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PD -> RE: AQClassic: Necromancer Class Advanced Gear (10/19/2021 0:52:36)
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Hopefully this will wrap up the loose ends that were presented in the class finale. The note on the necromancer origins is interesting. Also just a lore check - is it right to characterize necromancers as life-energy manipulators, focused on the undead? It does feel like that anyways.
@ruleandrew: That does remind me, the year is coming to a close quickly. One thing that is important to remember is that sometimes, holiday portal availability is not always released on the same week that the yearly quest is released, though it sometimes can be. Either way yeah, we are at that point of the year where it's pretty much aside from the few other things aggressive focused towards seasonal content. From what the staff says anyways, it seems that this year is already planned out, and any plans for fixes are going to be for next year. Although we were promised updates this year, but never got them. So hopefully 2022 does this though I remain skeptical that we'll get those updates because:
1. The sheer number of things that need to get updated. See: UpdateQuest thread size and the number of requests. And if the AQ team is going to consult that thread as its guide for what needs to get updated, that it will only be band-aid fixes because they are selective and not holistic suggestions.
2. The current time-based obligatory roadblocks that do exist that effectively hamper AQ's ability to even address updates (minimum 50% unobtainable/premium content release floor, certain promises (read: unobtainables) that are deemed more important than sustainability). And I do have to say as an addendum to this point, Class Revamps and Summer Sagas are nice but quite frankly a lot of the newly released content as of late has actually made the game worse balance and design wise. Schedule-wise every year since 2017 (and it has gotten worse each progressive year) we effectively have to wait until spring/summer until we get our batch of permanent content. Meanwhile we more or less surrender ourselves to the fact the backend of October all the way to middle of May (seven months) are filled with an aggressive tailoring towards unobtainables. On a positive aspect, Cray has said he is looking into this as it is part of his alley, and he is in no doubt aware of this problem. Yet it still needs to get pointed out regardless so that others maybe aware of this.
3. Related to the first point, the all-important need to address underlying fundamentals (balance standards and assumptions) which if done so, would then probably necessitate holding off on everything else until that is done, and then doing number 1. Thus, our timeline is slowed even more, if this is even going to get addressed. This has been in limbo for a great number of years now. And It is acknowledged that the staff has very limited capacity to do any of these points. But un-acknowledged is an understanding of the true breadth to get to that point if we even do decide to undertake this.
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