So here we are…
At first I want to speak out something that Ive never read at any post and I find it disgusting:
It is hard to create so many events and the fact alone that so many events are frequently released is an unarguable fact that the staff is caring about the game. Ive never seen that at any other game, even tho some event rewards were useless/underwhelming. Happens.
So, everybody got busy the last days trying out this and that and it was great to have access to anything. It lured a lot of players out of their holes which is a good and a bad sign. Good that there definitely STILL IS interest community wise, but bad that the so great praised class diversity is locked behind an almost inaccessible wall of time. Time that most didnt want to invest to that point. Even with my 2920 hours I havent seen everything nor had the chance to test it build xy. It is one of the games greatest issues that needs to be reworked imo.
Some would say its a good sign in terms of long play motivation. I rather prefer calling it being imprisoned.
If I should describe the latest wave of updates in one sentence I would say that theyve hit me like a truck.
And here we come to the main topic: the problems I have/I see with this game.
First off, Im a player that cannot decide what char he wants to play. In every game I play I have every class at least 1 time. The term “main character” literally doesnt exist for me, which brings me in a big trouble here: you have to invest A LOT silver/time into one if you want to make it actually top notch. But that doesnt work if you have 11 children to feed unless you are a filthy rich and could buy billions from RMT.
With the mechanic change my all my twinks got a huge decrease in terms of dmg. Its not surprising if I say that it demotivated me alot. Some werent able to perform equally to “pre-renewal” even with a lvl 315 weapon which was absurd and very frustrating at the same time. The by far hardest example is my Taoist, that got decreased from 55k down to 6k Zaibas+Storm Calling. A dmg loss of almost 90% cannot be called as balanced by any chance, especially if you consider that Zaibas+SC is a so-called “one-trick-pony” with a lot problems and a mediocre dmg output in long term.
Most people just saw me in Saalus/Dungeon dailies and they were like “wtf man” but in reality this build wasnt that strong and definitely didnt deserve such a drastical nerf.
I sometimes actually have the feeling that the developers overnerfing/overbuffing some classes on purpose to change the meta with every bigger balance patch to give the meta-knight brigade a new reason to raise another character. Personally I dont like that way of development. But Its just speculation anyways.
And then there was another reason why I was demotivated during the last week:
The cut of the silver reward has hit me really hard.
Actually most of you would say things like “man, get over it, there are so many ways to get silver” and some have mentioned me some ways to compensate and I appreciate it.
But here the core issues behind: I believe that I have earned myself a little privilege to get that much silver from simply killing the lvl 290 bosses since I have invested almost 3000 hours in that game. It was hard work for me raise an army of twinks and for some reason it always ends up that hard work from players just getting punished for no reason. But why does this have to end up every time this way? Is there no chance that we can find at least one time a solution that doesnt include to cut our x000 hour playtime advantage? We are speaking about your goddamn core players that keep the game alive. Okay?! Okay.
And now we have it, we have feared it for long until everone of us forgot it: Leticia’s Secret Cube.
This item was a jaw dropper when I saw it in the news. I know that @STAFF_Yuri has mentioned that you can get the same things ingame with “a little more” time investment but c’mon, this is beyond of what Im capable to tolerate. Get 15.500 exp from your lvl 2 Abrasive that you pray for on a daily basis or just buy a bunch of cubes and gamble a trementrous 1.024.000 exp.
Farm your butt off to get money and farm your butt at least three times more off to get 1-2 Golden Anvils from mobs - or just take a bit for real life money and get some diamond anvils. Teehee~
Let me say this strait: this cube is the last nail into the coffin for me.
Its not only because of what you can get out ot it, but it also shows me the path you want to go with the community and due to all respect, our journey cannot go further at this rate.
Im sad about this, really. But this is a final goodbye.
Some appreciate it and say “wooo we are finally rid off this moron” and some, that know me ingame a better, might say … exactly the same x)
I traded most of the worthy gear to my guild leader so one day the popos may reach guild lvl 12 and conquer the entire planet 