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[madmatics]

Q: Cities are currently popping "when they happen", which is usually outside of EU prime time. Are there any specific plans or do you see any need to have another fresh look on how to make the endgame more accessible to more players? For example by making fix schedules on the following weekends after the campaign has been finished?

Thank you and keep up the great work!

[kalysia]

Hey! ty guys for keeping this game alive and doing good work. i've got 1 question


Any plan on making the KOTBS something more than just an aura/guard bot?

[skylinx]

Cities

Issues

- Pops outside of EU prime time.

- Order overflow of ranged dps. Waiting 25 mins in solo queue to get a premade or a balanced destro pop. order premades dont want to take dozens of SW/BW/ENG, usually requesting maybe 1 of each, if that!. rdps generally end up clumped together in the very last city instances. this with the new loot system and now its 24v24 with limited bags, dps( especially rdps) are not able to get a win or work towards any gear and progression to a competitive level is too slow (competitive now is Sovereign gear, 6 montha go it might have been vanquisher but even invader is difficult now vs sov)


Tanks

Issues

- Order tanks have no real synergy with ranged dps, most destro tank buffs include str/WS and toughness, fitting their melee meta( the games meta in general) if it is to stay that order favors rdps as they are the most popular classes, shouldnt their tanks compliment that and encourage more warband composition around rdps classes.

- Swordmaster - Whispering Wind, only cooldown redux that order classes offer and yet its hard to apply vs the destro meta, targetting a pet during a siege or an epic fight in melee range thats defendable vs Borc version. This is SMs main contribution to a party or warband and is now clunky at best with the highly geared melee meta offered by destro.

- Swordmaster - Blades proc on being hit, not hitting an enemy succesfully

CC

- Destro CC, i read somewhere that destro have double the staggers order classes have, if you add in DoK Covs and sticky feet and the recent rSh KD, trying to kite or escape the melee metaball is very difficult, whats even more frustrating is that destro classes get movememnt tactics to avoid order Classes but order dont have these to avoid the destro meta meleeball and order dont have the cc levels of destro to mitigate this or slow them down


Question summary

- Is the city queue system going to be looked at/refined?
- Are the city mechanics going to be looked at as to not favor melee?
- Are tanks going to be looked at for more synergy with ranged dps?
- Swordmaster tactics to use WW more fairly relative to the Borc ability?
- Swordmaster blades to proc on being hit?
- CC - introducing more escape tactics to order classes to match destro? giving order more CC to match destro?
- PuG scenario- could this be limited to rr70? its a place for new rank 40s to gain some emblems/gear etc, however, there are players on both sides rr90+ who farm tier 3 geared players. Also, could the weekend event be made a pug sc too?

[Alubert]

1. When will snb tanks be able to use super punts tactics with a 10 second cd again?
2. We play in an environment of far too strong DMG. Trivial Blows do not exist on this server. Maybe it's time to finally bring back to life: Cleansing Wind, Resolute Defense and for tanks fortitiude?
3. Against the all-encompassing AOE and the zerg using it, restoring CW, RD would also be somewhat of a balance.
4. There is a chance to reduce mindless AOE? 25% damage reduction of all AOE skills? It would be great. The tactic of standing on one point and using the aoe of ability should be effective in proportion to the intellectual effort put into it, which is not much.

[blechkautz]

Are there any plans to remove the lockout for switching the realm? Or plans to lower the time you are locked on one side?

[Eltharion]

1. When will snb tanks be able to use super punts tactics with a 10 second cd again?
2. We play in an environment of far too strong DMG. Trivial Blows do not exist on this server. Maybe it's time to finally bring back to life: Cleansing Wind, Resolute Defense and for tanks fortitiude?
3. Against the all-encompassing AOE and the zerg using it, restoring CW, RD would also be somewhat of a balance.
4. There is a chance to reduce mindless AOE? 25% damage reduction of all AOE skills? It would be great. The tactic of standing on one point and using the aoe of ability should be effective in proportion to the intellectual effort put into it, which is not much.

I have the same questions.
Reducing aoe should help classes like wh or we.
+ Maybe better idea on cities is make them 12 vs 12 or two version 24 vs 24 and 12 vs 12
Another idea is make pop in the same way what ranked solo where you have sure to 2/2/2.

[Toporistic]

Q: Any x2 XP/Ren/Inf event coming soon?

[Fevenn]

Hi my name is Feven and I stream RoR for you guys. This post will have a culmination of questions from me and my followers!

Feven- What can we expect when it comes to the melee side on order? More specifically Destro can carry up to 4 viable melee classes in a wb while order Has a Slayer and a White Lion. Shadow warriors in assualt spec are single-target based but would like to see some aoe given to them and same with witch hunters.

morffius7- Will they merge t1 and t2?

Bomblingtv- The devs previously mentioned that average casual players would take one year to accumulate their sove armor set. Did this hold true to the expectations, or how do the devs think gearing speed should be?

kemosabai- why are they nerfing shaman? the class dos not excel at anything, all it has was running.. and got nerfed

legendarymorostyle- how about new professions to craft gear, would that be too much work too?

[Brutinho]

1) Have you guys given some thought on balancing CC amongst archtypes?
Something like:
- DPS only gets soft CC
- Healers get Breakable-on-damage CC
- Tanks get hard CC

2) Considering the current AoE meta do you have plans on adjusting AoE vs ST damage to make ST specs/classes more viable on organized groups?

3) Have you considered making certain currency and/or items account tradeable in some way? Usually it is easier to get tank/healer spots on organized content, but you might want to gear up another not-so-viable toon.

[Goryak]

Late addition.

16- Can we please have a city queue disconnect protection system already? It has been an issue since cities were released and it continues to be. It is more nerve-racking waiting for a city pop, (hoping that the server doesn't randomly disconnect you or that your internet connection doesn't have a hiccup and goes out for a second or two causing a crash) than to actually fight in an equally balanced instance.