Best game ever

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Agreed! Keep up these positive forum posts, people are so negative for NO REASON! We can only go up and I did not wait years for this to come out just to bitch and leave in 24 hours of rough server stuff LOVE ARR! Keep it up Yoshi and team, appreciate all that you do for us!

I want this game to be good. I really do. But they've stripped out every bit of difficulty and made it as boring as possible. I can't lower my standards to the point where I'll accept being able to go afk against bosses and come back relatively unhurt. That isn't fun or exciting.

In addition to quest battles needing to be more difficult, all content with level syncs needs to only allowing being 1 or so levels above the level sync. Not +3. Right now higher level players (including all legacy characters) can blow through content, defeating the (very important) purpose of level syncs. Whatever mechanics they have in place to scale FATEs to numbers is not working. They are often a mess and unplayable, with no intelligence required.

Btw, just accepting whatever the dev team puts out hurts the game in the long term. You are not doing your job as participating players at guiding them towards what is fun.

[Alerith]

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You'd be surprised at some of the fun other fights can have. I assume you're referring to the golem or demon fights around level 15, because if you just stand around for "Keeping the Oath", the final PLD fight, you're going to die.

Difficulty and whatnot seems to scale at a decent pace. If you're a seasoned MMO veteran, then it's going to feel easy at first, but I think they know what they're doing when it comes to making fun content.

We have to remember, this is still the same team that made the "United We Stand" and "To Kill a Raven" fights for the 7th Umbral storyline. I think they're gonna do just fine.

[Riposte]

We have to remember, this is still the same team that made the "United We Stand" and "To Kill a Raven" fights for the 7th Umbral storyline. I think they're gonna do just fine.

I wish I had your optimism. The thing is that this is also the team that has undone the job artifact quests, which were great opportunities for decent party challenge, and is now making a MMORPG with an audience that is very different from who they were aiming at during the 1.19-1.23 updates. Perhaps the end-game content will be alright, but I put no real hopes on the main scenario.

[Alerith]

I wish I had your optimism. The thing is that this is also the team that has undone the job artifact quests, which were great opportunities for decent party challenge, and is now making a MMORPG with an audience that is very different from who they were aiming at during the 1.19-1.23 updates. Perhaps the end-game content will be alright, but I put no real hopes on the main scenario.

I just got out of the new Dzemael Darkhold (level 44 dungeon). Don't worry, things get more difficult and in the best of ways.