Tufa

If anything, BM is over powered. This is a class that can tank and infinitely defend. Either their offensive or defensive capabilities need to be nerfed. Frankly, this is the case with most melee classes right now.

I will also gladly join the call for major reform in player cheating. Never seen a company so lax in protecting it's own game. WTFU NC

you forgot to add it's boring AF

I think you should figure out why you can't play it now. I can play on a pentium and a gt640 (office computer). Ue4 may be better optimized but likely will require more power than what ue3 required. I think what is more likely to happen is what we saw with games like Everquest and Asheron's call. They'll just invent a new game with the BnS ip but new engine and call it BnS 2. If they can find a way to milk more money, they will.

wintrading between clans is absolutely real. I recently joined a new clan, and they immediately touted their wintrading partners. I left the same day. This type of "cooperation" has always been a repugnant activity in NC based games.

I agree with most of that ^, but even the players you listed were only better because of their gear advantage. That's all BG has ever really been, gear and/or class imbalance. With NC turning a blind eye to last patch's exploit, everyone has max pet, talisman, and psyche. There is just no defense to that, especially when you face an already unbalanced class. NC just doesn't care, and pvp and even pve are mostly in flames because of it.

This is spot on. I live in MN, and the distance between here and Texas and here and Virginia is pretty similar, yet I've added 50-100 ping. I've upgraded heart twice, pet three times, talisman twice, and still do less damage than I did before. The server change was a shaft. As a result I've picked up two new games to play instead. I'm still gonna raid with my group, but the constant BNS screwups and screwovers have really put a damper on this game for me.

I feel ya brutha. This is the most mismanaged game ever. All the blocks are there but it keeps getting worse and worse.

I think you miss the point. It's not the revert, its all the stupid, careless little mistakes that are allowed to exist in the first place. All the problems that are ignored and the terrible mis-management.

There are SO many reasons to be pissed off and quit right now. I am in MN and the server change added a good 50-70 ping to me, even though it isnt that much further. The blind eye to the cheating and exploit, the RNG enchants, the lag-fest that is Nyraka, the weapon reverts, the trashed market, the class imbalance. The only reason I am still here is because I am waiting to get in on the ground level of something new, but so far nothing has appealed to me.

Ok, so yea I don't get it. My computer is 9 years old. I've done nothing to it in 9 years except overclock the cpu. When I was on Sprint it was laggy. When I switched to Charter things were great. I get the usual fps drops in raids like everyone else, but it has never stopped me from doing anything in this game. I even play this game fine on my work computer which runs an intel pentium G3240 and a Nvidia GT640. All you need is a solid state drive. Yes I know the game has problems but if you've had to upgrade your computer 2-3 times just to enjoyably play, there is something very wrong. I suggest you switch to a faster internet provider.

we could argue all day about WHERE the imbalance is, but I think we would all agree that the game is not balanced and in major need of a revamp.

So cheating is not unfair simply because the ability to cheat is there and a person doesnt take advantage of it? Nice logic cheatah

So the lessons here are: 1) its ok to cheat because game is half dead 2)its ok to cheat because others who spent more $$$ than you (or worked harder, longer) had an "unfair" advantage over you 3)if everyone cheats its ok for you to cheat 4)its ok to cheat if you don't believe anyone gets hurt. Get real people. You are a cheater, and you will likely get away with it. It's as simple as that.

You cant be this stupid. How is the average Joe that plays an honest game not harmed when he goes into BG and faces everyone with max pet and talisman? Even if you can't understand the individual harm, can't you see the harm caused to the community by a market in tatters? Again, if nobody else's gear matters, why have different levels of gear at all? You seems to think that there was no cheating because everyone could have cheated. Dude, we all have the chance to cheat everyday. The mere opportunity does not justify the action. Just be a man and admit you didn't care about the consequences and crossed your fingers that there wouldn't be any.

It is mindblowing to me how morally bankrupt society in general has become. Under this logic, if my neighbor's house is broken into I have no right to complain because I wasn't harmed? I should just sit back and let crime happen because it didn't affect me? Have you no sense of social responsibility at all? The "proof" that this was not intentional came when the dev posted online NOT to do it. I guess that wasn't enough authority for you? NC soft is just as complicit, because they are too interested in making money than producing a good game. If how other people obtain gear makes no difference, why not just normalize all gear and make us all the same, all the time? Obviously some of the fun of this game is putting the work into getting the gear. What is it so hard to understand about this?

Your logic just sucks. It's like saying if I forget to lock my door it's ok to loot my house. NC saw the problem and asked people not to do it. Why they havent fixed the damn thing I have no clue, and I agree NC is a complete JOKE in how they've handled it. But don't ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ on my foot and tell me its raining buddy.

This may be the saddest OP post I have ever read. Pure looting mentality. No police around, lets burn the place down and steal that new TV.

If you follow the story line arc, it gives you everything you need at lower levels. Raven, ET, GC, Scarlet, IA is the typical progression.

This is not acceptable. 30-60 day bans at a minimum, deletion of characters for the worst offenders. If NC soft does not dole out appropriate punishment, I swear to God I'm done playing by the rules here. I'll be swiping with someone else.

Are you kidding me? Do you really expect me to believe that it's that hard to wake a guy up and say "um, we have a problem, shut the game down?" Or in the alternative, to just come on the boards and say "hey guys go for it" so we can all have a chance at the opportunity without risk of ban, or post a warning that offenders will be banned? How is that so damn hard??? Incredible.

It is mindblowing that this company can't even shut the game down for a hot fix. There needs to be stern punishment. I really can't see myself investing my time or money in another NC game.

I am in agreement. I like small changes, but I feel this new patch has devastated everything about the way I play (and no I have never xml edited in my life).

Let's be real Unicorn. I have been playing since patch, max TB wep, and regular top 10 in BG. This isn't about the game being too complicated. Did you read my post? Of course everyone wants to do max dps, and lightning is really just a mash spam fest. There's not a whole lot of logic to it, and YES it is easy. In fact, tedious. This is why macros exist, because the only real strategy is to mash as much as you can, preferably in the right order. What you may call skill most people call a typing class, which I never remembered to be much fun. Although it is true nobody is forcing lightning, my fire mystic badge is now gone, and my pvp spec has basically been rendered useless with the tornado nerf, so yea...kinda feels forced. Sure, I could rebuild back into a fire build that I have been playing since day 1, but is it worth the effort? Meh.

FM lightning third spec. Converted my fire mystic badge for it. Don't really like lightning, find it hard to play, and forcing me to use a macro which I didn't have to do with fire FM easy mode. Also love to BG, but frost tornado was really the only thing that kept us viable in there. Now I am forced to use lightning in BG too. I know there's a learning curve, I just don't know if it's worth it. I feel like all the second gear I acquired for frost in pvp was now just a waste of time, and it will take all my resources to level back up a paragon and mystic just to go back to fire for raids. I know I can use the compass, but I feel like I'll be forced into lightning because of the dps difference. I think this time the treadmill has finally run me over.