an RP/"I want to hunt things that are huge and have huge guts while not dying myself" thing, not a "Congratulations on doing the most hunting you'll ever do, have a thing that makes you hunt better--after you could have used it" thing. Beyond that base level, let the squishy Serpents/Bards/Shamans reign supreme if they want to pay for it.
Basically, I don't think we should be in a position where we ever have to advise a newbie that the class they want to play is going to be so bad for the activity they're going to spend the majority of their time doing when they start out, that they're better off doing something else.
If Psion is below SnB in damage output, that's a serious problem. No amount of free plane-razing crits are going to help the poor bastard under level 90 when he's trying to think a mhun guard to death with his mind weapons.
3 years ago... That's precious.
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
If only there were a way....
Tecton-Today at 6:17 PM
https://ada-young.appspot.com/pastebin/diHBTYDm
See that OP hinder.