Keen's final report of WAR from E3 is his fantastic interview with Mark Jacobs.

Public Quests, Living Guilds, the removed classes, capital cities and more.

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I had the opportunity to sit down in an interview with Mark Jacobs at E3 2008 and get information first hand on not only the recent announcements of consolidated content but answers to many questions on the minds of prospective players.

We started the interview off with everyone's favorite topic: Balance. I asked Mark what Mythic's plans were to ensure that Public Quests are fair for tanks, casters, healers, ranged dps, etc. Mark assured me that it's "All in the Vegas loot system. That's something we continually balance. And thats one of the things we're going to absolutely focus on during guild beta". Mark went on to explain, "We have metrics tools that track everything. When we have voices on the boards saying "Oh my god My class sucks, I can't kill anything!" We go to the metrics report. Let's say we're looking at the choppa. The choppa kills monsters of equal level at this rate - The choppa has this many people who leveled it up - This much play time, this much that. When we have people telling us something is true we make sure it's true".