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jakeesan
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All any one does now-a-days is hate on every new game or big update in any game. Mod16 is freakin awesome. Ill admit the warlock needs a little buff, but the rest is simply great. Every thing feels better.
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I'm even seeing other player killing things faster than me and actually "playing" rather than running up and smashing the HAMSTER out of mobs and moving on to the next batch
all in all this change was / had to happen at the rate this game was going with its gear /stat cap
but I won't lie, certain....group content needs to be reworked for this new system
I've seen a video of the skilled players running content on the test server; they would have never been able to level up if it weren't for the ease of the game previous to this update. How do I know? Because in my 5 year hiatus from here, I was in games where "standing in stupid" would get you killed, and yet, watching these "pros" at work, I had to shake my head in disbelief that given how they managed to wipe, they had the nerve to post the video that said, in a nutshell "Watch us stand in stupid and wipe, and then blame the update for our woes". They got used to all the crutches the game threw out, and now? They have to actually learn to play, or relearn, and it's killing them.
I can think of a lot of words to describe Mod 16, but "Awesome" is not one of them. When I first learned back in January of the changes that Mod 16 would bring, I wrote something along the lines of "Many players will compare Mod 16 to Mod 6. Mod 6 was despised because of quality issues and insufficient testing, which made the game much harder than intended. You do not want a repeat of that scenario, but if you do Mod 16 properly you might even succeed in bringing back former players, giving you a net gain". Well, we are seeing now what is happening and it gives me no pleasure to be able to say "I told you so".
I have been criticizing several of the design decisions - I consider them to do more harm than good, Players will either adapt or leave for some other game. It is sad, but, well...it is what it is.
As for being awesome...
Welp, I guess Cryptic studio still has no clue about what they are doing. Chance has been given. In fact its been given far too many time since mod 6. Its time to wrap thing up.
Adapt or die.
stealth is damage
stealth is mobility
stealth is everything
everything is stealth
Stealth make TR OP, but lack of stealth make TR useless.
And how about all the other dungeons? Gets tedious enough as it is now, you want end game players to only play the 1 new level 80 dungeon?
I do not mind the zones/dungeons to become more of a challenge, but I do want to see that a level 71-80 character is more effective than a level <70 character.
Neverdeath Cemetary heroic dragon, dead in three seconds. I literally got one shot on it before it was over. It would seem that this myth of "scaling is going to kill the newbies is just that, a myth. Before the update, the dragon took 2-3 minutes to kill, on the outside.
All games need updates and improvements, NW is no different. Frankly I think they did a decent first stab at companions. I really have no problems with removing life steal although people who had gear focused on that did get screwed.
But overall and all changes taken as a whole? Mod16 is really making me consider leaving the game. The things that hooked me into the game have been removed and nothing added is hooking me in. That's fine, maybe I will find a new game that works better for me and the new changes will hook in new players. My daughter already quit because of what she saw on preview and because of the professions change. Cryptic seems to have this idea of how people should play their game... for reasons and I just don't like their idea of game play.
My biggest complaint, even above the slower pace and counterintuitive ability score situation, is the relatively oppressive design of the tanking classes; too many feats lock you into a completely preset power list, and there are too many weak, uninspiring, or simply unclear choices.
Mod 16 is not a deathknell for the game, but all three tanks need a redesign with feats focused on supporting playstyles, not picking all your powers for you.
If you think about it that way, spending no time at all is less time than Mod 14 and prior.
The fact that enemy stat values are not communicated anywhere in the game.
So even if players make sense of the stats, they will have 0 clue on how to build relative to enemy besides "pick (x) stat and pray it works".
Isn't this mod designed to ease in new players so they can experience this Blunder Mountain setting?
Not everything, but a LOT.
When it first hit Preview much of it was, to quote George Conway, "A HAMSTER show in a dumpster fire". Lots of negative comments were made, and lots of things changed.
What we see now is actually very different to how it first landed on Preview and while a lot of the feedback, particularly early o was very positive in it's negativity, (if that makes sense) it was, nevertheless, highly critical.
We saw massive changes to companions, some good, some bad. We only got Mounts in a position where Epic and Legendary bonuses were worth having at the last minute last week.
We had a completely different stat to percentage ratio, and monsters stats were all a fixed flat number.
So negative comments can be very good.
Scaling still needs fixing. It does... I don't care how much happy clappy, smile at the sky, positivity anyone wants to try and convey... it just does.
What I would say to those making the pointlessly negative comments is this.
If all you are doing is jumping on the bandwagon of slagging off Mod 16 because you suddenly find that it's not the same as it was...
First of all... Well done... you've got as far as realising that it's very different to what it was before.
Second of all... You are informing NO ONE of something they don't know when you point out that Mod 16 is different.
Third... you've been testing the new system for all of, what... a DAY... at the moment? As far as learning the best and most effective ways to play in the new version, you will probably need a lot more tie than that. Or as long as it takes your favourite blogger to tell you how to play...
There are a large number of issues that will need fixing.
"You're killing the game cos my Pally has no Temp HP... how am I supposed to survive!!!" type posts show two things.
1 you've not understood the changes yet... give it time.
2 you've no idea how feedback works.
Find a Youtuber who shares your views and go shout and scream into their echo chamber comments board. They'll love the attention, and feel validated, and you'll have found some new friends. Sadly you won't be able to join up with them and play in game since they'll all be quitting and taking their "Friends" who spend lots of money, with them.
I have been playing this game for years, even had a version on the old Amiga 500. I have stuck with it through thick and thin. Being no good at the game I still enjoyed leveling up my players to 60, then 70 and deleting them and starting again.
However I recently bought a tiger companion for my level 70 guardian fighter foolishly, thought like other purchases it was for all characters and for life, I would lose it if I deleted this character. I have just been annihilated by some level 50 bad guys.
I have ten character slots and recently started a new character. For the first time in all my years I revived three players in the Blacklake leveling Melee, seriously that is bad, bad for new players especially.
For me, that is the end. Goodbye and thanks for all the good times. Games are supposed to be fun, this one isn't any longer.
My opinion for what it is worth.
Long, long term player.