Queue`s

With the change in the last patch, that skirmishes in ALL random queues require 3dps+1tank+1healer it is now almost impossible for dps to queue for the random leveling queue. The other random queues have become far worse too.

I waited more than 1 hour to get into a random leveling queue, before I quit.

Requiring the 3+1+1 setup for the skirmishes in the RANDOM LEVELING QUEUE is a very bad change and nothing is gained from it:
- in the two skirmishes in the random levellng queue (Dread Legion, MoH) tanks and healers are not really required. Dps is far more important
- there are far more dps in the game than healers/tanks, therefore it was a very good idea to have at least some instances in the random queues without the 3+1+1 requirement. Whenever there is a surplus of dps queuing (practically all the time), all the dps can be put into a skirmish. Now we have to wait for the rare occasion, that a tank or healer is queuing. So you can have 100 dps in line, waiting for tank+healer, then you are at spot 97, waiting for tank+healer, then at position 93, ... you get the dilemma.
- under these conditions the random queues totally fail to serve their purpose, namely that players queuing for a specific content are matched AS FAST AS POSSIBLE with players queuing for the random queues.

I understand, that some skirmishes in RIQ cannot be easily completed without tank or healer. But this is actually only Bank Heist (and partially Merchants Prince Folly, where tanks or healers can help a little bit, provided you have very good dps). The reason given for the change to skirmish requirements was the low completion rate of Bank Heist skirmish. The other skirmishes never had this problem. Even Mechants Prince Folly (the second hardest skirmish after Bank Heist) could be completed without too much problems 95% of the time.

It would have sufficed completely, to enforce the 3+1+1 rule to Bank Heist, leaving the other skirmishes as they were, so that they can fulfil their original purpose, namely to bunch any surplus of roles (mostly dps) into an instance (skirmish) with no role requirements.

PLEASE change the skirmishes, except Bank Heist (where the change is appreciated) back to the previous state (no requirements on group composition).

Why do you want to blame players of any class for an entirely developer created problem.

And so. I have spent the day using my Healer-specced Paladin and Warlock and was able to run group content instantly. However, neither my Dps nor Tank characters were able to see any action today. It would appear that players are simply not bothering to play the healing classes completely. I also did not see any other active healers in the past 40-or-so hours while playing.

Once again, I am not trolling. I genuinely loved Neverwinter before the changes made in Mod 16 and I still stand by what I have said before: "Neverwinter was not broken." But it is now. Neverwinter is very broken now. You have made changes to the healing classes that has resulted in what may be the first ever recorded player-strike/boycott of a class/player role in video game history.

Um... (cough)

Congratulations?

b4t1b4t said:

This go's back to what I said in my last statement. This issue is not the issues of the game nor dev team. Its the issues of how we the players play the game. [...snip...}

If only more people would run heals and tanks things might change.

Seriously confused statement here.

The dev team has seriously nerfed healing classes, they have seriously messed up the play style of tanks (to the extent that "crouch and hide behind your shield" even is a 'play style'), they screwed up 100% of the queue formation in order to fix the 15% that required changes.

It is well known across the fantasy MMO industry that players favor playing DPS over healers and tanks even when the dev team hasn't screwed those classes up!

Saying it is the players fault for not playing broken or boring classes is bass-ackwards.

Make the classes fun, interesting and balanced to play, people will play them. Slap them with artificial 20% DPS reductions and boring "hide behind your shield" mechanics and then making them required to play is the height of design stupidity.

Not that that's anything new around here, of course.