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With all this great strategy coming from Nate, I asked him to continue. How can tanks and melee classes better compete against their ranged opponents?

Black Guards might have more tools than you think.

“A lot of it, especially for the close in guys, really comes down to teamwork. Because the guys in back can get much more breathing room, where as the guys up in the middle of it that are in hand to hand  on the front lines really need that support. If you look at a healer and melee class, that team is better than a healer and caster team,” he said. “Because if you have a healer and a Bright Wizard fighting against a healer and a Black Guard, the healer and the Black Guard are probably going to win. Because there is no way the damage is going to take down the Black Guard. The close combat guys really start to shine with support.”

We asked Nate about the DPS classes and he said to look closely at the mastery trees. There are some really nasty options in there that players have not started to fully use. There is a lot for the Choppa and Slayer on the lists and many players have yet to go there with their character builds. Overall he hopes players will explore every option with their classes to get the best ones for their play style.

In closing we talked about play style and Nate said that they are looking at many ways to give the tanks, melee DPS, caster DPS, and healer classes all new and strong identities. Each race has these classes in their make up and many players were asking what the differences are? Nate explained that the team continues to look for ways to set the Marauder apart from the Choppa and the Runepriest from the Arch Mage. They want the players to have a definite personality to their class.