2010-12-08, 03:38 AM
I'm a little bummed out. I have to redo the temple of time quests on all of my characters if I ever want to train there again. Poison mist doesn't seem as effective as it used to be, so I have very little motivation to continue training my AM. The Alcaster quest, which allows you to purchase summoning rocks in El Nath, has apparently been wiped as well; I'll have to do that again, too. My two favorite training spots for my sniper, death teddies and time temple monks, are impossible for me to even hit at the moment despite my kickass sniper accuracy. I actually don't know where to train at the moment, and I don't know where anything is, either.
The only thing I was really looking forward to, the ability to PQ at any level, was a pretty big letdown as well. LPQ is a cakewalk, and Alishar isn't beefed up to compensate for the party's average level and strength. He died in seconds. The whole PQ took about five minutes on our second attempt ever, and on top of that, it still requires a group to enter. No soloing this cakewalk. Also, I miss the old strafe animation. And I miss Elquines. They took away my shiny blue husband and replaced him with some ugly red chain-loving hot-topic summon. Kill it, please.
Those issues aside, I adore the new screen resolution. Paralyze can mob, which is fantastic. My Sniper hits higher numbers, which is great, but everything else has more HP so it kind of evens out. Blizzard can crit. That's awesome. And the game didn't crash at all, so maybe they fixed the vista issues. Huzzah.
I ... don't know. I just really hate not knowing where anything is, or where to train. I thought it'd be fun to feel like a newbie again, but it's more frustrating than anything else.
edit: The skill points screwed me over as well. They actually took points away from one of my skills, gave me a few points to compensate for the loss/added skills, and then forced me to use those skill points on first/second/third job skills that I didn't even need. It was all very odd. I miss my Sniper's eagle. I don't care that it was useless for me. I miss it.
The only thing I was really looking forward to, the ability to PQ at any level, was a pretty big letdown as well. LPQ is a cakewalk, and Alishar isn't beefed up to compensate for the party's average level and strength. He died in seconds. The whole PQ took about five minutes on our second attempt ever, and on top of that, it still requires a group to enter. No soloing this cakewalk. Also, I miss the old strafe animation. And I miss Elquines. They took away my shiny blue husband and replaced him with some ugly red chain-loving hot-topic summon. Kill it, please.
Those issues aside, I adore the new screen resolution. Paralyze can mob, which is fantastic. My Sniper hits higher numbers, which is great, but everything else has more HP so it kind of evens out. Blizzard can crit. That's awesome. And the game didn't crash at all, so maybe they fixed the vista issues. Huzzah.
I ... don't know. I just really hate not knowing where anything is, or where to train. I thought it'd be fun to feel like a newbie again, but it's more frustrating than anything else.
edit: The skill points screwed me over as well. They actually took points away from one of my skills, gave me a few points to compensate for the loss/added skills, and then forced me to use those skill points on first/second/third job skills that I didn't even need. It was all very odd. I miss my Sniper's eagle. I don't care that it was useless for me. I miss it.