Scheduled Maintenance for Game Update 1.3: June 26th, 2012

I'm a commando, we were nerfed harder than any other class in 1.2. I'm still playing and I'm still having fun and I still kick butt most of the time.

Nerfing isn't the end of the world. You can cry about it and whine and quit, but ultimately, it's not game breaking. You learn to adapt, but the game itself is still fun. This is second major update for the game in not a whole lot of time. My biggest complaint before was the total lack of communication with the player base. They have since corrected this issue. I see them moving in the right direction (server merges, better community teams, updates etc). A nerf to your class isn't the end of the world. Does it suck? If it's your class yes it does. Is it the end of the game? No it isn't.

Back to the future

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I am a happy camper.

Just wait until the "kids" get bored either waiting around for rated to occur or just feel like screwing with people and use their brothers/friends accts to fill in new teams and then when the rated pops, they drop or do not click ok to enter the rwz and the new teams are left with only 7 players. And of course that team loses badly, when asked the person responds it must be broken/etc and does it again and again until the grp gets wise. Then logs onto another lvl 50 toon on family members accts and repeats the process with the new developing tem causing them to lose over and over again so that they can farm the equivilant of 375 regular wz comms per match.

And then you will just have the undergeared tems who get constantly rolled by the teams wearing full wh sets/ using voip.

And then you will have the new teams with such low ratings that it becomes pointless to even bother

And then you will have the uber fully geared teams waving their epeens at the sad new teams, trying to demoralize them. Usually done in this game thru /say.

And then you will have the casuals who cannot get their regular wz's to pop because a bunch of the normal people are not playing them, thusly forcing them into constantly losing matches in the rateds which will make them stop trying to pvp.

And then you will have the people in newer gear being refused entrance into teams because they are undergeared by not having War Hero gear. And left to sit in long queues for regular matches.

etc/etc/etc, I could make a few pages of the possible scenarios-these are but a few.

Bioware, I know you cannot address this post (even with your veiled posters) as it will all happen and shows how poorly the rwz's are design.

Hey Vgel, let me help you before it's too late.

The class balance doesn't really bother me. All the bugs on the PTS do. We have no feedback from the devs if they are fixed or not. If they are not fixed, this will be a major fail.

Does the 1.3 patch give Georg Zoeller posting permission again? Because we need his input on the tank changes. Is he still even working there? Also, I hope you know what you're doing with rated warzones. Fail on that and the game is dead.

I love that it's 1.3 but.....can you please vary your maintenence schedule a little bit? The same day and timeframe every single week is cutting in the same peoples' playtimes everytime, including myself. I realize it's offpeak as you can get most likely but at least vary the day or something. You're cutting 4-5 hours out of my prime gaming time as I keep a nocturnal schedule and I'm off works Mondays and Tuesdays.

Just think about the fact you're screwing over the same people every week with this static maint and we won't even get into plces where it falls in normal peak playing time like AUS. Consider varying it some thanks.

Good news.. but sub is still cancelled at this stage, still have a couple of months left until it runs out, so they have to make the game fun again for me to stay, otherwise it is GW2 all the way

So you really have zero experience with this latest round on the PTS. There has been not one single response by devs to issues raised by people on the PTS. The only questions they've cherry picked to answer in the Q&A blog are in regards to the Shadow/Assassin survivability nerf.

does eney one now if u the family tree will link with all your server or all the players must be on one