QUOTE(aizenteppa @ May 18 2013, 14:02)
Amen Brother
From a mage point of view 0.76 is humongous load of horse manure. As for melee, it was utterly boring before and now I can't even try it.
I'm glad SOMEbody actually agrees with me.
I never made it a point to say this before but anytime I play an RPG I generally max out when I do. So when I get to max or really high level, I could start steamrolling the game back the same way that it probably mostly flattened me in parts of the game. Then you can consider the game "complete" and replay differently or move on to the sequel. I trust no one wants to see a "Hentaiverse 2" or anything like that unless an unrelated set of people to this HV program it.
Never have I played anything like the HV where even at high levels and excellent equipment, the game keeps getting more annoyingly unbalanced towards mobs favor and not towards the player. It didn't seem that way some years ago but constant frustration updates have pushed it that way. I never side with programmers that prefer difficulty through cheapness.
As for you Mages, I didn't even try since the cost for maxing out abilities now is way too high as I stated before and 2H was pretty much what I always played the most, but I understand the backlash. I was a Mage for a while after Mace was Nerfed, and still used it to raise proficiencies when I level up...and yes it certainly has gotten harder for you folks too. I guess the only recourse you have since it's now harder than ever to completely switch a character around without having a ton of credits for equipment and start grinding profs, is to not play or play a different game and then just tell everybody what happened to this game as an example of how things can go sour.
I give a pass to anyone who wants to whine at this update because unlike previous Nerfdates, this one effectively changes the whole feel of the game progression without giving back nearly enough to the players that have spent a lot of time molding a character and/or enjoying every style/aspect of the game (if any of it still was enjoyable, that is)
- JC
EDIT: Fixed some typos in the rant text as I tend not to proofread when I start getting POed
EDIT 2: Oh and I forgot to mention I'd like to have my 1 million+ credits back in training just for RESTORING the battle item slots that were unceremoniously dumped with this Nerfdate
This post has been edited by jcullinane: May 18 2013, 20:39