Help I've been Nerfed and can't get my damage back up :(

[Shurrikhan]

You now cast the strongest spell of its tier.

The issue is when they're not direct upgrades, or previously were not (carried additional effects and/or had reduced cast times or mana cost).

[Suki_Pursia]

This game has no freedom of customization.

-mumbles to self- Don't get sarcastic.... just get ready for bed.....

Sorry bout that.... Uh. Glamours? Gear upgrades with ability to glamour? Yea, there's customizations for style. But sure, your character is now static, skill wise, based on what the Devs want it to be. ((Thanks alot devs......))

Cross classes were a relic that they finally decided to fix.

But that relic is the only way to get bonus buffs on a character that might not make it through certain areas

[Hagen]

I'm under 30 on all of them except crafting, gathering and two of my combat related classes.... so it kinda does matter to me? O.o

As for the reiteration... Drain only works in combat on enemies. So.... fall damage...... Yea.

I mean to say, to get after 30 is so fast it is mostly a mildly incovinience. I'm curious though, what sort of content did you go duo/solo. You duo the whole lvling dungeons?

[Suki_Pursia]

I'm not paying for a game where I'm worrying about what other people think. I was paying for my own play style. They messed it up. End of story. Sure 2 people dropping subs may just be a drop in the bucket vs the millions of other players.... But what happens when more people quit because they can't quit tweaking classes? It's JUST like WoW all over again.

[Riranor]

The thing is, what you are calling a nerf, is a buff for everyone else that does play party content. Or, instead of saying everyone else how about I call that a majority.

You and your partner are 1 person, with one way to play, that was suboptimal (not bad, but it wasn't optimal) and the devs took the optimal way to play and made that better for those who play end game.

The problem you're having is you want to play an MMO not for the end game, but the way you want to play it, and I honestly suggest a different genre or MMO altogether. I am absolutely happy with the BLM changes, a lot of people love the new AOE thunder, which is why fire 2 got nerfed fyi. To put it bluntly you're a minority and you quitting for playing differently isn't going to effect anyone else since you already play relatively solo anyway. What everyone has been saying is that the changes ARE better for everyone else, and we're not changing our buff back for you to be happy.

[Riranor]

So sure, they keep tweaking classes, but BLM is literally better, Ninja is literally smoother (since that was brought up), PAL was buffed like crazy. Tweaking is necessary for ever changing content and it's extremely mind baffling you find one of the best things about an MMO to be a bad thing, so again, an MMO is not for you.

[Suki_Pursia]

I mean to say, to get after 30 is so fast it is mostly a mildly incovinience. I'm curious though, what sort of content did you go duo/solo. You duo the whole lvling dungeons?

Was getting about 7k exp on fates in drybone on my lower levels... got them all 2 levels in a day, but still at level 23, it's hard to solo stuff. Especially since they revamped how fates work too.

We had duo-ed Sastasha, Tam-Tara, Copperbell, Halatali, Thousand Maws, Haukke, Brayflox, Stone Vigil, Cutters cry and Dzemael. I was unsynched and on BLM. We tore them up! It was super awesome.... at least until the update -sighs-

[Hagen]

The focus of the devs for the game is party play on lvl cap (70 now), so that is why they made those changes. It works on Lvl 70 but a little lower lvl flexibility was lost. If you manage to do this much duo, these changes are mostly managable since stuff just got moved. Break applies Heavy now, Drain can heal mid fight, Thunder is actually better because Thunder 3 has the Thunder 1 cast time. Ironically, I think you might have loved the 1.0 version of the game that was scraped years ago because it was so bad since it allowed for even more of these costumizations. In fact the little costumization we had before SB was all left overs from the 1.0 system.

[Joven]

The problem you're having is you want to play an MMO not for the end game, but the way you want to play it, and I honestly suggest a different genre or MMO altogether. I am absolutely happy with the BLM changes, a lot of people love the new AOE thunder, which is why fire 2 got nerfed fyi. To put it bluntly you're a minority and you quitting for playing differently isn't going to effect anyone else since you already play relatively solo anyway. What everyone has been saying is that the changes ARE better for everyone else, and we're not changing our buff back for you to be happy.

So you're saying that people who role play in MMOs and casual players who only want to experience the game and the community and don't really care for the endgame carrot chasing don't matter? That only endgamers and content runners are the only ones who deserve to be listened to? That's the kind of attitude that kept me away from MMOs for a long time.

[Riranor]

So you're saying that people who role play in MMOs and casual players who only want to experience the game and the community and don't really care for the endgame carrot chasing don't matter? That only endgamers and content runners are the only ones who deserve to be listened to? That's the kind of attitude that kept me away from MMOs for a long time.

These buffs dont effect unsynced dungeons runs, you can still play non end game content (the buffs do help that too), RPer's shouldn't be affected? I RP and headcanon how I want spells to work anyway for RP so that doesn't apply. I'm saying a majority o players play end game, so content WILL be balanced around it, honestly tho you can still do anything BUT solo at low levels, the game is not designed around that and wanting it to be for the sake of a very small handful of payers is selfish.