Hi all, I played a balanced party during beta, then into release (SP only.) I've now found that I'm learning more about the individual classes and races by making "pure" parties based around either one race, or one class, or "all elf wizards" or "all dwarf warriors". (etc) I think that's the case because it forces me to really stretch the capabilities of what each "pure" combination can do, rather than rely upon the overall party balance to take care of things. I really have to ask myself "What can this group do that can deal with that threat? Maybe there's a strategy I haven't considered yet..." I think that overall it's made me much more aware of the limitations and opportunities each race and class has to offer. Just my $.02. Hope that's helpful. (Does anyone else have thoughts about what really helped them?)
I think that's genius. I didn't care about my boots or Lunging Glaives until I attempted to play all-dwarves and failed miserably. I'm an elf person, but it's fun to experiment with dwarves. I own three awesome sets of boots: Bertha's Big Clogs, Pwindle's Boots, and Marshall's Boots. However, without the dwarf adventure I never would have actually used them. I've also been trying some common builds: vampires (though I don't own anything useful for vampires), triple mages, and "Use Sprint, Team! and get the dwarf over there as fast as you can!" builds. As a result I'm learning the weaknesses of those builds.
