Great Patch!

[Teth]

I read this whole thread because I was a bit schocked after playing for 30mins last night after patch the difference it made to my combat ability.

I played way back in beta but didn't pick it up at release because I knew it wasn't worth a sub then. Last week I picked up a copy in a local game shop because it was in a sale for £5. I've played maybe 15 hours since friday and reached 17 marauder as main job and leveled a few other things to 7 or so. I was pretty please with the game tbh and enjoying myself. I took to it like a duck to water and felt the difficulty was maybe a bit easy but the pacing was good giving access to story quests. Gil was an issue for me and I've only bought a couple of pieces of gear so far. I also took advice to buy late 20s early 30s gear as it would be the same price as low level gear and I'd grow into it. Obviously this is now false so I'll be set back a bit there until I can sell it.

Now my 1.19 ibservations. I am incredibly weak at 17 with the resources of a genuinely new player. The reduction in Gil from levs since beta means I have scraped together 70k between lvl 1 and 17 including the other couple of jobs I have leveled. I don't have a realistic chance of having a set of low level gear from markets. I am however going to look into making it myself. I'm duoing with a friend so we can split jobs between us and hopefully cover all the bases quickly.

When I say I'm incredibly weak I mean a level 16 rose raped me last night I had burned all my MP on cure used 2 bloodbaths with trunksplitter and had taken maybe 20% of it's life when it killed me. A level 20 1star Lev I tried 1shot me. This is a night and day change. I went from 980 HP to 380HP my damage is around 1/3 of what it was.

I'm going to do allot more experimentation tongiht but on the face of it this feels bad at new player level. New players have little idea of game mechanics and limited or non existent resources to experiment. The game should be educating you in it's systems at that point and giving you a chance to develope the knowledge and skills.

patch 1.19 feels like sprinting into a glass door right now.