Cyr wrote on Oct 26^th, 2012 at 10:02am:



Feather of Cunt is terrible, but that title is reserved for Fernando.

Breca still there? Dude made some mistakes, but by god he owned them, and did his damnedest to drill down to what the underlying objections were.

Asheras wrote on Oct 26^th, 2012 at 10:49am:


I completely agree with that.

stainer wrote on Oct 26^th, 2012 at 10:06am:


Someone has to wear the hair shirt.

There is a lot of fail.  It should be spread around to the appropriate people.

I'm not pointing a finger at Feather_Of_Dawning for not fixing:
- ladders
- ship captain teleport dialogue
- memory leak
- epic destinies issues after Lesser Reinc
- UMD lag
- Mobs continuing to attack when danced or paralyzed

or lots of other things.

If he wants to wash his hands of accountability for the fails to which he has linked himself (Abbot 20th, Spell Power, Loot Generation, Named Loot Itemization), that's no surprise. 

What would be a welcome surprise would be for him or anyone at Turbine to step up, publicly take ownership for pissing off a lot of people, explain how they failed and what steps will be taken to prevent the same damn thing from happening again.

What would be a REAL surprise is if the same shit didn't happen again.

Shine a light on it and don't turn it off until the mess is cleaned up.


I thought he was a fan of the game.

stainer wrote on Oct 26^th, 2012 at 10:06am:


I saw the post, but I take claims about who people are on these forums with more then a grain of salt.

And I stand behind that statement.  Plenty of fail at Turbine, but FoS is like a wrecking ball of destruction.

His loot design has destroyed ingame incentives to run lots of content and that hurt the game on a fundamental level.

Too slow.

Bye Breca. Fatesinger turned out pretty awesome on my 17/2/1 bard/rogue/fighter. Thanks for the hard work.

Cyr wrote on Oct 26^th, 2012 at 2:00pm:


It is him.

I generally feel for anyone who loses their job; expecially in the tough employment situation the US is in currently.

Now that being said; perhaps a little shake-up at Turbine is not a bad thing. Quality control I feel is basically non-existant, and has been for some time. The last few years seems nothing but  "Design, push content out, hope the hell it works; if not, ah well, worry about it later because we are busy working on the next big thing".

Honestly, you can only distract players by dangling new shiny things for them to chase for so long before they realise they are constantly wading hip-deep in a sea of shit while chasing the latest toy.

I am very sure that a lot of staff at Turbine do an exceptional job; I am also quite sure that most of these productive staff members are still employed there. Losing a bit of the dead wood is not always a bad thing.

I think that a bit of house-cleaning is this case is good; jobs at Turbine are paid for through customer satisifaction after all, and some seem to have lost sight of that fact a while ago.

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Breca is awesome.  Almost makes me want to play a bard.

jollen wrote on Oct 26^th, 2012 at 3:57pm:


Much as I want to shank feather for what his fucking with the random loot has done to pretty much all forms of crafting, and his outright attitude leaden refusal to keep that end updated, can't blame him for 20+ not having craftables till they drop the 'caps at 20' mechanic.

Guuuuuuys!!!!!  Feather is buffing hirelings, stop being so mean!  I mean, now when my retarded as shit hireling decides to stand in the middle of the trapped door in PoP when all it needs to do is pull a fucking lever it will last like 5 more seconds.  Or when my cleric hireling is spam healing itself because it has a double tick of melfs acid arrow, instead of just casting acid resistance, it will be able to heal that damage slightly faster.

Hirelings are serious buziness.

Glenalth wrote on Oct 26^th, 2012 at 4:10pm:


Honestly not sure what to think about this.  I liked Breca's communication with the players, and that alone was enough to make me want them around.  But I think they had a horrible idea of the role of a bard and were not doing the class justice.  Hopefully they've have somebody with a better vision for bards working on the enhancement bypass.

Still, it's a lot easier to teach somebody about the strengths and weaknesses of a class than it is to teach them how to communicate like an adult and just generally not be a douchebag.

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Sure you can... He could have placed additional effects on the Rune arms. My arti doesnt meed natural armor .. his ac sucks as is from not having the appropriate armor available to him