ARTICLE
KIM MORGAN
LIMITED ACTION,
UNLIMITED
CREATIVITY
There is elegance in simplicity. While you will unlock 30 spells over the course of your
leveling experience, you’ll have to prune them down to only 8 that you can bring with you.
I
But, isn’t a “limited” action set...
t’s Wildstar’s ability system
limit the poet, however; it actually
where, once fully unlocked,
well, limiting? Not quite. Just as
encourages creativity. The same can
gives players a total of eight
the structure of a haiku limits
be said of the LAS combat system.
abilities assigned to use at any given
the choices a poet makes in what
time. It is comparable to the action-
words he uses and how he orders
oriented combat mechanics of a
them, the LAS limits the player
it’s like figuring out the most
certain online hack-and-slasher, but
in what skill combinations he is
clever way to make your point in a
applied to a full-fledged MMORPG.
able to use. The structure doesn’t
140 character tweet. You trim the
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To give a more modern analogy,
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