We will be performing maintenance for patch 11.2.1 on the PTS on Monday at 8:00AM EDT (12:00 UTC).
Maintenance for the week of September 22:
· [IN PROGRESS] NA megaservers for maintenance – September 22, 4:00AM EDT (8:00 UTC) - 10:00AM EDT (14:00 UTC)
· [IN PROGRESS] EU megaservers for maintenance – September 22, 8:00 UTC (4:00AM EDT) - 14:00 UTC (10:00AM EDT)
· [IN PROGRESS] NA megaservers for maintenance – September 22, 4:00AM EDT (8:00 UTC) - 10:00AM EDT (14:00 UTC)
· [IN PROGRESS] EU megaservers for maintenance – September 22, 8:00 UTC (4:00AM EDT) - 14:00 UTC (10:00AM EDT)
One final plea from a mid tier level guild GM on PSNA
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I created a forum account to post this. I am usually just a lurker on the forums but I feel the need to beg for a game i've played since 2016 not to be destroyed. Please postpone these combat changes. You dont have to revert them. Just postpone and keep working on it. Why would that be so difficult? Its OBVIOUSLY not a good idea. The goal of this business is to be profitable, how can you all be ok with the most enormous pushback on changes to your game I have seen since starting this game back in 2016? How can you remain on target monetarily with this patch seeing how many people are going to leave?
I am going to share my and my guilds perspective on this patch that I am the GM of. I feel we fall into the category of hardest hit with this thing. We are a guild of about 200 people on PS NA. We accept all skill levels and teach players that are vet ready, players who have FINALLY hit high enough damage to step into end game content, how to run some of these trials. For example, we progged VMOL for a ton of people looking to get skinned for the 1st time, and it took a few weeks or more. We are mostly made up of players that are hitting 70 or 80k but are inexperienced otherwise to end game content.
We are now progging VASHM. We finished week 5 last week, running for 2 hours twice a week. Our lowest % so far is around 40%. We have seen progress, slow, but progression. People struggle to stay alive, and dish out enough damage to avoid enraged mini's. But, we are learning and getting there. I have 9 people in this trial that I am leading to hopefully get a skin for before this patch drops, because when it does, our prog will likely be destroyed, as will the motivation for all those involved. I fear losing my trial guild that I have worked very hard on to build and create such an awesome fun player base in, and losing friends that I like to play with to other games because of the pure discouragement we will get from this patch. We are not godslayer tier players by any means. And these changes will destroy us, we cannot make up for the nerfs coming in our group. I have 2 templar dps in this VASHM prog. I will share what one of them messaged me last week. This player confirmed yesterday to me that he will no longer be playing after this patch due to it still being so discouraging even after the PTS edits. He has no interest in medium weaving, no interest in using resto staves or heavy builds. These are the people you are getting rid of. Not the 120k dps planesbreakers.
What are players and groups like us supposed to do? When this patch drops and we go from consistently getting into say, the 20% range back to 60% range, am I supposed to tell the other 11 people in the prog that we just need to practice some more? Tell them to learn to medium weave with resto staves and change all their classes and builds? They will just quit. Do I just cancel our progs until the next patch after this when you fix it all? My group will be gone by then, I promise.
Again, just announce that you are postponing this for further testing. Thats the fairest route for everyone. Come up with a system that works. Because this obviously doesn't.
I am going to share my and my guilds perspective on this patch that I am the GM of. I feel we fall into the category of hardest hit with this thing. We are a guild of about 200 people on PS NA. We accept all skill levels and teach players that are vet ready, players who have FINALLY hit high enough damage to step into end game content, how to run some of these trials. For example, we progged VMOL for a ton of people looking to get skinned for the 1st time, and it took a few weeks or more. We are mostly made up of players that are hitting 70 or 80k but are inexperienced otherwise to end game content.
We are now progging VASHM. We finished week 5 last week, running for 2 hours twice a week. Our lowest % so far is around 40%. We have seen progress, slow, but progression. People struggle to stay alive, and dish out enough damage to avoid enraged mini's. But, we are learning and getting there. I have 9 people in this trial that I am leading to hopefully get a skin for before this patch drops, because when it does, our prog will likely be destroyed, as will the motivation for all those involved. I fear losing my trial guild that I have worked very hard on to build and create such an awesome fun player base in, and losing friends that I like to play with to other games because of the pure discouragement we will get from this patch. We are not godslayer tier players by any means. And these changes will destroy us, we cannot make up for the nerfs coming in our group. I have 2 templar dps in this VASHM prog. I will share what one of them messaged me last week. This player confirmed yesterday to me that he will no longer be playing after this patch due to it still being so discouraging even after the PTS edits. He has no interest in medium weaving, no interest in using resto staves or heavy builds. These are the people you are getting rid of. Not the 120k dps planesbreakers.
What are players and groups like us supposed to do? When this patch drops and we go from consistently getting into say, the 20% range back to 60% range, am I supposed to tell the other 11 people in the prog that we just need to practice some more? Tell them to learn to medium weave with resto staves and change all their classes and builds? They will just quit. Do I just cancel our progs until the next patch after this when you fix it all? My group will be gone by then, I promise.
Again, just announce that you are postponing this for further testing. Thats the fairest route for everyone. Come up with a system that works. Because this obviously doesn't.
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