well you can make a viable dual shield in one game.......


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just saying............

One of our goals for 2013 will be evaluating all of the bosses and creatures in the game, from open world to dungeons, to try and make them more exciting and fun to fight against.

In general if anything has a really high health pool, it needs to have unique abilities to make it exciting for the entire time, or actually change abilities/tactics as it goes down in health to ensure it stays fun and exciting to fight against.

We realize there are a number of bosses in the game, from the open world to instances that all can be more fun to fight than they are now. We'll be tackling that this year in part of our goal to make our core game as strong as possible.

Participated in my first dragon fight couple of days ago, wow someone was on acid designing that interaction.  Mortars, missile launchers, bazookas - carumba!!!

Hey guys,

Just to help provide some clarity on this, we’ll be releasing within the next couple of weeks a high level summary of our big plans for the first half of 2013 to help provide more transparency into our plans with the game going forward. This will include providing more details about our goals for the game, information about the stories and features that you’ll see in the Jan/Feb/March releases.

To set expectations accordingly, the January release will be a relatively small release that sets the table for the stories and features we plan to roll out with the Feb/March releases and beyond. Also, there will be no new race, profession, or new region with these larger Feb/March releases. One of our major goals with these releases is making our existing world as strong as possible, ensuring there are reasons to go to all the locations in the world we’ve already built, and strengthening the core game we’ve provided. In saying this will be an expansions worth of stuff in these releases, we’re talking about the number of new features that will be rolled out across PvE, WvW, and PvP in early 2013, which usually you’d only find in an expansion for a traditional MMORPG.

More details and specifics to come in the next couple of weeks, but I hope that helps provide some more insight into what to expect at a very high level.

“Guesting has proved far more complicated than we thought it was going to be, we’ve actually had it almost done in the past two releases and each time right before we were getting ready to release it, QA found a major bug with it and we ended up having to pull back out and not release it.

The biggest thing is just making sure that it’s really stable, it’s easy to understand how to use and how to connect and it lets you know how to get to another server and how to communicate when you’re on that other world. Those are all challenges.

Honestly, It wouldn't matter what Turbine said.  At this point, the long time players will skewer them for releasing a product with flaws on time and they will also skewer them for delaying a release for QA reasons.

Failure in the development process is simply not tolerated at this point for DDO.  They either hit a home run or they strike out.  No middle ground.   

GW2 is not at that point, but will get there eventually. It takes time for the developer to use up all the player base's good will. 

I'm not surprised that people are already at the end of their rope with GW2. 

This isn't a new thing - the GW2 forums have been that way since launch. 

The SWTOR forums made the DDO forums on their worst day look like the Hello Kitty forums.  Give a bunch of kids anonymity and a platform where they get attention and boom!

The SWTOR forums made the DDO forums on their worst day look like the Hello Kitty forums.  Give a bunch of kids anonymity and a platform where they get attention and boom!