It isn't the first time they've done it, won't be the last.

Bill Z Bubb wrote on Sep 25^th, 2012 at 10:16pm:


I am amazed that something actually was so bad at turbine they scrapped it. Sadly I think the enhancement update could take well into 2013 at best case

mystafyi wrote on Sep 26^th, 2012 at 1:02am:


Confirmed : http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p=4704589&postcount=36

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The ddo code base must be an absolute mess... and it's not like they don't have classes that can do things while stealthed *cough* rogues *cough*.

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What class gets that Pre? Is it monks?

Also, the push back isn't a shocker, they don't understand their own game, they don't understand their own classes, they don't understand enhancements, they don't understand builds or multiclassing.  For some reason in a PVE game class balance has some for of importance to them.   Their destiny system is a total mess.  I can't wait for them to totally fuck up enhancements.

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Somebody grew a pair. Good.

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That hurts.  It really hurts.   

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Before I ever played the game, I decided I would be a ranger, and I would take the Deepwood Sniper PrE.  I tried.  I leveled up, carefully planning out my progression and how I would fit in the pre-reqs.  Since I started with F2P, and I had read lots of posts by the devs about how they would fill in all of the missing PrEs, I was sure that it was just a matter of time.  I played pretty slowly, so it was all good. 

Months went by.  I took the 1st tier and thought "Huh, this is kind of craptastic."  No worries though, the devs were working on it.  Surely this was just a precursor to the awesomesauce they had planned for tier 2!

12th level came and went, and there was no 2nd tier.  AA was released, but of course my archer didn't qualify because I didn't want to be a candy-ass magic-using pansy and I had planned to be a Deepwoods Sniper, dammit.  I played for several more months realizing with greater and greater certainty that: my archery sucked, my PrE was a deceptive, shitty piece of crap that tried to trick me into believing that exactly two shots every 2 minutes might somehow make a difference, I did more with TWF even though I never did a single thing to improve my TWF, the promise of completed PrEs was a hopeless pipe dream fed to burnt out MMO junkies to string them along, and the devs could no more make good on their plans than I could fuck Michele Obama in the ass tonight*.

After that point I used a few feat respecs to make my melee a bit more respectable, and then promptly TRed when I reached 20th so that I could make a bona fide TWF character that wasn't just a flavor build.

I still twitch a little when I think about Deepwoods Sniper.  Even so, if they ever release all three tiers and manage to make it at least acceptable without some bizarre monk splash, I'll probably go back.  I still want to be a Deepwoods Sniper, dammit!






* - I wouldn't normally say such things, but I had to make sure this was Vault-friendly.  You know how it is.

So we'll see the PrE revamp in U18 which will be April-ish 2013.  Seven years after the game was released they'll finally "finish" PrEs.  Complete MMOs have been created in less time than that (see: Guild Wars 2).

Glenalth wrote on Sep 27^th, 2012 at 12:45am:


I never thought of that, but I can see it now.  You are a cruel, cruel person.

Eladiun wrote on Sep 26^th, 2012 at 11:18am:

Look around, they already did.