Quote Originally Posted by Kodabey View Post
Hi all,

I bought this game and played it for the first time 2 weeks ago. I've been on every day since (loving it!), and just experienced the patch. As you can see, I'm a level 20ish archer and marauder. I've played a few hours since the patch hit, and I'm completely disappointed. I wasn't even attacking mobs much higher than me before the patch, but occasionally I'd hit something 1 or 2 levels above and I'd make it through alive. Now, I get my ass kicked by mobs 2 levels below me and anything higher it's hopeless. All my hand picked gear (mostly by helpful players) isn't helping at all and the game just generally seems way HARDER. Harder than it should be..it just kills the pacing. Sorry, but I play video games for fun, not to be bored and frustrated. I was pretty happy right before the patch with the level speed, combat flow and yeah, I died now and then when I did something stupid, but now the game seems excessively hard. So all you high-level people with lots of experience, I'm glad you are having fun, but I'm going to go play Aion now. I suspect a lot of other new people like me feel the same way. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with this patch at all...it just simply made the game no-fun for me as a new player around my level. I've been severely nerfed playing other MMOs too, and it just kills the fun for me when that happens. It's like someone took away half of everything you've been building up and working hard at. Normally, that is called a punishment.

And yes, I've done nothing but group with other new players since the patch. We get our asses kicked constantly, even when 3 of us gang up on a mob 2 levels above us. Both of my friends logged out with a long goodbye and quit, both claiming they might be back after 1.20, but probably not with GW2 and SWTOR coming out. So there I was alone, at level 20 with crappy gear and nobody to play with surrounded by monsters that I can't kill. Yuck. I guess there is a form of permadeath now in this game after all, in the form of this pretty digital purgatory I found myself standing in.
While I have multiple 50's I feel your pain here completely. I logged in to do do some leves post patch. Rank 37 Marauder doing a R40 level. I got absolutely stomped into the ground by the linking leve mobs now. This was on solo 1 star. I have been playing this game since beta, I know how to play and I was completely unprepared for this change. MOST of the time I group so its a non issue, but there are occasions where I have limited playtime and want to do a few leves and log.

If the game will hand you a leve, give you an option of solo difficulty it should be solo difficulty. I had to run back from 3-4 deaths, barely completing the leve. I just don't think they properly balanced things fully yet. Thats the one problem I have brought up time and time again, they release overhauls in many updates. Where most MMOs would put all the battle changes into one neat patch, SE keeps releasing parts overtime. When you release updates this way it is not fully balanced.

Another thing, nearly any MMO worth its salt has a test server today. This game needs a test server so they can get feedback from players ahead of time. Even XI has a test server now I hear, this game needs one and it needs it yesterday.

I have no doubt that these issues will be addressed, but who knows how long it will take. I love this game even with all my complaints which is why I am still here. I suggest sticking it out a few weeks to see what happens.