viadrouw wrote on Oct 19
th, 2015 at 8:40am:
I can totally understand you! You invested time and money into a hero over years that became like an Avatar of yourself. You don’t play a stable full of mediocre everyday toons like everybody else has, but a well planned build that represents you ingame .. is YOU ingame. Leveled through several lives with dedication, geared with loot grinded in endless hours and near the point that one could proudly say: YES.. THIS IS IT! Now my character is like I wanted him to be, perfect in what he was built for.
Therefore it’s a personal thing when the DEVs decide to meddle around with the very basic mechanics of the game and render your build, your gear, your plans useless overnight. For them it’s is just a bit tweaking with a few numbers, but for players that don’t take the game lightly it is a severe affront. Hours of playing in the past are for NOTHING now and hours of playing fun in the future ruined because they left you with a multi-past-live gimp.
But the DEVS are not willing to see it that way, not willing to even listen. They keep telling the people that this are only minor changes and won’t impact anyone to much because they don’t know it any better. The DEVs didn’t build those heroes they are nerfing on a whim and if you dare to tell them that they might be wrong.. oh dear.. they simply abuse their power and delete any unwanted opinion.
You know what I did? I read through the “Balance”-Post, thought to myself “OK, this is it”, unsubbed my account and deleted my main toon so I won’t have any reason in the future to come back to this treacherous pack of liars and thieves. I am done with DDO and I can tell you it feels great – I made sure they will never see a penny from me ever. If a friend keeps stealing your stuff and breaking things you made with care, would you keep his friendship? Hell no! Punch him in the face real hard and be done with it.
I am a bit self-critical too; I shouldn’t have spent so many resources on DDO. I don’t care for the money and the time spend, but I do care for all the support I gave them. I spoke for DDO when people were trash talking about the game and I did my best to support them and make it better. But all I got was a kick in the groin as a thank-you. Paying customer for years? Helping new players? (CUSTOMERS!) Active community member? Doesn’t count at all; Turbine nerfes you into oblivion regardless.
But I don’t care anymore and that is a relief. There are other nice games around like “Star-Citizen” or “Pillars of Eternity”. Those games are founded on kickstarter and those DEVs know exactly who they own the game to. They hear the players that made the game possible buy founding and playing it. I should have switched to something better than DDO much earlier, but I am glad I did it now. My advice: JUST DO IT! BE FREE LIKE ME! DELETE AND NEVER LOOK BACK!
I'm not saying I believe you, but on the small chance that you were actually telling the truth:
Severlin posted:
Quote:Some followup.
We've done some follow up testing and it looks like Two Weapon Paladins are somewhat behind where we want them to be for DPS. They are running equal with Two Handed builds and Vanguard builds, but they are obviously behind the AoE of two handed fighting and the extra mitigation of a shield. We will be adding Holy Sword back to non-shield off hand builds. With the fix to improved critical the DPS difference that provides should put them where we want them for DPS.
Sev~
Like I said, I really doubt any of what you posted was true, instead of just annoyed barking, but if it was and you did actually delete you character?
You should have waited to see what went live.