Poll: What do you think of the upcoming changes to DDO's combat system?

[bhgiant]

What do you think of the upcoming changes to DDO's combat system?
Strongly Like
Like
Undecided/Neutral
Dislike
Strongly Dislike

The purpose of this thread is to provide a clear and objective reference of the community's opinion of the changes being made to the combat system. This is NOT a thread for hate or slander. If you wish to provide a reason for your opinion please do so and I will try and collect and quantify those as well.

As a side note, if you are at all leaning to one side or the other, please refrain from saying Neutral. I know many of us are withholding judgement and waiting to see how it goes once it hits live but I think it's important that we give our first impressions.


The tally so far... Please keep the votes coming, only vote once (makes it easier on me) and feel free to make a comment on why you feel that way. I will compile the comments as well later.

SL - 8
L - 6
U/N - 7
D - 19
SD - 34

[Drwaz99]

*edit* I tested a ton personally

As it stands right now DISLIKE. Too many overly complicated, poorly thought out and unnecessary changes. Sure some things needed a tweak here or an overhaul there. But that doesn't mean screw with things that aren't broken.

[GermanicusMaximus]

Strongly Like

The new to hit seems like a winner to me.

[maddong]

DISLIKE
I prefer the d20 system.

[noinfo]

What do you think of the upcoming changes to DDO's combat system?
Strongly Like
Like
Undecided/Neutral
Dislike
Strongly Dislike

The purpose of this thread is to provide a clear and objective reference of the community's opinion of the changes being made to the combat system. This is NOT a thread for hate or slander. If you wish to provide a reason for your opinion please do so and I will try and collect and quantify those as well.

As a side note, if you are at all leaning to one side or the other, please refrain from saying Neutral. I know many of us are withholding judgement and waiting to see how it goes once it hits live but I think it's important that we give our first impressions.

Something had to be done with AC but they really missed the boat with the level of diminishing returns and have broken the upper areas of play in those areas. And there is not enough separating those from low to middle to upper in either too hit or AC now.

Grazing on a 3+ and the new system is just aimed at the middle ground and removes the desire to be the best you can in developing your toon.

There were just so many better options offered up by people really interested in this begging for a lets talk ac thread.

[Cetus]

Dislike

[Stillwaters]

Strongly dislike / completely unbalanced
Though you could tell that from my sig

Tested on Lammaland since closed beta

EDIT: MATH on combat changes Here too, and HERE Spellpower changes 8% drop
Believe math not hype! copy these to a .txt and reference it!

Tips for casters wanting to exploit this system HERE!

[Dandonk]

Strongly dislike, but I guess you all know that by now.

[TackW5]

Strongly dislike

DDO is a combination of magic and combat; the two are supposed to work together in one system.
Melees do not need to be singled out for diminishing returns.
Having multiple defensive factors will just result in greater power creep and distance between tanks and others.

[Scraap]

Strongly Dislike
Edit: 'personally tested'
Not really much to add that I haven't done in depth elsewhere on these boards.

[Moltier]

Strongly Dislike

Edit: Personally tested.

[Eme]

Strongly Dislike

[kaipan]

Strongly Like

[kzeast]

Neutral

[auntjobiska]

Strongly dislike

AJ (Idiot Extraordinaire)

[Malky]

Mostly Like

Edit: 'personally tested'

It would be informative to add 'personally tested' if you actually have transferred some characters to lammaland and checked for yourself (more than just log in a pair of minutes obviously).

[loki_3369]

Dislike.

I can see what they're trying to do, but they're doing it wrong.

[Mythal]

Dislike

[KainLionheart]

I am unaware of the combat changes, I have not been playing for a month or 2 so this is all new to me. Is there a link you could post so that I can see what they are please.
Also you may get more responses by putting a link in the first post that shows us what the changes are, then everyone can vote, not just the people who already know what they are

[BrightAsh]

Dislike