(Fyreflyte) Fyreflyte's Fan Faire Notes - 2009

Live Forums · 07-07-2009, 03:40 PM

The following is a list of notes I took while at Fan Faire. It is unabridged, and constitutes every single suggestion I was given and managed to write down. This is not a list of issues I'm looking into, merely everything given to me; I thought it would be fun for you to see the wide range of requests I receive every year. If any of these are used in future features or bugfixes, they'll be flagged as such in the release notes =) (Any non-item issues have already been forwarded to the appropriate designers.)

General Item Questions/Suggestions

After the proc changes, scout-specific Shard sets became superior to the hybrid sets. Scouts would like a way to convert back to class specific armor. This applies to the PvP armor as well.
Add more interchangeable cloth armor pieces (eg. More vests and sleeves rather than just robes)
2h weapons are currently inferior to 1h in terms of damage. Can this please be examined?
Casting haste and reuse do not appear to improve pet DPS much. This could be due to pet spellcast order, which is difficult for players to determine.
Scout pets need more items that increase their autoattack damage.
Pet effects need to be converted to the new type that does not clog the maintained window.
WoE Summoner Shard robe does not proc power, while the lower versions do.
5-piece bonus on summoner raid sets is not showing up or functioning.
Raid guilds are buying other guilds’ pattern drops, enabling them to gear up faster than the guild from whom they are purchasing the extra patterns.
Please add more types of pickles to Boomba the Big (a pickle merchant).
Can we allow deity altars in guild halls?
Moldering Flesh proc may be giving inconsistent damage bonuses based on the wearer’s int and base damage.
Quicksilver Blood is not so good for conjurors, but excellent for necros. Would like to see more.
Necros can ramp up agro very quickly and have a hard time losing it once they gain it (stacked DoTs). More deaggro effects requested.
Please add cast haste to Quicksilver Blood to make it useful for conjurors.
Death Chimes still crits (and should not).
Inquisitor and Templar raid sets have the exact same stats.
Would like more priest items that encourage melee (such as the Star of Malice from Hate).
5-year vet award (Orb of Concentrated Memories) should give tradeskill exp also.
People are still confused about what “qualifying pet” means.
Add ranger quivers that do something besides holding arrows, such as adding special ranged bonuses
Deity cloaks are underpowered
Allow transmuters to pull effects off of items and add them to other items
Add adornments that give pet bonuses
Where is EQI’s Singing Short Sword. Bards want!
Create bard instruments and allow the shield AA line to function while using them
Not much melee crit bonus available. Melee classes would like more of it.
New Anashti belt needs to be better than the Trakanon belt
Hood of Dark Dealings hits for its low damage amount a lot. Is this a bug? Same deal with Helm of the Lightning Rider.
Raid mounts need to have a stat advantage over shard mounts
Necklace use for crystallizing the twins: Please make it usable from inventory
Ykesha drops no mage loot. Anashti drops only 1 mage loot. Please add more (mage loot).
Please fix old pet effects to not spam Maintained window
House/Guildhall item: Flame Vortex that launches players in the air

Skills/Class Balance

Can brawlers get a reverse strikethrough skill, or be made immune to strikethrough?
Add a way to set pet spell priority would rock, and make a number of pet abilities more useful.
Pet resists do not appear to do anything.
Summoners would like a way to cure their pets, since healers are only focused on curing other players.
Please make sure to increase the AAexp awarded for the new “hard mode” encounters.
Necro AA pet from EoF line is not using pet procs.
Pets are being resisted a lot against raid mobs (especially necro pets).
TSO pet AA spells are added to the end of pet’s casting bar, and thus do not trigger as often as they could.
PvP combat is very very short. Any way to extend its length a little would be welcome.
Add pet effects that buff the entire raid, incentivizing healers to keep the pets alive.
Add more pet appearances.
Add a pet root command that will allow pets to attack, but they will not move from their location.
Caster pets currently freeze up when they attempt to cast at a target they have no line of sight to.
Idea: “Mitigation” wards – Wards that use a hitpoint total like normal wards, but only absorb a % of their amount with each attack (eg. Player casts a 100 dmg ward on himself; mob hits him for 50 dmg, but ward absorbs 25 of it. Ward would last for 4 hits.)
Spells that target pets (like pet heal) have short ranges. Please extend to regular heal range.
Since Swashbucklers will be getting a debuff similar to Dispatch, can Brigands get some Swash abilities to compensate?
Conjuror’s Hydromancer pet needs love
Necromancer AA Ooze pet is not currently useful
Is there a way to allow usable items to queue up like spells?
Add more utility for bards; instruments and customizable songs like Vanguard has

Content

Many players perceive that high end raid mobs are designed to be unkillable at the start of expansions specifically to slow advancement and preserve content until a later date. They do not like this.
When designing the new easy/hard mode encounters, please make sure the easy version uses similar tactics to the hard version so that it can be used to train on for the hard version.
Request to take advantage of the new “auto-mentoring” system and create scenarios based in Norrath’s past to help explore ancient lore. For example a special instance of Stormhold that gives some insight into how it became a haven for the undead.
Sex-specific city status items should be purchasable by to opposite sex so they can be given as gifts.
PvP server players would like the option to be able to display PvP titles as suffixes instead of just prefixes.
Would like a way to sell a fully decorated house to another player.
When are we going to open the doors in Poet’s Palace?
Pet pathing is very unreliable in some zones. For instance, on the stairs at Byzola, attempting to send your pet in to attack will cause him to run to the other side of the zone.
Allow players to help create/vote on new VO for the game.
Allow players to “nail down” their wandering house pets, so that they can be used in specific displays

UI

Add an autoattack window to help time the use of CAs
Pets should have a UI window that displays their stats. Currently the only way to see many of their stats is to possess them.
More displayed info when a cure is cast (show who cured who) for use in parsing

Graphics

Make Swashbuckler class hat available to females
Dude… nunchucks!!!
Could we add a graphical appearance for quivers?
Can we add scabbard appearances?
Moors barrel ride displays a phantom barrel if you look left during your flight
The “outside” portion of guildhalls can be reached and then decorated, but the process is difficult. Is there any way to open up the outdoor area to players, allowing them to decorate it?

Misc

When any focused testing is needed on Test server, please advertise more and sooner, to give players time to organize groups and guilds to test the new content.

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Illuminator · 07-07-2009, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Official Forums

Raid guilds are buying other guilds’ pattern drops, enabling them to gear up faster than the guild from whom they are purchasing the extra patterns.

Holy fucking shit, that was the actual complaint?