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Rogues Get Some Respect
GamerGod is running an article taking a look at the role of the Rogue in Dungeons and Dragons Online. In their estimation, the Rogue class finally gets to do its thing in an online game. From the article: "What rogue would be worth his salt if he didn't have any traps to disarm or locks to open? What truly sets D&DO apart from the competition is the need to find and disarm various traps, snares, and pitfalls. Again, the game's set-up and design makes this an invaluable part of game play. No regeneration of spell points results in limited heals, and no regeneration of hit points makes getting blasted with a trap actually MEAN something." Been playing the preorder Beta this weekend, and it does a surprisingly good job of recreating the PnP experience. Review upon release.
Are you trying to be funny? PnP - Pen and Paper DnD - Dungeons and Dragons Zonk is saying that the new game does a good job of recreating the Pen and Paper experience in the form of an online game. Apologies if you made a joke and I just didn't get it though.
This was hardly a case of turbine going out of thier way to break that software.
The way the program worked was by using an offset, and that had to found out every time there was new compile of the code, this happened mostly on a monthly basis because they released a new version with new content and features.
To explain why it would take so long for people who did not play AC, designed what around 6-7 years ago. You had around 10 pieces of clothing you could wear, and a weapon. Spells exists that could buff each of thoses pieces of clothing and your weapon so you had all thoses spells that people could cast, in addition you had around 6-7 spells that you could cast on your overall body. You could duplicate most of thoses using items but that cost large amounts of money want wanted to be uber you took thoses magic classes.
Also IIRC around 3+ years ago they upped the time on thoses spells to around 1-2 hours in length.