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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7749590" data-attributes="member: 6775031">A lot of WoW, for a lot of players, comes down to raid-boss encounters. (Presumably it's also a feature in WoW-clones, but I haven't played any of those to end-game, so I can't say for certain.) The way that they integrate once-per-encounter powers in WoW is to give them a re-charge time around ten minutes, since that's about how long it takes to attempt a raid-boss and then re-group if you failed (or fight your way through the trash, if you succeed).More generally speaking, when I started playing 4E (well before I had done any raiding), encounter powers seemed directly analogous to the two-minute cooldown powers that you could use about once per fight while questing, and daily powers seemed like one-hour cooldown powers that you had to save unless you absolutely needed them. They didn't seem analogous to CRPGs or card games in any way, because I'd never played a CRPG that had once-per-encounter abilities (unless you count FF7, where spell usage per combat was limited by materia growth), and turns in a card game just didn't seem analogous to individual combat encounters in any way.I'm not saying that the AED system was copied from World of Warcraft, or that it couldn't have been influenced by any number of other sources. I am saying that, if someone had been tasked with directly converting the WoW style of class abilities where everything had a different length of cooldown, then they probably would have ended up with something very similar to AED. And given the probability of ending up with the AED system if they had intentionally taken that approach, compared to the probability of ending up with the AED system if they'd looked at any number of CRPGs (most of which still resembled the classic D&D model, with daily-only resources) and card games, it's statistically meaningful evidence for the former over the latter.</blockquote>

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