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<blockquote data-quote="FrankTrollman" data-source="post: 1120793" data-attributes="member: 14225">That's not a misuse of the word &quot;broken&quot;.Broken means: doesn't work.Often people use it to mean &quot;horribly over powered&quot;, as a short-cut to saying that having that thing in the game makes the entire game broken.But the core meaning is that the item in question doesn't work. When you say &quot;My car is broken.&quot; you mean that your car doesn't run, you generally do not mean that your car renders pallanquins obsolete.If a character is unable to contribute to the party in a combat situation, that character is broken. The game may still function - but the character is broken.If a character is unable to contribute to the party in non-combat situations, that character is broken. The game may still function - but the character is broken.Fighters do not, at present, out-shine Barbarians or Wizards in combat. However, they are in turn outshined outside of combat. Therefore something is wrong.The Barbarian is gaining non-combat functionality at the cost of no combat functionality. Which would make us say that the Barbarian is overpowered or that the Fighter is underpowered.However, since every single other core class compares the same way (even the Bard and the Monk), the choice is either to nerf ten classes or boost the Fighter.Which is the logical choice?-Frank</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FrankTrollman, post: 1120793, member: 14225"] That's not a misuse of the word "broken". Broken means: doesn't work. Often people use it to mean "horribly over powered", as a short-cut to saying that having that thing in the game makes the entire game broken. But the core meaning is that the item in question doesn't work. When you say "My car is broken." you mean that your car doesn't run, you generally do [i]not[/i] mean that your car renders pallanquins obsolete. If a character is unable to contribute to the party in a combat situation, that character is broken. The game may still function - but the character is broken. If a character is unable to contribute to the party in non-combat situations, that character is broken. The game may still function - but the character is broken. Fighters [i]do not[/i], at present, out-shine Barbarians or Wizards in combat. However, they [i]are[/i] in turn outshined outside of combat. Therefore something is wrong. The Barbarian is gaining non-combat functionality at the cost of no combat functionality. Which would make us say that the Barbarian is [i]overpowered[/i] or that the Fighter is [i]underpowered[/i]. However, since [i]every single other core class[/i] compares the same way (even the Bard and the Monk), the choice is either to nerf [i]ten[/i] classes or boost the Fighter. Which is the logical choice? -Frank [/QUOTE]

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