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[Sat Jun 20 15:30:20 2009] \aPC -1 Sangra:Sangra\/a tells you, "i was only allowed to touch it once, and my dad told me that wierd feeling i couldnt describe when i touched it was what evil felt like"

Diknak

http://www.eq2flames.com/dev-tracker...-stacking.html

Yet his peers all do it and Brenlo even said that they are moving towards a better communication strategy, but posting on the forums is outside of his job description. This is why he is a shitty dev, because he feels he is doing a great service to the community by reading the forums and interacting with players. We should all bow at his feet for his generous act of kindness.

Xede

they all suck ass so i voted for all of em

they all have had a hand in ruining eq2

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Deson

Thanks Crabbok.

I picked 3 because by and large the dev team is awesome and always has been(besides, Kirstie is gone as my fourth). Unfortunately, the biggest problems are also the most visible.

Aeralik: Smart guy obviously, great ideas but the execution and communication is wanting. Not a huge fan of the first part of the fighter revamp which looked strangely like "everyone gets tsunami!" The theme seemed to continue with the revamp part that was scrapped which basically was "all fighters own aggro with no thinking required". Bizarrely but oddly understandably, he tried to make pallies single target tanks and that like many changes he's made seems to totally ignore how the game is played.Other memorable gems are him telling swashies the hardcore raiders shouldn't be the only voices heard for mythicals and the bluntly shitty way info is being released on changes he's already got planned. It's 4 months to expansion and after the fighter revamp crap you'd think he'd want to put more info out so we players could sniff out the bullshit before there's too much investment in it. Granted, there's a lot of noise to come with public presentation but after the last year,it's got to be preferable to the shitstorm to come if he repeats the mistakes of 2009 with TSF.

Fyreflyte: Another smart guy but what the fuck happened with the stat explosion with RoK? As a necro, I have a special animus toward him for pet gear. He has awesome ideas and I can agree with him that pets shouldn't just blanketly share but the gear has to be there with the effects to make it worthwhile. If the trend is just going to be creating gear that is nothing more than player stats, then he's full of it and just needs to back pet stat sharing and be done with it. He's been working on it awhile and so far actually cool pet effects that fit with his philosophy are.... lacking. I am disturbed by some stupidity like the burst procs not stacking but by far my biggest beef as a non-raider is pet gear. It may be a bit unfair but the ridiculous stat inflation that necessitates the coming degradation, combined with his all to often posts on mechanics surprise(spell/base damage, procs) and exasperation at the work load( RoK) says he needs more help or more oversight and that the combination of factors make him less than stellar.

Your quote is unfair. He was defending himself and every dev when getting abused makes the note that forum patrolling isn't part of their job. If people don't want him to say that, they need to not abuse him when he's trying to help. It also comes right after he requests more info for the problem so that he actually can test it.

Brenlo: I never thought I'd see "act of kindness" topped but boy is he seriously full of shit. He pops in with RA's which was notably boo'd as he tried to defend it and dropped a grenade on Kiara as he enjoyed his "time off". At least Froech never hung his people out to dry and I note that Brenlo, to my recollection, never returned to the LoN dungeon/quest post. The gear from the zone is obviously desirable making him a trafficker in half truths here as well. I'm not a fan of paying people who actively work to deceive me and until this point, EQ2 stood out in putting the problems/conflicts up front as best as can be expected;frogloks still stands out because it was such a glaring exception. I was more than willing to give him a fair shot and it appears he's decided to shoot me with it.

Kirstie: Not there anymore but I'll simply note RA's and leave it there.

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I agree with most of what you Deson...but you lost me here. Where exactly are all of Aeralik's great ideas? You mean things like the first char trait revamp that gave some races awesome temp buffs and others shit? Or maybe you mean the fighter revamp that practically broke Guardians for the last how many months? Could it be the upcoming brilliance of removing Brigand magical debuffs and giving them to summoners to give them more raid utility while sharing their mit debuffs with swashys, thereby likely rendering Brigs completely irrelavant for god knows how long? Maybe it was completely ignoring all the feedback on both Swashy and Brig mythicals on how underwhelming they were/are and taking one of the better ideas that is more in-line with those classes (the flurry proc as both rogue classes have a flurry CA) and giving that to assassins instead, convenient since reportedly he plays an assassin.

And all that's just the tip of the iceberg of Aeralik's mountain of fail. So unless you have some concrete examples for me I'm going to have to say Aeralik has yet to have a good idea, much less a great one.

Deson

The fighter revamp is the best example I have however I did make the point the ideas were good but the execution was horrible. It's hard to argue with the idea of making taunts actually viable with proper taunt crits and other damage equivalents. I've agreed with Aeralik on many aspects of spell consolidation and the fighter revamp itself,as did many others that post here and on the official forums but you pretty much made the case that he fails all too often on the execution. It's really tough to separate the two but the fact that cool stuff exists regardless of how it ends up in the game, is evidence that the man has and can recognize good ideas.For things upcoming, it's impossible to judge how thing will play out without him giving more info.He appears to have an overall plan to remove a lot of the suck and useless from many classes but there just isn't enough info to judge what's coming yet. Heck, they've been talking about gear degradation and stat consolidation for at least a year now and we still don't have a working model to look at.

I also forgot another key point to my dislike of Aeralik-- he seems all too often to go for quick fixes as opposed to comprehensive ones. Easy point there is coercers and the spell name revamp. For coercers, all he really did was swap out how the spells worked instead of rethinking them and keeping them coercer-like; destructive mind could have kept its power damage multiplier and been a perma-buff instead of essentially a self buff. Spell names could have actually had the time taken for the names to make more sense and be more than just a lazy poll on the official forums that took forever to even tell people about,let alone the failure to keep official sources updated. I'm not even starting on the disparity of mythical's and their bonuses and the constant retooling that still leaves some wanting. Or how about the ridiculous implied parity between coercer healer buffing and illusionist... well, everyone buffing? There is no sane argument that for the bulk of the game, Intellectual remedyestructive rampage yet, they are treated as almost equals( I'm on Lucan and can't check my numbers right now).

Again, Aeralik has good ideas and I'll stand by that as some interesting spells and combat concepts have shown up since he's been in charge however, the execution all too often fails and that's exacerbated by what seems to be his need to blow sunshine about how awesome it's going to be when we can clearly see and tell him how much it will suck. The bolded should also have been added to my Kirstie complaint.

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Pink Poodle

Since I can't edit my post, Aeralik also gets a negative-vote from me because of "one immature posted" and "gay poll" - what is he, 12?

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progrocker69

Oh you're so right! They should shitcan Domino STAT and put Beghn-Gay back in as tradeskill dev. I want all those mastercrafted armor stats cut back in half and the return of totally broken arrow mechanics, and I want them NOW!

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Fenuxx

Voted for:


Fyreflyte: Fucking moron, doesn't know how to itemize worth shit.

Aeralik: Self. Fucking. Explanatory.

Brenlo: Again, self fucking explanatory.

Kiara: Because I can.

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