Be careful of what you post on SOE boards. Any reference to SOE dire financial issues and stating that the game is being retired after they extract as much money as they can from 1 month silver accounts upgrading to gold and the ability to purchase a fully loaded level 85 character will get you banned.

You know how hard it for us Rogues to Power Level anyone. Well it's not easy we need to go toe to toe with the mobs use counter attack for 20 secs and pray we kill everything we pulled. Then 25 mins later we can do it again. Oh joy not like the other classes that can mass kill zones. Your lucky to kill maybe 10 or 15 mobs this way. It's faster to kill light blues using assassinate then to pull 10 to 15 mobs. What's next you guna nerf poison again or our other AAs??!!?? Just leave us alone. For those classes that ***** about the AAs we get make that kind of toon it's not hard to learn to play something different.

Geegen the Gnome
Rather Server TSM

How do I begin this post: To those who called me out about my last post when I said "5 different stories from 5 different SoE Dev's is the beginning of the end" a was blasted by some so called elite post writer's that seem to have all the answer's without listening to other's. Well the 2k Station Cash Issue went down the crapper and I said that was the beginning of the end and EQ 1 would be dead by Dec 2014, in a push to Everquest Next, I got flamed. Since that has come and gone "forgotten" issue, for many month's I foresaw the Nerf's coming. I agree some are blatant act's that take away other player opportunity to utilize these zones and it does effect other zones "pathing issues" as indicated by the graph. Some nerfing could have been regulated to those specific events. I disagree with the entire revamp of character abilities when many player's are playing by the rules and honestly earning their way thru game content. I have a Level 100 Mage but I don't pull entire zones for cash to PL another, I never use the beam spell..... Limit it to 6 mob's and that closes that problem. I have a 100 Ranger, I headshot within my three box group or in group settings, I do not sit in Ferrott at the pyramids and headshot massive pull's of lizard's, Not my style. I have a 100 Monk and I do not abuse his abilities I play him like any other character of 16 I have. Why can we not solve Individual class problem's and not revamp the entire system. New player's... get off your butt, stop complaining and get up to speed with the rest of use. Why should the foundation of EQ 1, that have been here many years be flushed down the crapper because of a few player's manipulating the game. BAN their account's after a stern warning to stop. DO logical changes to player character's taking our abilities away. which will push player's away. When that happens many of us will be finished with EQ, because EQ Next isn't our cup of tea. I truly hope something comes from this post, besides rants and negative comments, This is the ONLY online game I have ever played and when EQ ends my online gaming days end. Mr. Smedley and the developer's please rethink of a better way that this can be controlled and solved. Thanks for listening and have a great day !

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"Doug “Elidroth” Cronkhite (Assistant Lead Design: Systems):

When these spells and abilities were created some time ago, we never could have imagined players would utilize them in such clever ways. Being able to gather up most of the NPCs in a zone and take them down with a select group of spells does take skill and some finesse, but unfortunately, it’s not how the spells and abilities were meant to function. And more importantly, as Jenn mentioned, this style of gameplay is causing major server issues that disrupt gameplay for a lot of other people; these are issues we simply cannot ignore."

When these spells and abilities were created some time ago, we never could have imagined players would utilize them in such clever ways.
It isn't very difficult to figure out that these some of these "abilities" could be so easily exploited, but then again I had already known they were going to be handicapped sooner or later. Isn't being imaginative or creative supposed to be part of a game designer's resume and have the foresight to see the consequences introducing these spells will bring into the game?

And more importantly, as Jenn mentioned, this style of gameplay is causing major server issues that disrupt gameplay for a lot of other people
What "a lot of other people"? I thought everyone boxed in this game, so this is news to me. Just by looking at the chart that Jenn Chan provided in the forums, swarmers seem to be courteous enough to do their thing during hours were everyone is asleep/no one else is playing.


Warrior

The Shocking Defense Discipline line was not modified due to its low duration and relatively low proc modifier.
The First Spire of the Warlord AA was not modified due to the fact that its effect (a melee damage debuff) is not enhanced by multiple applications.
The Brace for Impact AA was not modified because it already has proc limits. Future extensions of this AA may not increase the number of procs allowed.

Sticking to the tradition of making already useless abilities even more useless? Headshots and decapitations are totally understandable, but these were seriously considered?! This is just one example...

Edited, Feb 6th 2014 9:41pm by Braikkarrii

I have to laugh at the legions of people saying they are cancelling when something changes in EQ, it's hilarious. If you weren't going to quit because of this you were going to quit because of something else, like the drop of a hat. People have been around forever saying "Wah, I'm cancelling my 9320 accounts because of soandso change!"

See ya.

The dev's are still reading player feedback...and are actually listening! All good news. Some of the proposed nerf's have been scaled back (berserkers and shadowknights will get something of a break, so far), and they are, at the time of this writing, allowing you to 'opt out' of the free AA award.

Let's hope they sharply scale back the free AA. I agree with the posters above - no real reason to grind now, which was the whole fun of the game...the work involved to create a character. But again, this is still a work in progress. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Per a post from Phathorn:

" We're targeting these changes for the week of February 17 for this year.

Not 2013 (really? and not 2020) :) In approximately two weeks. "

In fifteen years this is truly a sad, sad day for a once outstanding game. :(

This Alla post is a day old now....if you want to see the real deal....goto forums.station.sony.eq, it's an overwhelming HELL NO to what the Dev's are proposing to change in EQ.

It looks like if this Feb patch goes through as planned, they'll be alot more people looking for jobs in February - then just SOE Dev's.

Haven't they nerfed headshot enough?

are they trying to kill everquest because they think we will go to eqn? not bloody likely