Zons are pretty good even with other classes teleing. A lot of zons wear nigma and just don't tele because their fcr framerates suck, and they run so damn fast and can dodge while running, there isnt much reason for them too. I've never had a problem dueling with various zon builds, seen plenty of good zons, and seen plenty of downright nasty fc zons, I guess I just disagree they aren't useful, but I would love to see fc patched.
Barbs, they'd leap even more. Tele is the main way for BvC or BvA to catch anyone. If you can't catch them your gonna play more defensively until they screw up and make a bad tele. Now you can make a bvb, bva, or bvc, they all are viable, and all have their strong points and weaknesses. Get rid of engima and bva and bvc are no longer possible, seems to me like its adding variety to the class.
Pallies, most of them charge more then tele anyhow. Pally builds wouldn't change much with or without enigma.
Necroes, Hey good point, bone prison would be a little more useful without enigma! Oh wait, the entire summon tree would suck balls without enigma. Seems like nigma makes more then it breaks here too.
Assassin, With or without enigma, people are going to opt for wwsin over kicker. Its like making a conc barb over a wwbarb. Its a niche build people make for various reasons, its just not very useful.
Druids, Fire druids suck for more reasons then people having enigma. Good lucking using armageddon as an offensive spell when it trails behind you. They just arent popular becuase they don't do much damage, have timered spells, are hard to aim, and still are outdamaged and slower then fire sorcs. If anything lack of enigma would hurt fire druids, and windy's because you couldnt stack your minions with tele. I'll admit though, lack of enigma would be nice for SS, probably the only builds in the game it'd pwn for.
Sorcs, They'd be getting an obvious boost in the sense of being the only ones left with tele, but guess what, other people tele'ing doesn't ruin sorcs...sorb does.
How exactly are you going to stop people from running? If you can't catch a tele'er with your tele'er, your not going to catch a runner with your runner. If I know I'm gonna flee to town when I get low, I'm just gonna hug the edge of town all the time. Pussies are gonna be pussies with or without tele.
Fix desynch, get rid of the lame ias/fcr/fhr hack, ban autoaims aggressively, and maybe lowering max res/sorb so ele builds arent so damn easy to totallynegate would do a hell of a lot more for the dueling environment then removing enigma.
One other change I'd love to see in dueling is for rejuvs to be unusable while hostile. This would end so much crying in duel games and make pk'ing pub games a lot more challenging:)
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- Shape shifters could actually be used
- Barbarians could actually use more then just leap
- Hammers would be as gay as they are now but I think they should either stop desynch or make it a cast delay after charge
- Javazon can also be useful now without the need of FC
- Zealer could make a rebound altho I doubt it since smite > Zeal anyday
- Foh will get a HUGE boost in fanship
- Fire druids would get a boost in fanship as well since Armageddon would actually be useful since it's unaimable
- Kicker assassins could be useful and would actually use more skills then just MB MB MB MB MB MB MB MB. They have dragon flight remember people...
- Necro could actually use Bone prison on anyone and not just pallys or other melee guys.
- And of course my favorite...noone can run. No more chasing a kid to act 5 from the blood moor to finish a duel, no more waiting 9 minutes so the kid can run and heal at akara, no more jumping rejects who just kamikazi on you cause that's all they can do. This would make it like classic but with runewords, and classic is fantastic.
Enigma ruined a hell of alot more dueling builds then it helped. Of course for this to work honestly the sorc would need some sort of nerfing. Back when enigma didn't exist sorcs could be dealt with with the right game plan but they weren't packing 20k FB spamming 9 screens away.
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Diablo 3:
I was a little dissapointed with the demo. Of course I was overjoyed that I got to finally play the next installment of the series I have been playing since it first came out, but the demo featured...no hard or giant boss...no pvp yet they do have it implemented (Ill talk more on that later)
Classes as I saw them:
Barbarian - Overpowered like hell. I could walk through the whole demo with just cleave and stun and destroy everything without even trying. I got a few rare polearms and got my damage above 100 and literally 1 hit killed the whole demo. I finished the demo in like 10 mins and sat there wondering what to do, then I found a secret rainbow Blizzard hid in the corner of the desert.
Witch Doctor - He was mutual. Slow at attacking with the skills we were given, so probably not that great in a pvp aspect which is a downer. The scare skill seems useless just like it was in Diablo 2 cause why would you want to scare the monsters away, unless of course you are bad and need to be saved. His pets are what set him aside from the wizard.
Wizard - What a hunk of crap. Dies instantly, does NO damage. A 1-2 dmg staff shot or a very slow exploding ball is what they gave us. Only way to solo the demo with Wizard was to let out your clone and hide back and spam the slow ball of death till 10 mins later things die.
Monk - My favorite. The monk is new so I can't really say anything on him. He has a teleport skill which rocks, he does combos which rule and they take no mana ATM. He is kinda like an assassin / paladin.
PVP:
Before I even sat down to play I asked the rep there if I could join this co-op game and kill my teammates wether it be through PK or PvP. He said "yes....wait no, they haven't activated it in this demo" I then said...wait so they have it at the HQ? He said "Well it's obvious it will have PvP and any game to come out without would be suicidal." Which is a given obviously it will have PvP but...to have it already and not say anything about it..cmon Blizzard...give us anything, atleast let us know you are thinking of your PvP fans here. Another cool thing I found..for anyone at Blizzcon when playing D3..hit N. It will activate a tool that will show ENEMY PLAYERS LIFE BARS ABOVE THEIR HEADS. PVP is in the demo but you can't do it.
Overall d3 was fantastic and I am glad that it isn't a let down and it plays and feels like Diablo (Love the inventory). Just wish there was a siegebreaker or an undead Butcher or something to give it that extra push besides 4 player co-op which isn't that exciting. I mean it is for a few runs but, throw that PvP or that boss battle in...and you are gold.
I know this is in Diablo thread, but I am going to talk about SC2. (Cause im a dick)
SC2:
Love the game, almost as much as D3. Then again SC2 is practically done. I played 3 matches and went 3-0, I didn't experiment really I went with what I knew would work (Marines, tanks). First 2 matches I played were fun and challenging and I played with some cool people. The third match tho and this is why I am making this apart of this is somewhat different.
See anyone that knows about Starcraft knows Protoss have cannons. At times some players like to "Cannon Rush". I decided let's have fun and cannon rush this guy. Needless to say...he wasn't happy. I put 1 pylon in front of his zerg base, and 1 on the side. He jumps on the 1 in front leading me to build cannons on the side and take him out. Now he sends his drones at my cannons to try and stop me...haha. Before I can even kill him, he types in some gibberish and quits the game. He shoves back his chair in a fit of rage and super speedy walks away from the game station, but before he goes back into the line from the opposite direction he peeks back at me who is now laughing at him. He gave me I swear the greatest Stink / Rage eye I could ever imagine. I just wanted to say thank you nerdy kid with a backpack who walks super fast, you have made my Blizzcon. Thank you for letting me cannon rush you and making my day!
PS: Ill be going tomorrow again as well, probably wearing a "Hey your gay" Fonzi shirt, or the new Butcher shirt. I will definitly be Cannon rushing people again tomorrow and see what other shit I can stir up, and maybe even luring monsters into your d3 groups to get you killed....but hey it's fun for me so it's fun for all!
PSS: Notice how the CEO doesn't even acknowledge the Diablo fans? "Where are the Terran, Zerg, Protoss fans? Where are the Horde and Alliance fans? Ok lets continue on." No Diablo fans? Great CEO...way to FORGET about 1 of your franchises. They showed a few clips of D3 from looking back at 08, but he still never talked about Diablo haha. I was amazed.