I read your whole post and I just am amazed that you feel cheated in anyway, i mean guess what you wanted to play a black mage well thau is going to be it level it and play and all these other post you hot linked and said how valuable is your opinion, and now my question to you is how valuable do you think you opinion actually is? I mean come on they're gonna appease all type of players and take suggestion from everyone yes but money is their goal they are a business so they don't care if you feel cheat when they abolish you shield skill or make a different class the class you wanted to play. This is Yoshi-p's work of art and he will continue to do whats he think is best and yes use some of the players idea to improve the game but he doesn't care if you feel cheated none the less cause he making vast improvement and many more people are enjoying the game. He can't make everyone happy bro so either a. enjoy the game and make post that could be fundamentally important to the game or b. stop playing man. Obviously you like it and you spent alot of time in this game so your probably not going anywhere.