Battle Reform Blueprint

[kukurumei]

If people play the same with and without stamina, then they didnt understand stamina. Speed surge was hax because it made your stamina faster. that doesnt have much to do with using stamina properly. There is a huge difference.

With stamina, you choose which skill will help you the most and way each ones usefulness versus what other skills you are have, for the specific situation that you are in right now.
IE with stamina, gladiator playing defensively uses guard, voke, stabs, waits for mob a bit and lets tp build, depending on if it blocks or not, phalanx guard stab or stab stab ws guard if it doesnt (waiting to see cost it nothing because it hasnt hit stamina cap, notice reacting to the enemy, also notice not spamming skills or attacks)

with stamina
make guard macro, every 15 seconds guard
make taunt macro every 25 seconds voke
let auto attack attack
make discerning eye macro, every 1.30 seconds use discerning eye
make featherfoot macro every 1.30 seconds use featherfoot

while macros are going wait for tp, and use tp skills as you go
its a totally different playstyle and has totally different implications. even if you cant use macros, basically your best plan is to use any skill every single time the option comes up, you wont be choosing what is best for this situation, because it is all best. Before using op skills back to back would leave you unable to do anything for some time, now why not taunt, voke, sentinel, discerning eye featherfoot fracture in a few seconds. Can you not see how you just became super man, and at the same time lost most of the tactical/strategic descion making in personal combat?

I mean sure you probably prefer it because now you can do whatever you want, but its going to make combat into a game of purely recast rotation.
And thats just one aspect, it totally changes burst mechanics, reactive play, and even BAttle regimens, which before lost you nothing unless they took a long time, now they actually are lowering your dps while people queue, even if they are fast.
Its not a small thing, its a game changer. Its not about doing it faster, its a fundamental playstyle changing mechanic

the was talked about in the old stamina threads..but the decision to take it away is IMHO the right one.

Stamina is in its simplest form a nuisance. Sure it can work, but at what cost. It is hindering, development, tactics, and even more importantly balance.

We have so many unbalanced skills due to stamina, and so many unbalance tactics due to stamina, and just having to watch stamina HP and timer, is ultimately stupid.

It' one of those things were excessive complications give minimum returns to "fun" and even turn negative into "annoyance".

Look at how we already abuse stamina, and how many times we trade skills in and out because the stamina requirement is too unfair(because it's unbalanced).

Sure we can make it all work, but for how much effort it takes, it's better take it out.