Dev Team, show me you care about your players because I just don't see it (long read)

[Neptune]

I'm not surprised in the slightest, but I think several of you think of the dev team as an incredible chef that lives in your house and cooks you exotic meals every day, of which you eat with no questions asked. To me the dev team is more like a talented group of artists that I support, but in return I require an experience that is enjoyable, and in the case of an online game, I expect for my progress not to be taken away.

[Zeroeffect]

I'm not surprised in the slightest, but I think several of you think of the dev team as an incredible chef that lives in your house and cooks you exotic meals every day, of which you eat with no questions asked. To me the dev team is more like a talented group of artists that I support, but in return I require an experience that is enjoyable, and in the case of an online game, I expect for my progress not to be taken away.

I think your missing the point that this is SE's game not yours and that they will do what ever it is they want to do with this game simple as that.

[Mamba]

I hope this gets locked ASAP. This is obnoxious and most everything the dev team has been doing since the team reshuffle has been done with plans for the longterm and the players in mind.

Why should this get locked?
I think OP has a valid point.

I also feel that lots of the things we have done in the past up until now AND until end of next year will be in vain.

I don't personally mind that CON is going to be a healer as I was going to level both casters anyway, but I can see why it would get to someone else.
I also find it slightly annoying that I can't be the DD THM now with my shield... why did I lvl my THM with a crappy wand when I could have played with a staff?

Buuuut anyhow, I am pretty sure that this "adjustment" won't be the only one we see and we will do lots of things up until end of next year that will be wiped off and forgotten... and we will all feel a bit screwed over but then we move on.

[Jennestia]

Why should this get locked?
I think OP has a valid point.

I also feel that lots of the things we have done in the past up until now AND until end of next year will be in vain.

The only reason you feel this way is because you likely don't understand this is a game that's going through a major overhaul -- An MMO that's been given to you for free beyond a box price for a year. In order to get this game off of the ground major changes need to happen, they're even making it harder to overhaul this game by allowing players to keep the majority of their data.

People voted for class changes as well because let's face it, absolute freedom can't be balanced.

[Felis]

I also find it slightly annoying that I can't be the DD THM now with my shield... why did I lvl my THM with a crappy wand when I could have played with a staff?

Who said that you can't equip a shield with a one-hand weapon anymore? SE only said that you can earn your shield skills only with GLA after 1.20.
I think you can still equip a shield and the shield skills as cross-class skills as mage.

[Answa]

Who said that you can't equip a shield with a one-hand weapon anymore? SE only said that you can earn your shield skills only with GLA after 1.20.
I think you can still equip a shield and the shield skills as cross-class skills as mage.

You're partly right. Shield skill is being abolished, as in it won't exist as itself. However it will happen, GLD will absorb its skills (somehow). But, as it stands, it seems other classes will still be able to equip shields.