How have the new tanks affected Open RvR?
DateTime:7/8/2009 5:21:12 PM

It certainly made it really easy to find a tank in the tier 1 areas at the moment! Generally when we address career balance, we always try to do it at a Realm level, not at a racial level or career specific level. That is why, when you see an addition of careers, you’ll always see it in tandem. One for Order and one for Destruction. This does, to a degree, fill a strategic hole that had existed, where each of these careers had a parallel on the other side. Black Guard plays most closely to the Ironbreaker. Knight is fairly similar to the Chosen, in terms of the role they play on the battlefield. In that regard it does bulk out the strategies that are available to each realm. But in terms of overall balance, our hope is that it just gives people more options.

Our goal with the easy PQs was just to guarantee that you never got into a situation where you enter a new zone, and there’s no way for you to accomplish any of the Public Quests. We wanted to make sure that as the game matures, and the population moves into different parts of the game, that we don’t leave behind a swath of unplayable content for everyone else. It needs to be fairly friendly for new players that come in, and the easy PQs are one of the first changes that we are making to address that as the game matures.We have not simplified all of the Public Quests. We have gone through and made sure that in each zone, there is one easy PQ that’s basically been recalibrated to be tackled by one to 3 players on average.  As a result it’s obviously going to yield the lower level Public Quest loot for that zone. The essential loot tables are unaffected. So if you want the highest level loot that is available in that Public quest zone, you’ll still need to get together a more standard size PQ group, and tackle the tougher PQs in that area.