WAR Interview With Josh Drescher
DateTime:7/8/2009 5:21:12 PM

There are a number of reasons why we chose to reintroduce those two careers to the game. Foremost among those, we were happy with the quality that the careers and combat team were able to accomplish post launch. In many ways what you’re seeing now with the addition of these types of careers is not unlike a director’s cut of a movie. You go in after the fact, and maybe you’ve got some time to look back at some of the choices you made, at the reasons you cut something out for the sake of the initial product. Now that you have a little bit more time to think about it, you can come up with some solutions that do in fact benefit the overall product by reintroducing them. That’s what happened with the Knight and the Black Guard.

Other than the types of balancing we would have done regardless of integrating new careers, no, there are no changes being made to any career in response to the Knight and the Black Guard. There are plenty of changes being made, just keeping with the standard ebb and flow of maintaining a live MMO.Every other career we put into the game we put in during beta basically. I can say with relative confidence that this is the smoothest integration of a career pairing that we have experienced since development on the game began.