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Companions in pvp? this is the WORST mistake ever made.
trailoftears86
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From many weeks companion's bonus are active in every type of pvp. This is the WORST mistake ever made. Unbalances everything that was BARELY balanced until now, and increases BY FAR the gap between new and p2w / exploited players.
You must know that people who EXPLOITED ADs already had those companions, so this is going to impact on the honest players. Most of the casual players haven't noticed this change, they got wrecked before and they got wrecked now so nothing is going to change for them, thanks to the pvp matchmaking (or simply, because no one queues for pvp anymore). That's why almost nobody is complaining about this on the forums. THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO SINK MORE ADs.
The actual PVP situation is worse than ever. 10-30 mins queue even when SOLO queuing, when going with a premade you will almost always run in solo players who just wanted to do dailies. There is no real challenge, it's boring as hell, it's really RARE to have a good match.
And now what?
You add this "change". Making us believe that this was a bug, wait for a fix.. Oh no wait, it was intended!
PVP players are disappointed and bored. PVE players have nothing to do except running the same 2-3 dungeons and the 400 influence for the stronghold. What's still to do in this game? What is fun anymore?
More and MORE players, old strong pvpers, are selling their accounts. Others are simply leaving. A bunch of players who still believe in this game were still playing even if bored as hell, just to help some new people in growing up the stronghold or to have some fun in TS with old friends. Let's wait for mod8, we were all saying.
Why do you need to disappoint those few remaining players with a totally UNNECESSARY alteration? Something that frustate most of the players and that DOES NOT HELP the current AD situation?
In addition THIS WAS MADE SILENTLY, without any mentioning in patch notes. A such important change made sneaky, why? That's not a detail, it's a real GAME CHANGER, to a even worse direction than now.
Trust me, we are not going to buy companions from ZEN store.
We are going to leave this game DEFINITIVELY.
You must know that people who EXPLOITED ADs already had those companions, so this is going to impact on the honest players. Most of the casual players haven't noticed this change, they got wrecked before and they got wrecked now so nothing is going to change for them, thanks to the pvp matchmaking (or simply, because no one queues for pvp anymore). That's why almost nobody is complaining about this on the forums. THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO SINK MORE ADs.
The actual PVP situation is worse than ever. 10-30 mins queue even when SOLO queuing, when going with a premade you will almost always run in solo players who just wanted to do dailies. There is no real challenge, it's boring as hell, it's really RARE to have a good match.
And now what?
You add this "change". Making us believe that this was a bug, wait for a fix.. Oh no wait, it was intended!
PVP players are disappointed and bored. PVE players have nothing to do except running the same 2-3 dungeons and the 400 influence for the stronghold. What's still to do in this game? What is fun anymore?
More and MORE players, old strong pvpers, are selling their accounts. Others are simply leaving. A bunch of players who still believe in this game were still playing even if bored as hell, just to help some new people in growing up the stronghold or to have some fun in TS with old friends. Let's wait for mod8, we were all saying.
Why do you need to disappoint those few remaining players with a totally UNNECESSARY alteration? Something that frustate most of the players and that DOES NOT HELP the current AD situation?
In addition THIS WAS MADE SILENTLY, without any mentioning in patch notes. A such important change made sneaky, why? That's not a detail, it's a real GAME CHANGER, to a even worse direction than now.
Trust me, we are not going to buy companions from ZEN store.
We are going to leave this game DEFINITIVELY.
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And would not come anywhere close to making my list of the top ten biggest mistakes in NW.
Edit: Ignore me. I've just realised who you are.
Disabling Companions in PVP: Balance
Funny cause devs originally had companions turned ON in strongholds, then after the cockatrice/chicken outcry they turned them OFF..
Dunno how they managed to get turned on for live.
They'll prolly let everyone upgrade/buy new PVP companions, then turn them off.
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Thanks.
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you have right on everything and on a second note: if patch notes are not meant to note things...just not publish them.
Am I supposed to use the unbound companions or should I sell them now hoping that they will take this out so dumb
who knows what they do week to week, they set up rules and tear them down at will (always was their prerogative) the players is to whether to play the game or move on or give money or not.
With such lackluster trust between the two groups, its hard to just throw out money at the moment to them.
This is going back since mod 6 really, but the ad removal didnt help, when it should've been highlighted with massive cost reductions across the board (that still hasn't HAPPENED) instead of just throwing out more distrust and abuse.
oh well..
PS: Maybe it's another "great strategy" to make sink AD from the market... let people with enough AD buy and upgrade companions, and they will disable these powers in next Mode...
I really don't think you know me, it's my first post on the forums in almost 2 years of playing. Since you like lists, you can put this on your "personal mistakes" one
How can people state that this is not "technically" a mistake.. Companions have never been active in pvp before, and now this unbalanced EVERYTHING.
I completely agree with this.
I really hope this thing will be treated like an "issue", and fixed soon. We are here for constructive discussions, but please, listen to us.
I say this to you because you are the only way of communication with devs.
- AD Exploiters or Botters don't care about, they already have all what they need,
and still massiv AD spare.
You Hurt casual players/ new players / Legit players / Players without endless cash / Player who actually enjoy the Game!, Their disadvantage is growing and growing-
Why is this undocumented? WTH
Have you (the devs) tested to even play a domination match with 40 active companions proccing at the same time? With OPs and SWs in the party? I bet they have not, the game freezes and inte not even playable with 1-20 fps.
My suggestion is that you remove companions asap from pvp (if you can) Implement a ELO that actually WORKS.
Yes Quetime will be longer cus of the low playerbase, but when people realise that the game has a ELO that works, it will likly bring old and discourage players back to pvp. This might take some time, but in the long run ppl will play pvp again. As it is now i think the few ppl that play will not stick around for long.
I think to a lot of the vets, this was pretty much one of the last straws. The PVP community is a pretty small group. We are but a few guilds, granted, we are in some cases the best guilds at that. We do a lot for this server, I don't know a single member of my guild who hasn't opened their wallet.
We got our stronghold up 1st.. only to be called exploiters because your AP/Stamina glyphs were absolutely and insanely broken. But a lack of actually testing the content that gets spit out every mod is something us vets are used to.
But after not announcing that you are changing the entire pvp scoring system (which we like) - you then don't announce the one reason why IWD domination failed... Pets....
You think after all of the other bugs on things related to pvp... that introducing companions that you actually know very, very, verrrry little about how they actually interact into the game would be a positive?
- You do realize the reason dragons were down for an entire weekend was to fix a companion interaction.. Then down again to fix an enchant that no one uses -interaction then another for the way an armor set interacted or maybe that one didn't happen yet.. oops.. stop cheating.. Three things.. two of which took the only thing we had to do at the time down for a weekend...
Now.. you come into the one realm of the game that you have done a pretty good job of not interfering and letting the true competitors have their games... and muck it all up. Do you even realize what some of the active bonuses can do when stacked with certain feats/classes? I'll be upfront and say that was a rhetorical question...
- Common guys. The devs who were fired before you were not honest with us. They made no money, and took the #1 MMO of 2014 straight... down... the toilet. I really hope you guys can learn from their mistakes and stop repeating these. Again, if it is out of your hands and the cooperate money heads above you are making these calls, then I apologize for any rude and condescending tones/remarks I have taken or made. But if this is truly your doing. I just want you step back and ask... did you even have a clue what it would do? Or rather than ask that, admit that you didn't and ask if you even took the time to wonder...
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Keep game alive and gain money or just close it asap and start new project?
Honest answer please !
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I just hope pets aren't nerfed in PvE because of the PvP bickering.
I paid alot for those things. Also in upgrades. I'd like to keep the buffs in PvE.
Pets make pvp balance a complete joke… the little balance this game had left.
Whoever thinks pet bonuses are good in pvp has NO CLUE what they are talking about … and btw. I have played pvp since beta with almost all classes on BiS niveau… yeah… I know better than you people… just saying
PETS IN PVP ARE A HORRIBLE IDEA!