Haha. I've come to accept and enjoy what current MMOs are. If another EQ style game comes along, then I will try it out, but I'm not sitting in a cave waiting for that day to happen while I whine and complain about the current MMO genre
TOR is running into the same issue that WoW has, in that eventually it becomes stupid easy to get high end gear. Their customization system actually allows someone with a lot of credits to flat out buy an entire set of top end gear (but let's be clear, it's something like 60 million credits worth of materials) because as progression levels get introduced, they remove restrictions on reverse engineering on old tiers. And that doesn't fix the basic "best in slot" meta-game that came about from taking on WoW's itemization system.
I wouldn't want a return to the exact same mechanics as in EQ1. I agree with a long leveling curve and items lasting a long time (especially if we get into smaller incremental increases w/o wholesale resets and gear obsolescence) but the last thing I want is a return to non-instanced cockblocked content, especially if there is no PvP mechanics. That issue needs to be addressed in some fashion, but I think most people will agree that WoW's way of going about that ended up with an equally bad paradigm in the long run once you started seeing xpac resets and cumulative content changes.
I just received the same survey email and when I clicked the link it said I wasn't eligible to take the survey. Ok...I just got a survey from ESO asking why I beta tested the game, but never ended purchasing the live version.
I went to take the survey to essentially say I hated the combat, and there were still bugs, and game was not stable enough.
So I answer I first question on the survey, press continue and it stop because the server is too busy. How ironic.
Had the same thing happen to me. Then when I tried again it told me I already took it.
Yeah, not much new content. I guess they are calling the dye system and guild heraldry "content." I'm more interested in the revamped gear sets, and the consolidated Cyrodiil campaigns.
They should be letting their players know the value of the increase and quit being so damn vague about everything, considering this was a bitching point. (Not being able to level in PvP to not have to go through the questing/dungeon content) They also need to lower the PvP requirement to level 1. Add name plates (Seriously... how are these not in yet) and turn it into a buy to play game without a sub.
This was more of a balance patch than a content patch. There were significant design changes to buff stamina abilities and bring them up to par with magicka abilities. In addition to changing the item set bonuses, the stat softcaps for all abilities minus Spell Damage were increased while the Spell Damage softcap was reduced. The new Stamina softcap is supposed to be higher than the Magicka softcap so that stamina abilities will do comparable DPS to magicka abilities.
For the past 2-3 weeks there have been two campaigns consistently locked or at 2-3 bars during primetime. Every other campaign has been at 1 bar for all three factions.
It's "in progress" I'm sure parts of it will start showing up on PTS soon. I would guess update 5 or so (late September.) Just guessing.
