As long as it’s not being run by the reddit mods, we should be fine. Those have turned into proper cunts in the last year, it wouldn’t bode well to transfer that kind of failure over to the next community.

Homogenization. Mechanics and skills that were fine for years and years and years are suddenly a problem and get gutted, dumbed down and/or simply removed.

I know that point in the lifecycle of MMOs. The preview actually had me buy New World. Not because it’s a superior game, but because it’s one I haven’t played yet and will therefore be fun until it isn’t anymore. I’m not too motivated to play the newest iteration of my main class.

It’s less of an expansion and more of a DLC. Two new maps, a new Fractal. Nothing like an actual expansion, more like a premium sized Living World update you have to pay for.

Mesmer. I’m tired of the constant removal of core mechanics, while I have to agree that it is a “shaking” it “up”, I don’t think it’s the kind of shake-up a company wants. Still it happens in every MMO at a certain point of its life cycle, funnily enough.

Good God, the amount of work. I’m flabbergasted.

Damn, that picture is tiny. I have to find out how to scale pictures on Lemmy ASAP.

Aaanyway,

can you link the skins?

Stupid question from an uninvolved outsider: hasn’t there just been some Pride thing?

Sad state of affairs that I went to check if that meant that Shatters no longer provide Quickness. It SEEMS like OOC quickness is still somewhat possible. Nuking the range of Temporal Curtain is still retarded, though, same for Null Field (wtf). The Mirage dodge nerf will make it even clunkier to play, staff DPS have been nerfed into the ground and Virtuoso has been straight-up nuked to shite. Which is amazing, considering that the sub-class doesn’t have clones to defend itself and its ability to chain invulns and blocks was its defining trait. No, not the pretty animations, those are just flavour.

Ah well, what do I care anymore. (<- Not a good reaction.)