I don't do exploits, but a lot of players do, so if Cryptic had handled the first time the issue properly we will not be right now discussing about it.
@ Darkjeff, I know you are passionate, but the bug about the high drop rate was KNOWN by the devs a week before the patch came out, it was KNOWN because the players on the tester shard informed the developers about it, they posted pics about it and the devs did NOT do a thing about it. So your argument Sir is moot.
The lockbox bug was known in the tester shard and many people knowingly exploited the bug, because the devs didn't fix it. Because it would generate a big amount of $$$$ in Zens sale period.
There is a game out there where in each class there is so much variety that you can play in Rogue like 10 different or more variety of rogues, NW has a very restricted number of classes, the map area is super small (15-20 minutes you can explore the whole map in any area). The nerfing of the few classes you have is like…
The main issue is that the maps are too little and you can only cramp so many quests in them, so you have to gain a lot of experience so you can fight in the new maps. The game need more areas on those maps maybe connected by tunnels, air passages, ocean bridges whatever we need bigger maps so the exp problem can be solved.
Indeed, since this mess my desire to play this game has gone down to the trash, I have lost the respect for a company that endorses cheating and abuse of exploits.
The best thing you can do OP is to save your money and run away far away from this game that endorses exploits and lucky players and penalize the honest ones.
They will never acknowledge that they screwed up. I am just login in to craft and bye bye, did the 3 days of the event and after the second individual run in the cave was enough to be bored.