Where's all the casters at D:!?

Mumintroll - Heavens Tear · November 2011

GaurdianMira - Archosaur wrote: »

Yes that's one big reason but it's also the impatience and attempted exclusiveness of the players that cause big problems. If everyone just played the class they like best and said **** the corporate bigwigs in China and the elitist cash shopping players who at best ignore everyone who doesn't fit their cookie cutter mold of "good" PWI probably wouldn't make so much money.

But that's just my opinion.

Problem is, that you as a caster, you are unwelcome in squad. So you have no chance to earn money. So many caster were forced to switch to melee characters, JUST because stupid unbalanced damage output of APS. And we are at beginning-thanks to stupid. dev.

GaurdianMira - Archosaur · November 2011

Mumintroll - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Problem is, that you as a caster, you are unwelcome in squad. So you have no chance to earn money. So many caster were forced to switch to melee characters, JUST because stupid unbalanced damage output of APS. And we are at beginning-thanks to stupid. dev.

Agreed, I'm compiling a good friend list for later levels already to combat this problem. after all no one can kick or exclude me if I'm squad lead right?b:cool

Tolliver - Dreamweaver · November 2011

They are off making money excluding the melee classes just like they were done for so long b:victory

ClericMD - Lost City · November 2011

In lost city caster are back because caster NV. After patch last boss drop 6 items so you can get 6 raps (last run we get 4 raps and yesterday we get 5 raps) and each boss can drop 0-4 box so if you have bad luck you get 500k or regular luck and get 1mil to 1,5 mill or very good luck and get 2+ mill for a 15 min run so i dont do regular nv anymore and i can say now i dont do NV with aps class so bored and non profit b:chuckle

And in tw some factiosn have to many casters r8/r9 +12 >.> I was hit for 3 wiz a time last weekend, no funny a all b:surrender

PD: i hope devs dont nerf caster until a good time b:avoid

PD2: sorry for my bad english

thumbs · November 2011

Mumintroll - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Agree, but thanks to who? Stupid developers who care just about money.

They could be more stupid and care more about a freakin' game. b:chuckle

Sarrafeline - Sanctuary · November 2011

Mumintroll - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Problem is, that you as a caster, you are unwelcome in squad. So you have no chance to earn money. So many caster were forced to switch to melee characters, JUST because stupid unbalanced damage output of APS. And we are at beginning-thanks to stupid. dev.

Meh.

Doing a 90-99 FCC if I'm forming (which I never am because I can't afford teles, and I'm doing them in faction anyway), I look for a Cleric, a Barb, I'm on my Sin, then I just fill with whoever replies first. If I get bombarded with replies, I'll take a BM first, Veno second, Psy third, and whatever else after that.

If there is no Barb, then two BM's. If no cleric, make sure the Mystic wants to be the healer.

For BH's, I've done BH79 with cleric, my Sin, 3 Psys and a Wiz.

Not gonna RQ a squad because there's no APS in it. >_> At 1.67 I'm'a pull aggro on long boss battles off anything short of R8 +10 at 2.86 anyway. I've done so unsparked vs sparked even in TT. @_@

krisnda · November 2011

ClericMD - Lost City wrote: »

In lost city caster are back because caster NV.

The only thing bad about this in my opinion, is that people like to put restrictions, like "you need to have at least 5k hp, R8-9, etc", which makes it hard to just join a squad. Because we all know how hard it is to make squads these days. b:surrender

FiveAps - Dreamweaver · November 2011

MistressLuna - Heavens Tear wrote: »

There's so much melee on HT now. Haven't seen a wizard in ages...can't remember the last time I saw a psy and i have friends with lvl100 psys >.>

I barely see mystic pets on clouds and only see lower level venos anymore lol. Where they all go O.o?

on their 10x sins. no reason to waste time on casters unless is TW/Delta BH.
I don't know why ppl ask themselfs this question, is blatantly obvious what the answer could be

FiveAps - Dreamweaver · November 2011

Krisnda wrote: »

The only thing bad about this in my opinion, is that people like to put restrictions, like "you need to have at least 5k hp, R8-9, etc", which makes it hard to just join a squad. Because we all know how hard it is to make squads these days. b:surrender

if you're a lvl 100+ caster, don't have 5k HP and R8 wep in your hand you're as useless in a endgame instance as a lvl 20 with the FB19 reward wand.

And you're a friggin mod too...do the moderating job, let the game stuff for the ones who know what they talk about.

LividLemur - Dreamweaver · November 2011

I hope they don't ever nerf caster NV drops again..

right now it is the only fun way to make money for a caster imo, and serves to balance the ways melees can farm. Not everyone rolled a melee class just to make $$, nor does everyone (especially newer players) necessarily want to

Baby_pho - Heavens Tear · November 2011

FiveAps - Dreamweaver wrote: »

if you're a lvl 100+ caster, don't have 5k HP and R8 wep in your hand you're as useless in a endgame instance as a lvl 20 with the FB19 reward wand.

And you're a friggin mod too...do the moderating job, let the game stuff for the ones who know what they talk about.

this isnt true? there are tons of casters walking around with tt99 and still get to squad for things bh/rb/nirvy. and who cares about randoms, i always get in squads with friends anyways. my veno got the tt99 sword she gets in squads fine. and i've been in squads with wizzies with tt99 greens for nirvy caster. its just all about the maker of the squads really, if they discriminate or w/e. like yesterday we did a bh with 3 clerics/wiz/2sins. The maker just inv whoever pmed them first. and ht is full of casters still runing around alts or main. wut we dont see anymore is archer prolly... its just there are wayyyyyyy too many melee walking around that make it seems like casters are disappearing ._.'

Arenaceous - Lost City · November 2011

Problem about people with low HP in caster NV is that the last boss regens HP every time they die. So having uber squishy people in squad makes the run actually longer and harder instead of just slightly faster... If you know what I mean.

And it's really not all that hard to get 5k hp unbuffed on a 100+ caster. If you are really that poor you can just put 50-100 vit and remove it once you got the refines. Idc about the weapon of the people I take, I just want them to not keep dying and dying at last boss.

FiveAps - Dreamweaver · November 2011

Baby_pho - Heavens Tear wrote: »

this isnt true? there are tons of casters walking around with tt99 and still get to squad for things bh/rb/nirvy. and who cares about randoms, i always get in squads with friends anyways. my veno got the tt99 sword she gets in squads fine. and i've been in squads with wizzies with tt99 greens for nirvy caster. its just all about the maker of the squads really, if they discriminate or w/e. like yesterday we did a bh with 3 clerics/wiz/2sins. The maker just inv whoever pmed them first. and ht is full of casters still runing around alts or main. wut we dont see anymore is archer prolly... its just there are wayyyyyyy too many melee walking around that make it seems like casters are disappearing ._.'

pff , squad with friends, that doesn't matter. Like at all. I can go as 5 aps wiz in squad with friends, no one cares, I'm just **** around, we all have fun.
And you as a veno you're good in squads for 3 things: bramble, amp, pet damage. No one cares about your weapon. Clerics again, in squads mainly for buffs and BB, no one cares about weapon. Butif you're wiz or psy, you better bet your **** ppl are going to look at what wep you bring and a +3 TT99 won't cut it. A measly +4/+5 r9 has the hitpower of a +10 lunar (yup had both, moved from a +10 lunar that got me 13k mattk to a +5 R8 that got me 12-14k ), and I still have 5.7k HP on a wizard that's missing shards and refines on the 2 r8 gear pieces I got after selling all my unbound gear more than a year back.
There's no excuse not doing your half **** job of DD as caster. I know, lately no one plays a caster properly, cause the good ones are on aps alts. That doesn't mean that mediocrity must be accepted as standard.

Cytte - Harshlands · November 2011

Competent casters are a dying breed and most casters you see now are a TW alt people have made. The sad truth about the PW devs is they make things that further increase the gap between what meeles can do and what casters can, But also us players for allowing dat shxt to by unattended.

And though I do like Caster NV it does nothing to bridge the gap between meele and casters. its more like throwing a dog a bone to shut him up fer a while while they go play with the dogs next door

Shadowphreak - Lost City · November 2011

Lots of mystics coming up now, i power level 5-6 new alts/people a day through frost runs. 90% mystics. Rest are clerics/sins/archers. Never see a anything else.

Where's all the casters at D:!?

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