Comments on: Thought of the Day: Getting rid of the dps role

By: Katherine

Katherine — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:42:59 +0000

If the tank and healer NPCs had good AI this would be great :O Instant ‘queues’ for dps, someone to play with if you’re sick of puggees…

NPC tank would pull at a sensible pace depending on the group’s mana, wouldn’t try to get aggro back off overeager dps, wouldn’t start the instance til buffed…

NPC healer would ignore dps that stood in the fire, or that pulled before the tank, or persistantly pulled off the tank, but would res freely…

Maybe they could make this be some sort of instance training ground, so that you get priority in the dungeon finder if you’ve passed the training ground well?

By: Tesh

Tesh — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:41:40 +0000

“I think it’d sound awesome if the game had been designed so that any class had the option to do this!”

Well, sure, but I’ve argued precisely this before.

Oh, and we might be able to eliminate pure DPS *classes*, but the *role* seems inviolate; unless we’re just trying for submission holds all the time, somehow the baddies need to be put down.

So… are you talking getting rid of the role or the monorole class?

By: Katherine

Katherine — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:30:52 +0000

I’m never dps so whenever someone posts recount I always draw attention to my healing dps. Oh wait, can’t do that anymore as I heal by dpsing

By: Dyre42

Dyre42 — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:11:09 +0000

I’m with SpiritusRex but since I’m currently running as a BM hunter I’ll add:

I will use my spirit beasts healing ability with reckless abandon.

I will only pull threat on mobs that are chewing on the healer so I can kite them back to the tank before I feign death.

By: Evlyxx

Evlyxx — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:52:02 +0000

Interesting idea. A little tweaking need imho as all the DPS class people would not be happy at re-rolling to a tank or healer role.

What would be kind of cool though would be solo instances for all regardless of role. Imagine the angry DPS fewl pulling aggro from the NPC tank 0.5 seconds after the pull or yelling at the NPC healer for not healing his ass while he stood in the fire.

For some DPS it would be a real eye opener to show that NPC tanks and good player controlled tanks perform the same. There would of course be a significant number that would fail to realise that the common factor in their failure to perform well was themselves.

By: Utakata

Utakata — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:03:48 +0000

…um…Recount, Stabs. “Them” should of been “it.” My apologies for the confusion.

By: spinks

spinks — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:53:50 +0000

I was actually thinking more of a game designed without any pure dps classes in it.

By: Stabs

Stabs — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:23:46 +0000

Wasn’t your original post about making non-tanks pointless to roll?

By: Stabs

Stabs — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:21:10 +0000

Mars? Saturn?

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