Poster: Faywinn at 11/4/2005 6:16:25 PM PST
Subject: GMs/Devs test raid content as normal players? |
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I was wondering if the developers/GMs actually play their end-game characters often. I know they test out game content using characters, but do the developers actually play the role of a normal player in order to test their classes/raid content beyond level 60? And when I say this, I mean raid the higher level instances like BWL/MC, gaining equipment at a normal rate with a guild, basically having the perspective of a player. Mages are fairly balanced from level 1-60, but end-game poses many problems. These problems are easily visible as you raid often at MC/BWL and analyze your own role as a mage.
Basically I wonder if they truly feel the mage class is optimized for raiding. There's not much for mages do in MC/BWL, since our crowd control abilities are not as effective as other classes, and our damage is still yet not up to par with the other melee/ranged classes in 40 man raids. Besides decursing and water vending, aoe is the only trait that's valued. You could basically replace us with Rogues, and Warlocks since our abilities in raids are lacking. Having no sort of threat reduction abilities like the other classes, mages have to hold back on damage even if they're not doing top damage due to aggro.
Therefore I was basically wondering if developers/GM played the mage class far enough to realize this? Most end-game mages have played this game for months, on the very same character raiding on MC/BWL. I'm sure developers/GMs are very busy, but curious if they actually do it O_O
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Poster: Tseric at 11/4/2005 6:29:42 PM PST
Subject: Re: GMs/Devs test raid content as normal play |
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Of the people I work with and with which I am somewhat familiar with in terms of playing habits, most (if not all) enjoy raiding pretty regularly.
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Poster: Tseric at 11/4/2005 6:29:42 PM PST
Subject: Re: GMs/Devs test raid content as normal play *edited post* |
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Of the people I work with and with which I am somewhat familiar with in terms of playing habits, most (if not all) enjoy raiding pretty regularly.
Your Lucky Numbers: 4 8 15 16 23 42
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