Quote (LaochraGael @ Jan 14 2020 05:35pm)
My opinion regarding rules is summed up as follows:
Rules for pub games should be considered as guidelines rather than requirements. The only rule needed for pubs is dont be a dick. If you have people still willing to abuse certain things and go nuts tryharding in pub games ha, well they have confidence issues perhaps. Want to try a hyb flail on a mauler? Go for it in a pub game! Amp on a nec? Sure why not! If the teams are lopsided because of it stop using amp! Thats how pubs on europe have always been in my experience. Things like bo, amp, etc all either get used or dont depending on how evenly matched the teams are and how fun the rounds are.
Rules for tournaments - do not make a bible in order to try to make every char competitive. That does not need to be the case. Every char does not need to have a chance vs every other char. Nothing wrong with rock paper scissors. If there is something completely broken and easily fixed (cthons) fix it! Sure! Is there 1 or two builds that are far stronger than the rest? Sure, try to fix that! Do I want to make fairly sweeping changes to make 1 fringe char competitive? No. Someone likes playing phsins so wants them buffed, ok. What about the person who likes playing as a rabies druid or plague zon. Do we ban deaths vs them? Lightning zons and cs zons suck - do we ban light res vs them? Extreme examples I know. Top tier, mid tier and shit tier exist and there is nothing wrong with that. Have fun with the mid and shit tier in pubs and leave mid and top tier for tours.
I dont know about that. Take a bowa - you then cant have more than 20 single res on any jewel, circ, rings or amulet. I'd say pretty much every bowa made on europe would either need to remake to remove anya or else look for sweeping gear changes again.
The problem i have with all these tvt rule discussions is this line right here. This has worked for 10 years+ without any problems what so ever, and that was back when it was really active. How often do we have tvts nowadays? And is it really neccessary to implement new rules for those rare occations when we have pub tvts instead of just going with common sense and mixing things up when neccessary like we have always done?
There will never be a tvt tour ever again, it didn't even work when it was active so a tvt rule bible is imo not at all needed. It will just discourage new people to come in and try and have fun.
And tbh i won't ever change my character to fit tvt rules since all my chars are built for 1v1, it's just not worth the time for the amount of tvts that will be played.
Just remove cthons on bow and limit paladin to 1 might or something since that will need to be applied to 1v1 rules as well to balance. The rest, like 40 lrep on fissure, is just something that doesn't need a rule. If some1 wants to try it in a pub tvt 99% of the players won't mind.
And any talk about hybrids to balance chars or level some chars to 24 or w/e is on the same level of bonerkiller as when they allowed some chars to lvl to 59 in mld, a whole new level of horrible ideas. Just scrap that idea and play with the mid - high tier chars that already exist, and the lower tier ones still have a place in pub tvts without any rule changes.
My final oppinion on it.
This post was edited by Skullflower on Jan 15 2020 04:18am