Q:
[POLL] April 19 Patch Sentiment
I like reading about what they did and consider them a great improvement. Can’t wait until this fix the patch to stop the constant game wide crashing so I experience the changes. That really is the bigger quality issue at this time.
I picked “Strongly Favorable”. I love this patch, just waiting for crash fix now…
I selected “Neutral” as almost the entirety of the patch notes were related to things that do not affect my playstyle or alter areas of the game that I take part.
A lot of the update seems well-received and offered positive changes for areas of the game for other players, but I do take part in those areas so I have no personal opinion on them. For how I play and the areas of the game that I enjoy playing, the game is essentially no different after the patch from how it was before.
The only changes that really affect me would be the slight adjustments to some skills for some professions, but even those changes were not really a big deal or ‘game-changing’. Though I must admit I like the ranger sword skill no longer being animation-locked…but I rarely use that as my primary weapon on my rangers.
The Effect Quality option is nice, but it does not revert all changed skills to their former, fully graphic state and only reverts the Elementalist Fireball. It is nice to finally get that back, but what about all of the other changed skill effects that were diminished that are not reverted to their previous appearance? Seems to be barely implemented at all, so maybe down the road everything else will get included and reverted to their former glory as well.
Of course, my opinion would be rock bottom for this patch if I owned HoT due to the free inventory slot being forced onto me.
Players had begged for the slot to be movable since it was first offered as where ANet decided to add the slot causes all kinds of chaos to sorted inventories. Because of this, many desired (and expressed this desire) to be able to move them to the bottom so they didn’t need to re-sort the entire inventory on every character again.
I know some that did not purchase this slot simply because they didn’t want to have to re-organize the inventories of 20-60 characters. I had to go through this for my 23ish characters when the slot first released and I purchased a couple of them and hated wasting hours re-organizing everything on them.
So what does ANet do? They don’t make it movable and now, months later, force it on anyone who happened to have purchased HoT.
I know one player who has now quit the game as of today due to this patch forcing that slot on them and ruining the sorted inventories of 60 characters. They intentionally didn’t buy it because it would do just that. Now, because ANet couldn’t be bothered to make it movable before forcing this slot on them, they would rather quit playing altogether than spend hours upon hours doing nothing but re-sorting 60 inventories due to everything being shifted over 1 single slot.
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