I have barely played since the last update, when I am coming home from work it always seems like a wonderful idea and I get excited about do some questing, but within a hour or a half-hour of logging in I'm finding myself at a bit of a loss.

Normally I play with family most of the time, but they are up the coast until march currently and not playing at all. But thats not really a good explanation, because I usually play lots of new flavor stuff when I'm solo.

Little worried that I might be burned out   

but i know how you feel, im kinda having a hard time finding i build thats fun to play

DropBear wrote on Jan 16^th, 2015 at 1:27am:


Yes. Solo most of the time.
And maybe 2-3 hours a week with friends when they come up.
I think lag will be a part of the game from now on.

Take a break!

Worked for me.

After coming back from a 2 year break the only reason that made me stay were my long time friends and guildies.

My experiences in these 2 months back are these:

Huge Duping that kept the game alive removing the endless grind ~1 year zombie raiding non stop to get your endgame loot
=>
Make that ~3 years with the crippling lag in the Raids and instances

Huge XP ploits that also removed the long grind running off destinies being a gimp in parties so you can ETR into an odd destiny for the Epic Completionist or EPL bonuses

Finally people stopped for a while whinning about no end game and you could actually find groups because there was a reason to run the same packs over and over again for Sagas.

People dug up their long forgotten toons and actually found a reason to play them again.

3 Classes are broken as fuck and everything else is there just to add flavor and an extra challenge

After Barbarian being viable getting nerfed ASAP because QQ Paladins

Clickies,Zeal of the Righteous,Storms Eye,Rage,Frenzy,Death Frenzy,Action boost,Cleave,Supreme Cleave,Strike Down,Stunning Blow,Trip,Slaughter,Exhausting Blow non stop Rotation is fun lets make Storms Eye a spammable skill will help ALOT
While
Low Blow,Coup and Fury providing you with everything you need with a bar with 6 Passive feats on at all times.

Champions too stronk QQ vs Champions too weak QQ

Champions poop when they die or keep their poop in a chest and if you gather their poop the smell will attract a little lion slave SO KAWAIIIIIII or you can trade the poop to a skatlover and he will give you a pot of poojuice that will boost your DPS by 0,5 or add an extra DC to your already no save spell for that 1 raid you can instakill everything.

Jerry admitting that the era of sneaking through entire quests (because fuck you Rogues) is over and you now have to beat the ~400 mobs in the whole quest in order to advance

Exploits doing a good thing to Turbines profit from the huge lets buy Astral Shards and remove the grind factor so we can have fun at last!

Haunted Halls was one of the quests i loved and haven`t seen anything like that since Partycrashers back in the day only made better.

BYOH or you are a gimp and you should solo everything with broken hirelings

Epic Vale announcement (get ready for another round of endless questing raiding for mats/ings repeating the same raid 500 times to get a EGS Necklace)

Broken scrolls,Broken enhancement,Broken ED trees,Broken Swap your weapons/con item after each instance so your toon can work

there are more but too lazy to post.

TL;DR Bring back the exploits and the game wont die

Bacardi wrote on Jan 16^th, 2015 at 8:15am:


Where'd he admit this? I missed it.

Quote:


awwww...

ever heared of viable solo builds??? why you even want to play with others. most peps are just a 10% less xp source!

Bacardi wrote on Jan 16^th, 2015 at 8:15am:


This.

I have said repeatedly that the imposed grind is just a stalling tactic while they "develop content."

And then say that they're too stupid and poor to make Tieflings. (Can't find Sev's quote on where I read that…)

So here's some more crappy Xoriat content that nobody will run and will be on sale for 90% off in a month.

But I digress.

Nothing about grinding is fun. Not one damned thing. I am not one of those perverse Japanese kids who will take 10,000 tries at finishing Resident Evil on Professional mode with the fucking knife. (I mean, that's Mad Skills, but GOD DAMN)

So if I have to choose between grinding and just not bothering… I'm gonna go watch Youtube videos of cats.

So really, is it any wonder that materials suddenly became Tribbles in everyone's bags?

Probably is to Turbine.

Thank the Gods I'm not bitter though.   

if it helps u - maybe farming ships at wilderness will get u mitts faster. havent seen them much dropping in quest while dropping from rednames in wild like candies (alongside with tiller buckler, mutiny blade n orcish boots)

Bacardi wrote on Jan 16^th, 2015 at 11:12am:


Had to re-read this before I caught your meaning. Yeah, it can get ugly without the Min/Maxing. The closest I came to a FotM toon was the Bladeforged Paladin I rolled when I first got MotU. And even he collected dust until the Pally pass.

I am too lazy to build for Uber-ness. Most of my toons are hopelessly gimp (CHA-based Pure Fighter PDK, anyone?)

Which may explain why I hate grinding so much.

That, or when I ran Vale eleventy-bazillion times on 10 alts to finish two LitII longswords before I figured out Rapiers were better. Or how those same 10 alts have yet to see a single SoS shard drop despite years of running VoN whenever it's off timer. (See above: Hopelessly Gimp)

FML. 

Gringo wrote on Jan 16^th, 2015 at 11:02am:

I got my first pair of Iron Mitts from the very first Red rare I ran into in the wilderness area. Haven't seen one since.

gawker wrote on Jan 16^th, 2015 at 1:02pm:

Same. I have a mule holding 6+ copies of mitts, boots, rapiers, bucklers....

Also, I ran through last week, and killed 3 wilderness rares = 1 rapier.

Gringo wrote on Jan 16^th, 2015 at 11:02am:

This.  Drop rates from wilderness seems much higher to me too.