My view.

In my opinion, VI does all the expansions backwards.



I see it like this.



First, VI "designs" the zones. Then, once they let the players do all the testing/"exploiting" of them, they tweak them to make them harder and even less conducive to the original idea of the zone.



Then, VI designs the items. Notice no quotation marks. Because this is the main reason so many people think they are fucking idiots - with good reason. VI designs items with incredible ratios/stats that have increased so vastly since EQ has come out, they didn't stop to think that for each expansion they would have to improve on these further (the idea of new content) - hence, mudflation, and the reason nerfs (see also "class balancing") happen.



Finally, VI institutes nerfs. This happens after a collective:



"Oops, shit."



from the designers when they see how the items have completely fucked up a class role/ability/whathaveyou. This throws the populace of the Warrior/Rogue/Beastlord/Wizard/Paladin/Monk

/Druid/Cleric/Shaman/Enchanter/Necromancer/Ranger/Magician/Shadowknight classes into an uproar about how nerfing this class unbalances that one, they need a boost, then if they get a boost, another class says their role is getting nerfed, and its a downward spiral from there.



Things are left unfixed, quests go unfinished, pathing stays broken. This is why.



--Cen


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The fact of the matter is that the dev team doesn't have to forsight to see that player are going to find exploits, and do the "impossibe" as long as they are given enough time to do so. I'd say that 3 years is long enough to do just about anything.



So what they are effectivly doing is punishing players for their mistakes and short-commings. That is the reason people are so pissed off over this nerf, the players did NOTHING wrong. We played our class to the best of our ability, with the circumstances that we were given.



I'm sorry if we did it better than you thought that we could, or should verent, but thats your f-up, not ours.


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