Rift: Random Complaint Thread

[Lucavi]

Trion needs to be careful with their choices. They advertised a game with limitless class possibilities and with the recent nerfs, they've limited quite a few of them. The balance between pve and pvp will forever haunt these games if they don't come up with something like EQ2 had or something that only works in pvp, like a stat conversion. The Sabs were hit hard and I think a lot of it is due to the range at which sabs have to stay to use their abilities all the while being a ranged class. I hope they don't end up putting the players in a corner when it comes to class selection. :/

You weigh your options. If limitless = 3-4 OP specs across all souls rule the day, FOREVER, then you're going to potentially lose more subs through people getting sick of the lack of balance than if you quickly make strides to balance things. One thing you always have to remember is that the vocal minority of forum complainers is just that - a minority. I've heard countless in-game complaints about sabs, bards, WARRIORS, ect., which are actually people still playing the game. Those are who you listen to. Those posting on a forum are just that - posting instead of playing, and while sure, they can get off the forums and go play, you want to make life fair for as many people that are playing as possible. Whiners are always going to find something to whine about.

That being said, I enjoy this patch. Pyro got a much-needed efficiency buff with being able to ground >> shield >> insta-ground (which also helps mobility), I don't mind the stun decay because its balanced alongside all other stuns, chloro got better single target and weaker group heals, and my necro can finally freakin use empty the crypts without being reduced to running around like a coward afterward, afraid to use soul purge. The former Beastmaster abusers in my rift raid last night went paragon and still tore it up, DPS-wise, so I'm fine with balances.

This game would have been empty pretty quickly if you really think that the best idea was to simply allow everyone to do everything, while having 4 classes that do things "the best" to the point of frustration for any other soul spec.

[Meko]

I'm not saying leave things unbalanced but at the same token, don't rob Peter to pay Paul. I'm not 50 yet so I can't say how the top end is when it comes to balance. At the lower levels, I don't see that many differences really. I do hope for a balanced game but I also hope that PvP doesn't hinder PvE and vice versa. WoW has done this for years where there is a constant shift from class X to class Y etc. The flipside to OP souls is "too weak" souls. My main point in my comment was the PvP balancing being the point of reference.

On a side note, I don't buy into forum QQs etc. I have my own takes on the game and so far, I'm really enjoying it. None of the buffs/nerfs have affected my class so far (that I can tell) and I'm having a good time with the game.

[Arelian]

For anyone that got hacked:

My account was recently hacked and since it took them about a week to fix the issue, they just credited my account with a free 30 days and all of the preorder runes. Did anyone else get something nice like that? o.o

[Crizto]

When I got hacked I first reported it as a currency issue on a Thursday. I changed the report to a "hacking" on a Friday, and obviously didn't get a response during the weekend. Monday morning they responded, saying the issue was resolved and in my mailbox was not only the currency I lost, but also every single item that I had (even though none of that was taken). I actually made money on the whole thing! Honestly once I changed my report to a "hacking" I got like an instant response lol. Was great service from my experience.

[Man0warr]

For anyone that got hacked:

My account was recently hacked and since it took them about a week to fix the issue, they just credited my account with a free 30 days and all of the preorder runes. Did anyone else get something nice like that? o.o

Yep.

[LidenbokValour]

Trion has pretty much mastered the old fashioned art of fixing one thing then breaking another in the process.

It's ridicuous how many bugs there are atm, just spent an hour farming my exquisite cloth after dropping like 10 of the fucking things prior to not having outfitter and it turns out it doesn't even give the quest for the recipe. Yay.

[LidenbokValour]

double post

[tonyg]

Complaint of the day : the amount of QQ in chat and forums. Every little dipshit that ran a rogue or a warrior not to have fun, but to be OP, is crying/ragequitting. My static tank which who I was running dungeons since level 30 ragequit because his reaver spec is no more, so now I'm one of the only tanks pugging after 7pm on my server. Is it because they aren't running parsers that they haven't realized they were way too powerful and are now crying, or do they simply want to have it easymode all the way?

[Kuya]

I don't understand. Can't they just respec?

[Alderaan]

Anyone that quits over an update is someone i wouldn't want to play with anyways.

[Lucavi]

I don't understand. Can't they just respec?

Yes, but the spec that currently does the most DPS is their spec. At least in WoW it was a bit different because if they borked an entire class, you had to reroll instead of respec. This game makes it much easier, but no matter what any devs do for any game, the human element is always the same. That human element will always cause some people to whine their faces off on Forums.

[Katlan]

ppl are just stupid, end of story.

Random complaint: dev's giving into the cry babies who never level out of the noob zone and them bitching about having a [harder] time doing the event and the dev's nerfing it so ppl only get credit and stuff from level appropriate rifts. fuck that shit.

Also, does the rare mount only come from invasions, or can be it be from minor solo rifts?

[Katlan]

new random complaint: I made an alt cleric I wanted to play a little this weekend, but I have been sending extra artifacts to this alt (that I haven't done anything w/ yet) for weeks lol. Its an elf, and I have been thinking about maybe making it a human.. but fuck, I have to do the entire intro zone just to get to a mailbox to send all that shit back

[LidenbokValour]

I honestly don't know why people are crying rivers about rogues, it was only fucking sab that was nerfed which was perfectly necessary.

I still do 600-700 DPS on instance/raid bosses DPS as ranger, okay thats not like the 1k mages are doing now but it beats the minimum dps requirement for all GS encounters by a big chunk. Not to mention Nightblade is doing around the same for melee friendly fights (yes they exist).

The little fucking pre-teens crying because they can't do silly DPS while pressing 2 buttons tis' all. Fuck em'

[Cjskater]

Well, there was a lot of bullshit in this update after all. Not just the class changes, most of which I don't care about.

Examples:

Spoiler: show

The Malformed/Corrupted Souls nerf, at least to that extent, was completely uncalled for

They say they want us to use drops from dungeons, instead of plaque gear, but they make plaque gear easier to get and nerf dungeon drops

The epic quest being completable by 1 person-per-greenscale-kill, yeah fuck you

Endurance buffs no longer stack with an Archon's Shared Vigor (who knows what else they changed with buffs, just noticed that one in particular)

Exhilaration is apparently broken, though I don't think that's the only problem, noticing a lot of mana problems I didn't have previously on my mage (not just on archon)

Planar Protection now uses 3 charges instead of just 1, not sure if its intended but its bullshit as well, surprised its not being overwritten yet though

That sniper FC boss, really, how the fuck did they break her when she wasn't even being touched in the patch? Yes, she's still beatable, just makes it a pain in the ass

That stormcaller bitch in CC is still buggy as fuck

CHANGING THE FUCKING MAGE RAID SHOULDERS, WHAT THE FUCK (jesus christ they are ugly now -- just like all the other mage sets)

All the other shit they completely ignored or broke

Now, I'm not going to quit over this, but I am losing my motivation to play. The way I typed some of those complaints are a little exaggerated, as well, I do feel they are bullshit though.

Edit: Was a new patch today, fixed some of my complaints, still question their ability to "do shit right the first time" like they say they can.

[Katlan]

Wow... epic quest line is a bitch alrdy.. and they make it so only one person can complete it per kill? That's just plain retarded. But then again, Trion is the company that makes an MMO that has a running away debuff (which they made 100x worse). It's not bad enough a lv 5 mob can dismount you in one shot, or that 75% of mobs in this game open up w/ a stun to make sure you get ganged raped while trying to run away from stuff or on your mount.

Just floors me that I'm sure ppl have complained about that debuff 100000x times during beta and so far in retail, yet they take that feedback and make it worse. Somebody high up in the chain of commands must love that debuff. May sound stupid, but I'm sure ppl have quit over that debuff, and it makes me want to quit at times

[LidenbokValour]

I can't even comprehend what even made these people think that the running away debuff would be something to add into a game, what the fuck is it good for? absolutely no reason to put it in what so ever. I also think their logic is hysterical. "Hey guys, people don't like the fact you take 100% more damage whilst running from mobs, lets change it. Lets make it slow your movement speed down so they can't survive it this time!"

They only had people test the event during the 1.1 Alpha which isn't even fucking happening for another week and a few days may I add. So why didn't they test the stuff that was going to be used literally the second the servers went live. Baffles me bro.

Edit : I don't think the greenscale quest giving credit to just one person is what they planned, everything that was touched (and some that wasn't touched) by the patch has somehow bugged some way.

[Meko]

What is this debuff? I'm not familiar with it (or am I?).

[Katlan]

You do. If a mob huge u from behind while ur moving you get a -6% movement speed debuff that stacks to 5. It used to be you would get a +20% dmg taken debuff (that stack 5x). They both horrible to begin w/, but this game has agro / dismounting issues w/o that annoyance

[Mytiwar]

Not being able to play fullscreen because I get a black screen every single goddamn time I try to pvp or jump a cliff or mount or swim or do anything that require some sort of animation.
That's after updating drivers and everything, only happens with this game and since their last patch it happens all the fricking time.

Playing in windowed mode seems to have fixed it though, for some reason.


And let's completely disregard them nerfing rogue to oblivion for pvp (bard is still kinda playable, kinda decent). Mobs seeing through stealth? It's like the one advantage this class had over the others and now you can't avoid aggro in pve at all since there's always some retard shadow creeping outta nowhere that sees you.