noamineo wrote on Apr 25
th, 2021 at 12:56pm:
But wait... you're a sock. Can you really even be considered to play DDO? Or does this mean your sock master is taking a break? This is getting so meta I can't even.
Wrong, I'm not a sock and play plenty... which you already know kid. You only started calling me one when I turned down your request to share an exploit. And let us not forget that at first, you tried calling me a SSGpally and only switched to the sock nonsense after I proved I wasn't a Pally.
So... back to the subject at hand, I was actually pretty damn excited about hardcore until the lamannia previews and that started to take the wind out of my drive, logging on and playing it live on totally killed it. I do have one theory, most players have stacks of past lives, races, gear, etc... so that they don't really feel the impact of the changes. They are seriously bad when you play a bow toon, so instead of blowing way too much time bitching about shit they won't fix it and going nuts every time I try to play some build other than what they want us to.
I am for reals amazed, even stunned how much U49 absolutely assraped the tier 2 and below bow builds, and made bow entirely unusable for splash because at low levels it is so fucking slow now. While the DPS-focused Bow builds (the few there were) got some beefing up in individual shots the fact is that the doubleshot change is still a huge nerf, and once you factor in all the lost chances to IPS multis... well it goes way beyond my meager math.
So instead of going insane and pointlessly frothing, I'm going to try some other games and go back to ones I like. Also, warm weather is here. I'll be honest, the feeling that I get that the developers really do not understand what they have done, just don't ever see it... well that is way more maddening for me for some reason and I'm old enough to see that is gonna really get to me for the immediate future and as the whole thing makes me kind of irrationally mad I don't want to run the risk of losing all the money and time I have already so unwisely sunk into DDO.