AdamII.2140

Thanks Devs. I started playing this game about 4 months ago and was here for the massive uproar over the summer patch, from which it seems you not only learned nothing, but are doubling down. FB is so excellently built and conceived, that of course, it couldn't have been made by this tone deaf team!. Exploring other games and have found: 1. POE is in a firestorm for nerfing. POE 2 is in development. Hmmmm 2. Griffons can fly in other games 3. Other MMO's actually care about the new player experience and improve their Firebrand and Mech like toons for ease of use.....BECAUSE THAT MAKES PLAYERS HAPPY????!!!1 With partnered mouthpieces as vloggers you won't get the real feedback, so let me be clear......thanks for the time back, as this unpolished mess which should be great, is more concerned with devaluing player investment and killing the so called 'meta', and it's gem store, than the player's enjoyment??? Marx wrote a 'manifesto' looks like you stole from it! How does nerfing Mech and FB help any other class???!!! I see every class every day in this game, those 2 aren't meta in PVP, and I here 0 outcry from any player in the game about them except Mukkaluk......but EOD Willbender will be 'improved', like Untamed....smh. Hopefully Ashes of Creation learns something from this move towards 'gacha' game gimmicks, but I doubt it. Back to NWN2 (where thankfully, I am the dev!).

Seriously considering just trying another MMO. I started a firebrand recently, after much chagrin at the goofy 'Manifesto'. I thought surely after the horrendous reception to the august patch notes, then the spectre/scrapper fiasco, these tone deaf geniuses would put the knife away and listen to players who have invested time and effort in builds to improve their gameplay experience. However, they have doubled down with every 'balance patch' (just a catch word for idiotic nerfs and worthless surface buffs to underpowered/less durable classes. I have seen this design philosophy before....in 'mobile 'gacha' games. You weaken the meta classes prior to a new release, then you have devs 'greedsplain' it as 'balance', or as 'error correction', as if no one has a brain (and many drink the kool-aid as if the devs are somehow 'smart', or believe their vision???? Let me be clear as a scripter and modder, the only reason you ever nerf, is for future sales....'Period'. When a mistake is found in character creation, most companies immediately address it, (it should be caught in testing but patience is a virtue these teams don't often have), and show clearly that something is bugged or incorrectly implemented and fix it. Nerfs on characters in single player rpg games are avoided by simply not updating the game. However, paying players only avenue when dev teams continue to behave foolishly, even with paying players in an uproar, if protest fails is to play something else. Holes in roles????? Imagine a car salesman telling you that! Doubling down after the most severe criticism for a patch the game has ever seen, is what mobile 'gachas' do after boycotts. Implementation is seemingly the problem, but greed is the underlying root (check the decline of Soulbeast (POF) and the rise of Untamed (EOD)). It's never for 'balance'. This game is so eclectic, that it doesn't need a lot of overhauls, just polish up what's there prior to any new DLC (no mount zones, pad support, painted on flowers in the OC, invisible walls, etc.....), anyone who has played for any length of time knows there are no humungous variances in classes in this game, just skill level (the builds are over-wrought, due to over-thought!). The meta will always shift to easy to play, in a casual leaning environment, as it should. But instead of working on the weaknesses of the game, these devs have decided that goofy fireside chats to explain reseilling you the same gameplay as more difficult is saleable with a wink and a smirk, because they have a 'vision', is insulting. Dude, it's a freaking game, if you want to add difficulty, build another boss, like other freaking games. If you want to balance classes, add counters, like other freaking games. It may just be time after this latest mess just to go play anther freaking game....one that's fun without looking over my shoulder wondering when it will be 'balanced'!

So I have been following this thread, and I agree with all the negative assessments. This is of course, 'gacha' level game design, with the end goal being player counts more than hard capital (the reason gacha's do this). Misleading instructions (pointing out the simplest least likely method), to cover the true intent of repeat play through; obfuscation. I have the capacitor and here are some brief tips on how to get it the surest quickest way: 1. Secure 2500 imperial favor (running metas in the 4 provinces is the quickest way) 2. Make 1000 research notes (you will need 300 to get the mount 3 core, if you want to go ahead and be ready for that as well, then 1300 total) 3. Collect all the statues for Myung - Hee and hold them (don't give her any) 5. Give them all to her at once and the store will open. Buy the capacitor If you turn in the statues and don't buy the capacitor, the store will close for the weekly reset, and you will have to collect them again before it will reopen (this happened to me, as I didn't have enough favor and research notes). This is ludicrous. I like this game, but it has many un-necessary gacha style mechanics (I have 60 BL chests and 5 keys...smh), terrible customer service and 0 new player assistance, that keep it from being as good as it could be. I hope this helps.

I started the EOD story. I am currently on Outreach (Chapter 2 I guess). I went to Lions Arch to do other things. There is no portal or other method for me to return (the portal in Lions Arch has the green asterisk over it on the map, but there is no energy in the portal and it does nothing). I don't have a scroll in my inventory and the original starting email is gone. I am not happy! Please resolve. (Originally sent to CS and they would not resolve)

Verdant Brink and Dry Top. Hope the new Steam Players don't start here, or there will be a lot less of them sooner than Anet hopes for!!!???