Just last night I made another post about how unsatisfied I am with the fact magic related abilities getting nerfed. And today I did saw that the lance skills are also getting a change, so I thought that maybe all skills are getting downgraded, for some unknown reason. But as it turns out, no, it's just magic damage getting blown to smitherins. While lances are now getting a damage boost, because giants weren't too incredible before, right? And along these lines, while elves are basically getting the racist treatment from the devs, the balance in the whole game is getting thrown out of the window, not like this is anything new. As a free to play person, I have been struggling to get the good equipment, which in itself meant I had a great sense of accomplishment afterwards, although it did not do good seeing other players getting the latest equipment and much more for spending their allowance on a game. I admit, I did not pay too much attention when I chose my elf and only later realising there's a difference in what gear I can use, but even then the restrictions put on elves were ridiculous compared to the ones put on giants and that was over 12 years ago. And along these years, elves have always been getting the short end of the stick, getting bad/worse equipment, less skills, stat drain and so on. But now, spitting in our faces, they make one of the two skills that elves are VERY dependent on trash tier, while making the already remastered giants skills even more op.
This was the last drop, causing my 12 years of experience and turmoil to end as I am quitting this game, along with thousands others, simply because I can't deal with this anymore. Although I did get off topic a bit with the elf-giant treatment, the whole point was that the magic skills that I have developed for so long and use mostly them are getting basically deleted, while the equipment that I have been upgrading is now useless since the skills themselves are that - trash tier after today's maintanance. And even though with my current equipment I can solo the phantasm dungeon up until the last boss, since to defeat the queen I also need good ping, which is impossible for my sorry european behind, now they are making me running it simply put impossible. And this is phantasm, which is treated as mid content right now. Let alone Tech Duinn missions, crom bass, glenn berna and future other updates. So I'd like to know - how do I connect with the devs to ask them - why are you ruining this game so badly???????
As mentioned before, I am quitting this game and will be basically just posting here (when I have the time) what the drawbacks of this great game (used to be) are, or simply put, I will become something akin to an internet troll. Although in my defense, that came to be because someone very badly wants the skills and equipment a certain part of the players use to be mere junk, instead of thinking of new content that does not make everything before it feel like filler time with no relation to the current/future game.
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Also, magic is not getting trashed. Early Dark Diviner arcana is getting a sustancial nerf, well deserved for being the cheapest arcana since its release to be competent with less than 200m gold investment where you could literally clear 99% of content with a Demo Staff, Hat refroge and Link 10; while AS and EK required billions (Ruin Bow + Pallid and Pers/Warlord and many set effects respectively).
And not sure if you are up to date with the math, but if you got a decent vivace, its a 5~10% (at the very least) buff to DD damage at a later stages of character progression. It requires Bard gear, yeah; it sucks that high-end Bard gear is only available via Gacha, yeah too and We could argue about that, but magic dealers will not be "dead/trash" anytime soon.
And how do you expect a person to keep playing this when they put all their time and resources into something, only to see nexon decide that they can earn more if they make them weaker and make that equipment less usable? With magic being downgraded, for yet another time, as an elf I'd have to switch to physical dmg, because at this point the magic equipment I invested so much and the basic weapons I have stored have more or less the same effect, except the physical weapons can be more easily upgraded to do better. Because why bother with magic, right?