How does it enable MORE playstyles? If anything it severely limits the ability of players to multi-role by making a cap of 4 slotable skills. Especially since healing, damage, and damage mitigation are all now slotable and in the same tree for some reason.

I've also been enjoying this update, although I've never gotten upset over any of the other updates. (I guess I'm just easy to please, coupled with being more of a casual player than a hardcore "endgamer.")

Sure, I've gotten annoyed when unintended bugs were introduced, such as the inventory-filter-reset bug; but I just adapt and work around them until they're fixed.

Aside from the nice addition of being able to travel to the outside of our housing, and of course the much-needed fixing of the inventory-filter-reset bug, one other improvement I've noticed is a fix to a minor Alchemy crafting bug. When the QoL changes were implemented to crafting, some of my characters were unable to use the "quests only" option with the Alchemy crafting station because it would say "missing ingredients" or something like that ("missing traits"? "missing effects"?) instead of showing all of the ingredients with discovered effects needed for the writ. This was on just two of my characters, and granted I'd only tried to discover specific effects on specific ingredients which I needed for the daily writs, so those two characters have a lot of undiscovered effects on a lot of ingredients. But that was also true of some of my other characters, and they weren't seeing that message. Now I'm able to use the filter on all of my characters, so I no longer need to scroll through the entire list of ingredients on those two characters to find the ingredients that have the requested effect.

I also think the new CP system is very interesting. I'm still going a bit slowly with it, investing in the perks I really want right now but holding back some of my CP so I can invest in other perks as I decide I need or want them. I'm not grinding for more CP, just playing as I normally do and earning CP that way.

It seems to me that a lot of players approach this game-- and perhaps all games-- as something to be "attacked" and "beaten" as quickly as possible. By "attacked" I don't mean in the sense of complaining and fault-finding (although there's certainly a lot of that), but rather in the sense of jumping in and going at it "savagely" or "devouring" it with extreme gusto, like "attacking a steak." It seems like whenever anything new is introduced to the game-- a new zone, a new skill line, a new class, a new set of gear, etc.-- many players act like they need to "complete" the new content as quickly as possible, or grind to level up the new skill or acquire the new gear set as soon as possible, or race to master the new class and develop the best OP build with it before everyone else does, etc.

And then they turn around and gripe about how they hate grinding for everything, or hate having to learn a new system, or hate having to adapt to nerfs and buffs, etc. Well then, just stop grinding for everything as though your very life depended on it! Slow down and have some fun.

People talk about FOMO, but it seems to me that a lot of gamers-- especially MMO gamers-- suffer from FONKUWTJASC ("fear of not keeping up with the Joneses and staying competitive"). It's like a tragi-comedy where two neighbors try desperately to outdo each other's holiday decorations, only to end up making their families miserable, ruining their personal and professional lives because of all the time and effort and money they're spending on trying to "win," destroy their once-amicable relationship with each other and with the rest of their neighbors, and blow up the entire neighborhood when they finally go crazy and take their decorations too far. I'm exaggerating for effect; but the drive to become "competitive" as soon as possible after they buy and install the game, or each time they create a new character, and to restore their "competitive edge" as quickly as possible if anything gets added, changed, or removed in the game, seems a bit unhealthy to me, or at least "not much fun." No wonder so many players complain about the game so much; they're making themselves miserable over it.

Anyway, I've been enjoying this update. YMMV.

RedMuse wrote: »

You have more health yet you're more of a glasscannon too?
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Is this post sarcastic? Hard to tell with this forum you know. Either way, that part made zero sense and yes I have had coffee this morning.

Well, for starters, resistances didn't go up, base health did. I chose to ramp up my damage output, so my dps did raise, health raised, but i do take more damage

relentless_turnip wrote: »

Yeah love this patch so far!

Performance last night was worse than I have seen it though. When prior to that it had been much better.

Check this nonsense out:

https://youtu.be/O71iZompzIc

Overall i think everything that came from flames of ambition has been positive.

That's nothing new for those on high latency. I have been seeing that in prime time PC NA for 3 years or more. For a few hours I get usual 300ping then the same time every day it goes to 380-400+, almost like a switch comes on and it becomes really unplayable.