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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Runestar" data-source="post: 5073964" data-attributes="member: 72317">And for whatever it is worth, I have never played a single MMO in my life. Yet between being optimized and not optimized, I would still opt for the former. Nor would I say that my perceptions were shaped by the "need to excel" mentality in those games.My rationale is that as I play more of those games, I become more experienced and familiar with the rules and how they interact. It seems like a natural progression to evolve my character builds in accordance with my mastery of the game mechanics.It is like playing a spellcaster in 3e. At first, I might play a blaster as that is what the wizard seems built for. But from experiences and discussion on the net, I discover that my damage is not keeping up with the hp scaling of monsters, so I switch over to SoDs. But that did not prove satisfying, as the result is often too binary, and not very efficient vs larger groups of weaker mooks. So after some experimentation and debate on the net, I finally settle on battlefield control, which showcases the true latent capabilities of the wizard.I had found my true calling.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Maybe it is just me, but looking back, I don't think I can ever stomach playing a blaster or SoD wizard again. Maybe ignorance was a bliss.Was I really so wrong? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /></blockquote>

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