The Intentions Behind WM & AM??

Karas2016 · May 8, 2016

They should have just stuck with wm and work from there, but they had to do the unneeded 360.

xRI0Tx · May 8, 2016

pitbullb3 said: ↑

“Powers was balanced a little bit better in t4. You could beat any power with and power. Hl didn't get up until t5, before t5 i never lost to a hl toon. Ice was the strongest dps power, and players was sleep on it”

Completely agree. Balance was much better back then unless you were running with the real cream of the crop dps. Whirling dervish was the great equalizer of T4 and phase dodge was the great equalizer of T5. Would have been nice if they would have just made those iconics.

T4 melee ice or gadgets + whirling dervish was probably the most fun I've ever had in this game.

MEBegnalsFan · May 9, 2016

Ringz said: ↑

“As I was enduring through another one of my shower thoughts, the topic that came up hand involved dcuo and the whole concept behind WM and AM.

Over the years of playing the game, clipping was the way to "If you wanna produce numbers" you needed to know how to clip. I will always remember the trope back then as HL "If your hands weren't hurting as a HL dps then you was doing something wrong" . Clipping was a mistake as confirmed by the devs, but it was a beautiful mistake as seen by the community in how we utilize that red hair child into a way of talent that was known as " DPSing". Then the ideas started to come in

First was WM- A idea of having your weapon contribute into your damage more beneficially then how it was before. A "Optional" way to dps.

Second AM- For those who wanted to use just their power for dpsing and also seen as a gateway for those new to dpsing or for those who couldn't rather physically or mentally capable do as of those who use clipping as a form as dpsing. Also seen as a "Optional" way to dps. Now to my point!

Past year or 2 these optional forms(rather 1) of dpsing has started to become mandatory to produce the best number, and as some of yall who too are vets of the forums or keeps in touch of dcuo endgame then your response is " Yeah, no s***. We notice.". And thus this has me asking is there any where in the forums where the devs stated "This is the new way of dpsing permanently?". It has always been asked what happened to the creativity of having one own loadouts. Ask any vets and they would tell you of the days you create your own loadout, showcase it in instances, surprise ppl with your damage or be surprised by someone else... It was a true community beauty. But now it seems like slowly any concept of creativity is being suppressed as if this is a manhunt instructed by Order 66. Recently with the combat update, it was noted that any weapon attacks between am will drop your am thus you having to restart. Rather they know something about this next wep update or not, a novice basic of tapping range in between power usage is getting the finger of shame thus another kick to the corpse of creativity, even if the tap from that wep dmg doesn't do s***. And ill just say it here while im at it, a dps job is to burn as fast as he/she can so NO it is not the communtiy fault for making AMs the way to go for dpsing. You use the best of what you got and that just what it so happens to be.

I made this thread as a question from what I ask before and also a discussion. I dont wanna get to ahead of myself cause I am hoping the weapon update will be the revival of weapon mastery , and tho I anticipate many problems to come with it It sure as hell will be better then this meta usage of 1234 powers, plus cr differential to be gone soon, pffffft GG!! Anyways thats what I think. Look forward to the hate mail and threat messages ”

I think the devs may change how we DPS with the weapon update. We may have more options if the weapon damage pass is enough for some powers. The issue than is will it be too much for Sorcery and Earth or will the pets be adjusted downward to make them more balanced?

There are so many unanswered questions at the moment with how the weapon update will impact the game. I hope WM becomes a viable option again for those that want to play that style and those that enjoy the AM can play the AM. I hope the devs do something to get us as players more options for DPS loadouts.

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