08-13-2013, 11:43 AM
(08-13-2013, 11:19 AM)Rensin Wrote: [ -> ]Players are the 1%, Maulbane.
Edit: Meaning, it should be alright for us to play ourselves as -beyond- average. Because the average sits at home or farms all day, waiting to be saved. Some people do play this character, but a majority of players are the "hero units".
Players are already way above the normal guy, but they're not lore characters. The guy you linked with the dual pistols was a (probably rich as feq) Gilnean noble who also managed to kill Sylvanas.
I dunno about the 'players are heroes' thing. As in, if you mean they're like gameplay heroes. Maybe in the past, but these days with the more flattened way variant classes are dealt with (as far as I've asked, prestige titles were removed because of misuse of power), there aren't as many superhero characters. There are already tons of powerful characters, but they generally don't have the crazy equipment that MMO heroes do. I don't see why anybody should unless they work for it ICly. That kinda thing goes way off the subject of just 'what happens in what' and starts to tread into the territory of degrading other peoples' RP, where everyone's showing off their crazy equipment and getting into drama because Y's giant felsteel axe is a few inches longer and Z's omegasword, infused with lord-knows-what instakilling enchantments.
I don't see what the benefit of having equipment that trumps everybody else without question, like semi-automatic pistols that can shoot dozens of times in a cone (if Godfrey's abilities section is anything to go by) really is, or how it helps RP in any way except giving people bigger bragging rights. It's just not fair on other people, IMO, and it forces other characters to have to try and match it or get turned into jelly.
But I've started to derail the subject with that, so I'll reright it and say that I'm not saying cool guns should be restricted or anything, but almost all the guns, even blue and purple ones, are variants of the trusty old musket. That should be built on instead of immediately turning to modern technology... Which, honestly, is incredibly boring compared to the creativity people could use when explaining how their gun is better than others.