5 Foot Step wrote on Sep 1
st, 2017 at 10:12am:
With the barb pass, in spite of protest, devs decided...
Yeah...you don't have to tell me about that one. That's kind of why I walked away from the game for a few years when I did.
I was actually part of the group of dedicated barb players (like, all fucking 10 of us who hadn't quit the game forever after barbs got royally fucked during the initial enhancement roll out) working together for suggestions (when the devs asked us) to un-gimp the class.
Our biggest complaint was how the core enhancements that all barbs need are spread over 3 trees and you have to unlock all 3 trees just to get the basics - which massively limits build potential because you can't just concentrate on two trees and it makes it harder to dip into your racial trees.
What we wanted was a solid core tree, then two very different and diverse trees that would allow for more unique builds. Along with a list of other needed changes to the class (like meaningful DR again, since barb DR is so outdated it's fucking pointless to even have it), we gave them a number of really cool directions they could take the class without making it OP.
They basically said "that's nice, now here's a bunch of random fucking bullshit we pulled out of our asses having no clue what the class is about."
I've fucking hated Sev ever since. Seriously, fucking months of messages and ideas being passed back and forth for damn near nothing.
We only had 3 kind of victories. Less loss of hitpoints, you no longer have to kill yourself to get some power. Some decent healing amp (which only goes so far since they ignored all our suggestions about revamping pots) and weapon bond is finally worth using since you no longer lose it switching weapons.
I took a break waiting for mabar (which never happened that year) and to see what they barb changes were going to be. When they rolled it out, I logged in, took one look, said "are you fucking kidding me?" and didn't log back in to 2 and a half years.