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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9843484" data-attributes="member: 4534">I don't know if you've ever played WoW, but each class has abilities and they have cool downs.  i.e.  Once used, a certain period of time has to pass before you can use that ability again.  In WoW, you have some abilities you can use any time, you have others that have a longer cool down period meaning you could only use them a limited number of times in an encounter, and still others that might have a cooldown period lasting 10 minutes or more.  Within a few hours of playing WoW, I made the connection to how WotC structure their abilities to be used at-will, per-encounter, or daily. Then you have the player character role which was DPS, Tank, and Healer.  Your DPS existed to deal as much damage as possible in as short a period as possible to the enemy.  The Tank existed to get punched in the face by the enemies so the DPS and Healer remained untouched.  This corresponds to the Striker, Defender, and Leader roles in D&D.  In WoW, the duties of crowd control were generally spread out among several classes, so there was no single Controller role in a group. It's obvious to me the design of D&D 4th edition was influenced greatly by MMORPGs.  I'm certainly not arguing 4th edition was an MMORPG nor am I arguing the influence was negative.  My theory is WotC was a bit nervous about losing players to MMORPGS.  I know there was a period of time when my gaming groups were lamenting the loss of players to games like Dark Age of Camelot.  You don't have to agree that 4th edition was influenced by MMORPGs, but hopefully you can see the logic behind why many people see the connection.</blockquote>

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