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How thought this new upgrade had any merit???????
Aug 20th, 2013 at 8:40pm
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Really, I can't believe someone actually sat down at a meeting and thought the new upgrade was any good.  What a complete steaming pile of crap this is.  So far I haven't come across a single one of my characters who hasn't been knerfed in some form or another.  So much for feedback on Lammania were the new enhancement scheme was universally panned.  I guess if you can't program new and exciting raids and dungeons you just knerf the whole player base and say you made the game harder.

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Reply #1 - Aug 20th, 2013 at 9:19pm
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Oeuf wrote on Aug 20th, 2013 at 8:40pm:
Really, I can't believe someone actually sat down at a meeting and thought the new upgrade was any good.  What a complete steaming pile of crap this is.  So far I haven't come across a single one of my characters who hasn't been knerfed in some form or another.  So much for feedback on Lammania were the new enhancement scheme was universally panned.  I guess if you can't program new and exciting raids and dungeons you just knerf the whole player base and say you made the game harder.

Angry Shocked Cool


1) nerf does not have a K at the beginning.

2) The enhancement pass wasn't entirely bad, my over all opinion was that it was a general dps bump for most builds, and a general defense lowering for most builds, and generally I feel like the enhancement pass went over well. There are many new  interesting builds to try, and old ones that you would never do before that are now actually viable.
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Reply #2 - Aug 20th, 2013 at 10:09pm
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kierg10 wrote on Aug 20th, 2013 at 9:19pm:
1) nerf does not have a K at the beginning.


This was also my nee-jerk reaction.
  
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Reply #3 - Aug 20th, 2013 at 10:10pm
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Oeuf wrote on Aug 20th, 2013 at 8:40pm:
Really, I can't believe someone actually sat down at a meeting and thought the new upgrade was any good.  What a complete steaming pile of crap this is.  So far I haven't come across a single one of my characters who hasn't been knerfed in some form or another.  So much for feedback on Lammania were the new enhancement scheme was universally panned.  I guess if you can't program new and exciting raids and dungeons you just knerf the whole player base and say you made the game harder.

Angry Shocked Cool

MOST of my toons actually turned out better with the new enhancement system. My THF Defender of Siberys got screwed royally but he was the only one.
  

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Anyone else having problems with the enhancement resetting when you hit accept?

Twice now I've had to redistribute points. Worst part is that some points were pulled from the top tier but the display still show them allocated. I don't know I don't have that enhancement until I pull up the character sheet later.
  

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Re: How thought this new upgrade had any merit???????
Reply #6 - Aug 20th, 2013 at 10:39pm
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Dr_tank2vich wrote on Aug 20th, 2013 at 10:39pm:
Anyone else having problems with the enhancement resetting when you hit accept?

Twice now I've had to redistribute points. Worst part is that some points were pulled from the top tier but the display still show them allocated. I don't know I don't have that enhancement until I pull up the character sheet later.

Happened to me several times.
  

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Re: How thought this new upgrade had any merit???????
Reply #7 - Aug 20th, 2013 at 10:52pm
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Dr_tank2vich wrote on Aug 20th, 2013 at 10:39pm:
Anyone else having problems with the enhancement resetting when you hit accept?

Twice now I've had to redistribute points. Worst part is that some points were pulled from the top tier but the display still show them allocated. I don't know I don't have that enhancement until I pull up the character sheet later.


Happened to me as well.

Seems to happen when enhancements are de-selected and then re-selected.

I'm sure it's WAI, because, you know - the whole "years in the making, extended alpha and beta, we really love the players and do the best job possible" thing.

Also - "experts".


I'm sure it's an exploit to commit the enhancements in small batches so that you don't need to reset trees that incorrectly show enhancements as allocated.
  

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they will probably congratulate themselves on how long they "kept it going" never able to see that it could have easily managed to keep itself going for far longer if they had just meddled far less drastically and with some semblance of an actual gameplan.
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Hearing something has "merit" but we don't have "time" kind of says everything about how Turbine works on things.
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I don't make the game, I just get tested what they build. Sorry you are not happy.
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Breaking something and putting it back together isn't as good as not breaking it to begin with, it's not even close.
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Devs do not care what players want - they already have an agenda and give out token gestures so the paladins can feel worthy.
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Re: How thought this new upgrade had any merit???????
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OldCoaly wrote on Aug 20th, 2013 at 10:52pm:
Happened to me as well.

Seems to happen when enhancements are de-selected and then re-selected.

I'm sure it's WAI, because, you know - the whole "years in the making, extended alpha and beta, we really love the players and do the best job possible" thing.

Also - "experts".


I'm sure it's an exploit to commit the enhancements in small batches so that you don't need to reset trees that incorrectly show enhancements as allocated.


I found that if you do each tree separately and hit "accept" every time APs won't reset.
Best order for me was: 1) Main tree where you'll get your t5 + maybe capstone
                                2) Racial tree
                                3) Dip trees
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kierg10 wrote on Aug 20th, 2013 at 9:19pm:
1) nerf does not have a K at the beginning.



A new word?

Knifed + nerfed = knerfed
  

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Reply #10 - Aug 21st, 2013 at 1:23am
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I think the OP is an anagram, I mean "How thought this"?  It's gotta be!
  
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Reply #11 - Aug 21st, 2013 at 2:40am
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knerf sounds better with a k it has a knerfier tone and feel its like nerf went to the gym worked out,juiced up quite a bit engaged in several fights/angry sex with strangers...

came back and said my name is knerf kbitchs
  
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Reply #12 - Aug 21st, 2013 at 2:50am
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Dr_tank2vich wrote on Aug 20th, 2013 at 10:39pm:
Anyone else having problems with the enhancement resetting when you hit accept?


Happened to me too on several characters... I just reassign stuff.

Alex DeLarge wrote on Aug 20th, 2013 at 10:59pm:
I found that if you do each tree separately and hit "accept" every time APs won't reset.


Interesting, as it seems the system works through each tree ( from right to left ) to give you back your points when you reset the enhancements it's possible that it is doing the same when "applying" the changes you make, and gets glutted when you apply changes in more than one tree.

Talk about sloppy programming.
  

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Reply #13 - Aug 21st, 2013 at 6:55am
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Dr_tank2vich wrote on Aug 20th, 2013 at 10:39pm:
Anyone else having problems with the enhancement resetting when you hit accept?

Twice now I've had to redistribute points. Worst part is that some points were pulled from the top tier but the display still show them allocated. I don't know I don't have that enhancement until I pull up the character sheet later.


It was bug reported on Lammania, but deemed not a show stopper.

It actually happens quite often.
  
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The enhancement points that you've allocated, but haven't hit the "accept" button for will reset if you hit the left or right arrows to show additional trees.
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LordPiglet wrote on Aug 21st, 2013 at 11:24am:
The enhancement points that you've allocated, but haven't hit the "accept" button for will reset if you hit the left or right arrows to show additional trees.


BRILLIANT!

I'm still convinced that it's WAI and is intended to discourage people from using more trees than Race+3.

Expert Experts are Expert!
  

Groo The Wanderer wrote on Sep 8th, 2013 at 10:43pm:
they will probably congratulate themselves on how long they "kept it going" never able to see that it could have easily managed to keep itself going for far longer if they had just meddled far less drastically and with some semblance of an actual gameplan.
Darth Anonymous wrote on Feb 1st, 2014 at 1:11pm:
Hearing something has "merit" but we don't have "time" kind of says everything about how Turbine works on things.
eighnuss wrote on May 27th, 2014 at 12:52pm:
everyone but turbine knows that we are sad they are destroying our game
majmalphunktion wrote on Aug 30th, 2013 at 12:12am:
I don't make the game, I just get tested what they build. Sorry you are not happy.
Skoodge wrote on Nov 27th, 2014 at 6:54am:
DDO is easy to summarize - the greatest game to suck the most ass.
GooFY wrote on Mar 2nd, 2015 at 5:36pm:
Turbine - So incompetent that we are skeptical when they report their own incompetence.  
Meursault wrote on May 11th, 2015 at 8:10pm:
Other companies will settle for shitting out garbage, Turdbin actually prefers to. Especially if they can get us to buy it, that just cracks them up.
Meursault wrote on Nov 12th, 2015 at 2:50pm:
Breaking something and putting it back together isn't as good as not breaking it to begin with, it's not even close.
palmer01 wrote on Nov 20th, 2015 at 9:05am:
Devs do not care what players want - they already have an agenda and give out token gestures so the paladins can feel worthy.
PersonaNonGrata wrote on Oct 4th, 2016 at 1:24am:
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Reply #16 - Aug 21st, 2013 at 1:28pm
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I agree with other posters.  The enhancement pass is not total crap.  My FvS is better than before.  DPS is up on most of my toons.  Defense is noticibly weaker, but then I was TR'ing my SD Tank and he just got to 20 the day before the update, so he's not at cap yet with all his gear, so I'm not sure what he will look like.

Some things are off.  It's just taking some tinkering to find the sweet spots.  They aren't where they used to be and they aren't necessarily where you would think they will be.

The new quests aren't bad.  I like the two adventure areas.  We need a RAID badly.  That sucks.  And I think they went overboard on the loot power curve, but otherwise, it's a good update.  Not sure it was "expansion" worthy, but I'm having fun playing the game.

  
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Reply #17 - Aug 22nd, 2013 at 3:03am
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kierg10 wrote on Aug 20th, 2013 at 9:19pm:
1) nerf does not have a K at the beginning.

2) The enhancement pass wasn't entirely bad, my over all opinion was that it was a general dps bump for most builds, and a general defense lowering for most builds, and generally I feel like the enhancement pass went over well. There are many new  interesting builds to try, and old ones that you would never do before that are now actually viable.



!.  Sorry an old guy here, thinking back to when the Knerf guns first came out that's how they spelled them.

2.  Took the Arcane Archer out for a test run tonight.  There are some possibilities there, but you are no
longer a pure DPSer, more of a lite DPSer with CC if you use the Paralysis stance.  Still pissed at losing my conjured
+5 arrows though.
  

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Goaticorn wrote on Aug 21st, 2013 at 1:23am:
I think the OP is an anagram, I mean "How thought this"?  It's gotta be!



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The final episode of Alf was a bummer. But at least he never invented knerfed.   You may become an interwebtube meme hero for a thousand views.
  
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Oeuf wrote on Aug 22nd, 2013 at 3:03am:
!.  Sorry an old guy here, thinking back to when the Knerf guns first came out that's how they spelled them.

2.  Took the Arcane Archer out for a test run tonight.  There are some possibilities there, but you are no
longer a pure DPSer, more of a lite DPSer with CC if you use the Paralysis stance.  Still pissed at losing my conjured
+5 arrows though.



How to realize arcane archers are still the best pure dpsers:

1) get slaying arrows.

2) max out fury of the wild

3) twist in pin

4) make enemy helpless

5) adrenaline+slaying arrow his ass.

6) realize that if you do this with manyshot while using the fury epic moment you get to do it for FOUR ARROWS at the same time.

7) Win.
  

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Plus damage boost...
  
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Glenalth wrote on Aug 22nd, 2013 at 2:30pm:
Plus damage boost...


half elf is a good choice so helf dmg boost+tempest tree haste boost+haste+primal scream+ram's might

Cheesy
  

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Glenalth wrote on Aug 22nd, 2013 at 2:30pm:
Plus damage boost...


Ah HA I knew I was missing something.


I am also missing sprint boost Sad
  
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kierg10 wrote on Aug 22nd, 2013 at 1:46pm:
How to realize arcane archers are still the best pure dpsers:

1) get slaying arrows.

2) max out fury of the wild

3) twist in pin

4) make enemy helpless

5) adrenaline+slaying arrow his ass.

6) realize that if you do this with manyshot while using the fury epic moment you get to do it for FOUR ARROWS at the same time.

7) Win.


And yet I still hate it.  I know it's illogical.
  
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