Quote Originally Posted by budalic View Post
I know having a class nerfed in fun department sucks, but amount of overreaction in this thread is over 9000. Chill down a bit, please. At any rate, commenting on stuff that I consider rather silly.



Of course, in PnP it was one of most pointless class features written in entire game.

- all examples are from SRD... I didn't even take a look in Spell compedium

Fly spell (note that Cleric with travel domain could also cast it at lvl 5): http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/fly.htm
Wings of flying (item): http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems...#wingsofFlying

And there is stuff like that all over the splats: Overland flight, Mass Fly, whatever. So, please, better don't involve PnP into this discussion. In PnP, FvS sucked compared to cleric, big time, anyway.



Pay money argument is always silly, especially in terms of classes. 'So, this class is powerful, but you need to pay for it' 'But, I like this class more' 'Then you'll suck, noob!'. Don't go there, please. Not to mention Pay 2 Win arguments that can spring from that. Paid classes should be different and interesting, not OP.



It is unclear why wings were nerfed, really. And I think it's stupid. However, I am very happy that devs aren't nerfing DoTs because of all nerf DoTs not Wings people... It would be rather more damaging to multiple classes.



I think Eladrin said somewhere that it would be quite easy to make chains stop winging, but they want wings to be escape mechanism. But, yeah, perhaps click'n timer was easiest to implement.

EDIT: Didn't some monks say that they want click'n timer too? It would be really nice for devs to make it like that if it would buff the class.
While most of what you say is true you are forgetting a few things. Fly was qiuite common and quite useful in pnp and not uber op. In ddo the best you get is the TERRIBLE version of fly that only the stormreaver can cast on you and its a pita to do ANYTHING while flying. Fly doesn't translate well to ddo because it would break just about any quest. Fvs didnt suck in pnp but they were not the preferred healer. Also in pnp battle clerics ruled and sorcs sucked way more than fvs.