Force-Attuned Krogoth Wrote:The thing is, dual-clienting makes it harder to level a support job. Why? Because 80% of everyone has one on a second account. The town buffer gets to job 50, and nobody considers taking it anywhere. If a priest asks someone to party with him, the common response is, "why?" "If you don't like dual-clienting, don't use it" doesn't work in this instance.
Of course, this is just one man's viewpoint; I am admittedly more party-oriented than most people in heRO. But some jobs, like priest, bard, and dancer, function particularly well in a party, but have only marginal soloing ability. I think that removing dual-client capability would make it less disparately difficult to get experience in a support role.
I see your point. However, I have some counterpoints!
1) It doesn't really make it all that much harder for support classes. I mean, it's not like I've played recently (scratch that. I did while I was on vacation, but that was only for a week) but it's a lot easier to have a completely separate person playing the priest/dancer/bard/whatever. Not only does it prevent the need to flip screens all the time, it also eliminates the 'oh snap!' when you're moving around x support character and your main gets killed. More often (that I've seen) even if people do have a second account, they're more likely to ask someone who plays a priest on their main. They way you're saying is it's like we're having a priest sit there in Prontera with a chat bubble over their head saying 'will buff for party'.
2) Sitting around, as a support character, and waiting for people to need buffs (for example, a priest supporting a mage at seals/soils) is fecking boring. Nuff said.
3) Some people like not depending on other people. Some people don't like to party. I myself tend to only party with certain people. I'm a bit of a snob that way. But that's how I choose to play.
4) When you talk about MMORPGs, you get players the world over. Then you have issues with timezones. So one player might live on the other side of the planet from all the other players, thus it would be near impossible for this player to be on around the same time whatever support characters would be.
5) Two people who both play on the server might share a computer. For example, when I was on vacation, Alexander and I shared my laptop. We dual-cliented. It was goodtimes.
6) Baby class characters. Unless you have someone else play them, or have someone else adopt you, (both situations, by the way, can lead to Drama. No one likes Drama) unless you can dual client, sry you're S.O.L. I like baby class characters. They're squishy.
I think that's all. I'm sorry if I seem mean, I'm actually a sweetheart, I'm just PMSing right now.