Meursault wrote on Aug 7
th, 2015 at 8:19am:
Yeah, I largely agree with what you say, the tomes are a small example of a big problem, not a big problem themselves. And the alternatives suck donkey balls. That's why I'm sad, not outraged.
Exactly. I'm just not surprised, this was bound to happen sooner rather than later.
Meursault wrote on Aug 7
th, 2015 at 8:19am:
But I disagree with you on the new players bit. We get many new players trying the game, we just can't keep them. Look at how server populations get a huge bump when that server becomes the default server, and then how fast it decays to pre-default levels when the default is switched. And Turbine knows this, it was a big argument for why we needed the Enhancement Crash, and why they had to spend developer time shuffling deck chairs in The Harbor. And still they keep pulling crap like this.
I admit I don't hang out in the Harbor or in those levels so I might as well be wrong. Never noticed an influx of new players when the server becomes the default one.
Meursault wrote on Aug 7
th, 2015 at 8:19am:
There is a lot they should have thought out better when they proposed the level increase, one of which is tomes. OK, having content in place and ready to go would have been more important, but still, they shouldn't have bumped the max level before they had a solution in place for tomes. Make the favor reward tome a +5+ tome - you can use it at the level a normal +5 is usable at, but if your level goes up after that, you get more + as you reach the minimum level for that +. Like when you have a tome and TR, the + comes back in stages as you level up again.
Instead, we have all this crap with upgrade tomes and they drop here but not there and blah blah blah.
Grrrrr, Turbine
I think levels increase should have never happened. And Epic Destinies are one of the worst things that happened to this game, at least in the way they implemented them. I'd really love for them to not go to Level 30, it's going to be a total failure.
Epic levels are boring as fuck. Whenever I used to get a level in Heroic, I was always enthusiastic about it. I'd get more APs, a Feat, I can multiclass, I can choose skills, I can choose a stat. In the epic levels, you get a feat and that's fucking it. Some levels you literally click "accept" and you leveled up. Such wow.
Epic Destinies are just full out powercreep. Unbalanced, some abilities are too good, some abilities are shit, some EDs are complete garbage while others are absolutely OP.
What should happens with tomes imho: make +6, +7 upgrades droppable in any EE quest. Not just MoD, ToEE, Necro or DoJ. Make them drop at a reasonable rate and with really increased chance in EE DoJ. This wouldn't help much the endgame but it would be a start.