Harowen

10/01/06 will mark the 3-year anniversary of the last time a developer posted in the bruiser section on the eq2 forums.

What the hell is that shit?

Other notable events that have occurred since:
- Game Update 28 occurred
- PS3 and Wii platforms hit stores
- Google buys YouTube
- EOF launched

I'm going to go ahead and make the prediction now that we get a 4th expansion released since the last time those fucks talked to us.

Crabbok

So on 7/11/08 when Illucide posted in my current issues thread, and 7/23/08 when Kiara posted in that same thread don't count? Maybe Kiara I can understand you not thinking of as a "Developer" , but she and others do pass on information to the rest of the team.

I would however agree with your prediction. I don't not expect any developer to post there any time soon. You can expect any dev posts at all to occur in the Fighter General Discussion section, so they can address a wider variety of players.

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Novusod

The devs have made some recent comments but they have generally been stuff we don't want to hear such as Aeralik justifying giving every raid mob in TSO immunity to Divide and Conquer. Nevermind that it is total BS because grave sacrement is ten times more powerfull of a target lock. When was the last time devs ever had a clue in this game? Who the fuck knows but it had to before I started playing nearly 4 years ago. I could go play another MMO all the way to end game and then when come back I bet bruisers would still be broken. That is my prediction.

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Harowen

Okay fine, I suppose "Thanks for getting a new thread together" technically counts as a post, guess I missed that one. It's not like that post has any meaningful value though.

kymbo

I wouldn't mind so much if they just mentioned a purpose for Bruiser in the next major update. They don't even need to fix bruiser, just give me some information on what they intend for the class.

For example:

-Updated Bruiser Class direction. The bruiser now has absoutely no purpose whatsoever asides from solo content experience and PVP. We havn't actually made any changes to this class, we just wanted to clarify it's purpose (which is absolutely nothing more then the class you put in your group because nobody else was available to take the 6th spot)

If they would just announce this, I would be relieved.

Crabbok

It becomes increasingly unlikely for a dev to post in a specific class section due to the controversy around whatever subject they post.

Example: If Aeralik posts and says "Ok guys just an update, we are looking at increasing bruiser tanking by fixing X, Y, and Z. and as a result bruisers role should reflect these changes"... then you are going to have a mountain of fighting that erupts from that, as everyone who wanted DPS instead of tanking will cry out saying "No fair, we are supposed to be a more DPS heavy fighter, and I want more DPS!"

Basicly it boils down to the fact that they cannot please everyone, and when they try to do one thing, it almost always pisses someone else off. There's a running joke that they could announce that the game's subscription will now be free, and some people would still be outraged.

They do read the thread, though I couldn't tell you how often. I wish they would post more also, but it's just not the way it is. I wish we could have one of those DEV Q and A's, and have it be exclusively bruiser concerns, where they have to answer us on every single imbalance and every broken ability, and every concern we have. Actually... thats a fucking great idea.

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