Thread: Your biggest fears for 4.0

That crafting will keep taking longer and longer to complete. I hope we crafters get new useful skills.

Originally Posted by AzuraWinters

That crafting will keep taking longer and longer to complete. I hope we crafters get new useful skills.

why would we cot get new usefull skills, we did get them in 3.0 too.

Originally Posted by Taika

My biggest fear is that they'll mess up the battle system with the planned adjustments. I really enjoy this game's battle system and having so many abilities available. I get that Heavensward rotations might have gotten a tiny bit too complicated, but I really hope they won't be taking the WoW route.

Pretty much this. I tried Legion and it's seriously mind-boggling to me how people can enjoy playing 5-button-classes with no real depth to them that pretty much anyone can play adequately without putting any thought to it. I do hope the new skill system simply gives us more freedom as to the skills we want to use, revamping old/useless skills and maybe even giving us the opportunity to further skill into our most favorite abilities. Just... no extensive pruning please.
Also, as many others have said, they need to take more risks with the content patches. Let's hope they'll put the highly increased budget to good use instead of simply playing it safe.

Originally Posted by Taika

My biggest fear is that they'll mess up the battle system with the planned adjustments. I really enjoy this game's battle system and having so many abilities available. I get that Heavensward rotations might have gotten a tiny bit too complicated, but I really hope they won't be taking the WoW route.

i don't think it's too complicated at all, at least for the DRG as i'am too lazy to try and lvl up other jobs. and actually i want my rotation to be a lot more complicated and what i would want there to be is something similar to abandon stack and mp management.
and also i'am not having any problems having 38 actions currently on my hotbars and could use 10 more of them too

Yeah, I'll join in on the battle system adjustments.

That has the biggest potential to backfire IMO.

For me, I'm concerned they'll repeat mistakes made when HW first came out like lvl 50 (in this case 60) dungeons not giving exp, no new beast tribes, no endgame dungeons at the start, e.t.c. It was something I particularly disliked about HW prior to 3.1. Not having an endgame before 3.1 was like a brick wall in content I couldn't ignore. That and their patch schedule irked me going from 3 dungeons to 2.

That it will be exactly the same stuff that we have been doing over and over patch after patch, the same short cycle continued infinitely until this game hemorrhages to death from all the boredom.

Grind tomes->Get gear->catch up patch->Grind tomes->Get gear->catch up patch->grind tomes->get gear->catch up patch

There's so much potential here, but we keep doing the same thing over and over.

My biggest fear is that classes I enjoy playing won't be enjoyable anymore, or adjusted to the point where I can't recognise them. Terrified that SCH will get the axe or they've listened to the forum's terrible ideas on SMN.

Deal with the skill bloat sure, but I don't want the classes to be "dumbed down" for lack of a better phrase.

I also fear RDM being a healer, or heavens forfend a tank. No... just no.