Open Beta - design changes

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EpsiIon wrote:

Invalidating a post based on limited information on a post on limited information. You just lowered yourself to my level, and well below it, to simply anyone who reads this.

The reason I say this, is that we have had dozens, maybe even hundreds of threads on the balance issues at hand, with some of the best actual USERS of many of the things nerfed, who outlined many times, in many ways, exactly what was wrong with each of the systems.

Basically none of it was addressed here in anyway of correctly.

To boot, this entire patch, and reasoning, is simply leading me down a chain of thought that is mostly simplifying the game so immensly, that I am rather outraged to SEE this of a game that has prided itself on being as different as possible.

I mean, ES Just went from the only class/build/spec that could mitigate Chaos, and the strongest defensive late game option, to basically having all of the previous weaknesses, and none of the strengths.

Critique me if you will, and I admit, a bit of this may be knee-jerk of my own, but this patch is not the highlight of GGG. The balancing reasoning is very shallow, though well orated.

Im simply disappointed.


We've spent a lot of time working on the balance of this patch and have read through massive amounts of feedback while testing hundreds of different changes and pushing many of them to Alpha for feedback. We've also been very clear about our reasoning behind the changes, posting thousands of words of explanation in this thread. You should try the new version tomorrow and let us know what you think of it.

With all due respect, I don't agree with your criticism of our development/balance process. Please note that the explanation in this thread just represents the reasoning behind the final form of each change, and ignores the dozens of failed attempts to fix each system that we learnt from before finding ones that we're much happier with.
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