hate cap raise.

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That has been dead long before the current situation. Even well before the popularity of /sam and the 2h update. Go onto any community site forum and try to advocate war/thf...Good luck.

And there are plenty of times hate production from damage will be so high that TA won't mean a thing anyway. As it is melee's stand around doing nothing long enough thanks to the proc system. Saying it is because we don't hold back or don't "work" for hate control is simply nonsense.

I'm by no means advocating usage of /THF on DD's in this day and era, it was merely stating so though it might still have it's uses in certain situations. It's really all in how the game was originally designed, intended, and adjusted, back in 2004/05 a balanced group that worked with each other played a major part in success in experience and event settings. You of course ran into bandwagon jobs back then with Arrow/Mana burn parties, but a balanced party had a bigger standing then than it does now.

SE has strayed away from that trying to make the game more suitable for the casual player, and I'm fine with the direction they've taken in some areas and not so much in others. I know not everyone is going to be happy with everything and neither will I, but it would be nice to have a more teamwork oriented environment that played more to the strengths and weakness of each other like back then, instead of singling out half the jobs available for being seen as useless because of one or two design flaws even though they're still entirely viable.