David - Arena is the only area as a wizard i would excel in. Arena is a joke. Having to wait up until right before the server reset to guess who the top player is going to be and try to beat them to get #1 spot is exhausting, especially since that time for me is 3 am. I am a 61 year old woman who enjoys games..your games..and the only place I ever won rewards was for arena. I did so 3 times since this games went alpha and the speed boost gave me a competitive edge for the week. That didn't mean that I was unbeatable in arena, because I wasn't, but for a lower level wizard, it took a coordinated effort of timing and targeting to get to #1. It made arena competitive and fun.

I am not a statistician and rely on my guild members who are to keep me in line with what skills are best, etc. I can tell you what it FEELS like when playing. Right now i am helping lower level players level up by accompanying them on mps. Just when I know what I can carry should they be killed, stats are changed making it impossible to guess. It's not fun to have your team lose an mp because i have misjudged being able to beat something i could yesterday because a change was made an hour earlier that really changed my wizards ability to successfully beat the boss.

I am not adverse to change, but these nerfs are getting really old. And with the wizards character, unless you have VIP to allow you to respect during different battles within the same sp or mp, you really can't successfully complete higher Tiers. I look at the damage being done by same level warriors and ranges and the differences are staggering. Sure I can change my skills to get me to the same BR as they have, but then I am one shot killed. I have no comparable skill set to do what they can to get that many damage points. Now how is this fair? BUT I haven't complained about it at all because speed and freeze have been my saviour...well up until now.

I am one of your "ALL" players. I work a 8-10 hour a day job but manage to play 3-4 hours a day. I throw some money at the game to try to complete with the higher BR players. Frankly I feel as if my money has been wasted at this point.

Have to throw in few things about balance of this game in general. Wanted to create a topic, but it doesnt make sense, as only 1 topic in the whole forum seems active at a time. So here it goes.
For average player it is CLEARLY visible, that you guys have no idea what you are doing or maybe you have no time and manpower to do it, whatever. The whole game is collapsing and those of us who thought that maybe the jungle release will fix things can see, that it's actually opposite. Yes, the state of the game is even worse than it was before, and it was far from great.
Starting from, I don't know, lumber, for example. Do you even realize, that the existence of Lumber Mill building is not justified at all? It consumes so much lumber (lol), that before you can gain anything from it, you don't need lumber in the first place. Therefore it is better to not invest in it at all, period.
Let's go further. University.
Seriously? Every time i click upgrade skills there I feel humiliated. Surely, 3 attack or 5 health is better than nothing, but c'mon - it doesn't have ANY noticable effect at your character. It's so irrelevant, that I don't even bother to click it most of the days. Personally i thought you will revamp it with jungle, but boy, 6 months wasn't long enough. Too bad.
Companions. Ha, you stated, that it was unintended for them to become meatshields. Great. So you introduced items for them. Yeah, that's cool and all, but it DID NOT WORK. Not sure if u realize it, but companions are still nearly useless, and certainly nothing more than a short distraction for enemies. How could you balance jungle not knowing how poorly companions influence the fight? You had to know.. So, why it's so broken?
I can go on and on actually. Even with little things. With so many more missions in the jungle, there is definitely too low chance to get a quest of HoT or Arena in brotherhood. Hell, there's too low chance to get anything but single missions now. Of course, you didn't think of it.
The icon of guild bounty shows 3 paragon tokens (and that for me indicates, we will get 3 paragons for completing it). Do we get 3 tokens for completing it? NO! I felt so defeated, that i didn't even ticket it, otherwise I would have to put few tickets a day, just for this single issue. Also guild points are still broken ( some players often don't receive them) and even the BR ranking is broken as I write, but let's concentrate on the big picture.
I don't know who thought that it will be good idea to make jungle single and multiplayer missions harder that the previous content (while rewards are the same). Tell this guy it is thank to him, that people don't even bother to run new content after reaching endgame. Also, the whole new content.. The endgame is less rewarding than it was (everything is harder, partially thanks to the nerfs). So we've got new expansion, but instead of getting stronger, we got weaker. Cool, maybe we shall work toward decreasing our level, to be at lvl 1 at the engame. This is cRPG, we play to get stronger, to get this feeling of upgrade, and all you accomplished with the jungle is that I'm afraid to run tiers i previously smashed. Big thank you. And now another mistake. You cannot, just CANNOT balance PvP without looking at the impact it will have to PvE. You just can't do it.
As so many people noticed, you change one variable and call it a day, while at the same time you completely overlook the impact it will have on many other variables which will have effect of many other etc. That - in cRPG is the road to complete disaster. Now - to me - you look like a bunch of headless chickens, changing things randomly, more or less, in a false hope, that you will finally hit the nail on the head. I'm sorry but the nail is already bent beyond repair.

EDIT: Don't think these are ALL the problems you have with the game. It's just a few of MANY. They pile up on top of each other and kill the joy of playing. The shard quarry, arena, guilds are just the monuments of wasted potential. Sorry for the harsh words, but it seems you cannot see from where you sit, why there is less and less players each day.

"Your battle speed / enemy battle speed is the ratio of turns you get.
For sake of argument pretend you are facing yourself in the arena, and you have a battle speed of 500 (pretty average for a level 45 character). So you have 500 and the you you are facing has 500 - lets call that you Alan for simplicity. So you have 500 and Alan has 500. You cast freeze on Alan, Alan now has 100 speed, an 80% reduction. The turn ratio is now 500 / 100 or 5 to 1. So you get to go 5 times before Alan does. So you go, 1, 2, 3, 4,5 ... now Alan gets to go 1! now you go again 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, now Alen 1! and the buff wears off and normal speed resumes!"

Great, now provide concrete examples that account for the recent changes in how speed actually works. Pick a random player leveled in the mid-30s, use their actual stats, gear, skills, buffs, and pit them against the HoT spiders on level 28 and troll on level 32. (Battles that are somewhat representative of the extremes we face in actual content, vs. the arena that is such an insignificant part of the game, especially for people who can never hope to compete near the top.)

After you've done that, pick some other random players and see how it works out for them. Don't stop with analyzing turns; look at everything---all the skills they have or could have by maxing them after a full respec. Clone everything on a test server and attempt to play the fight out. To go the extra mile, use a test server hosted on the internet, not on your LAN.

I hope it is obvious that we are posting these things purely out of concern for the game's longevity. We do like the game, we want it to stick around. I realize a lot of our posts may come off as abrasive, but it is only a combination of frustration and concern at this point. Please keep this in mind.

"We don't have any other class changes on the horizon"
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Well, you should. You replied to all the easy questions again, and ignored the more serious harder questions. Completely ignoring all of my concerns about the balance between the classes.

Dave B = Dave Buckingham (on page 1).

I wasn't calling Justin "Dave B", lol, I was agreeing with what Dave B wrote.

Just out of curiosity of a non-native...would it be a special offence to call someone "Dave B."?

thx, Jo :) The interpretation you're suggesting didn't even came to my mind...so I am not missing a film reference or sth like that :D
Well, David Buck could reconsider his last name or call himself Klaus to avoid misinterpretations like this.

Yep, Far, that's why I asked for doubling the damage of Flamelaser. :) Its damage is so puny!