Too much XP is too much - OP Companions - Badly tuned level sync

well that sound cool and all...but you at least got to play the game with a challenge at some point, your comp could not always solo all those hard enemies, you had to work for it and then gained an uber comp at the end of all your hard work.

Now, your just handed comps on steroids.

I don't have to "know" I just play the game they deliver.

You don't sound like you're adapting to me, you want to change it that implies you can't adapt.

hold on, the point for you MMORPG is story? not combat, stats or "all that rubbish" ummm, most story driven games i know of are single player games, like KOTOR. This is/was an MMORPG. you know, that genre of games that rely on combat/stats and all that rubbish.

Well thats what i gathered when you look at all the other MMORPG that have existed.

Seems like they are trying to turn this one into more of a single player game, is that what is happening...a very easy single player game mind you.

I would prefer a balance of gameplay elements and story...not just mechanics and minimal story(WOW) and not just story and minimal mechanics(4.0) a balance would be nice.

I love the story, but this is a game, it needs actual gameplay in it too. Pseudo gameplay which offers no challenge at all is worse than no gameplay and just watching a movie, it's outright boring.

Nope, I'm adapting in game while giving my opinion here, not because I can't adapt but because I would like things to be different, no nerdraging, no ragequitting ,no threatening to quit...just feedback.

we are providing feedback on the changes, what is wrong with that?

every time someone says something about something they dont like, the world explodes with counter arguments and comments against people as if they are not allowed to post there personal feelings and experience with the changes that have occurred.

Why nerf the companions? Since influence rank improves their combat ability. If you don't want your companion to be powerful. Don't raise their influence.

For me. The beefy companions have made level syncing tolerable. Speaking for myself. Add nerfed companions to the annoyance of level syncing will lead to loosing subs. Starting with my own.

Maybe in WoW. Im here for story and fun. Oh yea, i did NiM raids a launch, but, as everyone else, it was just same ol' thing like in any other MMO, geargrind raids till next one comes out, rince, repeat.

Character progression is MUCH more larger term than stats. Stats are just missused RPG element.

It was never work to gear a companion, they wound up in my old gear or my off set. So when I PvP'd I put my PvP gear on and put my companion in PvE gear or old PvP gear. Vice versa for PvE.

I had to grind those mods and such for my own gear, then I'd rip the old ones and pass them along to companions. The only difference now is that I don't have to grind credits to pay for ripping mods twice to pass them on. But they already nerfed the credit reward drops so you can't just grind credits anymore. You are gated by quests now.

If they start rolling back these changes, there's a whole host of changes they would need to roll back to bring everything back into balance. Nerfing companions, making people have to gear them again, etc has a domino effect on the whole game from a variety of different aspects.

Credit rewards would have to go up for one otherwise you'll get deflation since companion gear was a credit sink ultimately. Bringing back comp gear means those credit nerfs they put in with 4.0 would have to be removed. All the heroics would have to get rescaled since now with gear, I can min max companions and make them more powerful than they are now. Now I'm locked into their stat itemization, so melee companions have stuff like alacrity and accuracy where they don't really need it. They are also high endurance, low mastery right now which is again sub-optimal.

You have your "balance" where it belongs - HMs and NiMs

And there are many ways to make game challenging for yourself. Its just a matter that you DONT WANT to.