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Quote from "Kaleban" »

Amd that's the kind of attitude that will allow the development cycle to continue as is and cement the pay to play system in place. Its only BEFORE everything is finalized that change can be effected, so the only logical course is to raise a ruckus before things are in fact finished.

And the idea that a feature in a game can't be allowed without additional cash flow is rediculous. If they develop said feature, and no one pays for it (worst case for them) they're out the money anyways. They have to develop with the idea that all content is equally accessed, otherwise you marginalize and segment the playerbase, further reducing popularity and replayability.

ESPECIALLY considering the fact that on a monthly basis they're receiving over $108 million from their WoW subscriber base. I challenge anyone to dispute that that kind of cash flow would someone be eaten up by the product development cycle of a video game, especially considering that all the people working on WoTLK, D3, SC2 and others are all paid employees and have minimal profit sharing at best. I'm pretty sure that their development costs for several games are WELL covered into the forseeable future already.

Quote from "Kenelm" »

Your cunt is completely off.

There are 10 attack skills, 2 armor skills, 1 passive skill (fast casting), and 2 defensive skills (teleport and slow time).

Most of those are Talents, not skills.

Quote from "Soulmancer" »

This is a stupid idea, way to severly reduce the character customization and strategy of character builds... How dumbed down are they making this game? No potions? no break from the action, no assigning of stat points to cusomize our character builds as you level... Is this an action rpg or an arcade game? So basicly all level 50 Barbarian's are gonna have identical base stats, no specialization in strength or vitality or whatever to suit your path... Come on, lets no simplify the game so much so that it's made for 5 year olds... I LIKE assigning my own stat points as I level up, it gives me the sense that I have more control over my characters template and this completely removes that, there is no reason too.. Picking up on yet another worthless MMORPG trait.

Level 1
• Spectral Blade
• Rank 0/1
• Mana Cost: 7
• Summons a spectral blade that strikes each enemy in front of the Wizard 3 times causing 1-5 physical damage with each hit.
• Talent Modifiers
• Spell Speed
• Rank 0/15
• Increases the speed of your Magic Missile projectiles by 8%
• Damage Resistant
• Rank 0/15
• Increases armor by 5% and all resistances by 4%.
• Weapon Mastery
• Rank 0/15
• Increase physical damage done by all weapons by 15%.
Level 2 (5 Conjure Skill Points Required)
• Stone Skin
• Rank 0/1
• Mana Cost: 12
• Shield yourself with rock and stone, absorbing 30 damage. Lasts 8 seconds.
• Cooldown: 15 seconds.
• Mirror Image
• Rank 0/1
• Mana Cost: 18
• Create an illusionary duplicate of yourself that lasts for 8 seconds.
• Talent Modifiers
• Conjured Armor
• Rank 0/15
• Magical armor surrounds the wizard, increasing block chance by 2%.
• Conjured Health
• Rank 0/15
• Increases total health by 8% and the health of your conjured images by 12%.
Level 3 (10 Conjure Skill Points Required)
• Meteor Storm
• Rank 0/1
• Mana Cost: 12 per second
• Meteorites pelt the targeted region dealing 10 to 20 damage per second.
• Acid Cloud
• Rank 0/1
• Mana Cost: 15
• Drop a deluge of acid on the targeted area. Deals an initial 1-4 poison damage followed by 4-8 poison damage per second to enemies who remain in the area.
• Talent Modifiers
• Conjured Power
• Rank 0/15
• Increased damage done by spells by 1% for every 10 points of vitality.
• Conjuring Duration
• Rank 0/15
• Increases the duration of your Stone Skin and Acid cloud spells by 1 second and the duration of your mirror image images by 2 seconds.
• Improved Spectral Blade
• Rank 0/15
• Increases the damage of Spectral Blade by 14%.
Level 4 (15 Conjure Skill Points Required)
• Hydra
• Rank 0/1
• Mana Cost: Unknown
• Creates a multi-headed beast that attacks your enemies with bolts of fire.
• Magic Weapon
• Rank 0/1
• Mana Cost: 10
• Imbue your weapon with magical energy granting it increased damage.
• Talent Modifiers
• Magical Impact
• Rank 0/15
• Increases damage of all spells by 15% of your weapon damage.
• Slowing Strikes
• Rank 0/15
• Enemies damaged by your melee attacks, Spectral Blade or Magic Weapon have their movement speed reduced by 30% and their attack speed reduced by 20% for 4 seconds.
• Armor Piercing
• Rank 0/15
• Conjured and physical damage decreases the armor of armored enemies.

• Level 1
• Magic Missile
• Rank 0/1
• Mana Cost: 8
• Fire 1 missile(s) of energy at your enemies causing 7-13 arcane damage to them. Critical hits from arcane damage silence targets for 4 seconds.
• Talent Modifiers
• Arcane Power
• Rank 0/15
• Increases all arcane damage by 30%.
• Efficient Magics
• Rank 0/15
• Lowers the mana cost of all spells by 3%.
• Penetrating Spells
• Rank 0/15
• Reduces the resistance of your targets to your spells by 8%.
• Level 2 (5 Arcane Skill Points Required)
• Disintegrate
• Rank 0/1
• Mana Cost: 12 per second
• Eminate a beam of pure energy dealing 10 arcane damage per second. Damage is modified to 80% each time the beam passes through a target. Critical hits from arcane damage silence targets for 4 seconds.
• Wave of Force
• Rank 0/1
• Mana Cost: 25
• Project a wave of force outwards, repelling enemies and projectiles and dealing 1-8 damage.
• Talent Modifiers
• Arcane Armor
• Rank 0/15
• While your Storm Armor, Stone Skin or Temporal Armor spells are active, your armor is increased by 20%.
• Arcane Weakness
• Rank 0/15
• Enemies damage by your arcane spells are affected with Arcane Weakness, increasing damage taken by 10% for 5 seconds.
• Arcane Speed
• Rank 0/15
• Reduces the cooldown of all Arcane spells by 9%.
• Level 3 (10 Arcane Skill Points Required)
• Arcane Orb
• Rank 0/1
• Mana Cost: 18
• An orb of pure energy explodes on contact dealing 12-16 arcane damage to all enemies in the blast area. Critical hits from arcane damage silences targets for 4 seconds.
• Slow Time
• Rank 0/1
• Mana Cost: 20
• Warp space and time, slowing nearby monsters and projectiles.
• Enemy attack cooldown increase: 1 second(s)
• Talent Modifiers
• Arcane Distortion
• Rank 0/15
• Enemies damaged by your arcane spells are slowed by 35% for 3 seconds.
• Mana Recovery
• Rank 0/15
• Enemies have a 7% chance ot drop a mana globe that will return 25% of maximum mana when picked up.
• Improved Magic Missile
• Rank 0/15
• Increases the number of missiles launched by your Magic MIssile spell by 1 and increases their damage by 8%.
• Level 4 (15 Arcane Skill Points Required)
• Temporal Armor
• Rank 0/1
• Mana Cost: Unknown
• Surrounds the wizard in a protective shell that stops all damage from an attack every 6 seconds. The shell dissipates after absorbing 12 attacks. --Not Yet Implemented--
• Teleport
• Rank 0/1
• Mana Cost: 23
• Teleport to the selected location up to 40 feet away.
• Talent Modifiers
• Greater Mana
• Rank 0/15
• Increases the maximum mana by 12%.
• Mana Burst
• Rank 0/15
• Increases the damage of any spell cast from full mana by 25%. --Not Yet Implemented--
• Runic Might
• Rank 0/15
• Increases the effect of all runes. --Not Yet Implemented--