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Orrinisthebest
Known Hero
Invest in your future.
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posted December 01, 2018 11:33 AM |
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It's plain obvious that expert earth magic alone is better than all other skills combined ( not even exaggerating). Lets wait and see what team has on mind to balance magic schools, hopefully not another resistance catastrophe. And control spells belonging to all schools sounds balanced but i consider it touching the "sacred" part of the game, not right imo.
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Maurice
Hero of Order
Part of the furniture
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posted December 01, 2018 12:25 PM |
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Instead of adding a new skill for it, you could also just use the Wisdom skill for it.
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phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted December 01, 2018 01:09 PM |
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bloodsucker
Legendary Hero
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posted December 01, 2018 04:57 PM |
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phoenix4ever said: I don't see how it's good one can exclude Fire Magic, I consider that bad. Then Fire Magic falls in the same category as Learning, Eagle Eye and First Aid, being skills you just avoid. Then why are they even there?, just so AI can get stuck with them?
Have you played Heroes IV? They tried that, all magic schools are of some use and you need at least three of the four might schools to have a decent hero, so it is Combat, Tactics and Pathfinding with two magic schools at random.
In summary, with all that effort you're still locked with the same few skills and some heroes (Lords) can't be main on their own.
Now imagine if all 27 Heroes III skills were of the same value and you still only had eight slots to fill...
It's good to have a set of seven skills you always want (Logistics, Wisdom, Earth, Air, Offense, Armorer & Tactics for multi, variations with Archery, Water and Intelligence for single) unless they give you a chance to refine your previous choices later, be it by having "hidden" skills you only fill when the right choice is presented or by having a Market of Time/Memory Mentor that allows you lose the skills you don't need so you can get the ones needed at the moment.
Anyway you look at it, more useful skills means less powerful main heroes and more situational secondary heroes and I don't see how this can improve gameplay.
I have nothing against improving Mysticism, Learning, Eagle Eye or First Aid but Water and Fire aren't available to all classes of heroes so they should remain weaker then Air and Earth and never a must have.
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phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted December 01, 2018 05:30 PM |
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But what is even the point of Fire and Water Magic if everyone chooses Earth and Air anyway?
I'm not saying all 28 skills should be equally good, but the worst could be improved so they could at least have a rare niche use.
Learning for example is downright HARMFUL to your hero, you waste a skill slot and 3 levels to gain 1 level, there is no other way to describe it than pathetic.
Eagle Eye on your main hero, will probably mean you learn 1-3 combat spells in the game, which may or may not be of your chosen magic schools.
First Aid, well good luck finding and keeping the tent in the first place and what is the point when you have Resurrection/Animate Dead anyway?
Mysticism also useless, don't need to explain do I?
Sorcery very low bonus, unlike the elemental orbs (again Earth and Air LOL) that are actually useful.
Ballistics is also a skill I consider useless, but AI needs it.
Imagine if the above skills were actually useful, at least sometimes...
Town Portal, Fly and Dimension Door should of course not be Fire or Water only, that would mean certain classes can't learn them.
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bloodsucker
Legendary Hero
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posted December 01, 2018 05:43 PM |
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Fire and Water are very useful in single player, just you look at Hommm 3 (small tricks vs AI) and Metataxer's Revenge to get some ideas. But they shouldn't be vital or some classes of heroes (exactly the ones one tends to choose main from) will be unplayable.
Of course, one can make all magic schools available to all classes of heroes but I think you lose some diversity by doing that.
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ericoz
Adventuring Hero
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posted December 02, 2018 07:15 PM |
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Single player isn't an argument. And i'm too lazy to quote whatever someone said about us complaining that HOTA should change things we don't like when in reality is that THEY are doing that. Be it by changing scouting (much appreciated change) and resistance (just as bad), while allowing the rest of worthless skills just the same and not even allowing us to toggle them on and off on multiplayer, well, this is just one of many other things they refuse to address. And the utmost proof on how they want things their way is how little to no customization is allowed.
Not even a complaint, I'm happy with that they did so far. I think I've already said this before, it's clear that their focus is on content and not on balance, so complaining about balance is just a waste of time.
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Orrinisthebest
Known Hero
Invest in your future.
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posted December 02, 2018 07:45 PM |
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ericoz said: it's clear that their focus is on content and not on balance, so complaining about balance is just a waste of time.
That's wrong on so many levels, i don't even want it to be discussed any further.
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phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted December 02, 2018 08:54 PM |
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Well if they want things to be balanced they really need to take a look at some of the heroes, skills, spells and (combo)artifacts.
HotA is not balanced, far from it, but I guess some people prefer it that way.
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bloodsucker
Legendary Hero
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posted December 02, 2018 09:08 PM |
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The balance they care about is between factions, not if some miserable skill is more or less valuable. Even if Mysticism was to recover 30% of the spellpoll it woundn't be a top choice and the same goes to whatever percentage you assign to Learning. With all those cyclops in the final battles they made Archery really useful, yeah!
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Djangoo
Adventuring Hero
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posted December 02, 2018 10:59 PM |
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Edited by Djangoo at 23:03, 02 Dec 2018.
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Last thing I heard from HotA devs is that they plan to rebalance (at least) Mysticism.
Sav said: Yes, we have plans to improve this skill (cannot say, in near future or not). But the fix probably will be simple (changing numbers and recover percents instead of points or so). And yes, mysticism will probably remain below-average skill and mostly useful for heroes-supporters, it will be just not completely useless like now.
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted December 03, 2018 03:14 AM |
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This thread got at least one and a half million views because people like me were only checking the thread for new content; to find people STILL discussing snow in the wrong snowing thread... AGAIN.
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blob2
Undefeatable Hero
Blob-Ohmos the Second
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posted December 05, 2018 04:31 PM |
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Yeah while HotA team stays silent, people are either discussing some minor tweaks to the game and others are creating their own version of their concepts (Cathedral).
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Orrinisthebest
Known Hero
Invest in your future.
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posted December 05, 2018 05:21 PM |
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blob2 said: Yeah while HotA team stays silent, people are either discussing some minor tweaks to the game and others are creating their own version of their concepts (Cathedral).
But are they loved by community as much as HotA is?
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nik312
Promising
Famous Hero
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posted December 07, 2018 08:59 PM |
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Edited by nik312 at 21:00, 07 Dec 2018.
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An international discord-channel was created for the players by the lobby administration: https://discord.gg/YbQ2gjP
Join the discussion!
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tzening
Adventuring Hero
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posted December 08, 2018 04:01 AM |
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Edited by tzening at 04:02, 08 Dec 2018.
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How much time do I have for the 3rd campaign's 3rd scenario? The scenario mission is missing that detail. The lack of TP spell makes it a logistics nightmare and I think I may have taken too long as I just started the 3rd month.
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Galaad
Hero of Order
Li mort as morz, li vif as vis
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posted December 09, 2018 10:25 AM |
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nik312 said: An international discord-channel was created for the players by the lobby administration: https://discord.gg/YbQ2gjP
Join the discussion!
I joined yesterday and clicked on my language flag but everything is still closed for me. Did I miss something?
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orrinisthebest
Known Hero
Invest in your future.
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posted December 09, 2018 03:12 PM |
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Galaad said:
nik312 said: An international discord-channel was created for the players by the lobby administration: https://discord.gg/YbQ2gjP
Join the discussion!
I joined yesterday and clicked on my language flag but everything is still closed for me. Did I miss something?
You should pick a topic with "#" sign from left side imo
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Galaad
Hero of Order
Li mort as morz, li vif as vis
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posted December 09, 2018 03:35 PM |
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Edited by Galaad at 01:16, 10 Dec 2018.
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All I see are the locked start and information channels.
Edit: Looks like I'm in.
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Docent_Picolan
Promising
Adventuring Hero
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posted December 14, 2018 03:36 AM |
bonus applied by Maurice on 14 Dec 2018. |
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Number of new and never seen before object renders: Horn of the Abyss, Cove town (without Fort), updated Conflux model, Trident of Dominion.
The remade Conflux sprite is one of the many planned changes to fix the issues with the town's appearance that are being worked on. These sprites for the adventure map will be introduced in HotA 1.5.4, while some other changes, such as considerable improvements on the town screen and several tweaks to the heroes, are planned to be completed later.
Some further information and examples can be accessed at our Russian DF2 forum.
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