The loremaster

[jullingen]

Hi there!
I have seen pretty many trailers/gameplays with the loremaster being using hes staff like a machine gun, i saw that this was not so popular in the comments at youtube. I can not say anything other than that I agree with them. Snowblind should fix it as they did with the arrows, I do not think it looks especially funny to spray that there would be a war against the Nazis ... I'm not so impressed on it, sorry if I seem harsh, but think people will be more impressed of the game if they slowed it down so it went as fast as the 2010 Pax "gameplay".

What do you guys think?

[ElveHaldir]

I think you've just proven Godwin's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law) ... :P

I agree that the machine gun staff bolts are too fast. The last video (the co-op/online one) already seemed to have it toned down quite a bit, so I hope they actually did that.
Else, I hope they'll add "fast-firing" staffs with small amounts of damage and "slow-firing" staffs with bigger deals of damage, so the player can choose to have a staff that doesn't fire like a machine gun. Though just toning the rate of fire down a bit would be more than enough and a lot easier :P

[Duneire]

Just like Elve said, from the last trailer it looks like it has been slowed down a bit which is good. I'm pretty sure Snowblind will pick up on this and change it, just like they did with the arrows. They're usually quite good at taking our ideas on board! :p

I agree that different options for different speeds would be good so we can have it to suit our play style. :)

[Marveleg]

Yeah , it seems they've already town it down a bit . But I hope the staff will have a quite limited amount of shots , then waiting a certain amount of time to recover ( a bit like ROTK game ) , or you have to collect ammo for it :)

[Duneire]

That's a good thought Marveleg. It might be good if the staff was the equivalent of a bow (maybe a wee bit more powered considering it looks to be a fairly main weapon for the Lore-master). Over-powered weapons just take away from the fun of a game.

I would far rather have to slug it out for a while rather than blowing the Orcs into pieces with a couple flicks of the staff. :p Of course, the staff may not be terribly powerful - but it kinda shoots like a machine-gun.

[FenixV]

Yeah , it seems they've already town it down a bit . But I hope the staff will have a quite limited amount of shots , then waiting a certain amount of time to recover ( a bit like ROTK game ) , or you have to collect ammo for it :)

Why would you collect ''ammo'' for a staff... I mean..

Gandalf: Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, wait for me, I have to collect some ammo for my staff, just.. .wait a couple of hours until it gets to a 100.

Well it would be funny to see in the movies... I guess.

Though the limited amount of shots would actually work better.