Community Q&A with Chris

while i trust in your guys decision making and problem solving as well as creativity i believe there are several different approaches to solve the problem

i d like to give some suggestions and maybe get some feedback of you

1) shift of difficulty towards highend content while softing up the leveling process:
increase base hp/mp gain upon lvl up making hp nodes in skilltree more of a choice of goingn tanky. this of course will make leveling throughout the game easier.
in contrast to it i would implement new high level challenges such as newer maps with more and newer affixes/suffixes
or maybe even introducing raid maps with a lockdown of a certain time (kind alike wow raids)


2)to balance hp towards all classes hp nodes needs to be normalized.. e.g. some hp nodes on the marauder tree are like 8% 8% 12%, while some nodes around rangers/shadows/witches are like 8% 8% 8%.. thats an overall plus of 4% for marauder/templar hpnodes

also alot of my friends quit the game at around lvl 57+ as they start hitting a wall of slow progression...
i feel like there is no real motivation towards grinding/lvling up, when you dont really have anything to look forward to..
how about adding somekind of unique skillnodes that are attainable at some special levels, like 60, 65,70,75,80,85,90,95,100?
those skillnodes should be extraordinary powerful to give the player some real incentive to grind their way up to it..

here are some examples i have posted in my other posts:

"i think the approach for starting point nodes is just wrong

they should rather design more UNIQUE starting nodes

e.g.

tons of CC or energy shield nodes right at start for witches

tons of shield (to even add more diversity we can add offensive shield nodes and defensive ones) nodes for templar

tons of health/armor nodes at the start for marauder

tons of ranged bonuses for ranger

tons of movement speed/utility/attack speed bonusses for duelist

tons of attack speed or crit bonusses for shadow



other than that we can also add another BIG KEYSTONE right at the start of every class with an LEVEL RESTRICTION, that does one of the following
1) adds one UNIQUE SKILL
2) adds something special like
witches: when energy shield reaches 0, it instantly refills to 100%, but your health is reduced to 1 (internal cooldown of 1 minute)
witches2: when energy shield reaches 0, you do damage to your surroundings equal to your max energyshield * spelldamage (formula can be balanced)
witches3: when reaching health under 40%, your energy shield automaticly refills to 100% (internal cooldown of x)
witches4: when your mana reaches 0 you cause an arcane explosion causing max mana value*spell damage to surroundings (formula can be balanced)


ranger1: after 5 critical hits your next attack will cause 300% damage, but cant crit
ranger2: after x critical hits, your movement speed is increased by x%
ranger3: dodge the next two attacks after getting critical hit
ranger4: dodge the next two attacks after losing health below 50%
ranger5: every second attack does not cost any ressource

templar1: the first aura you cast does not take any mana reservation
templar2: after every 5th block, your shield explodes doing damage in a straight line where your char is facing dealing xx damage (formale : balance)
templar3: when losing 50% hp the templar loses all the bonusses he gets from his shield and cannot block for 10 seconds, but is invincible for 2 seconds (internal cooldown)

marauder1: increase liferegen by xxx
marauder2: adds all the mana you have to your lifepool (if taken blood magic you gain 0 life)
marauder3: every 3rd single target attack becomes an aoe attack

shadow1: after losing 80% health shadow becomes invisible for 3 seconds (internal cooldown)
shadow2: each crit increases shadows attack speed by x
shadow3: each attack increases shadows crit by x (up to a certain cap)


duelist: every 3rd attack gets reflected back to the attacker (if its too much then set a limit, if its too less then add a mod, e.g. make it dependend on weapon damage or whatever)
duelist2: every 4th attack counts as twice
duelist3: after 10th single target ability the next one does 5th damage
duelist4: every 10th attack cause duelist to trigger a crazy attack like the ultimate from blademaster in dota or ultimate from fiora in lol




NOTE those are suggestion TEMPLATES, while some might seem OP, they are all a matter of tweak and balace, but you should get the idea"