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I have to admit that I am getting really fucking tired of this fucko dragging out the non-existent data points and comparative results that no one can duplicate. I mean this guy is addicted to "our player polls", "our data", "many players", etc.... What a lying fucknugget.



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Oh dear, someone has a crush on moi....

In fact I think the poor little idiot is trying to disrupt the thread before it can get started and has too many words and ideas for his little head to hold or understand. 

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I don't necessarily agree that there was a huge nerf to Vanguard, but I also don't know how Sev could say with a straight face that Vanguards had DPS on par with a Swash. 

Maybe we need to clarify what a "Vanguard" is.  I was thinking a Vanguard was a Fighter or Pally that spends more points in the Vanguard tree than any other tree.  And there's not much in there that compares with what Swash gets.  You are guaranteed to have 10% less attack speed and have a worse crit profile, even if you have the capstone.  If not, you are even slower.  That's a lot of DPS you are giving up.  Not sure where you are making up that ground.

Bigjunk wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 4:24pm:


You're describing so many people.

Eladiun wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 7:20pm:


Not as many as before, but yeah.  They also have larger HP DPS test Kobolds on Lama that they use for testing.  But, as with anything, you can only simulate so many factors with spreadsheets and static targets that don't hit back.

Eladiun wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 7:20pm:



Your smarter than I am for sure then man, because it is just obnoxious now. Many testers go to huge lengths to post what they worked long and hard on the main forums still, but now Sev backhands it all with comments about their mysterious testing standards and 'data'.  Sometimes when someone will make a statement in conflict with Sev's direction Sev will ask them to PM him the data, but if they post it on the thread instead he goes out of his way to avoid the thread afterwards or ignore the content. It's the kind of thing that is not only a good defense but also disheartening enough to discourage testers looking for hard numbers.

I have forwarded spreadsheets, vid files, and walk-troughs to Sev, Steel, and Varg 7 times the past year alone, never heard a peep back. My test partners have as well, seems the only time anyone heard back or it gets acknowledged on the boards is when it supports a agenda Sev is driving for.

One thing that really gives away the current Dev philosophy is the tag line Steelstar has as his signature: We don't only build for the builds that exist.  .  I like Steel's work and for the most part the intention of the line is good, to build a robust system.  But it also shows a mindset that would allow them to constantly blow off criticism of the game as it is, not as they may think it may become.

In essence: The players and naysayers are wrong because they don't know what we want to do.

Nevermind the fact that the Dev's have repeatedly shown they very seldom achieve what they intended to do.

Rant finished. Sux.

Asheras wrote on Nov 4^th, 2015 at 7:30pm:



Did you see how the issue of the TWF hit box came up because of the static nature of the KingKobolds Ash?  it was a tricky situation for Sev, he was really touting the new tempest DPS getting higher but only after multiple actual in-game vid posted and DPS results were posted and reposted did the size of the box really show as a limiting factor so undeniably . That they did have to bend and enlarge it to a degree with a dirty fix.


Heads up to any TWF players as well, any time we have a short notice patch check your box profiles right away and post if it changes. That kind of late add-on cut/paste fix has been bugged often in following hotfixes.

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That is a dead fucking giveaway. What is his excuse? "oh, we don't want the threads spammed with actual evidence, because: reasons."