As as a person who was here at the beginning, I'll add a few things you left out that were and still are disappointments. 1. individual class story lines - was originally promised but cut due to costs, everything was made into 2 story lines. Kinda took some the fun out a supposedly story driven mmo, especially with alts. 2. World pvp - ilium was fun back in the day, but because of some exploiters who always have to win (sound like some of the pro-nerfers?) was stopped, and though BW tried to fix it, they never could find an adequate solution so they threw in warzone after warzone to cater to the pvpers. It seems to me all the expansion and releases are not thoroughly planed out as they say they, and BW is just throwing ideas out to appease the public every few months. What we need is a clear vision for the evolution of the game and the return to the original story lines and a fix to world pvp.

Here we go again, why don't you just come out and say the truth... You want everyone nerfed so you can brag that you can do so and so while others are struggling... In the end, like some of the other posters have said, you will be standing alone in a game that is empty, and there will be no one to brag to...

You obviously do not play a healer. I do and I can positively say you are wrong. I can out heal comp healers prenerf any day of the week and twice on the weekends, and I am not in Raid gear. This is not to say that I do not agree they needed some tweaking, they did. But your generalizations are just dumb and you have no proof to back up your claims.

You have no idea what you are even talking about. Suggesting someone use ingame mechanics to make things more challenging for them instead of changing the game CODE to make it harder for everyone is totally different than your comparison. It would be more like selecting a HM FP vs a solo.

The Pro-nerf group, won't do this because it's too easy... They want everyone to play in the same sandbox like spoiled little children. If they really wanted a challenge they could play without companions, (as they are not mandatory) but again, too lazy to do it.

Or reading your 50 nonsense posts on everyone that disagree's with your shortsightedness.

Here's an idea.. disable some of the companion skills you deem OP. That is way easier than making everyone play at your style.. You sound like my 5 year old complaining that everyone doesn't have the same things they do.

While I agree, some of this might have been planned as you say, but the sheer lack of testing and the amount of bugs released with this patch, which is a huge part of the problem with companions, just underlines the incompetence we see as players. As a PM for a major IT company who deals with patches and bugs on weekly basis, I have never seen a release on a production environment with so many issues, outside of MS products. That being said, standard practice would dictate the roll back of this patch for more testing. They have not done that, as they are obviously on a timeline and had to get this out before the holidays regardless of the crappy design.

I'm glad for your friend and hope they enjoy the game. However, you should learn to read before you post... I nowhere said it was impossible nor too hard, I said it's painful not worth it anymore after the 20th toon.

So, instead of fixing the issue correctly, they are going to bandaid the issue and leave the bugs.

Sure its ok if you are level 65 and geared somewhat, try leveling a new alt.. it's painful. And before the trolls come say learn to play, I know how to play and have many toons on several servers. Also, I am a PM for a major IT company, this is a major customer fiasco, any way you look at it.. The sheer amount of bugs released in the expansion alone. Instead of fixing those bugs, they release a patch with more holes than strippers outfit.

We could say the same thing about the 20-30 people who kept crying for the nerf....

I agree, I never use treek any more, she is not what I paid for and I would like a refund too.

As many people have already stated, the companions are bugged, pathing issues, target issues and just plain not working after the patch, so I won't go into a lot of details. What I will add is that trying to do heroics at the level they are on the planets while leveling a new toon are extremely difficult. Difficult enough that doing them is a waste of time and the rewards are not adequate. Lastly, I will offer a couple suggestions I feel would fix the issues and make it more fun for a majority of the playerbase: 1. For the companion nerf : fix the influence - make it actually count toward their output as well as base stats ( this would increase the capabilities of the companions that you gain influence with: if people want more of a challenge use a companion that has less influence) 2. Make the alliance system legacy wide ( this would encourage playing alts and make the system less of a grind) *Disclaimer - I know everyone will not agree, but I am trying to make positive suggestions to make things fun again.

Please make "Only WZ wins" count for ilium Dailies!!!! Some of us do not enjoy grinding WZ's all the time.