Long time no see HL...

Welcome to your doom

theredsand wrote: »

So you're saying I should play on LC instead? xD

You shouldn't play period.

Regardless of server population, the game has been suffering from a galloping economy (which in turn magnifies the importance of cash shopping), many mechanics to discourage new players from joining as becoming "end game" takes longer than ever (you must now rebirth multiple times, level up without FC hypers, and a new spirit stat obtainable only via regular daily completion, hardcore cash shopping and blatant corrupt endeavours ensures you remain behind older players unless you no-life and/or CS the game hard) and I could be wrong here because I stopped playing just as this issue was arising but sins may be more broken than ever with no signs of any intent to fix them (5 APS is back albeit in skill form this time, which actually makes it hit HARDER. Likewise the game is at a point where buffs vs. unbuffed is a huge gap in power, and because sins can avoid being purged better than anyone while also spamming trip spark for HP boosts every couple seconds, a sin can actually feel as tanky as a BM or Barb in some regards. Best offense, best defense)



Mind you I quit like....April or May so my insight is dated, but I'm sure people could chime in whether it's still accurate or not. The entire reason I quit was BECAUSE I saw these issues and did not get the impression the company was doing anything to try and fix the issues, so I asked myself why I should bother investing anymore time in a game that (in my opinion) no longer felt built to last and tada; I'd be quite suprised if someone chimed in and said the above issues I saw coming were actually remedied. PWE was typically very good about fixing issues in the past. Yes, they allowed for issues, but at the "bubbling over" point they always provided a fix that didn't involve CSing.

That seems to have changed though, cause it's gotta be a good year now that the game has existed with these faults in place, and instead of promising any fixes (again maybe I haven't heard something in this regard), they're releasing two new classes while BLATANTLY failing to address the issue that it could damned well take a player who intends on playing said classes 6 months to a year before the class can actually compete on an end-game level: New classes must level to 100 without FC hyper, they must farm gear from an abysmally barren instance that is no longer farmed AT ALL because it's drops are untradeable and the new player community is already discouraged, they must also rebirth back to 100 multiple times and they must spend a couple months doing dailies consistently to get all new skills and to get their spirit stat up to par....and even then the spirit stat WILL be waaaay behind the older players and the CSers.


If tomorrow PWE makes a statement saying they're going to make War Avatars tradeable, that Sins can no longer resist purge and that FC hypers will be enabled again, by all means give the game a try. Until then though, I think you'd be wasting your time if you expected anything from PWI beyond a mindless grind to distract you from your boredom.

Don't worry PWI, you had a good run:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB9SL-mZtVY