I see your point Zetus, it's true that a good ratio is needed, and 70/30% is not a good ratio, atleast to go far on waves, i mean a big group of archers needs nobody for the first wave but get in trouble once we reach high tear bots.
About loot and kills, expecially on hard mod, this has been stated in many other threads, and devs said they take a look at that and think of a shared loot system.
But, Zetus, you are a bit hard with Wow players (as you said) because all of this is linked, you see more archers for many reasons:
- Archers, are in almost all mods the easiest class to play, and it is the one with less risk for great rewards
- They are really efficient, you can almost one-shot any bot with a headshot.
- Many players created an alt because of the no-loot in normal mod
- some ppl like fps
One strange thing is that cav and archer are the class that can solo many waves, infantry almost always need "support" class to achive same goal.
Infantry is more harder, require more skills because big groups of bots jump on you and any mistake could make you dead.
I don't think archer (and cav) should be nerfed, but infantry could be made more appealing, may be with better armors, or with higher strengh cap, or a new brillant idea
Anyway, i'm talking about normal mod, because on hard mod the best way to go far (except on certain map with cav) is a good teamwork, and nobody is better than infantry in shield skill, but there is a better ratio of archer/inf.
Edit: Click you're right, many ppl don't understand the primary role of shieldwall, and rather like to grind, but it is something understandable in some way, i agree everybody has a role to play, but shielder role is really un-appealing : you do the hard work, take maximum risk but win nothing except assist xp. But once you reach high level assist xp is no more a goal, everybody needs loot and gold.
Btw, i'm like you, always here for shieldwall, always here to take the place if someone die in shieldwall, etc. I still take pleasure to play (not like Eye that is tired, but he must play more than me, i understand), but i have not any material reward for this.
Edit2 : i made an incoherent post too
About loot and kills, expecially on hard mod, this has been stated in many other threads, and devs said they take a look at that and think of a shared loot system.
But, Zetus, you are a bit hard with Wow players (as you said) because all of this is linked, you see more archers for many reasons:
- Archers, are in almost all mods the easiest class to play, and it is the one with less risk for great rewards
- They are really efficient, you can almost one-shot any bot with a headshot.
- Many players created an alt because of the no-loot in normal mod
- some ppl like fps
One strange thing is that cav and archer are the class that can solo many waves, infantry almost always need "support" class to achive same goal.
Infantry is more harder, require more skills because big groups of bots jump on you and any mistake could make you dead.
I don't think archer (and cav) should be nerfed, but infantry could be made more appealing, may be with better armors, or with higher strengh cap, or a new brillant idea
Anyway, i'm talking about normal mod, because on hard mod the best way to go far (except on certain map with cav) is a good teamwork, and nobody is better than infantry in shield skill, but there is a better ratio of archer/inf.
Edit: Click you're right, many ppl don't understand the primary role of shieldwall, and rather like to grind, but it is something understandable in some way, i agree everybody has a role to play, but shielder role is really un-appealing : you do the hard work, take maximum risk but win nothing except assist xp. But once you reach high level assist xp is no more a goal, everybody needs loot and gold.
Btw, i'm like you, always here for shieldwall, always here to take the place if someone die in shieldwall, etc. I still take pleasure to play (not like Eye that is tired, but he must play more than me, i understand), but i have not any material reward for this.
Edit2 : i made an incoherent post too
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