Yea I suppose so...but that is so not a good day. That wont keep people if they take as long to introduce and more new gear as they did this time.

Hah no it looks like they didn't buy anything, and some 12 year old boy who'd never seen star wars and lived in some cold...dark.isolated village was recruited to be team lead on design.

Lol very good point. Yeaaaa my bored guildies were already getting tired of pve..now no good gear to work for? They are going to drop one by one.

This. You may think it's an exaggeration when i say it, but I believe this will be the nail in the coffin for a lot of folks if they don't fix the terrible gear design. A lot of my guildies were already feeling bored but were holding out for 1.4. Now this. Why pve at all if you can't get cool looking gear? There's nothing to play towards anymore..

Ok...seeing as how we can't have enough threads about how awful looking Bioware's Tier Gear has looked basically always (bull horn hat anyone?) I had a thought. Are they wanting it to be a credit sink? Gear so awful looking you almost HAVE to rip all the mods out or hang your head in shame as you walk around? Just a thought :-) And if noone gets anything else from this post, get how much i think that the new gear is indescribably sub par in it's design, and just plain lazy on the part of the developers. What's funny is they aren't even trying to hide that fact it seems! Seriously...I want to see them defend their design department.

Wait....so this isn't a photo-shopped joke?

I have really been holding out for the dual spec feature, and while I am excited about the 1.4 additions, I am really disappointed that they have not addressed this. It is 50,000 credits to respec after a certain point in the week. Some of you will say that it is a luxury feature, but I am the type of player who wants to use his one main character, not a different one for a different role all the time. I'm not saying i want to be THE jack of all trades. I just wanna go back and forth between my assassin dps spec, and tank spec. I have to work for the gear to support those roles anyways. Any updates Devs?

For all of you still enjoying the game, and bashing me for whining, you are being very narrow minded. I am perfectly allowed to want this game to get better. I'm not going to just pretend everything is perfect, I'm telling the devs that they really need to communicate a lot more. And for the dude who says I don't speak for all the players, duh, I know. I speak for a big chunk on my server at least. I like this game as well for now, but there are a lot of other games coming out, and i won't stick with a mediocre grind of a game when games are meant to be FUN.

I've played since beta, and the lack of communication from whatever is left of the development team is making me lose my last shred of faith left that Bioware will turn this game around. End game players are getting bored (even those like me who have tried to squeeze every last drop of content out), alt grinding is not rewarding after two or three identical experiences. Throwing a video out of what all is coming is not good enough. The developers give such general info in their unspecific responses that its laughable. Why in the world can they not patch actual content into the game? Why in the world are we not given any timetables apart from ONE new operation coming next month and maybe ONE new tier of gear. Where are the updates? What is making this game worth staying in? I have been SO patient and I am sorry..but I am thinking more and more that whatever "team" of developers that is actually working on the game nowadays is in way over their heads, has no idea when stuff is coming out, and are just trying to market shiny videos to keep people paying. Level cap..new planet/..blah blah blah say all you want about that but for all i know that could be 9 months away, who has said otherwise? Start talking to us developers. I'll stay, just please start actually communicating and not hiding behind the guise of "i can't be specific".

I wish they would at least say WHY they are taking them down for maintenance. Maybe a "we get it, this is annoying but THIS is why we need to..etc. etc."

I'm not threatening unsubbing, but I am going to give my heated opinion. This third maintenance period is what got me fed up with things. We never know when the servers are going down. You virtually gave me and my guild no choice but to move to the shadowlands server if we didnt want to stay in a ghost town, and didn't prepare the server to handle the loads. During anything but the off hours of the day, i can't pvp or raid because the server lag is so bad. You nerfed my class big time in pve in the name of pvp balance (sith assassin) and YET you did NOTHING to fix the rest of our class' broken trees. My assassin is so mundane now compared to other classes effectiveness at their roles, be it tanking or dps. Raids would now rather (after 1.3) get another tank class for ops. 1.3 gave so little content, the legacy stuff only had like 2 minor conveniences that lvl 50 endgame people would glance maybe twice at. Group finder is the highlight, and it doesn't even work correctly, also it's not like it's adding content. It's not a bad patch, but the fact that it took THIS long to make a patch with so little content and so broken makes me worry about the future development speed of real, meaty patches. I love this game, but it's getting hard to take these blows from the devs while getting bored at lvl 50. /rant off.

A: I mentioned nothing about a premade so that is not a correct assumption. B: Who cares if I "should have seen this nerf coming"? Did you read my whole post? My main point was that what I SHOULD have seen coming along WITH this nerf is actual fixes this class needs, not just a huge swing and hit from the nerf bat. I played deception assassin for the longest time because i enjoyed the playstyle but it was so broken i finally had to give it up. Among many other possible balancing fixes or just ability tweaking, why shouldn't I have seen THAT coming?

I have played assassin since the games release and i have to say this is kind of a slap in the face. If they want to nerf or..ahem.."balance"...something, then they should try to improve something about that class as well. Deception is still broken and inferior to MOST classes, even if played right. Madness seems to be ok but it's not enough to redeem two other trees not getting any love. I hope i am saying something too early and they ARE going to throw in some significant fixes for our class along with the down grades. I know some troll will say " they don't have to give you stuff when they balance". That is true if you want to discourage people like me who want to play the class but really are forced to choose better. Heck i would be happy if they would change the stupid way assassins have to tank by activating their shield ability every 10 seconds or whatever the cooldown is. We aren't that overpowered, this nerf is way overkill.

I cant get excited about all the cool stuff in the video because it could have quite the development time between here and it's release. Level cap? New abilities? That stuff has gotta be AGES off judging by the state of things now.

I was one of the people advocating for the imperfect game to be released instead of more delays (which they had plenty of). Bioware could very well be patching these things in month by month and there is no excuse for how long these things are taking to implement. Again, you Bioware fan boys are choosing to look past logic in order to defend the company. I would rather call them out on their faults and have them prosper while we enjoy the game.