One of the most important aspect of any MMO is its combat mechanic. In the latest WildStar Wednesday, the team discusses combat and how it will play out in WildStar. Check it out!

I know it's in it's early stages, but...  Wow, that didn't look very impressive at all.  I enjoy the art style and the quirky looking characters but that combat.  Bleh, why does there have to be a holy trinity in these games?  I don't understand it...  

I'm excited that it's not just standard hot key-based targeting, but instead uses free form targeting and strategic terrain control.

Originally posted by Ridrith

I know it's in it's early stages, but...  Wow, that didn't look very impressive at all.  I enjoy the art style and the quirky looking characters but that combat.  Bleh, why does there have to be a holy trinity in these games?  I don't understand it...  

Trinity isnt a bad thing. Just because one(/two) big game is getting rid of the trinity doesnt mean all games need to. Trinity itself is somewhat good thing, its mainly the combat mechanics that make it dead boring in current MMO's.

turned it off at Holy trinity.

Trinity is a bad thing in game design.  Unless the devs can design a system where:

1-Each role is equally appealing and equally represented

2-The party's responsibilities are equally spread out between all members

3-The game's population is steady at all times(not likely)

Looks like SWTOR =/

Originally posted by Ecoces

turned it off at Holy trinity.

Same. This game is already outdated. 

cool! more stuff like this please :)

what is free form targeting?

Looks great! Let's hope it's not gonna be a faceroll.

I miss vanilla/TBC dungeons.. :(

This game had me interested up until this video. Now not so much.

Originally posted by ichihaifu

Originally posted by Ridrith

I know it's in it's early stages, but...  Wow, that didn't look very impressive at all.  I enjoy the art style and the quirky looking characters but that combat.  Bleh, why does there have to be a holy trinity in these games?  I don't understand it...  

Trinity isnt a bad thing. Just because one(/two) big game is getting rid of the trinity doesnt mean all games need to. Trinity itself is somewhat good thing, its mainly the combat mechanics that make it dead boring in current MMO's.

Trinity is BAD. Please don't even try to argue trinity is not bad. Trinity leads to: LF1M healer, and what do you know, that one healer never shows up.

I think the trinity is here to say. It doesn't help that any MMORPG group combat without trinity quickly feels disorganized, zergy and boring.

When someone comes up with a better group combat system in an MMORPG where you have easy, intuitive player dependency, which flows well and allows for group tactics, we'll have that.

Right now, we don't have that. 

What would make the game more worth while is to make each character type beable to do either role, other than that, it is a bad decission to use the trinity in this game.

atnah its simple change the combat from static to dynamic thats y swtor secret world wildstar and many next gen games are headed for a massive flop its no fun stading around smack crap with a stick. its played out all I see now is graphics and fancy animation noones thinking out of the box

Originally posted by Ecoces

turned it off at Holy trinity.

Same here. Tired of playing WoW clones. Not to mention that bad anime/manga/asian art style really turns me off on the game alone. I'd try it for free though, but I can pretty much already take a good guss that I'd be right in saying that I won't like this game at all when I try it out.

Originally posted by solarine

I think the trinity is here to say. It doesn't help that any MMORPG group combat without trinity quickly feels disorganized, zergy and boring.

When someone comes up with a better group combat system in an MMORPG where you have easy, intuitive player dependency, which flows well and allows for group tactics, we'll have that.

Right now, we don't have that. 

 

 Mechwarrior online and Guild Wars 2 are both games coming out with no holy trinity. I'm sure there will be more in the future. People, such as myself for example, are really tired of the holy trinity. 

Originally posted by ichihaifu

Originally posted by Ridrith

I know it's in it's early stages, but...  Wow, that didn't look very impressive at all.  I enjoy the art style and the quirky looking characters but that combat.  Bleh, why does there have to be a holy trinity in these games?  I don't understand it...  

Trinity isnt a bad thing. Just because one(/two) big game is getting rid of the trinity doesnt mean all games need to. Trinity itself is somewhat good thing, its mainly the combat mechanics that make it dead boring in current MMO's.

Don't agree. Any game where I have to wait around for a healer/support/tank/whatever specific class in order to progress is dead to me at this point. I could never go back to that. 

So they expect to be different even though they're using the trinity and raid content? Doesn't sound impressive to me.