General Royals nostalgic identity

Kayu · Aug 11, 2021

leodexe said: ↑

If Royals was truly heading in the right direction, we wouldn't have a tied poll with people either agreeing or half-agreeing/disagreeing with the changes.
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Some changes were good, yes I recognize most changes in the Archer line were actually good, but yet some changes are still controversial, if you ask me, Soul Arrow losing it's original function and behaving like a cheap copy of Shadow Stars is as controversial as allowing BM's to hurricane jump, yet there was consensus within staff that the former fits within Bowmaster's identity while the latter isn't when both changes could be equally controversial in their own ways.

And I second what my amigo says here. If there is something I noticed in my short living playing this server, is that Staff is pretty inconsistent when talking about changes, buff, nerf, etc. It's clearly obvious the reason Soul Arrow was modified was to improve it's usefulness as a skill, at the expense of discarding the old effect which represented part of the nostalgic Archer's gameplay. But this new effect doesn't represent what is meant to play as an Archer, from this nostalgic point of view, it's just Shadow Stars but you shoot arrows instead of throwing stars, and you use a bow instead of a claw.

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Thematically, it doesn't make sense to change the effect of a skill and literally replace it with another class skill, this is no longer nostalgic, and this skill no longer represents what means to play as an archer. Following this logic, we might as well consider erasing Thrust effect which gives +30 Speed on Level 20 and rather replace it with either Hermit's Flash Jump or Gunslinger's Recoil Shot. I don't see the difference between this and SA/SS or if we go even farther, allowing Hurricane Jump, those no longer would be nostalgic, the class would be no longer recognizable by new/returning players but it's the same thing, you or the DPS min-maxing meta elitists could argue that those would be "QoL" improvements for the sake of the class own good and there is no turning back because it would be like "back to the nerf".

I don't even remember if Inferno originally had DoT in pre-bb GMS, but I would dare to say it never was part of pre-bb core GMS because other servers lack this feature on this skill. Therefore, for the same reasons, shouldn't we just go with the other suggestions and make hurricane jumpable? Or implement whatever Cooler suggested in his MM super mega long thread to buff/improve the Marksmen skillset? Aren't these changes cherrypicked arbitrarily based on what staffs considers "nostalgic" or "unfitting for the role of the class"? I'm not saying we should all implement every crazy change that me or Cooler could ever think of, but rather, ask Staff to be more consistent on what they say and consider "nostalgic", what skill/function "fits the role of a class", how they implement them and which of those could be improved for QoL reasons without erasing the previous identity of the class that is part of the reason we play them in the first place.
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I wouldn't say this in a better way. Cheers.

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General Royals nostalgic identity

Are skill changes in Update 73.3 a step in the right direction?

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Are skill changes in Update 73.3 a step in the right direction?

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Not really

Mixed feelings

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