Strid said:
Ya from what friends told me this update hit him pretty hard. He went through hell Lvling DRG gimped (not by gear but just the gimpage in general) then comes to RNG to have a badass end game job to watch it get nerfed. He was so proud of his RNG and I'm sure it hit him really hard. I personally feel bad for ALL RNG and am very thankful I came back to cap my NIN. He's not the only proud RNG having a hard time with it. However, DRGs carried on and RNG must now carry on. That said though a lot of your hardcore RNGs will quit as it's simply not worth the time/money compaired to other melee jobs they don't want to play.
I'm interested to see what SE does from here. I know in WOW the devs took a Warrior ability and changed it up pretty bad. They changed the ability giving it new actions and making it instant. However in the process they gimped it. Why did they gimp it? They didn't want to dissapoint the WAR community by making it totally uber then gimping it making them feel bad for following hte Fury Tree for it. Instead they brught it in weak to experiment and will gradually increase its effects to make it better without going overboard. Maybe that's the case here. Everything starts with an initial test and seeing as how SE doesn't have test reals for players to test the patches this may very well be just a test. However, looking at the DRG nerf it makes me wonder if they will even think of changing it greatly or try giving us some gimp abilities to try and smooth it over.
In my opinion they are trying to bury it under a bunch of useless shit. Cause what else came out w/ this patch hmm hmm hmm???????????? NPC quest Beastman hat quests shitloads of new rare/ex equipment that people are gonna have to quest for, the finishing of CoP, and summerfest starts this evening. Maybe i'm always to negative but it seems like SE is trying to bombard the community w/ so much useless crap that they won't notice the rng gimp :evil:
What a bunch of nerfaholics. I've been around for every major MMO and this is by far the worst nerf in any games history that I can think of. Knowing players and minds this will cost them a lot of money on future MMO's. They need to develop the mind frame that nerfing doesn't balance shit....making more abilities for the useless classes is balance. Much like their close friends over at Blizzard.
