@Razvan Some abilities are already tied to weapons ("only blunt/sharp" - for example Bash which requires blunt weapon and even has CC), this is nearly the same ... some abilities would imo welcome this approach (can you do Concussive strike dagger? seems weird if you can)... just specialise abilities little more so damaging abilities are only usable with damaging weapons, CC heavy abilities only with maces as you write.
I´d also welcome some middle way - medium weapons that can use most abilities, but will not have access to anything with hard CC (stuns on blunt only) so maybe soft CC (slows and such), also damage wouldn´t be nearly as bis as with "damaging weapons"(maybe give axes some kind of passive bonus to crits or something, but dont let them have stun abilities).
Or limit enchanting possibilities with weapons: blunt - only defensive, accuracy and CC enchants, axes only offensive - crit chance + crit damage + attck speed. Mediums would get anything, but in smaller numbers.

...could also be done by altering every ability, so the ability would behave differently depending on weapon (more damage + aoe with sharp, more cc with blunt), but thats too much work and imo it´s fine some abilities can only be used with particular weapons.

This way you can also tell what the enemy is capable of doing before engaging them.

agreed, super important in game without classes and limitations, "you are what you wear" was among few things Albion did right

my want list:

• remove immunities from PvP
• balance hard CC (cd / heavy diminishing returns)
• present channeled abilities in next alpha/beta/close future
• list of all the abilities with their variations (and stat requirements)
• exact info on weapons ("has a small chance to stun all the creatures it hits"--->"has X% to stun all the creatures it hits") and armours (described as light/medium/heavy)
• give some kind of "stun breaker ability" or short cc imunity, be it item or ability
• life leeching abilities
• latency <50
• fps >50

@Gothix

Yes, but for example WoW had dozens of active skill slots, so one slot used by a potion wouldn´t matter (there was no reason to go into inventory for one). In Guild Wars 2 your healing spell had fixed position and no healing potions - again no reason to go to inventory.

Here we have 8 positions for abilities- both offensive and defensive ones. And if i can simply go into inventory for heal (that doesn´t cost health like Second wind or mana like regular healing spells), why would i slot healing spell into such limited bar. Why would i reduce my nuking potential, when i don´t have to. That´s what I mean.

I know one, Albion. In order to use consumables you have to equip them and you can't change your gear (including consumables) when you are in combat.

This. If in AO you could drink health potions as you wish, duels would be quite different.

@Gothix Hmm, sounds pretty occult . Too bad there is so few gods and only one is "evil" and none is specialised in anything (all of them somewhat generalised as "god of magic" or "god of beastmen"... in ADaD every deity had at least favourite weapon - could be doable here too, just give some kind of bonus with flavour of deity - and some spells only gods could teach you. Not necesarilly gods, I´d worship any lesser demon, if he granted me some kind of deeper specialisation ).
Would also be nice to have some casting offhand ... preferably heads of monsters from which you learnt some spell, so these would give you bonus to spell you learnt from them (example: stronger fireball, if you kept shrunken head of goblin shaman

@Razvan Totally agree about balance thing, but I was rather responding to Gothix´s "single slot reserved to healing ability/potion/whatever for this purpose". I bet every build will probably use healing of some kind, limiting healing to one slot is imo limitation, so let´s leave it to player --> for me only limitation should be "8 slots for abilities" and leave choice of abilities to us.

P.S.: How many active buffs from consumables can we have at time. 1 buff consumable with long duration and 1 healing item ?

Yep, no problem with anything except passive advantage in fight which would force you to join guild. Game stating "go guild or go home" is unfair. And even if such system would make it into the game, everyone and their mom would join whatever guild just for passive effects, but if everyone has it, noone has So please don´t.

In game we have helmets from monsters (deer, wolf, bear) that offer various kinds of bonus stats. Also necklases offering other bonuses (fox, rabbit, bear, wolf). Are there planned also weapons from monsters? In GRIM DAWN enemies could drop item specific for them - these items are called Monster infrequents (MI) - armour, weapons and jewelery offering unique bonuses not only to stats, but also skills.
I was thinking something like if you kill spider, weapon made of it´s teeth migh add poison damage, offhand made of lich head might reduce enemy defence agains magic damage etc. Talking about skills, are there any "skillers" planned to further specialise your toon (in case i wanted to be illusionist, is there any way, aside of increasing charisma, to make illusion skills stronger) ?
To helmets / pendants from monsters - will there be tiers just as with weapons (primitive --> metal)?

@Grapher said in Best mmo features:

Unique world bosses spawning (WoW, GW2, Rift)

Character build complexity from original edition of The Secret World.

Any new mechanics planned to Constitution and Health? From PVP point of view one only needs Endurance (and STR gives many more benefits aside of endurance). Only thing Constitution gives so far are Saves and little resists. Could amount of current Health positively / negatively affect your damage / speed/ anything (so that Abilities like Blight are actually usefull at least as debuff if they deal no damage at all)?

Or use health to passivelly regen your Endurance (like 1% of current/max health every few seconds).

Endurance/Health was in Pillars of Eternity as well, but there Health was only annoying part of adventuring forcing me to return to town for more supplies to make camp fire. Effect of Health in fights was imperceptible except you could get maimed (which is not presented in Fractured).

EDIT: Health can´t be healed during fight, right Hmmm, nice. But power of Plague ability should not depend on opponents strenght, guys with strong constitution should resist more, I´d rather make it procentual or flat so it affects everyone, in current state it looks like tank destroyer. Making the regen go negative will further punish those who try to max health regeneration

@Xzait

person 1: 8 slots for nukes only, inventory opened during fight for potions to heal, buff etc.
person 2: 4 slots for nukes, 4 slots for heals, buffs etc., cannot inventory during fight

Same self healing potential, 100% difference in damage.

I know not everyone would use this, but in serious pvp even small advantage can be deciding. But in ZvZ scenario you´re basically right, nukers will only nuke, tanks will tank and healers will heal, my scenario is mainly meant for duels 1v1 or 1v2 gank.

@Xzait

Well, using items from inventory during fight with fixed amount of ability/item slots is imbalanced. Other than that you´re right, one does not need many slots to be efficient.

@grofire

Well so far Fractured looks more like DotA (one mostly autoattacks, fewer spells but with big impact), you seem to be in favor od LoL approach (many spells on low CD, spells can be spammed as much as autoattacks but are lot weaker). Matter of taste then.

@grofire

let you put all the skill and items you can use, and let the memory be the limit.

Then maxed INT will be mandatory, few races will not be so competitive.
And with mana maxed, more nukes will be slotted. And with more nukes slotted, pve will be even easier (more nukes to kill enemy faster) and pvp will be less balanced (imagine having nukers like Lion or Lina from dota have twice more nukes - if they land their CC, enemy is dead). What exactly (except carebearing the pve and possible breaking pvp) is benefit of having 10, 12, 999 slots? In first Fractured gameplay there were like 4 slots, It sure was too few, six would be soso, but 8 is fine ... 10 doesn´t seem necessary to me, but it´s probably matter of taste.

So even a low inteligence character can probably fill 10 quick slots. And if not? That's fine too. It's not a requirement to fill them.

Its not requirement to fill them if youre going pve. If you go pvp, then guy with 10 nukes will deal 2x bigger dmg than dude with 5 nukes. It´s not requirement to wear an armour neither, but everyone will.

@grofire

Well, how many would You like? Personally Im fine with 8 slots, I don´t play the piano.

Im glad one has to make ability choices (like in moba game) and cannot have hundred of abilities (like in WoW).
Also low int characters would probably not be able to fill 10 and more slots.

@grofire

it IS shit game, but is closest to Fractured

@grofire

very large battles with many participant, that can take long time, and 8 slot might be too few of a skill slots.

In big fights one does his role

tank: charge + suck + aoe stun = all he needs
healer: heal + get out of dps = all he needs
nuker: nukes + get out of dps = all he needs
assassin: invis + melee nukes + invis again = all he needs

AO also had very limited slots and it was enough. And according to devs it should have moba-like gameplay. In first gameplay it had like 4 slots only, it´s already an improvement. 8 seems fine

Also guys don´t forget that Fractured should have MOBA style gameplay. Most mobas have 4 abilities, only LoL has 6. Fractured has 8. If you´re not able to build your archetype from 8 abilities and ton of passive talents, you´re doing it wrong.

@Razvan

I'd either lower it to around 40 points to make the decision more impactful or create a bunch of less powerful nodes near the center and move the attribute ones towards the end of the trees.

Exactly. Before talents were implemented I expected you will only have enough points to max one Attribute and invest few points to some low tier passives. Also original design was that points costs will increase the higher in talent tree we will get, wasn´t it.

So either make talents more expensive the further from center I am, or make WAY more passives, so one can reach final passives in just one attribute and get other one to like 75%. Getting natural 20 in 4 attributes is silly.

Still wonder how absence of weapon(s)/shield (and especially enchants on them) will be compensated for unarmed users.