So having played a little over a month since beta started, here are a few things I think staff should look at...
Classes that need...something -
Friar
Paladin
Champion
Having played Hib for a few weeks and alb for a little over a week, these classes are the main ones that people now just seem to shrug off.
Playing yesterday I saw one group asking for a friar and it was because they wanted another healer and wanted the bonus 5% xp. Every other group I have been in leaves friars out when talking about what classes to look for. The one argument that they are decent is because they have red resist buffs?
Paladins, wow. Three consecutive groups in the 20+ range all ran without pally's and when I asked about it I was given a green endo regen pot. Armsman had very mixed reviews but in general people said just get a Merc they offer a lot more then Pally's.
Champion. I thought Champ's would be more sought after, but after hitting 50 on one toon and 49 on another toon in Hib and doing some RvR, none of the groups I was in ever even asked about the Champ's that were LFG. Even my Ani was more sought after then the Champs. This was over a 2 week period and not just a 1 day of test. Are Champ's really not helpful or are people just not used to them being decentish?
Necro's are obviously great at PvE, but what is up with the resists? I was fighting yellows yesterday. Resists said they should be 11.50% and 13% and I was being resisted at LEAST 25% of the time. I logged to my Cabby who was about 4 levels higher and his resist rate was actually what the game listed. I went back to necro and fought yellows again to the same exact result. Either I had the worst RNG ever (possible and I will try again tonight) or something is off and needs looked at. If any other Necro's could post their experiences on this that would be great.
Your speed breaking system is a good start but I do see 1 severe flaw, speed needs to break instantly and not wait a few seconds. Don't know how many times I was in a group on Hib and we would use a speed breaking spell only to see them continue at full speed for a few more seconds before it broke. If this is WAI then it should be looked at, and if it is something you already fixed in the last few days then ignore this =).
How drops are divided still seems off. On any pet class I have played including Ani, Enchie, Cabby I notice that if I let the pet do all the dmg (meaning just casting a shroom field on Ani, or focus pulling on enchie or cabby) and I don't directly dmg them, I rarely get any drops. I was a lvl 50 Ani who had a lvl 15 NS pulling for me and he was getting about 90% of the drops, but as soon as I did 1 AoE I got most of the drops.
Lastly, and people are going to flame me for this, RP's need looked at for both events as well as how quickly people will get early when the game goes live. A friend got around 300k RP's last night playing Mid in a few hours during the event. Seems a little excessive for such a short time, plus this will just widen the gap between the elite groups and the casual groups. Obviously the elite groups will get more RP's then a casual, but he was lvl 10 2 days ago, this is just something to look at. I am not saying put a limit, but SOMETHING needs to be done or else you will have a couple elite 8mans dominating in RvR beyond normal. I understand people will argue that those same 8mans will dominate anyway and that is true to a degree, but if this keeps up they will simply become almost unkillable which will just frustrate a lot of people. Uth2 is changing their system and Origins is still (possibly?) due to release, if they get much frustration over something like this you honestly don't think they will leave to another server and try again? yes it may happen there also, or that server might do something about it, but it is doubtful they will come back here if they are that far behind. Or they may simply not go out into big boy RvR.
Anyway see everyone in game =)
P.S. Fix the guards in TNN!!!! Typing /where has them point 1 direction and yet say the opposite direction only to have the person I was after in a totally different direction LOL. Tried multiple guards on multiple toons to same result.
Classes that need...something -
Friar
Paladin
Champion
Having played Hib for a few weeks and alb for a little over a week, these classes are the main ones that people now just seem to shrug off.
Playing yesterday I saw one group asking for a friar and it was because they wanted another healer and wanted the bonus 5% xp. Every other group I have been in leaves friars out when talking about what classes to look for. The one argument that they are decent is because they have red resist buffs?
Paladins, wow. Three consecutive groups in the 20+ range all ran without pally's and when I asked about it I was given a green endo regen pot. Armsman had very mixed reviews but in general people said just get a Merc they offer a lot more then Pally's.
Champion. I thought Champ's would be more sought after, but after hitting 50 on one toon and 49 on another toon in Hib and doing some RvR, none of the groups I was in ever even asked about the Champ's that were LFG. Even my Ani was more sought after then the Champs. This was over a 2 week period and not just a 1 day of test. Are Champ's really not helpful or are people just not used to them being decentish?
Necro's are obviously great at PvE, but what is up with the resists? I was fighting yellows yesterday. Resists said they should be 11.50% and 13% and I was being resisted at LEAST 25% of the time. I logged to my Cabby who was about 4 levels higher and his resist rate was actually what the game listed. I went back to necro and fought yellows again to the same exact result. Either I had the worst RNG ever (possible and I will try again tonight) or something is off and needs looked at. If any other Necro's could post their experiences on this that would be great.
Your speed breaking system is a good start but I do see 1 severe flaw, speed needs to break instantly and not wait a few seconds. Don't know how many times I was in a group on Hib and we would use a speed breaking spell only to see them continue at full speed for a few more seconds before it broke. If this is WAI then it should be looked at, and if it is something you already fixed in the last few days then ignore this =).
How drops are divided still seems off. On any pet class I have played including Ani, Enchie, Cabby I notice that if I let the pet do all the dmg (meaning just casting a shroom field on Ani, or focus pulling on enchie or cabby) and I don't directly dmg them, I rarely get any drops. I was a lvl 50 Ani who had a lvl 15 NS pulling for me and he was getting about 90% of the drops, but as soon as I did 1 AoE I got most of the drops.
Lastly, and people are going to flame me for this, RP's need looked at for both events as well as how quickly people will get early when the game goes live. A friend got around 300k RP's last night playing Mid in a few hours during the event. Seems a little excessive for such a short time, plus this will just widen the gap between the elite groups and the casual groups. Obviously the elite groups will get more RP's then a casual, but he was lvl 10 2 days ago, this is just something to look at. I am not saying put a limit, but SOMETHING needs to be done or else you will have a couple elite 8mans dominating in RvR beyond normal. I understand people will argue that those same 8mans will dominate anyway and that is true to a degree, but if this keeps up they will simply become almost unkillable which will just frustrate a lot of people. Uth2 is changing their system and Origins is still (possibly?) due to release, if they get much frustration over something like this you honestly don't think they will leave to another server and try again? yes it may happen there also, or that server might do something about it, but it is doubtful they will come back here if they are that far behind. Or they may simply not go out into big boy RvR.
Anyway see everyone in game =)
P.S. Fix the guards in TNN!!!! Typing /where has them point 1 direction and yet say the opposite direction only to have the person I was after in a totally different direction LOL. Tried multiple guards on multiple toons to same result.