Let's be MORE Useful! Things you don't like!

[Signe]

Scratch everything I said about not liking anything. I'm patient and can take a bunch of classes up to 40 while waiting for shit to get patched in. Rather, I want to beat the ever living fuck out of their PR and Community Relation folks. Hard. In the eyes.

I usually don't pay much attention to all that stuff unless I have a big problem and it's not addressed pronto, but I have to say, they even annoy the hell out of me.  Anyway, being the shy person I am, I'm taking this opportunity to tell you I'm cheering you on.  From the back, in the shadows, where no one can point at me.  Make them cry.

[Special J]

So I picked it up and played over the weekend. So far, I'm finding it pretty fun.  Still in Tortage with a level 14 Herald of Xotli.  Starting a Barbarian as well.

Two things

Graphic glitches!  My character model doesn't always render properly.  For example when I transform back from that monster thingy my character has come back with normal hair, white hair, no hair. Who knows?  When I put on a short robe, the top part of my legs didn't render so I was torso floating over a pair of legs.

I have no goddamn clue what these combos do. Maybe it's by design?  Reading the description of Molten Steel Slash it tells me it debuffs their fire and slash resist.  What it doesn't tell you is it does a fuckton of damage.  I would have had no clue from the description.

[Signe]

Yes, add that to my in-game list, too.  Really, really poor in-game documentation of not only items, but spells, combos, and just about everything else.  I don't recognise the "I'm Norwegian" excuse for the poor documentation, either.  My grandfather could describe a bottle of vodka in English, even when most of it was in him.  If you're as serious about something as my grandfather was about vodka, you can make yourself understood.

[Numtini]

I have no goddamn clue what these combos do. Maybe it's by design?  Reading the description of Molten Steel Slash it tells me it debuffs their fire and slash resist.  What it doesn't tell you is it does a fuckton of damage.  I would have had no clue from the description.

What it looks like to me from going through the combat log is if you're in a combo, it ignores the armor facing and uses a base damage taken from the attack--you get that base damage for each swipe in the chain and the effect of the combo itself--which could be damage or could be something else and which isn't documented well.

My swipes normally do 25/60/90 depending on blocking and my enraging strike III requires 2 swipes to go off. I get three attacks at the same 90-ish damage despite the fact that one of those swipes was against three shields and one against open. No idea which of the three is attached to the taunt effect.

My overhead enraging strike, I get damage in the 60s, again, irregardless of the shielding, plus an extra hit, plus the bleeding DOT.

My dulling blow has two swipes. I get 60-ish damage for two hits, and then I get the debuff from it for the "combo" but no damage because the effect of the combo is a debuff, not damage.

[schild]

So, I'm going to let you all decide, should I try to get an interview with someone or just completely blast them on the frontpage?

[Falconeer]

Blast them on the frontpage with a damage dealing interview.

[Kirth]

So, I'm going to let you all decide, should I try to get an interview with someone or just completely blast them on the frontpage?

Interview, ask them why they released a game that was 30% done.

[Miasma]

So, I'm going to let you all decide, should I try to get an interview with someone or just completely blast them on the frontpage?

Interview, ask them why they released a game that was 30% done.

We already know the answer, they ran out of money.  Their stock price got gutted the last time they announced a delay.

It's a real shame because I am enjoying the parts of the game that actually work but all the bugs, lack of polish and terrible communication is starting to overwhelm me.

[Kirth]

So, I'm going to let you all decide, should I try to get an interview with someone or just completely blast them on the frontpage?

Interview, ask them why they released a game that was 30% done.

We already know the answer, they ran out of money.  Their stock price got gutted the last time they announced a delay.

It's a real shame because I am enjoying the parts of the game that actually work but all the bugs, lack of polish and terrible communication is starting to overwhelm me.

I'm enjoying it as well, I'm willing to wait a while and see what gets fixed.

[Engels]

So, I'm going to let you all decide, should I try to get an interview with someone or just completely blast them on the frontpage?

Offer an interview first. Gentlemen offer the oportunity of apology before demanding pistols at dawn.

[Signe]

Interview and then blast them on the front page.  Why can't we have it all?

[Tarami]

A nitpicky detail that's really boring me is the tarty women. I'm not offended as such, but it gets horribly, horribly boring when every other female NPC is a buxom wench. The rest just look like it. It feels very juvenile rather than "mature".

[Montague]

It's getting harder and harder to log in.

Itemization is a joke, Crafting is buggered, Dungeons are borked, and guild cities are broken. There's no economy.

Literally the only reason for playing right now is questing and ding-gratz. It's getting old.

[stray]

Geez... You guys almost make me happy that I can't play.

[Threash]

It's getting harder and harder to log in.

Itemization is a joke, Crafting is buggered, Dungeons are borked, and guild cities are broken. There's no economy.

Literally the only reason for playing right now is questing and ding-gratz. It's getting old.

In less than a week? i can see the ding-gratz keeping me happy for at least the next couple months.  If they havent got their shit together by then and have some decent end game content then it might get old.

[Falconeer]

Ding-gratz is tightly bound to being able to use better equipment. If the equipment flatly sucks, then dingin' lose 50% of its appeal (other 50 being killing higher level mobs).

[Zetor]

- Total lack of class balance. Yeah, they might be 'balanced at 80', but I don't see anyone in my guild getting to 80 anytime soon [or ever]. My priest of mitra can easily take 3-4 +1 mobs at once (and I'm -not- specced for the broken purification AOE) and solo +2 bosses with ease while my HoX and bear shaman guildies struggle if there's more than one mob. If someone says 'l2p' to this, please to be dying in a fire, kthxbye.
- Stability issues. My PC is not amazing (and I'm running at minimum settings), but -every time- I try to zone into a PVP minigame (3 times so far), it hard-locks and reboots. Eff that noise, if you're gonna crash, at least have the decency to not take the OS with you.
- Trader NPCs still not being in... come on, this is MMO 101.
- Drops are meh. What was wrong with the WOW model of stackable grey items for vendor trash instead of eleventy billion useless armor pieces (edit: though it seems to work ok for beast/monster drops)? It's really fun to play 'find-the-quest-reward-among-the-crap-with-the-same-model', too.
- Inventory is a mess. If they're going to give us such a limited number of slots in which to store the aforementioned useless drops from NPCs, at least put useful stuff like consumables and food in its own section.
- Crafting... yeah, I won't go there.

The game's still enjoyable thanks to the combat system, but I can't see myself [or the guild] getting to the level cap before quitting of frustration. Ah Funcom, how we love thee!


-- Z.

[schild]

Thing I was writing delayed til tomorrow. Trying to get ahold of a specific someone at Funcom and got an update. Will post more as I hopefully will talk to him in the morning.

[Tale]

nemo38 and his Harold of Xolti

[Brogarn]

If there is one... I can't find it... but holy hell playing a Ranger would be so much damn easier if there was a single toggle button to switch between first and third person.

edit: Oh, and there being no difference between races other than what classes they can play is "meh". Unless I'm missing something.

[Special J]

nemo38 and his Harold of Xolti

What an awesome post.

I have another gripe, but maybe there's a cure that I don't know about:

 Do I really need to click through 6 GODDAMN VIDEOS JUST TO GET TO THE LOGIN SCREEN?

[Surlyboi]

If there is one... I can't find it... but holy hell playing a Ranger would be so much damn easier if there was a single toggle button to switch between first and third person.

edit: Oh, and there being no difference between races other than what classes they can play is "meh". Unless I'm missing something.

Scroll wheel seems to work fine for me...

[Brogarn]

It works, sure. But it would be nice to hit one button and instantly change from one to the other. It's a preference, I guess, but certainly something I don't like.

[Mazakiel]

-That I can't get stuff like quest drops or credit for something during night, unless it's marked as a night quest.  Would it really be so hard to have some overlap? 
-That I get better FPS/performance on medium rather than low.  I need to upgrade my card, yes, but I'd rather get a smoother play experience until I can. 

[Signe]

nemo38 and his Harold of Xolti

God.  That name is awesome.  I like it better than Cohen the Librarian and Ice Cream Conan.  Damn you, Funcom, for not alloowing multiple word names! 

PS  Nemo is obviously the bottom droog.

[Miasma]

A whole bunch of classes are complaining about stealth nerfs with today's patch.  The patch notes didn't mention a whole bunch of class changes they made.  It looks like they have been spending their time nerfing classes rather than fixing anything.

[Signe]

Yeah, I saw that.  Evidently they snuck up behind the Rangers and replaced their bow with trouts.

[Zetor]

Oh yeah, two quest-related gripes I left out from the previous post:
- Long respawn timers on quest [named] mobs / items. I spent about 10 mins camping the yeti in conall's valley because some jackass stealther KS'd it when I rested after clearing the area of other mobs.
- No objective sharing in groups. C'mon, this should be elementary by now, if someone kills a mob / loots a quest item / etc, everyone else in the group should get credit appropriately.


-- Z.

[Engels]

Yeah, I saw that.  Evidently they snuck up behind the Rangers and replaced their bow with trouts.

At 28, my ranger with bow spec seems about the same. If anything now my range improvement talent actually seems to do something.

[Brogarn]

Oh yeah, two quest-related gripes I left out from the previous post:
- Long respawn timers on quest [named] mobs / items. I spent about 10 mins camping the yeti in conall's valley because some jackass stealther KS'd it when I rested after clearing the area of other mobs.
- No objective sharing in groups. C'mon, this should be elementary by now, if someone kills a mob / loots a quest item / etc, everyone else in the group should get credit appropriately.


-- Z.

Amen. I'm so sick of people ganking my quest mob. 10 minute respawn on some of this shit is just ridiculous.

Although on the mob front, me and this other guy briefly grouped up to kill some Alpha wolf mob and both got credit for it. I haven't experienced item completion in a group yet, though.

[KallDrexx]

Amen. I'm so sick of people ganking my quest mob. 10 minute respawn on some of this shit is just ridiculous.

Try going to another instance.  There is usually at least one instance for all the zones I've been to that is pretty empty of players.

[Miasma]

Although on the mob front, me and this other guy briefly grouped up to kill some Alpha wolf mob and both got credit for it. I haven't experienced item completion in a group yet, though.

You get kill credit so long as you don't die, if you get killed during the big fight you're screwed.  Item completion is fine if it's in a bag, then everyone can loot it, but if it's a glowy thing you have to wait for every single member of the group to get one (or even worse get 20/20)...

[Brogarn]

Amen. I'm so sick of people ganking my quest mob. 10 minute respawn on some of this shit is just ridiculous.

Try going to another instance.  There is usually at least one instance for all the zones I've been to that is pretty empty of players.

How do you know if you're in a different instance? Or do I just click the "epic" button I never click?

[Miasma]

Click the down arrow in the upper left of the mini map to change your instance.  This can also be used to teleport to the nearest rezz pad when you don't feel like running.

[Montague]

Amen. I'm so sick of people ganking my quest mob. 10 minute respawn on some of this shit is just ridiculous.

Try going to another instance.  There is usually at least one instance for all the zones I've been to that is pretty empty of players.

How do you know if you're in a different instance? Or do I just click the "epic" button I never click?

Edit -  Fuck you Miasma 

There's an arrow thingy above your minimap you can click to change the instance. (Pro tip: You can also use it as another hearth, since you spawn at the nearest discovered rez point)