Here's my Story. Roughly two weeks ago I heard about the I5 Changes and made a Fire/ Ice tank to try out this whole herding phenom before it was extinct forever. Some of you on Freedom have seen him around. His name is 2bnerfed.
Right off the bat (even using BA as my main attack), I was plesantly suprised at the speed of which I could actually lvl. I prefer to solo and this was a gift. I thought to myself wow a charcter that still in'st gimped to the slogging through months of grind just to get to some higher lvl stuff! My biggest complaint with this game (the reason i quite the first time) was that right after the release , xp got scaled back to where it was taking at least twice as long to lvl a charcter (sometimes more depending on AT) as it did during the beta. Well needless to say my new Fire/Ice tanker got to lvl 32 in about 2 weeks (about 100 hours +/- alot of goofing off time). Largly in part to do with burn. And you know what the amazing part is? I had fun doing it. Yes thats right I said it. FUN. One of the main reasons I had fun was that I got to take little breaks between the grind to try out a new power, or play with new slots, at least once or twice a day.
I personally feel that while everyone cries that the fire tank is lvling Too fast, I think every charcter should be lvling on par with the current speed of the fire tank. This was the first charcter I've played in a long time that I have truly enjoyed playing the while time thru, since I rejoined a few months ago. I rejoined because a good friend of mine is playing and I figured why not I'll try and give this game another shot. Every single character I have made up until the fire tank (and thats alot of alts!) has eventually gotten stale. The main reason they got stale is because I cannot stand waiting so long between powers. Grind only lasts so much before you need somthing to get excited about. Other charcters just lvl too slow for me I guess. I have many concepts of charcters that I would love to play if it was'nt for having to grind it out for a month before they start getting to any kind of exciting power set. Not to mention that there really only seems to be a small handfull of missions in the entire game! Most of them are just re-tooled and flashed up a bit to give some apperance of change but it's all the same mission. If the content was more exciting during the early end of the game, the grind getting to the higher lvl's might not be so unbareable.
By now your probaboly thinking whats the point? Well the point is that it seems in order to fix anything, the Devs are just all to happy to take the NO TALENT, NO BRAINER, QUICK FIX, approch to everything. "Nerf anything the Moves to fast!", "Hell with it Nerf everything, then will sort it out later.'. Theres no thought involved here. I think they forget that were paying them a monthly fee to keep this game on track because development is deffinatly not where the Millions of dollars every month are going. (yes millions per month , you do the math!)
The other obsurdity is the test server. Not ONLY did many people have to pay $10 (or whatever) for the Pre-order copy to test the game for these guys during the beta, but then we are paying a monthly fee to continue doing what most companies would'nt dare expect of their customers. Test the game for them. Then they have the nerve to put up a suggestions and development forum, for which they ask for feedback, which they obviously never read. This is to make us feel like were doing somthing as a community to help make this company a ton of cash. If your gona ask for feedback, then respond to it, not only in word but in practice. Other wise don't waste our time.
Now about Burn. Why is it a problem for an AT to have a power that actually works? They said it themselves, Fire/ * tanks get more dmg primarys because their deffence is not up to par with the rest of the sets. So now because you nerf the rest of the Def powers on other set's you have to nerf the only real dmg potential that a fire/ice tank has? Ok fine.
The lets talk about the fundimental part of being a tank. My job in a party as a tank is to soak up dmg by pulling agro of the rest of the squisher party members long enough for them to take them down. Doesn't sound like the I5 plan does it?
What are we to do? And more importantly why are you doing this?
Bottom line is this. We pay a monthly fee to have fun. If you take the fun away then why are we paying you? Doesnt sound like were going to anymore with this attiude. I know Jack, You don't care. I read the little note too about how we can all easily be replaced. "Players come and Players go, thats the nature of MMo's". Keep up that attitude and your job will be the next thing to be replaced!
