Looking for optimal gearing and stats like dipstik and KeyBoardNinja used to put out.

Thanks for that info, that makes me feel a bit better!

Ugh really. Well I'm a tank I don't care about DPS, is it really that bad? What is the valid tank class now?

So getting back into the game and getting set up again I notice these things... I must have left before 4.0, nevermind 5.0. Stats are consolidated, skill trees all different. There used to be a thread from dipstik and KeyboardNinja with some heavy math about tank stats. They still maintaining that? Think the 3.0 calcs are still valid? Looks like level cap is now 70. Maybe I should roll a new Vanguard and play up to max to get used to all the changes organically. Would be fun anyway after so much time away.

Well someone in here has an IQ, thank you. WE are all unsubbed and on to another game, ya'll enjoy, especially you fanbois. Pro tip: Drinking too much Kool-Aid is bad for your kidneys.

I wouldn't give you my toenail clippings.

WHILE we are searching for another game to play, we are lamenting how terribly Bioware screwed up the game, and remembering how much better 3.2 was. 4.0 was interesting as long as one play through of the KOTFE story lasted. Then we all got down to business to take a good look at what they had REALLY done. 1) Crafting - destroyed. Nonsensical arbitrary changes. Was the crafting team REQUIRED to come up with 15 things to change? Stupid. 2) Level Sync - We were really looking forward to this. But you're still OP on planets. Didn't work. 3) Companions - How to take arguably the best and most unique feature of the game and destroy it, too. I don't want new companions shoved down my throat. I didn't ask for them. I just want my old companions back. I LIKED gearing my companions. I LIKED the fact that they had different FIXED roles. And Affection/Influence/Fyou set at 50? Why not 500, or ONE MILLION INFLUENCE! You turned a nice, and achievable feature into a horrible grind. Most of us are saying, why bother? Our guild is definitely saying why bother. We may go back to LOTRO or GW2, Division is not an MMO but it's looking good too.

Easy. Guss Tuno.

I can speak for my guild as well as myself when I say, regarding Challenge Level, change all Low to Medium and all Medium to Hard.. Also I think there is an across the board break on what Bioware, the average casual player, and the average hardcore player thinks of as Low Medium and Hard. I would characterize our guild as hardcore players, but we do not raid, raiding we feel is nothing but memorization of a script and does not require a high skill level.This is not the challenge we're looking for, to paraphrase a famous Star Wars line. What we enjoy is 2- or 3- manning content designed for a larger group ('short-manning'). We have played this way in all MMO's for many years. Our guild has been together for 17 years believe it or not. After that much play time, we have become a cohesive, skilled team and overcoming a tough challenge is what we play for. One thing that hurts our playstyle are arbitrary gating or lockout mechanics in quests, for example there is a quest on Section X that requires 4 players at the very end to all perform an action to finish the quest. We have fought through this and killed the last boss with 2 people, on level, and then we stopped by an arbitrary mechanic. We say, don't negate our skill and our ability to short-man, if we can beat it through teamwork and being adaptable, let us beat it, take all gating requirements out of content. We are a very small and unique part of your player base and as such have no voice really. What affects us negatively the most is what we perceive of the general 'dumbing-down' of an MMO game in the years following it's launch, or in other words the changes to the game to make it easier for casual players. We understand casual players are the majority of the player base and generate the majority of your revenue stream (the WoW model, well proven). We understand that small segments of the player base like our guild, are only hanging onto the tiger's tail and have to live with changes that are made for your larger segments.

Bastion is about the same - very low. A lot of people moved out during the 'free' transfer period, which was Bioware's intent.

Open world is a blast but the pickings are slim on Bastion for example. Time for a merge of 2 or even all 3.

Total ********. You are a professional game company. The 4.0 expansion was your design, and you had plenty of time to vet out and balance it. The fact that 1) companions came out of it so OP and 2) you adjust AFTER release by just whacking stats shows that you have no damn business running a game company. Kotfe - destroyed crafting, destroyed companions and destroyed your player base. Nice work!

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Why so negative? Make you feel powerful?

I'd like to find info on the 4.0 formula changes, so I can update my 'Gear Grinder', my item database and 'build builder'.