1. Ongoing exploits or ones that were never really reversed (see item duping, fixed but never cleansed out of the market), powerleveling by killing unintendedly fast respawning world bosses and not reverting the levels. I could go on with this, the whole first month has been a rampant race to find the next exploitable thing and abuse the hell out of it.
2. Class balance is absolutely horrendous. For a game that has a major push towards the PvP zone early on and makes the whole main story about the three way war in cyrodiil (overlooking the part about coldharbor, but i digress there), allowing one i win build after another to flourish has effectively killed PvP to all but the most hard headed or hardcore at this point. Even in PvE content you see the issue with some certain classes having virtually no point. The fourth man on a team should be a nightblade, since there are four classes, but you will almost always be better off with a second sorc. There are a few competent NB healer or aoe DPS specs, but they have to try very hard to barely do what a mediocre sorc can. Powers in general are completely screwed up.
3. Making the rewards for actually playing the content so ridiculously bad that everyone just wants to do number 1 on this list, because time spent for reward earned is absolutely terrible. Did a Craglorn mission night before last, spent over 2 hours doing the whole chain with three guildies, went through some pretty tough bosses and so many adds it wasnt even funny. The reward? 300 gold, 12k vp, and a green staff. Are you serious? At least give something purple for all that trouble and ten times the gold/vp. Seriously. Two full hours? For a one off mission chain youll never do again on that toon? Ive never once seen a gold drop item, nor have I ever seen a purple set piece. Nor have I ever seen a unique item with an enchantment that was better than something vendor purchased or barely specced enchant craftable. Its all vendor trash and desconstruct fodder (and you cant even hit the highest quality level that way, you have to wait on a silly hireling for that part or a lucky refine on some scraps for just ONE or TWO of the FIFTY SIX youll need for a guaranteed gold upgraded armor suit, not including weapons or shields here.)
In summary the only people that are really getting anywhere in this game are the ones that happened to want to be a sorc or dk and item duped/xp exploited their way to easy mode.
Seriously?
Edited by Rylana on 25 May 2014 09:47
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