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<blockquote data-quote="Puggins" data-source="post: 4358158" data-attributes="member: 12386">Just completed the relationships for you.&nbsp; The hunter borrows its concept directly from 3.5e.&nbsp; DAoC originally based paladin auras loosely from 3.5e paladin's aura of good.&nbsp; WoW expanded it.&nbsp; The mage is a straight wizard from every single edition of D&amp;D.&nbsp; Ditto the rogue.&nbsp; The D&amp;D warlock came out before WoW was even released.&nbsp; A superficial examination of the two will tell you that they have NOTHING to do with each other.The Tiefling and the Draenei are more opposites than they are similar.&nbsp; Please read the fluff and look at the pictures.As for disarm, well choose your poison: realism or gaming balance.In &quot;reality,&quot; anyone who is at all a competent fighter would never get disarmed.&nbsp; All the neato hollywood disarming moves are simply that- hollywood disarming moves.&nbsp; Historically, knights lost their weapons by breaking them against enemy armor or by planting them so far into the enemy that they couldn't pull them out.&nbsp; They didn't lose them by dropping them unless they weren't wearing armor protecting their hand and the opponent landed a spectacularly lucky shot- the guard foiled 99% of all hits agains the hand.In terms of gaming balance, disarm tended to be useless or a single die roll that determined the result of the combat.&nbsp; Neither were enjoyable, so out it went, and good riddance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Puggins, post: 4358158, member: 12386"] Just completed the relationships for you. The hunter borrows its concept directly from 3.5e. DAoC originally based paladin auras loosely from 3.5e paladin's aura of good. WoW expanded it. The mage is a straight wizard from every single edition of D&D. Ditto the rogue. The D&D warlock came out before WoW was even released. A superficial examination of the two will tell you that they have NOTHING to do with each other. The Tiefling and the Draenei are more opposites than they are similar. Please read the fluff and look at the pictures. As for disarm, well choose your poison: realism or gaming balance. In "reality," anyone who is at all a competent fighter would never get disarmed. All the neato hollywood disarming moves are simply that- hollywood disarming moves. Historically, knights lost their weapons by breaking them against enemy armor or by planting them so far into the enemy that they couldn't pull them out. They didn't lose them by dropping them unless they weren't wearing armor protecting their hand and the opponent landed a spectacularly lucky shot- the guard foiled 99% of all hits agains the hand. In terms of gaming balance, disarm tended to be useless or a single die roll that determined the result of the combat. Neither were enjoyable, so out it went, and good riddance. [/QUOTE]

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