From a fairly new player to D:OS, I'd like to start off saying this: I LOVED this game when I first tried it. The feeling of absolute, ABSOLUTE freedom was something unattainable in any mmo or rpg game I have ever played. And I'm a player from beta of Mabinogi, the mmo that encourages doing anything you want. After this patch though, I felt an extreme lacking, even disappointment.
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I'm not trying to criticize what is going on, but I am saying I liked the old system enough that I did not stick to your current patch. I restored the previous version and continued playing it as such. Heck, maybe that could even be an option! Give players the option of playing the game with the old OR new skill system!
Over the years, I've played systems that had wide open freedom to build one's character, this wasn't breaking ground. Unless the point is you can simply just take the best of each class and ignore the rest is your slant, then to me it just shows a game in beta still tweaking it's ways. Who writes gaming systems like that? We'd all be named MinMax.
But this is one of the issues of having open beta's, from other EA games as well, we get used to what is given and when the rules are tightened on us, there is always always a backlash. We get used to easier, we get used to what is offered and now something new, more challenging is given and it feels like were were pushed backwards. It's an EA problem.
They are building a combat engine, ideally this would be totally fleshed out before any code is ever written, but this isn't the case. Combat engines want to have some cleverness to them, tough choices, choices that have consequence and ultimately balance.
Perhaps the mod'ing of the game can add in something else we all may individually want. Asking for optional combat model/rules at a level like this doesn't seem overly feasible.
What happens if they change the system up again for the next patch? There will be people that hate it and people that love it. Who's right? Who's wrong? Really what they need to do, is keep a small ear open, but really stick to and finish up what they have, trust in their years of exp. or this thing will never be released.
