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[Poll] Do you get mad when people talk about the trinity?
jesad
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Do you sometimes get angry after having spent months, maybe even YEARS, cultivating your support role only to have it ignored by everyone who wants to pretend that they know something about how an MMORPG works?
All you hear about now is "The Trinity", tank, healer, dps. But what about the countless enchanters, bards, dirges, shaman, controllers, defenders, illusionists, and a whole host of other kinds of classes that have spent thankless......and I mean THANKLESS hours buffing your skills, debuffing the enemies skills, enchanting your stupid weapons, hasting you, mezzing stuff, shielding you, and all other manner of things that no healer, tank, or dps class could have ever lived without?
Is it called the Trinity because you couldn't think up a good enough word for a 4 man team?
This shout goes out to all the support roles! Without you, NONE of them could have ever gotten it done!!
Freaking Trinity....indeed!
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Why would you feel this way, if the trinity originally referred to warrior/cleric/enchanter?
Personally I just use the word as a blanket way of saying "teamplay with specialized, asymmetric roles" (which for some reason doesn't roll off the tongue.) Having that sort of specialization is what's really important, not whether or not there are exactly three roles (whatever roles those might be.)
"What is truly revealing is his implication that believing something to be true is the same as it being true. [continue]" -John Oliver
WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG.
The original Trinity was Larry, Moe, and Curly.
Look at that - I think I just got angry - and I already voted. Really though, I don't get angry at others' viewpoints on video games. I don't really get too upset over video game "issues" - I'll read something I don't agree with, make a comment, and leave it at that.
I'm glad I read past the first sentence, because it got better as it went along.
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
"Graphics are often supplied by Engines that (some) MMORPG's are built in" - Spuffyre
its the same thing. DPS classes have the best CC other than Tanks of course.
Philosophy of MMO Game Design
You mean from Tank/Healer/CC to Tank/Healer/DPS to DPS....THe whole genre now is based on doing insane damage and often area effect damage that hits multiple mobs...Gone are the days when you fought one really tough foe and now you fight 50 super easy ones....Apparently this gives players a feeling of awesomeness.
Oderint, dum metuant.
I had a forcefield mastermind in city of villains. Have you any idea how much buffing an 8 person group takes with pets and the shield lasts like 15 mins I thinks tops. I wanted to kill myself at times and people never even noticed what I was doing. Once in a blue moon someone would thank me.
I miss that game.
now: GW2 (11 80s).
Dark Souls 2.
future: Mount&Blade 2 BannerLord.
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Screaming teenage girls could care less either way as long as the singer's cute. People who appreciate the skill of musicianship and the realness of a live performance, do care.
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I put this string up with tongue in cheek but to be honest, I never knew the trinity was tank, healer, and enchanter. I have only ever heard it referenced when talking about tank/healer/dps, and that's what made me mad.
So in the famous words of the late Gilda Radner........nevermind. :P
I get mad when people says that MMOs must offer trinty or they fail, when the original MMOs didnt have trinity nor gameplays prone to that mechanics, and were bounds and leaps better than anything offered today.
Why not update the graphics in EQ and add more and better content ? Seems to me more folks would come back and more money in Sony Entertainment pockets.
MAGA