As I said in the title, there are quite a few things that need to be changed very soon with the F2P wave bringing in fresh new players. If balance changes aren’t fixed, people will quit for the same reasons. Yes, stability is important, but does it take the whole team working on stability? Is there no one browsing here looking for suggestive feedback? Boys are bad, we know, but they cannot be stopped. The Chinese are relentless.
A few changes that should be immediately considered are(not all, but just a small list that ive seen topping the posts):
Swordsman Class/physical based classes:
This has been a huge topic for a while now. Swordsmen are extremely underwhelming. I don’t have one myself, but I see how bad their damage is in groups. Maybe add a STR scaling benefit to physical skills? I recently rerolled my 220 c3 paladin because of no scaling with Smite/Conviction.
Marketplace:
There’s tons of feedback on this. I think you know the problem. The tax and the minimal price requirement are huge factors that ruin the marketplace and make it so players dont even want to use it. Which leads to my next point below.
Trading
Since we cannot trade silver and the market place is destroyed, we are limited to selling via shout chat with either talt exchange, item exchange, or offsetting the cost of putting it on the market place for someone via silver or talt. This really hurts alchemists as well who need materials for potions.
Party play
Exp is lowered for playing with a friend(s) and item/silver drop is still skewed.
Class balance
This goes with swordsman class, but also it’s an issue with others. The builds are getting pretty linear, or meta, and hopefully the meta doesn’t hurt end game players for ET or possibly pvp(hard to balance I know). As a 220 reroll myself, it’s painful to reroll a class you love for lack of something so simple as STR scaling on physical skills. The CON meta is also a huge thing IMC, this should not be how you build every class.
Diminishing Returns
Goes hand and hand with pvp, but is huge for pve as well. Get 3+ mobs that freeze on you? You can easily get locked in freeze until death. This is absolutely ridiculous. I don’t even know how this was overlooked(see cryo+psycho infinite cc combo videos)
Theres many more issues, but these are just a select few that require immediate attention. People are going to drop like flies if these don’t go through. Some, like myself, are devoted, but not everyone can tolerate it for so long. Thanks.