Dinosaurs need to come in an expansion. If they come in a regular pack they will suck big time. In an expansion they have at least a chance not to be complete crap.

But this is a joke for a producer's letter. It lacks inspiration and motivation. No love whatsoever.

hyplo wrote on Mar 5^th, 2019 at 5:12pm:


You've obviously never had your mother.

Yeah here's to hoping a ED pass isn't pure shit. With any luck EA, LD, US, and SD will remain the same while the rest are brought up to par.

Hopefully the dc's are modernized a bit and upper-tier abilities can be tweaked for usefulness. Removing the 'ranged' requirement of Shiradi stances and allowing the procs to scale with spellpower like EK toggles would be nice. Finding a way to improve FoTW without adding to the existing aggro issue would be good too.

pinkpuff wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 7:58am:


While I'd love to see Shiradi opened up like that, I doubt they'd do it because Shiradi is toted as the one Ranged destiny. Just like EA is the one Caster. I mean sure Draconic and Magister exist; but Magister is a joke and Draconic hasn't scaled well with time.

pinkpuff wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 9:49am:


I've never felt that way  What is in the Level 5 and 6 enhancements or the cores that make Magister better than the cores and level 5/6 of EA for a DC Caster?  Sure there is a lot of Caster Levels, but none of that beats the +3 to all schools DC.   

I've always felt the best parts of Magister were easily twistable.

pinkpuff wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 10:20am:


DI is a nuker destiny though. You can't compare DC destinies to Nukers and claim one is better than the other.

pinkpuff wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 10:20am:


+3 to all DC's in a free core vs. spending 12 of 24 ED AP to get a +6 to stat (for an equivalent +3 to all DC) is hardly and equal trade. 

I've always felt that if the best use of your AP in a destiny is 6  stats, then it's a pretty crappy destiny.   The problem is that all the sigils and null magic crap are largely useless and that's half the destiny, right there. 

Sure, EA is an imperfect fit for an INT based Arcane DC Caster.   Maybe I like wings a little too much on any caster, though.

you're forgetting EA's heals and Rebuke
for a sorc that's very good

you can twist the cooldown reductions if you've got a boner for that

and on a wizard...
...how are you getting wings exactly?

Rubbinns wrote on Mar 5^th, 2019 at 2:38pm:

Proper dinosaurs of STFU and GTFO. I will wait forever for them to not fuck dinosaurs up (a statement that works either way you choose to read it).

Synchrono wrote on Mar 5^th, 2019 at 2:14pm:

Is it possible that Psion will finally see the light of day?

Personally, I am of mixed mind on new classes: Yes it's fun to play something new, but most of the extended class list in D&D were just slight variations on core classes.

Hexblade, Shaman, Runecaster, Truenamer... Even Sorcerer and FvS technically fall under this definition.

I'd rather they focused on what they have done reasonably well: Creating new races and Prestige Enhancement trees as opposed to whole knew classes. 

The last time they introduced a new class (Warlock) it unhinged the entire game and it took literal years to re-balance the entire meta-structure to un-fuck the mess. You could argue it's still a steaming coil, just not as big or smelly.

But Falconry, Vistani Knife Fighter, Aasimar and (soon) Tiefling are pretty darn good and didn't unstitch the game at its seams when they launched.

I'd rather pay for Shifter (could be two separate races if they like) or a proper Weapon Master/Illusionist tree (as an example) than agonize because now I'm slotting Psi-Point Items and wondering if my Kineticist is better DPS than a Sorc in mid-skull Reapers (which I don't run anyway cuz fuck that noise).

Just my 2¢. 

There are a crazy number of 3.5 base classes.

They should do Psion though.

hyplo wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 3:04pm:


It's a Flav hot button.  He likes to do "who has the rights" conspiracy theories.

why don't they just pause new stuff for a year to move to a modern engine/graphics environment?

CosmicCharlie wrote on Mar 6^th, 2019 at 4:14pm: