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This thread is about balance ofc but let me first tell you about how long ago.. Maybe 15 years ago I planned to make this one (kind) troll map. The idea was to alter normal melee map so that the players would find more and more inconsistencies a.k.a suprices with all kind of random oddities. That would ofc eventually make them feel like theyre part of candid camera or something and then laught (perhaps).
Now back to current time and let's talk about reforged new patch and how it feels like they had the same idea I had 15 years ago, to create a troll balance.
Imagine if you would get change to rebalance game but you would need to make it as troll as possible - what would you do? Would you perhaps tweak the armour vs armour stats?
Would you suddenly change something that players are so used to they dont even understand.
First let me indroduce you keeper entagle root range nerf long ago. Would you not agree that everybody who played elf for the past 15 years were super used to the range of entagling root? Whether it was to run and target this one escaping unit, or perhaps help to slow down some creeps with it. All of a sudden tho it was counter-intuivite and for no obvious reason.
In 2008 every little balance detail was being weighted so heavily that eventually the developers and community did not know how to add balance more without it to have negative effect on something else.
Ofc everybody can get bored of the meta and balance. So we can have a conclusion that a balance is just relative to how players view the game and mix- of playstyles and winrates and so on the statistics that the balancers used to rely heavy on.
One thing that makes balance good is that it is supposed to make all units playable and not make any unit completely useless.
I also show you the video that I was not supposed to show you. But I have decided not to return anymore to warcraft. Maybe we will see sometimes in the realms of sc2 or some random wc3 private server.
good bye
Now back to current time and let's talk about reforged new patch and how it feels like they had the same idea I had 15 years ago, to create a troll balance.
Imagine if you would get change to rebalance game but you would need to make it as troll as possible - what would you do? Would you perhaps tweak the armour vs armour stats?
Would you suddenly change something that players are so used to they dont even understand.
First let me indroduce you keeper entagle root range nerf long ago. Would you not agree that everybody who played elf for the past 15 years were super used to the range of entagling root? Whether it was to run and target this one escaping unit, or perhaps help to slow down some creeps with it. All of a sudden tho it was counter-intuivite and for no obvious reason.
In 2008 every little balance detail was being weighted so heavily that eventually the developers and community did not know how to add balance more without it to have negative effect on something else.
Ofc everybody can get bored of the meta and balance. So we can have a conclusion that a balance is just relative to how players view the game and mix- of playstyles and winrates and so on the statistics that the balancers used to rely heavy on.
One thing that makes balance good is that it is supposed to make all units playable and not make any unit completely useless.
I also show you the video that I was not supposed to show you. But I have decided not to return anymore to warcraft. Maybe we will see sometimes in the realms of sc2 or some random wc3 private server.
good bye
