Galibier@Lucan DLere wrote:
I see NO problem with some races just getting straight up track at full level. My first too and always my main in my heart is ranger. That said Scouts already can do lots. You have scouts that can manage aggro as well as tanks through taunts and other abilities. You have scouts that can feign death, scouts that can heal and scouts that can rez, scouts that have control effects. Hello pot calling kettle?
Tracking is something that is marginal outside of soloing at low levels to the point its almost a fluff ability. ALso once you get to higher levels disarm was only useful once you had traps in instances again. After you get past level 50 how many people die to chests?
It's only a fluff ability until any non-scout can use it for named hunting. Other than tracking and disarming traps, what can a scout do that no other classes can do?
Evac? - Nope, other classes get it.Hate transfer? - Other classes have this too.Self/group invis? - Sorry, try again.Movement speed buffs? - Druid/Shaman have speed buffsFeign Death? Brawlers, SK, Necro can all do this too as well as any higher level tinkerer.Pick pocket? Any ratonga can already do this.
So looking at what scouts do you will see that the scout archetype is a collection of many different skills with really only a few skills that are scout only. Giving away these few skills that are currently scout only is damaging to the scout archetype since a scout is no longer needed to provide these skills. A healer is still needed to keep the group alive, a tank is still needed to hold aggro and mages are still the best AoE dps.
None of this should be changed. How many healers would be happy if bards were given a heal song that made them as good as any average healer? How many fighters would be happy if mages were given magical shield spells to take hits better than a fighter? How many mages would be happy if a healer was out DPS'ing them?
Keep exclusive scout abilities as scout only and do the same for other archetypes.