elvnsword09, You've been around for a while so you know these down times and all the extra work they're doing isn't normal, right? Usually when they do an update there may be an issue for a day or two tops and then they straighten it out. The fact that this isn't normal is upsetting people, but knowing their record I'm sure they'll have it straightened out soon.
As for the micro payments for stuff, we get 400 points every month with our monthly payment, power sets won't be released every month. As vets we all know it takes them quite a while to get the power sets out. So in all honesty the 400 points a month can easily cover the new things they'll be releasing for micro payments.
The AE nerf for rezing mobs is hardly a nerf at all. So what if now instead of killing the mobs twice we kill them once and leave. I've never seen an AE map that didn't cap me before I had everything killed anyway, and now I ticket cap and leave fast, get the same xp for effort as before because I only have to kill things once, ticket cap and leave for reset. So in a way they're actually making AE better.
We should try to have more faith in the dev team, we've been with them for years and they havn't let us down yet.