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The lists are a mashup. Some are pretty accurate, some are clearly just based on favorite personalities and popularity, and some are clearly based on best gear and win above all mentality. A number of the players listed literally do zero mechanics in boss fights or get other players up with feathers. I've watched some of the people here go ham on Abom while his barrier's still up because they're too lazy and/or special to help the group out.
The best players were those who do what they can with what they have, know the fights, and do what they can to make others feel welcome. Some of the absolute best players I've seen take top or second in damage almost every time but they also help other players and they don't brag all in group, in game, or on the forums about how amazing they are.
Some of those players are posted here most likely, but the ones I saw in my glance through weren't really there. Anyway, I guess that was worth the two minutes wasted to type, heh.
I'm with Order5. It's very clear that they had good intentions but they tried to do far, far too much at once and worst of all, they did it with very little actual testing and player feedback before implementation.
Someone above mentioned Quick Battle being better; it's not. It's more difficult than ever to find what you want because only about 5% of content is a Raid now. 19/20 pages are non-raid, meaning that if you want to find Krakers, or Havan, or Giant you have to have them as favorites, and you only have a limited number of favorites to cover all raids.
It's very clear that change was made to push VIP and to push players to do Ein Lacher, etc. Forcing your players into content instead of leaving options is not the way to keep people around. I also agree with MrGatto: I feel like there's less for me to do because it's more difficult than ever to hop into raids or runs with others because of the searching involved. Worse still, if you do find a raid it can only take four people and I promise you, people are going to get tired of clicking join only to get the message that that last spot isn't available anymore; that will be happening more than ever before.
Quick Battles need to be adjusted, and the game needs to feel like something where we're all involved with one another. So, so many great things like not having loading screens between areas of town are great changes that make you wonder why the time wasn't taken to implement them years ago. The changes that went in the wrong direction, however, make the game less enjoyable than ever. If I were a new player who'd never known the game before I'd feel like Vindi's in a pretty good place and wouldn't notice all the unpolished touches until I hit higher level and realized how tedious finding parties and getting certain items will now be. Not to mention the pain that's now a part of trying to hit high level enhancement.
TLDR: I'm done spending money on Vindi until the over-tuned changes are rolled back. If they're left as is, which is likely with the DOL who acts before he thinks and doesn't take players into consideration then Vindi will just be a good time waster when I get bored with other games. There are three to four titles coming out or going into Beta by the end of this year, and another title that I'm already spending on, so if this is how Vindi stays I'll deal with it and stop supporting the game.
You started a thread to complain about complaining. Most of the people who agree with you are the same people who go out of their way in one form or another to cause other players problems here on the forums or in game or who are just toxic in general. The worst part is that the majority of people who have issue with the update have said that most of the update is welcome; the problem is that the glaring issues have been brought up directly in KR and nothing is being done about them.
You can choose to be deliberately obtuse about other's points of view, but that isn't going to stop anyone from having them or presenting their thoughts in an informed way.
