I'm sure that's what Mackey, the balance guy at Mythic kept telling himself when he was trying to justify keeping his Bainshee op'd for so long, and yes, he does play one and has since Catacombs beta, no coincidence imo!
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Ha - well maybe he was just reading the Alb zerg whine about another realm having a caster class that could come close (note the come close) to sorcs....Xest wrote:I'm sure that's what Mackey, the balance guy at Mythic kept telling himself when he was trying to justify keeping his Bainshee op'd for so long, and yes, he does play one and has since Catacombs beta, no coincidence imo!
Yeah they make no diff. to flow of population but they do effect balance I'm sure, when Mythic (wrongly) changed population bonuses on Kilibury such that Mid/Hib had underpopulation bonuses despite having higher active RvR populations and gain Alb was constantly vastly underperforming in terms of RP gain and simply in being unable to keep towers/keeps claimed to as high a level as Mid/Hib due to them getting reduced claim costs.Cromcruaich wrote:Interesting discussion, but probably a moot point. Dont think pop bonuses now have any real effect on the flow of people between realms, nor confer any significant advantage to characters within the under populated realms.
Certainly not the highest utility class though. Biggest problems for minstrels is that a) Their abilities are timered, with all their abilities down they're horrifically weak and b) Insanely low DPS, shouts suck bad nowadays with CL resist buffs on everyone and all that and 1h rogue melee is just laughable. Minstrels strengths are in their insanely high survivability for 1min every 10mins or so other than that they're pretty sucky nowadays, certainly not a touch on the old style IP, Purge, AP3, SoS pre-NF minstrels. Definetely better choices for a group and Infil is much easier to solo with, one things for sure though it's certainly a very fun class even if it's not that wonderful a class anymore, definetely one of my favourites if only for the fun factorSharkith wrote:I do wish GOA would give me a go at a Mincer though because they are just bloody stupid in terms of utility.
Kinda silly whine tbh when no Alb casters have baseline stunCromcruaich wrote:I really can't see the justification for giving them stealth, plus a charmable pet. The insta stun should be changed to an insta mez as well and/or put on the same timer as bard insta mezz's. It really is unbalanced to have a 10sec recast insta stun even though it has reduced range - there is no equivalent in hib support classes. A bard comes nowhere close in the ability to CC and interupt.