Oh, the casters lost their "I win"-buttons through an act of balance and now the cries can be heard far and wide. The game needs danger. Danger is one thing, but as Tor pointed out very well in his post, the pain of death as it stands is too harsh. PVP can be fun, and the adrenaline rush ...

I guess the point Kvator was trying to make was that no racial guild offers defensive combat skills. Red Fang always had acrobat (at even higher level than now) but previously this skill was mostly unused. Absolutely! But as we all know, this forum is all about picking apart arguments and god forbd...

Nevertheless no racial guild should have combat skills imho and it seems that Red Fang is the sole exception here :) No argument here, not sure why they originally got the skill, probably some filler? Travelers get polearm, Dunedain gets axes/tracking or hunting. Those are combat skills, aren't the...

A big versatility benefit, which I think most would agree makes up for not using the maximum possible caid allowable for guilds. You see this in action, with mercenaries being the new "meta" guild. With the imbalanced acrobat ability, they are [anecdotally] the best tanks in the game at t...

Why not jump from morgul mage to neidar to RDA thats completely normal behaviour if we were playing counterstrike, but we are not. Sadly it seems its more about playerkilling and gaining advantages than actually roleplaying the roles you have, its definatly a sad development not for the better. I'm...

I think the biggest takeaway from all of this is that abilities that were handy and neat beforehand may need to be re-balanced or looked at again after the changes. But before everyone cries that they need X Y and Z ability, they come at the cost of overall combat-aid. A double-edged sword to be sure.

well all these 'team-oriented' skills (rescue, move behind) should be global (with mobs having them also!) with appropriate guilds having them skilled to higher extend (tanky guilds rescue, dps guilds move behind) + there should be substantial cdr for both with some global counter skill implemented...

So far the changes, especially to the way shields work, seem to be a vast improvement!

Are any casters able to objectively comment on the changes post-armageddon?

I would disagree, naming (in the most specific way possible) where the problem is should be the first step towards solution. When I think about it, (correct me if wrong), the problem is: Goblins are op melee Dwarves are too good in con Goblins - Goblins are evil creatures about the size of a hobbit...

1 vs 1 a goblin will always win on even stat average with similar equipment. It isn't even a competition. So what you say here Zhar is just completely and utterly wrong in every sense of the word. Amberlee is 100% right. After this many decades, it's not an anecdotal experience. Dex doesn't matter ...