These are all good point and I do agree with you, but I also disagree if that makes sense. You underestimate the power of the people on this blog ;)
Up until now, this game has been nothing, but min/maxing. Very little in terms of innovation. And it seems like the majority of people have been okay with that. There are a few I've found from lurking around various websites that are trying to break this theme, but haven't completely because they are still bound the laws of the land. They don't groups of like-minded people they can work together with that they personally know. Therefore many people are stuck running fairly standard stuff like Dunmer Destruction Staff DK to be accepted into groups and the elite guilds. Why? To put it simply, that tops the DPS numbers. As you mentioned. And the same goes for all other roles. Change is where we come in.
There is no rule that says you need to have 1,000,000 DPS to play the game/be good at the game. The players I eluded to earlier, put those kind of stipulations into place. In my personal opinion, you do not need to be completely optimized, there are just certain thresholds you should be able to reach if you want to be effective in your role. Then there is the chance you may not have maxed damage, but there may be something about your character that is unique, and brings utility to your group and I know from past MMO's that many people will not accept that. Here on this website we are one of the understanding and open groups. As you said the soul of this blog is based on freedom and creativity. So when we play together, it is not solely how much damage can you do, how damage can you take, etc. we simply each other ask how can you be different. And we can do that because we are practically guaranteed to always have friends to play with. Not just any friends though, but those friends that could be in the top guilds if they really wanted to. All in all, I feel like that makes the biggest difference. There is room for maxed out damage and all that, but if you can do it in a way that is different from everyone else, or if you bring respectable numbers and some utility or a bit of spice with your character, then you are just as dangerous as the Destructo Staff DK as long as you have people that are willing to give you a chance.
With all that said, I agree that creativity is limited in the sense that you can just do anything and any given moment. You have to have a plan going in just like everyone else. Just like people choose Dunmer>DK>staff because it just makes sense. For your creativity to shine, and get to such respectable numbers, you need to pick the race and class and weapon that does what you want it to do. For example you can't say that I want to be a Dunmer, Sorcerer with just a bow because that wastes the potential of the Dunmer class passives and you won't get the not so subtle boosts that someone next to you gets from running say Khajiit Sorcerer with a bow (not the best example I could come up with, but I hope you get the point). There is definitely tons of room in the game for creativity and innovation because there are literally thousands of combinations between race, class and weapons, it just requires some planning before hand if you want to be effective in role(s).
That definitely went way beyond what you were talking about and turned into a rant lol. I apologize for that, but it was some stuff I believe needed to be put out there.
These are all good point and I do agree with you, but I also disagree if that makes sense. You underestimate the power of the people on this blog ;)
Up until now, this game has been nothing, but min/maxing. Very little in terms of innovation. And it seems like the majority of people have been okay with that. There are a few I've found from lurking around various websites that are trying to break this theme, but haven't completely because they are still bound the laws of the land. They don't groups of like-minded people they can work together with that they personally know. Therefore many people are stuck running fairly standard stuff like Dunmer Destruction Staff DK to be accepted into groups and the elite guilds. Why? To put it simply, that tops the DPS numbers. As you mentioned. And the same goes for all other roles. Change is where we come in.
There is no rule that says you need to have 1,000,000 DPS to play the game/be good at the game. The players I eluded to earlier, put those kind of stipulations into place. In my personal opinion, you do not need to be completely optimized, there are just certain thresholds you should be able to reach if you want to be effective in your role. Then there is the chance you may not have maxed damage, but there may be something about your character that is unique, and brings utility to your group and I know from past MMO's that many people will not accept that. Here on this website we are one of the understanding and open groups. As you said the soul of this blog is based on freedom and creativity. So when we play together, it is not solely how much damage can you do, how damage can you take, etc. we simply each other ask how can you be different. And we can do that because we are practically guaranteed to always have friends to play with. Not just any friends though, but those friends that could be in the top guilds if they really wanted to. All in all, I feel like that makes the biggest difference. There is room for maxed out damage and all that, but if you can do it in a way that is different from everyone else, or if you bring respectable numbers and some utility or a bit of spice with your character, then you are just as dangerous as the Destructo Staff DK as long as you have people that are willing to give you a chance.
With all that said, I agree that creativity is limited in the sense that you can just do anything and any given moment. You have to have a plan going in just like everyone else. Just like people choose Dunmer>DK>staff because it just makes sense. For your creativity to shine, and get to such respectable numbers, you need to pick the race and class and weapon that does what you want it to do. For example you can't say that I want to be a Dunmer, Sorcerer with just a bow because that wastes the potential of the Dunmer class passives and you won't get the not so subtle boosts that someone next to you gets from running say Khajiit Sorcerer with a bow (not the best example I could come up with, but I hope you get the point). There is definitely tons of room in the game for creativity and innovation because there are literally thousands of combinations between race, class and weapons, it just requires some planning before hand if you want to be effective in role(s).
That definitely went way beyond what you were talking about and turned into a rant lol. I apologize for that, but it was some stuff I believe needed to be put out there.
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