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Arman wrote:I'll have a think about it Nils.

What I might start off doing is implementing the changes to the RDA and see if their quality of life improves to the point where they met my intention with the re-balancing... that they are comparable with the knights and BDA. If I find their quality of life makes them equally attractive a guild as BDA then I may not need to make further changes that impacts slash.

Intimidate will still go. So whatever way you look at it, there will be some element of a nerf.

As for getting rid of dragons, sure I could do that. But then they wouldn't be the dragonarmies. If i was to go down that path now of creating the guild from scratch, HOW I'd do that is make the entire guild layman, and you'd need to sign up as a free mercenary. But that isn't going to happen

Arman wrote:I'll have a think about it Nils.

What I might start off doing is implementing the changes to the RDA and see if their quality of life improves to the point where they met my intention with the re-balancing... that they are comparable with the knights and BDA. If I find their quality of life makes them equally attractive a guild as BDA then I may not need to make further changes that impacts slash.

Intimidate will still go. So whatever way you look at it, there will be some element of a nerf.

Arman wrote:I'll have a think about it Nils.

What I might start off doing is implementing the changes to the RDA and see if their quality of life improves to the point where they met my intention with the re-balancing... that they are comparable with the knights and BDA. If I find their quality of life makes them equally attractive a guild as BDA then I may not need to make further changes that impacts slash.

Intimidate will still go. So whatever way you look at it, there will be some element of a nerf.

nils wrote:

Arman wrote:I'll have a think about it Nils.

What I might start off doing is implementing the changes to the RDA and see if their quality of life improves to the point where they met my intention with the re-balancing... that they are comparable with the knights and BDA. If I find their quality of life makes them equally attractive a guild as BDA then I may not need to make further changes that impacts slash.

Intimidate will still go. So whatever way you look at it, there will be some element of a nerf.

I like this plan. I am much calmer already!

I am still a firm believer of that if something goes out, something else must fill the void left behind. You say you will make RDA comparable to Knights. Fantastic! That, to me, means you've also got a thought about upgrading BDA to "knight level". I see good things in the future now.

Amberlee wrote:

Arman wrote:I'll have a think about it Nils.

What I might start off doing is implementing the changes to the RDA and see if their quality of life improves to the point where they met my intention with the re-balancing... that they are comparable with the knights and BDA. If I find their quality of life makes them equally attractive a guild as BDA then I may not need to make further changes that impacts slash.

Intimidate will still go. So whatever way you look at it, there will be some element of a nerf.

Losing intimidate isn't that much of a loss anyway.
But I just wanted to say.
Bringing down BDA to make RDA more attractive is NOT the way to go regardless of popularity of the guilds.

Amberlee wrote: Another issue with alocating the oomph to dragons is they will get hurt the same way as to why Glads kinda suck.
A special that don't factor in weapon quality.. This is a bad thing and a way should be found to factor that into the equation.

Arman wrote:

Amberlee wrote:

Arman wrote:I'll have a think about it Nils.

What I might start off doing is implementing the changes to the RDA and see if their quality of life improves to the point where they met my intention with the re-balancing... that they are comparable with the knights and BDA. If I find their quality of life makes them equally attractive a guild as BDA then I may not need to make further changes that impacts slash.

Intimidate will still go. So whatever way you look at it, there will be some element of a nerf.

Losing intimidate isn't that much of a loss anyway.
But I just wanted to say.
Bringing down BDA to make RDA more attractive is NOT the way to go regardless of popularity of the guilds.

I don't see it as bringing down the BDA, its more about having a working ratio of direct damage attacks vs guild dragon features. For the BDA it is skewed terribly away from the latter. Getting rid of intimidate will help move it more in the direction of where i'd like the ratio. Whether that will be enough I am not sure, but we can see. We'll also have the RDA as an example of what I am aiming to achieve as a comparison.

Out of curiousity, what do you think is a reasonable ratio?

Amberlee wrote: How you see it doesn't really affect the end result thought.
How I see it.
Keep dragons out of the equation and save it for a layman option.

Arman wrote:

Amberlee wrote: How you see it doesn't really affect the end result thought.
How I see it.
Keep dragons out of the equation and save it for a layman option.

The only way dragons will be taken away is if the guild is closed. If your only interest is in maximising combat benefit without any consideration for domain thematics, then this guild isn't for you.