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Before I begin, let's just get this out of the way. I have no illusions as to whether what I recommend below will be followed. I've been here since Mod 2, through thick and thin, and, without exception, every time I've tried to warn the devs of an impending mistake they've studiously ignored it. I've come to believe that, on a whiteboard in one of their conference rooms lies the phrase, "never ever do what hustin1 says." I know I can be harsh in my correspondence and I've probably rubbed several people the wrong way. Nonetheless, if I think you're about to make a huge mistake, I'm damned well going to tell you and it's not for nothing. At least I care enough to say something. If I think someone has rocks in his head I might not phrase it quite like that, but if I'm being harsh, it's because sometimes something is so glaring that it demands the use of a bucket of extremely cold water.
The new system you have in place is harder than when the game first launched. Full stop. Take a moment to digest that.
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Okay, everyone understand that statement? Let me clarify. I'm not talking about stats, item level, or any of that minutia. I'm talking simple overall difficulty. Specifically I'm talking about the leveling progress from 1 to 60.
Now let me make a prediction.
You are going to frustrate a ton of new players and a ton of existing players every time they create a new alt. You are going to infuriate them.
1. The first and most glaring mistake is that you increased the aggro radius by I'd estimate 33%. This is causing havoc with nearly all of the leveling quests. Encounters that were adequately spaced apart are not anymore, and it is now impossible to not draw aggro from multiple groups at a time in quests that were designed to be soloable.
You need to understand this and if you have even the slightest flippant attitude about soloable quests, kindly do yourself a favor and give yourself a huge kick in the backside. People playing this game have expectations and one is they won't be forced to group up just to do their normal leveling and daily quests. You did this in Mod 6 and you know what happened -- literally HALF the players left. You angered them that much. Do not make that mistake again. I've seen this movie before and I don't want to see the game become a ghost town again because someone there was in denial. You have been warned.
2. The system differs from launch in several important ways, all of which are net negatives for the player.
a. No in-combat regen (I'm not -- repeat, NOT -- talking about lifesteal, I'm talking "regeneration", you remember, the OTHER stat).
b. 18-second potion cooldowns instead of 12.
c. Infuriatingly long cooldowns on CC powers.
d. Increased aggro radius.
e. "Social aggro", where aggroing one enemy in an encounter group automatically aggroes them all, no matter how spaced apart.
Some of us have long memories and combat, at least while leveling up, is significantly harder today compared to launch. Not that roflstomp combat is any better, but as many times in the past, you've gone from one extreme to another. That appears to be the one constant when it comes to combat system changes. Remember, I've seen this movie before, several times, in fact.
As I said at the start, I don't expect you to take my suggestion and at least return the aggro radius back to normal, but I'm not going to make it easy for you and just keep silent. I fully expect you to wait until the complaints mount and then use yet another band-aid, some sort of kludge that makes the system even more complicated, as long as it doesn't violate the Cardinal Rule of "never ever do what hustin1 suggests." I have a Cardinal Rule of my own, "Never try to kill an ant with a nuclear weapon", and I couldn't count the times you've violated it.
The new system you have in place is harder than when the game first launched. Full stop. Take a moment to digest that.
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Okay, everyone understand that statement? Let me clarify. I'm not talking about stats, item level, or any of that minutia. I'm talking simple overall difficulty. Specifically I'm talking about the leveling progress from 1 to 60.
Now let me make a prediction.
You are going to frustrate a ton of new players and a ton of existing players every time they create a new alt. You are going to infuriate them.
1. The first and most glaring mistake is that you increased the aggro radius by I'd estimate 33%. This is causing havoc with nearly all of the leveling quests. Encounters that were adequately spaced apart are not anymore, and it is now impossible to not draw aggro from multiple groups at a time in quests that were designed to be soloable.
You need to understand this and if you have even the slightest flippant attitude about soloable quests, kindly do yourself a favor and give yourself a huge kick in the backside. People playing this game have expectations and one is they won't be forced to group up just to do their normal leveling and daily quests. You did this in Mod 6 and you know what happened -- literally HALF the players left. You angered them that much. Do not make that mistake again. I've seen this movie before and I don't want to see the game become a ghost town again because someone there was in denial. You have been warned.
2. The system differs from launch in several important ways, all of which are net negatives for the player.
a. No in-combat regen (I'm not -- repeat, NOT -- talking about lifesteal, I'm talking "regeneration", you remember, the OTHER stat).
b. 18-second potion cooldowns instead of 12.
c. Infuriatingly long cooldowns on CC powers.
d. Increased aggro radius.
e. "Social aggro", where aggroing one enemy in an encounter group automatically aggroes them all, no matter how spaced apart.
Some of us have long memories and combat, at least while leveling up, is significantly harder today compared to launch. Not that roflstomp combat is any better, but as many times in the past, you've gone from one extreme to another. That appears to be the one constant when it comes to combat system changes. Remember, I've seen this movie before, several times, in fact.
As I said at the start, I don't expect you to take my suggestion and at least return the aggro radius back to normal, but I'm not going to make it easy for you and just keep silent. I fully expect you to wait until the complaints mount and then use yet another band-aid, some sort of kludge that makes the system even more complicated, as long as it doesn't violate the Cardinal Rule of "never ever do what hustin1 suggests." I have a Cardinal Rule of my own, "Never try to kill an ant with a nuclear weapon", and I couldn't count the times you've violated it.
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First off, this game is still pretty easy compared to what Mod 6 had. It's even easy compared to that of when it first launched. The relative damage to HP ratios of bosses in particular is a lot better now than it used to be. I remember solo lairs taking close to an hour, now the longest ones are still only 15 minutes. I have taken a wizard from 1-60 recently, not taking any of my account wide unlocks, and I've never had an issue except perhaps in Mt. Hotenow where the devs have acknowledged that the mobs are overtuned.
I remember, in M6 we had to group up in open world just to beat trolls, much less the Cloud Giants in the last zone. You had to be sent to the campfire multiple times per quest. THAT is why people quit in droves...not because someone folishly aggros more than they can handle like is what is being experienced now. There really is only a few mobs or zones that requires tuning down, not the entire game or leveling experience like how you seem to be portraying the game as now.
Regeneration was a broken system, which is why it was removed.
Using a full heal potion every 12 seconds is again kinda OP (even normal potions now are a full heal as you are leveling)
I will agree that CC skills would be nice to have a lower CD now that it's more relevant.
I have not observed an increased aggro radius.
Your last point of social aggro... this has always been in the game so it can't be a net negative
Please provide proof of this game being as pain-stakingly hard as you claim it to be. There is plenty of proof of it being easy even after the rework, just watch the various streams.
Conveniently, we don't get any UI display of this or what enemy IL is for a given zone. /s
Not sure I buy it, but my recent levelling character was getting kitted out every time she hit a new level for a set of Professions crafted gear. And I'm pretty sure I still got mobbed in Sharandar right up until I gave up.
You're dead wrong about social aggro. I specifically remember the devs pointing out that it was a new feature to Mod 6. It was by no means always in the game.
Maybe you think 12 seconds for a healing potion is OP. I disagree.
I can point to several places in the leveling areas and quests where a wider aggro radius is extremely problematic.
- Tower District mid and end areas
- Helms hold underground shield areas
- Ebon Downs zombie areas
- Vellosk lairs (especially Stormcaller caves -- OMG that was horrible)
- Pirates' Skyhold
- Icespire peak giants area
- Cathedral of Madness
I haven't proceeded beyond the Chasm yet so I can't speak to what life is like after that. Of course, having pointed these areas out, I have zero doubt that the devs' solution, if any, will be to move encounters around in those (and only those) areas. Returning aggro radius to normal would be far, far too much for their pride to handle.
I've been here since mod 2, guys. I know a pattern when I see it. Never in seven years have they backtracked on an obvious mistake. It's not for nothing that Pride is one of the seven deadly sins.
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As far as aggro, I was referring to the most recent change, not something that happened over 5 years ago. If you are having issues, be sure to kite backwards away from other packs.
12 seconds, even 18 seconds, is a very short period of time for potion cooldowns, most games have 30 seconds.
Speaking of pride...maybe check your own. I know since you have said you've been here since M2, you must be pretty set in your ways. Try changing up tactics, or different approaches. If people are able to do just fine handling mobs and are leveling without dying, maybe the issue isn't with the game.
The developers have backtracked, just look at scaling with M16, scaling used to be everywhere, then it was changed to queued content only, and then tuned to make things easier, all in the matter of a few weeks and with several apologies.
I recently came back from a 2.5yr break from the game and saw they'd fixed the aggro radius in Chult - and I thought "oh that's good..." But now they gone and put it back up, but not just in Chult - it's everywhere!
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If you have problems leveling, try to remember these tips:
Pull mob groups into safe areas so you don't accidentally aggro more than you can handle. Some maps have mob groups that are close together -- this is basically a trap to catch you if you get sloppy or careless. If you pull mob groups around a corner or other obstacle, they will tend to "bunch up" which makes hitting them with AoE more effective. This also cuts line of sight for ranged mobs, which will shield you from attacks until the mobs reposition to see you again. Sometimes ranged mobs won't move, which essentially makes a tough fight easier because you can fight some of the mobs in stages instead of all of them at once. Boss battles at the end of leveling instances (NOT the group dungeons you Queue for!) can be pulled from their area at the end and moved to a more advantageous location. This can also bunch up or spread out mobs that the boss summons, and let you control combat advantage easier than if you fight in a large open area.
Be very mindful of combat advantage -- if you get surrounded by mobs they will do DOUBLE DAMAGE to you! If you are in a purple zone you do DOUBLE DAMAGE to them!
Health potions are now very powerful. You can farm for health potions, buff potions, and injury kits appropriate to your level by getting bounty bags with the bounty currency that drops from mobs in the zone you are working on. These bags also give you refinement stones like black pearls and so on. Of course, if you save all these bounty bags for when you hit level 80 and open them THEN... all the potions and injury kits will be for level 80s and extras can be sold off for a tidy profit. Yes, you can go back to lower level zones and farm for bounty currency if you want. The contents of the bounty bags are dependent on YOUR level, not on the level from where they were obtained.
...until a few months later, when the devs finally had to admit during a stream that they indeed had done all this to get people to create paladins. I had refused to create a paladin out of protest, and hindsight being 20/20, when they admitted to the lie I should have left the game then and there. I have never had any confidence in their integrity since.
This is why the Drowned weapon set and Dusk boots exist. Someone at Cryptic saw the hemorrhaging of players and decided that they needed to throw us a bone. Never in a million years would their pride allow them to revert the regen and potion changes, so instead they gave birth to Drowned weapons and Dusk boots. Let's call them what they are -- band-aids. Kludges. Hacks. The obvious simple solution would have wounded their pride so they chose an alternative.
Why the changes now? I've watched no small amount of dev streams and paid very close attention not only to what the devs say, but how they say it, including their tone and body language. I've become convinced that a certain influential person has not a mere healthy skepticism of player requests, but an inherent dislike of players (and if you think that's a harsh judgment, you should hear what multiple alliance members say on the matter in Discord -- it would curl your hair). That is why, in my opinion, removed content will **never** be restored, not out of technical server limitations, but purely out of pig-headed stubbornness and spite. That's is my honest, unvarnished belief and I stand on it.
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The incorrect thing for the devs to do would be to apply blanket skepticism to critiques of the game, assume a defensive posture, and then demand that those people go and create evidence or, in spirit, stfu.
I don't necessarily believe the devs are doing this, but there are players in this forum who I see being insufferably apologetic, hopping into practically every critiquing thread, and by appearance, attempting to lighten the blow of the critique, or worse, discredit the critic.
I and many other old guild leaders in this game are watching long time players leave and trying like crazy to convince people to stay. Everyone has a right to an opinion, but let's all be honest and authentic please, and not try to soften things for the devs at every turn. The best information for them is the naked truth of a player's emotion after playing this game. We would be wise for the good of this game to let that stand and be judged only by the devs. They don't need players running crowd control for them here.
For my part, I've played this game since 2014. The new combat system has me nearly gone. "Uninspired" is the feeling I have now while in game, for all reasons others have shared.
This post would probably fit more nicely in the feedback section if a mod would like to move it.
Not only current one but previous changes before..
Like why life steal got nerfed in mod 6?
Or why with mod 16 buff/debuffs where removed?
Why we have downscaling in dungeons?
You look to one puzzle peace yet not see full image.
For moment try understand reason why staff made these changes, it's not like they are bored and have nothing to do.
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They are implementing without testing and often with complete disregard to preview feedback, then they do not patch/fix (eg M14) and watch it turn bad. Then they say: Ah shucks, now we have to nerf it. (And they usually nerf it real good, way harder than what was necessary and a lot harder than is fun)
People complain, the answer to them is (all the time): Oh you just don't get it, do you?
They never gave an adequate explanation for the removal of the **regeneration** stat, which was a separate stat from lifesteal. Another poster mentioned that it made tanks unkillable. I can't speak to tanks as I never played my Guardian Fighter much, but I chased the stat **HARD** as a dps and it never gave me more than a modest amount of regen during combat. Regeneration, as a stat, was under control from my perspective and I saw (and still see) no reason why it should have been removed.
Buffs were removed because they contributed to a META that was causing a lot of classes to be excluded from group content. I have no objection to their removal, ***however*** what I do not want to see is a bard class introduced that features party buffs. That would only return the same problem that was created in Mod 6 with paladins: making a single class indispensable for group content. That would be a very, very bad mistake.
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Pally healer OP? Lets make them useless so they need to make a different healer.
Barbarian OP? Give them a tank role and say that its tended to be a tank, so it's dps spec isn't as high end as others.
Fighter able to use knight's valor on all allies? nerf it to randomly pick one player closest to you, 50% uptime.
Combat system change and they nerf stamina guard by 20% without saying a word.
Leg griffon being 15% damage reduction before mount changes, after mount changes needing all 10 mythic to be 15% again. EVERY tank for trials were pushed into having griffon, dps typically had swarms, a huge blow to tanks, along with the mount hp being reduced which now is basically worthless in the new mod.
Mount Active power giving 3k IL without any combined rating
Mount collars giving 50% ratings hindering tanks in all content and those who are scaled down.
I thought the changes were suppose to stop people from unequipping things in randoms because it increased their stats significantly, same thing happens now but all devs have to say is "oh well, some people will do that to get a slightly better stats". When I'm losing 3% in every or more for no benefit? You're encouraging that.
These devs don't deserve respect or trust from the players, they actively hinder and try to make changes either under our noses or to force people to rebuild their class/start all over on a new one.
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Very fun part in your comment is about that staff do not care about players feedbacks and also about that game was not tested..
The reaility game have been tested and feebacks where provided. So you should better ask who did testing and who provided feebacks.
As for players complain, well I am sure they are.. Some players prior these comabat changes where chanting ohh I am god in this game.. But what the reality he was only god as long his presence was not required. When companion and high stats was all matter. By simply Brute Force gameplay you could ingore most game mechanics and walk over any boss.
The current combat system is more less > True Action Combat. Not immitation.
As for players who rage due changes. Well, it can be put in one liners> And gods fallen down from sky, with high velocity , went straight down with face down to the dirt.
In other words, all so called "Gods" where not Gods after all. The current combat system show's who's are who, and where your chracters builds are. No more just gear/companion required.. Now it's also required you to know what the heck are you doing.
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So lets focus on Life steal, ( pre mod 16) and since it was game breaking, how you would fix that problem.
Then buff/debuff issues, in mod 15. How you would fix it.
Then mod 16~18 high stat creep. How you would fix that problem.
And now how you would fix problem of this Xuna/abysal chicken.
Lets see how you would solve these problems. Try put yourself in devs position for moment.
When comes game balancing and development. There is always same situation.
You do changes = players hate.
You don't do chances = players hate.
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dont use a nuclear bomb to kill an ant
how do you fix problem like xuna and chicken easy fix xuna and chicken dont break the entire game to fix one thing
It;s sounds like dev break stuffs on purpse cuz they are bored...
Remember, it's easy to rage and hate when devs did or don't do any changes. But it's harder to try understand reason behind these changes.
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Basically the game as lost any sense of fun when you die about every 10 minutes. Even with health stones I do not wish to spend more money on any game that basically I have no chance to get better equipment or even level up. Based on what I am reading being < 10k should help me...instead I only seem to inflict minimal injury to anything I hit....whether it be in the Tower District or Whispering caverns......I can no longer progress at all on Tyranny of Dragons as single hits from cult members lay my barb blademaster flat.
I prefer solo play and now it seems that perhaps solo play is no longer an acceptable form of play. Yes I did join in for group dungeons and skirmishes for specific quests and joined everyone for killing Dragons. As of now they have just implemented the changes to PS4...still have not seen their impact there but if anything like what I experience on PC I may as well go back to playing WoW or Diablo.
I do not expect to be swinging a greatsword sweeping crowds of enemies right and left.....I do expect that I should be able to cause damage faster than enemies can heal it....that currently is not happening.
Prior to the update...It was not a walk in the park for me. I had to work hard to survive and push to the next campaign chapter. Note I am not a bottomless coin purse with credit without limit to buy zenny and really just started to earn small amts of AD. Still I do not have enough to buy anything significant. I prefer to build my characters ground up by what I find and earn. Apparently that is also no longer an acceptable way to play by the Devs.
While some improvements have been made since the initial release of the initial patch....I have no desire to play the new are coming out in 3 days as it would be an exercise in futility.
My hardcore diablo chars survive longer than any of my NW toons so know about dodging and trying to be hit.
"They should have simply capped your incoming healing rate from lifesteal to a certain percentage of your max HP per second."
Putting caps to buffs/debuffs would've worked well too.
Stat creep, yeah well this has been a problem for the entire game. You know who controls stat creep? No? have a guess. Stat creep is a deliberate mechanism within the game - it is not accidental. It is an incentive for players to keep pursuing new gear, new goals, and as such - buy more keys/packs/mounts/companions with ever higher bonuses so the revenue keeps coming in.
Stat creep is not a problem, it's a source of continuous income.
On the subject of player attitude: You know what would've kept most players happy? Delivering what was promised. When the devs said "you won't notice any difference" before the update (said by @noworries#8859 specifically - I can find the post for you if you like) and then there's a huge difference. That is a problem as well as a broken promise.
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Power creep easily could've been solved by stop handing out improved IL gear with more power and increasing enemy ratings, we already were at the point many builds were having to sacrifice 1 companion gear slot for def and a couple insignias to get a dps capped out. Start increasing enemy ratings 10k per mod and you would've easily seen power creep disappear.
Something as simple as an arena that waves went on as long as players could handle with an increase of 2k enemy ratings per wave or 5k per boss would seen a variety of builds depending how far the players wanted to go, achieving the same goal of trying to get people to rebuild with non-power or hp items, but in a way that it was player choice; I want to get to the 20th boss in the arena? It has 100k ratings, I have to build around that as a tank, ignoring accuracy, deflect and sacrifing hp to cap what matters, focusing only arm pen, CA, def and crit avoid.
Instead, they force everyone to rebuild, make most of what people had useless, tell people don't worry you won't notice a difference yet we have to spend what, 40m? rebuilding our toons. 40m isn't something everyone has lying around.
"You don't need everything, you can get by with-" yeah, go ahead and don't have anything of value, except the fact that everything is balanced in game with having specific mount powers for endgame content, stuff that cost you millions or dozens of millions now may as well not exist, Dev's attitude about how scaling currently is working where you're better off unequipping items, scaling the newest content on us, didn't bring us the reworked boons we were promised, when begged to bring celestial set up they instead brought lionheart down, removing mechanics from your class - some stuff out right not working that is needed, salty devs getting mad people are now stacking CC so they add a counter to it during the first boss of the new dungeon....I mean really?
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~25 million ad for companion upgrades (from epic, not including the cost of the companions themselves)
~40-70+ million ad for mounts and upgrades (depending on if you get epics/legendaries and upgrade)
~48+ million ad for enchantments and runestones
~10-15 million ad for armor and weapon enchantments
~7-10 million ad for insignias
~collars ...
Before the mount and companion changes, we only need 1 or 2 legendary mounts, 5 legendary companions, and 3 bonding runestones. Way way cheaper, and the bondings could be shared with our alts. Over half of the cost of maxing a toon currently comes from the recent changes, in other words, the recent changes have doubled the cost of end-game.
With regards to the latest changes to stats, as far as I'm concerned, the split between "base ratings" and "other contributions" and the unnecessary arithmetic with TIL, only serves to push player to dump massive amounts of AD into their companions, as they are the primary source of "other contributions". The mount changes forces player to upgrade 10 mounts to mythic, just to get the full amount of stats they are supposed to give.
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Quickling Den
Go there and see what happens. Once you break into the large cavern, aggro just ONE quickling. Aggro only the nearest one.
The entire cave empties out and rushes you. It happened to me last night. I only wish I had been recording a video. I barely managed to stay alive, and this was with a healer-build cleric.
Now, you might say, "Who cares? The entire map is turning into a pumpkin in four days."
It's **indicative of a wider problem**, one I've seen all over the place. Increasing the aggro range has played havoc with entire maps that were otherwise balanced.
I would really like to know the justification for the change. Was this something someone sneaked into the git repository without a review? Was this someone deciding to be mean? Was it the result of a theoretical assumption from a person who doesn't actually play the game day in and day out? Was it something else? In what universe does such a disruptive change make any sense?
Now, don't get me wrong, what I'm about to say might surprise you. I actually think it's a good thing that the devs don't have their own personal accounts and play the game day in and day out, because it would create an obvious conflict of interest. But it also means that it's easy to get out of touch. *Someone* made this decision. How could they not know that it would play merry havoc with gameplay just about everywhere?
I can't speak for anyone else on this forum, but I don't have a lot of desire to play when it's like this. I'm finding myself thinking more and more of my druid on another game. Some of my alliance members feel the same.
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Not to mention, as we all found out, with 90 -99% of this game is now scaled.. upgrading companions is really is not needed. Based on the new format, the gear I have will last me for years to come, which I love as it saved me $100's in real money.
True Story.
Back in Mod 16 they told us straight out.. either grinds for months (or years), or pay money. Now, regardless of time or money, achieving "Monster" or "God Like" status is all but gone so... no need to worry about upgrading in my opinion.
Spending enough $$ will max you out temporarily, a mod or 2 later and you have to spend the same amount all over again.
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10 companions from green to mythic = 32,500,000 astral diamonds
Rank 14 Weapon enchantment = 6,500,000 AD
Rank 14 Armor enchantment = 6,500,000 AD
6 Runestones, rank 15 = 12,000,000 AD
15 enchantments, rank 15 = 30,000,000 AD
Total for the 'starter pack' = 87,500,00 AD, oooorrr 875 days of grinding your daily refine
After that, you can work on campaigns, and upgrade the rest of your stuff for your character like, mounts, and mount collars, insignias, ect.
Or start an alt lol
Why the heck you all try split game in two, either you max out and you can play game, or you yet not max out and you can't play this game..
That's make no sense.
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
Gustave Le Bon.
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I don't know if you are able to comment, but I'm sure many here would like to know if the new scaling system is working as the developers intended or if they too share some of the concerns expressed by players?
Xael De Armadeon: DC
Xane De Armadeon: CW
Zen De Armadeon: OP
Zohar De Armadeon: TR
Chrion De Armadeon: SW
Gosti Big Belly: GWF
Barney McRustbucket: GF
Lt. Thackeray: HR
Lucius De Armadeon: BD
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