Pathetic

[Pirindolo]

It’s so hard to believe that a company like it was once Bioware has ended like this, looking like a small group of disconnected people groping in the dark, touching buttons randomly, fixing mistakes with even bigger mistakes that are obvious for everyone, except for the remaining few people working in SWTOR. And all this while many disappointed and angry customers are trying to warn them day after day with no success, because there is nobody listening. Nobody reading. Nobody.

 

Kotfe, in line with other mature MMO expansions, was intended to make things easier for players: elimination of travel times, minimal efforts to reach level 65, no efforts at all to get to level 60 ... and significantly strong companions. The strong companions were not a mistake. It was something planned to make the game easier. And so many casual and solo players in the game where very happy with them, because they allowed to do solo and H2 content quite comfortably.

 

Were they overpowered? Probably. And what was the problem with that? Were ops of any difficulty level affected? No. Were HM FP affected? No. The only thing in which they had a potentially negative impact was the Tactical FP, since companions were in most cases much more effective than most of the level 12ish players trying to complete a tactical FP through GF. First timers in many cases that did not know what was a taunt or were lacking most of the healing skills a level 65 player has at his disposal. But the real problem wasn’t that. It was, instead, allowing to mix low level first timers with high end players. It didn’t work, and now, after this ridiculous nerf to companions, it won’t work either.

 

And now, just a month later, the nerf of the nerfs. Between 60% and 70% in some cases. The numbers alone are ridiculous. Of course, companions are now even more useless than they were pre-kotfe. Is there no one in Bioware realizing the obvious mistake that this means? Not only for what it represents in terms of playability, but also because it gives a pathetic image of the developing team and of the QA people (if any at all working on it).

 

The game is now much harder and frustrating for so many players. Companions are now meaningless. Daily heroic quests and solo content is now as difficult as it was in the beginning of SWTOR, back in 2012. What will be their next change? Eliminate the H2 quest giving consoles and the direct teleports to H2 quests, forcing players to use their starships and mounts to reach quest givers?

 

Pity that no one in Bioware will read this post, simply because there is no one to read it.

Edited November 18, 2015 by Pirindolo

[Neoforcer]

The game is now much harder and frustrating for so many players. Companions are now meaningless. Daily heroic quests and solo content is now as difficult as it was in the beginning of SWTOR, back in 2012. What will be their next change? Eliminate the H2 quest giving consoles and the direct teleports to H2 quests, forcing players to use their starships and mounts to reach quest givers?

 

Pity that no one in Bioware will read this post, simply because there is no one to read it.

 

If iu had a time machine i could go back in time and my healing companion would heal me better then the nerf we got today. OH and for you pvers you going to get wrecked in world pvp if you think your comp cna now save you i 2 shot level 50 healing dps and tank comps in on cc. That's how week they are. in 3.0 2.0 and 1.0 took you maybe a 1 min too kill then. While comps were OP and made trivial there even more trivial now. So let have it to the OP side and take it down to the nerf side with the opposite spectrum GG BW.

 

 

BW i love starwars MMO you all are what is killing this game.

[Kalfear]

Darn right we do. My character is epically powerful... the only thing that should pose any sort of real challenge is a raid boss. Anything else should be a walk in the park.

 

WOW

 

I so do not want to play the game you want

 

Actually based on your logic neither do you

you want the game to play for you while you watch and tell yourself how skilled you are!

 

Go play Hello Kitty or something if you want everything other then raid bosses to be a walk in the park

[AlienEyeTX]

WOW

 

I so do not want to play the game you want

 

Actually based on your logic neither do you

you want the game to play for you while you watch and tell yourself how skilled you are!

 

Go play Hello Kitty or something if you want everything other then raid bosses to be a walk in the park

 

Where did that come from? Get a grip, child.

 

Want a challenge? Raid or PvP. Fight a champion in a Heroic. Fight a world boss. The story stuff is there for entertainment. The last boss of a chapter should be challenging. Anything between bosses is just a time killer. Dailies are time killers. Heroic 2 should be a time killer, as my character and my companion are epic heroes and the two of them together should be able wipe a planet clear. There is no need to make the time killers kill more time than they already do.

[geschmonz]

Go play Hello Kitty or something if you want everything other then raid bosses to be a walk in the park

 

Oh look.. elitism. Thats not going to help you in the discussion. You are part of a small minority and still have the biggest mouth.

[Pirindolo]

It's so funny that people that were and are in favor of the companion nerf are precisely the ones that barely ever use a companion, cause they are focused in NM and HM ops.

[Darkwords]

/signed. I am truly PO'd.

[Kalfear]

It's so funny that people that were and are in favor of the companion nerf are precisely the ones that barely ever use a companion, cause they are focused in NM and HM ops.

 

nice theory but I almost never do nightmare or hm ops

have turned down numberous progression ops invites as been there done that

 

I solo 99% of my game

And I use my companions

 

And I, like everyone else with a brain, knew companions in 4.0 were massively OP and needed to be adjusted downward.

 

The game is still VERY EASY and completely soloable

Just now instead of spamming hammer shot over and over (or going afk while your companion kills everything for you) you have to actually play the game and pay attention

 

OH

THE

HORROR

OF

IT

ALL

 

[AlienEyeTX]

nice theory but I almost never do nightmare or hm ops

have turned down numberous progression ops invites as been there done that

 

I solo 99% of my game

And I use my companions

 

And I, like everyone else with a brain, knew companions in 4.0 were massively OP and needed to be adjusted downward.

 

The game is still VERY EASY and completely soloable

Just now instead of spamming hammer shot over and over (or going afk while your companion kills everything for you) you have to actually play the game and pay attention

 

OH

THE

HORROR

OF

IT

ALL

 

 

They overdid it. Maybe if they nerfed half as hard as they did it would be better.

 

But maybe they can make a special patch just for you that disables all companions and increases difficulty by 50%. I'd be ok with that, so they should do it.

 

Because, just like you, mine is the only opinion that matters. Obviously.

 

[geschmonz]

The game is still VERY EASY and completely soloable

Just now instead of spamming hammer shot over and over (or going afk while your companion kills everything for you) you have to actually play the game and pay attention

 

Let me translate this elitist gibberish to "yew are tew bad if you cant solo anymore. only me is elite coz me still solo it!"..

 

.. but only in tank/heal spec completely overgearing the content. As like fully 216 equipped to actually solo a h2 flashpoint that drops 208 gear. Yes, i am sure that helps solo players in their character progression very much.

 

[/sarcasm]

Edited November 18, 2015 by geschmonz

[Pirindolo]

nice theory but I almost never do nightmare or hm ops

have turned down numberous progression ops invites as been there done that

 

I solo 99% of my game

And I use my companions

 

And I, like everyone else with a brain, knew companions in 4.0 were massively OP and needed to be adjusted downward.

 

The game is still VERY EASY and completely soloable

Just now instead of spamming hammer shot over and over (or going afk while your companion kills everything for you) you have to actually play the game and pay attention

 

OH

THE

HORROR

OF

IT

ALL

 

 

You could do it, man, you could do it. There is a small buttom that changes companion mode to PASSIVE. Or simply toggling off some of the dps or healing abilities to make companion weaker.

 

Btw, according to your childish arguments, why do they allow us to be insta-60? Aren't you raging against it? And why those teleports to H2 dailies? We can use the starships and the mounts.

Edited November 18, 2015 by Pirindolo