Favorite Game changes since you started playing

Furries - Dreamweaver

We have seen many changes during our time playing PWI, Many we cringe to think of, but scattered throughout are little spotlights of hope. Changes that lift our hearts skywards, even if only to be plunged down in icy water again.

So what are you favorite changes that have occurred since you first started playing

the ones that stick out to me as my favorites are:

in text item linking
numbered Hp bars with the raging tide release
3 bounty hunters per day
and By FAR by favorite change was:
Jone's blessing!!!!

Necare - Harshlands

Good ones:
Shift-click on items
Numbered hp-bars
Encyclopedia
Dragon point system
1 BH per day
Probably a few others I can't name right now.

Bad ones:
Lowered DQ prices
Packs
3 BHs every day
TT3-x (I'll most likely never get my 90 gear)
TW (destroyed all reason to ever try it)
And a lot of other things.

ArchSaber - Sanctuary

Genies

TimeTwister - Harshlands

packs of course! whats better than making everyone op?

Pressa - Heavens Tear

Auto-Path

Hands down the best addition to the game no matter what anyone says. And I am sure anyone who was around before auto-pathing will agree to this sentiment.

SteelStar - Heavens Tear

Coolest thing(s):

Auto-Patching.
Genies.
Item to chat linking.

Worst things(s):

No comments.

_DarkSeph_ - Sanctuary

Like:
-Tide Quests/Treasure Quests, 1m+ coin and a bunch of exp is awesome.
-Genies
-Item linking
-Fashion Preview
-HP display on mobs

-Kinda half/half on fcc and hyper. Like the fact I can cheaply do a single daily fcc and eventually hit 100 from casual play. Dislike the fact there's little satisfaction in it.
-Half/half on DQ points too, since the whole reason they exist is because we lose a ton of money NPC'ing DQ

Dislike:
-Hands down, BH. Single handedly destroyed the social atmosphere in-game.
-Triple BH. Dunno what they were smoking on that one.
-Jones Blessings, should have been 15atk-15def like anniversary blessing so they don't wreck PvP.
-DQ nerfs
-3* decomp nerfs
-TT nerfs
-TW nerfs
-Packs
-Removal of numbers on hotkey bar
-Duke spam
-Bidding hall and the walls of system messages
-And so on...

anwynd

the only changes i truely liked are the genies,the time we only had 1 bh a day,and text linking, and the hp of mobs ,also the DQP system

JanusZeal - Heavens Tear

Pressa - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Auto-Path

Hands down the best addition to the game no matter what anyone says. And I am sure anyone who was around before auto-pathing will agree to this sentiment.

I started like the week before it was implemented. Certainly made WQ a lot easier to handle.

Xoria - Sanctuary

Marriage quest- something that was supposed to be in the beginning but didn't get added in until much later.
Auto- Pathing- single handedly the best thing they took from Ether Saga. (if only they auto avoided walls and stuff like ESO too..)
Warsong- One of the few "hard" instances in the game left if you're aiming to actually fight the final boss.

ugysekell

Since I started playing? Genies were there when I joined lol... Hm, lemme think.
I love the Goshiki quest chain, Public quests and the new Dragon Point system.

But I really hate Hypers at low lvls. They are fun after 80 in FCC (that's when I started hypering). But low lvl hyper freaks usually become fail players at higher lvls. I recently met a lvl82 Barb who hasn't finished his lvl29 culti saying it was too long and boring... -_- He said he just joined a week ago and hypered his way up... Ugh.

Kaste - Sanctuary

Urim's Light b:dirtyb:dirty

Born_Free - Harshlands

Happy Face things:
1 BH a day
Marriage Quests
Faction Slogans
TB quest chain
Lochmur quest chain
Auto Pathing
Item Linking


Not Happy Face things:
Packs
Assassins
Packs
Hyper Spamming noobs
TT
Packs again
TW (thus eliminating the reason for high levels to even stick around.)
Packs

BarbLord - Raging Tide

I would say:
Genies
1 bh a day
Numbers on mobs hp bars
Item linking
The TB expansion after it was complete(sage/demon skills etc added for the TB)
Autopathing
Improvements to the auctioneer

KrittyCat - Dreamweaver

Born_Free - Harshlands wrote: »

Happy Face things:
1 BH a day Meh, you can stack them if you do it right XD
Marriage Quests Very much agree
Faction Slogans The spacing is very nice, now
TB quest chain This took my sin from 43 to 45 in on sitting
Lochmur quest chain The ring from this is b:dirty
Auto Pathing Nice, but can be a little glitchy...liked auto-ing to things "in another zone"
Item Linking Bit glitchy, especially on extended things (inventory, bank, etc.)


Not Happy Face things:
Packs Good and bad...the tokens are nice
Assassins No big problem here, other than to uber-squishies
Packs See 1st "Packs" answer
Hyper Spamming noobs AGREE. 'Nuff said.
TT Have yet to see TT3-x, but the drop nerf is harsh
Packs again See 1st "Packs" answer
TW (thus eliminating the reason for high levels to even stick around.) Meh, good and bad...prevents easy holding when a large amount of territory is gained, but makes it hard to want to bid
Packs See 1st "Packs" answer

My opinions are in red.

Now for some of my opinions outside of what Born said.

Changes (some good, some bad)

Packs
While packs for endgame gear and such are bad, they are good because of the majority of what comes out of them - tokens of luck. Those alone have driven down prices on things like flawless shards by thousands of coin. However, due to the high demand, gold prices stay in the five hundred thousands, if not five hundred fifty thousand plus.

Hypers
Hypers (and oracles, but not so much) are severely misused in this game. People cash shop right at the beginning and hyper their characters up as high as they can, never learning anything about how to play their character in the process. I believe that a minimum level for use of hypers would be a great idea, but doubt it will ever happen. I personally leveled this character up into the 80s before I even touched hypers, and those ones were given to me. Level 70 would be a valid minimum level, if not even 75 (to correspond with first FC quests).

Marriage Quest
I was so glad when they implemented these. They make the game enjoyable, and give the players some time to spend with their special someone. However, too many of them require the couple to go in seperate directions, or just don't involve actually working together. I think that PWI would be wise to make some MQs that are scaled to level, so that the lowest level of the married player determines which MQs they can get. This would make the process more fun and more challenging, and would make the couple actually work together. (Personally, killing level 39ish mobs just isn't challenging for an 85 barb...b:surrender)

Autopathing Changes
I came when Autopathing was already enabled (if it ever wasn't), but I really don't care much for the recent changes to it. The fact that you can no longer fly to an instance by using a reference point inside that instance is rather annoying, as it requires me to actually locate the instance on the map and alt+click on it (call me lazy if you will, I just hate doing this). I think reverting back to the previous autopathing, with pathing to bosses in instances and such, would be nice (but will probably never happen)

Assassins (and Tideborn in general)
The Assassin class is now the most squishy class in the game. It is extremely hard for them to kite effectively before they get shadow teleport, and even after that their hp is low enough that most bosses will kill them in 1-2 shots. However, they become extremely powerful in PvP endgame. This makes a lot of people hate them (and Force Stealth does seem a tad OP, I know), but they needed a lot of their skills merely to survive pre-5aps. Now, as soon as a sin gets 5aps, they no longer even need a cleric (Bloodpaint heals them just as well). Meanwhile, the psychics try to steal the cleric's job if they go sage, having purify on their Bubble of Life. The only things that the psychic can't do is resurrect, and there are scrolls for that (well, at least once every 15 minutes or so XD). I really don't mind sins in general, 5aps BMs are more who I have a problem with.

Guess I'll stop before I get a HUGE WoT...lol

...too late >.<

JanusZeal - Heavens Tear

My favorite changes:

- Removing the numbers on the skill bars
- Re-instituting rubber banding -- can't explain enough how much we needed that back again
- Anni packs, and each subsequent red spam not only by the Duke but by PWE telling people that anni packs would no longer be on sale in the boutique before each sale end, only to re-implement anni packs a few weeks later and the vicious circle continued for half a year to a full year
- The Rising Tide expansion with it's two expanded classes being incomplete without sage/demon/79 skills and without balancing (aggro, Bubble of Life, for example) until several months later
- Making Nirvana and TT 3-x significantly harder for average players, instead of creating new dungeons aimed at better gear + more difficulty
- Instituting perfect horns with no function to filter them out
- Avatar and waterfall character image bugs

My ideas for making future game changes on par with this for a better PWI:
- Up the attacks per second cap from 5.0 to 7 or 8'ish and institute -interval rings/necklace/belts/helmet/boots
- Make the rubber band feature permanent like anni packs and for every instance
- Make Duke do a red msg announcement every time someone kills a Wicked Pirate
- Make Duke do a red msg announcement every time a player buys zen
- Xmas event next month make the snowmen in the towns do AOE explosion like Bodybag Infernals from SOT

FatherTed - Dreamweaver

I like hugs.

Mahochan - Heavens Tear

Good ones:
* Old Heaven's Tear & Old Valley of the Scared
* BH (if stacked )
* Marriage Quests
* Faction Slogans with spacing
* TB quest chain
* Lochmur quest chain
* Auto Pathing
* Item Linking
* Account Stash !
* Tide Born City
* Psychic ;D
* Revamped FF
* Tokens
* Genies
* Numbered HP-Bars on Mobs
* Palace of Nirvana (even if it's hard to get there in random SQ as a Mage)

Bad ones:
* Genies xD
* Revamped Lunar (even I prefer the new one)
* Hyper Stones
* Assassin
* TW-Reward Changes
* Packs, every sort of them
* TT-Changes -_-
* Duke Spam

Kaste - Sanctuary

JanusZeal - Heavens Tear wrote: »

- Xmas event next month make the snowmen in the towns do AOE explosion like Bodybag Infernals from SOT

I'd say spawn Harpy Wraiths instead of snowmen for a change.

Graviora - Dreamweaver

I'll keep this short and sweet

Good
- genies
- marriage quest
- item linking
- fashion preview in boutique
- faction slogans
- Nirvana
- DQ Points
- 1 BH a day
- Number HP bars

Bad
- TW changes
- DQ price drop
- TT changes
- BH 3x a day

The "In-Between"
- Packs
- Hypers (make them have a requisite level!)

jemima

Good:
Autopathing. By far the most awesomemest idea ever.
TW change. Go ahead people, hate me for it. I just reckon that one faction getting half a billion coin a week, while great for them, kinda sucks for everyone else.
Item linking. Nifty. Saves me looking up stuff in pwdatabase, and can easily see stuff like gems, refine, random stats, without needing to ask about them all.

Bad:
Genies. Stupid flying little things. Back in my day, when you had a little annoying flying thing it meant you were a baddass high level who'd managed to complete their sage/demon culti.</old>

StreamElf - Sanctuary

Auto-pathing
Shift Click on item
HP display on mobs
More fashion

Innamorata - Harshlands

Well I started in 2007, when leveling was grinding your *** of to the extreme and buy tons of hieros for zhen. I enjoy the BH, FC, Hypers and other things that make leveling more easy. I also like genies and the new weapons and dungeons.
I hate assasins, way too OP.

ImReallyWhyt - Heavens Tear

1.barbs dying out.
2.clerics dying out.
3.people just dont know what the hell to do.
4.boutique..**** farming.

otehr **** im to lazy to type.

VlLKASS - Sanctuary

Hm.
Linking
Being abble to preview fash b:cute
Auto-path.
I guess genies were nice

Ajani - Harshlands

Good things:
OHT and VOS
Auto-Pathing
Quest list (before it was a pop up with npc coords..)

Bad things:

Genies
Packs
Hypers
TB class's.. too OP
TW
everything else they changed...

Toxic - Dreamweaver

-A proper find quest window. Before it would just pop up a box with a random quest you had and coords to the npc to start it.
-Item linking
-Preview Fashion
-Genies
-ummmm...Nirvana

Lady_Seolfor - Dreamweaver

Good things:
implenting sage/demon skill for tideborn.
DQ points.
Nirvana
ranking and achievements.

grey zone:
Packs
hyper xp stones.
TT and TW changes.

bad:
well, this post was about favorite changes, so i stop there.

Annalyse - Heavens Tear

Autopathing
1 BH per day
Fashion preview feature
Item linking
HP bars numbered on mobs


Unfortunately the bad far outweighs the good these days. Give us back our old Lunar, FF and most important our old TT. Give us back our 1 BH a day. Put the numbers back on our hotkeys. Fix rubberbanding. Tell the Duke to shut up about packs and put the Bidding Hall on its own channel so we can filter it out. Stop taking away holiday events that are free and fun and just giving us cash shop sales instead. And quit punishing us because people are botting and hacking in another version of the game.

KingJoel - Raging Tide

1 Bh a day was Pwnage when it first came out

Auto Pathing by far one of the Best ( was playin before there was an Auto path button very confusing game at that time lol ).

Genies Never can go wrong with them

The Bad

TW Nerf

Packs

Heartstone - Dreamweaver

Good:
Auto-pathing.
Genies.
Hp number
Item-linking.
Buff filter.
fixed faction slogan.
fashion-preview ( for fash additct atleast)

Bad:
Packs(can be discusses cos tokens cheap bh, but ruined high mat market - coin)
Tw changes
TT 3-x changes.
3x bh.
Hypers.
Revamped FC.
30% dq reduce ( dq points now tho, so its ok)