May 28th, 2009 at 11:37 am
I would be willing to bet most players would be a little happier with this staff if it was speed perception stamina instead of str based. Thing is you can always stat pure str ip and use battleplate with vallo and get the same affect this staff will give with dueling garb or gloom reaper rags.
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A little, I’d be overjoyed. Here’s the problem, you’re still not getting and that is that there should not be this kind of str staff ever. It should not be so much better than what INT staff users can get. It shouldn’t be giving skills that are nearly OP at this point, a huge boost… which will make them OP.

You mention battleplate and gloom reapers rag’s, in order to get the same boosts as this staff gives. Hmmm if thats indeed true, imagine for a moment when people use the staff+that, hmmm unbalanced :(.

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May 28th, 2009 at 11:21 am
well I like the staff but no armor makes vallo basicly the weapon of choice for ff, because staff focus is basicly useless without the added armor bouns. All I see if whining, all the work the staffs put into this game and not one person says thanks, well thanks for the great work, Id like to see the item come into the game before people have a fit over it. First off you dont even know what other changes are coming in around the same time as some of these items. Show some gratitude and patience and stop acting like children, learn new ways to play your class instead of whining all the time some other class besides your is gonna be op.
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So SF users should give everything they want including armor, which they don’t even need to begin with because SF already gives them insane armor’s as it is. Every SF build I’ve made is over 1500 armor, you know what most of my wand builds are for armor? They’re 800-1kish or so, depending on the loadout. So I’m not with you on your whine about how this staff wouldn’t be worth it if it didn’t have armor or blah blah blah.

Not one person has bothered to say thanks to the people in beta who work daily to make things better for the game. You know what people do, do though? They whine consistantly about how their skills suck, or something’s OP. Is it wrong for me as a player, a path rep, and a beta tester to want to stop something from becoming a whine fest before it happens? I haven’t said players shouldn’t have a STR staff completely but one of this magnititude is not fair to INT users, it’s not fair to anyone either. The only thing people with SF are thinking about right now are themselves, and thats fine 99% of this game always only thinks about themselves.

As a beta tester, and a path rep I have a pretty dam good idea what changes are coming in the future. Let me be the first to tell you that none of the skills *HP/IP/GAZE* that will be OP with this staff.. were even close to being nerfed. But I’ll tell you this I have a feeling they will be now. Should a legendary staff dictate the course of an entire beta? What do you think Atradies?

Ask for the gratitude and patience part. I show a ton of gratitude towards the devs daily, I thank them a lot. But there are times when they make stupid moves, like this one… they’re only human. I can forgive them, it’s all about how one cleans up their mess, not about how one makes the mess. Also the way you’re acting towards veteran players of this game is less than nice, so I’d suggest to you to stop it. Because being rude gets you nowhere, people will always whine. It’s peoples god given right to whine and such and they will abuse that right whenever they can.

So essentially what you’re saying in your final note is that players who are veterans and understand the game better than you should “learn how to play their class” because they’re complaining that a new str staff will screw everything up. I’m going to laugh @ that for now, and if you want to continue down that path with more posts telling me/other veterans how we should learn new ways to play our class, do it. The response you receive will be less than nice.

On the hole I’m going to ask that the devs reconsider this version of this staff. I think a much more nerfed str staff would be alright but this particular version is not, we’ll see where this goes. But if the devs honestly feel the need to move forward with releasing it then I hope to god they allow beta to test with the staff for 2-3 weeks prior to its release… thanks