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Cross posting this from r/MMORPG.

The situation where crafters will not be able to compete with dropped loot for months after a wipe is 100% due to passive training. Passive training made sense when we did not have a leveling/talent system. Now that we do it is redundant, time gates new players and really doesn't provide fun game play to anyone. Stating passive training works in other games doesn't mean it works in CF. In Eve you can max a role in a month and be on equal footing as a 10 year player in that role. More training in that game provides more role options. This is not true in crowfall, there is literally years of training before you cap and that creates a insurmountable gap between veterans and newbs.

Axing the passive training system and offloading those stats to an expanded talent tree would solve this issue and several others.

ya, you're right but the current system for scoring isn't very immersive, motivating or fun. all opinions of course. i'm not game designer and i don't have any ideas that haven't already been put forward.

Points are lame, i'd much rather see win conditions that are actually interesting.

They've had x2 news drops a week(sometimes a 3rd founders update on wednesdays) since 2015. Lately they've kinda fallen behind on juicy news bits but overall ACE has had excellent communication with us.

Power curve is fine imo, the problem is the effort and time it takes to get to the top of that curve. Obviously the gathering/crafting grind is over the top(especially with current gear degradation). However, the real problem is the passive training and how long it takes to get your crafter(s) up to par to take full advantage of blues.

The difference is night and day!

I went adventuring last night for a few hours hunting down shards. Ended up with about a dozen green weapon shards, six blues and one purple. This was most due to the higher density of low ranking hunger nodes. I found one r7 all night, a handful of r6 and most nodes being r4 and r5. My feeling is that the drop rate is okay ish right now. If connoisseur worked and there were higher ranking nodes I think we’d be in a good place.

The armor standard for Winterblades is still blue , only a few try hards have purps. If your people aren't in blues after this many campaigns that's on you guys.

I understand you're frustrated but imagine if every time a bug was found they wiped the database, It would be a ghost town up in here. What you're proposing would set a precedent for anyone who is upset to feel entitled to a wipe. Let ACE develop their game and wipe when it is right for them to do so, not at the whims of testers who feel bad about things.

ACE will wipe when they have to due to tech constraints, not because of some people's feelings.

Those are all active players that don't post on the forums. They were asked to give their opinions on the matter but were not told how to reply. If you go back in the thread there are several Winterblades members that have disagreed with OP. Forum names = in game names and they're all on the leader boards if you care to do some research instead of making blind accusations.

+1 circles are boring.

looks good, only thing I would change would be the stoneborn racial power on your hotbar for wee one.

lets see them hotbar/passives slots

Yo. There's a few of us old Dissent bros playing in Winterblades. The game is coming along, slowly but surely. Still not up to SB status.

"And most importantly, ask yourself if you are doing your part to keep your team fortified, full-bellied and armed to the teeth. The bards may forget you, but your allies will not." Guilt trip much?

such disappoint

this month has definitely been the worst in the history of CF news drops.

I agree with OP, Crowfall is currently feels like a farming sim. However, it's been discussed to death and I'm certain the devs have received the message.

Looking good ACE. John putting in work!

Murder deer will get you an additional charge on your power bar and reserve your parry for RMB. I feel ranged is the real issue here, high dmg, CC and mobility makes playing melee a hard choice and feels under powered af.

"As mentioned, like any game, there will be a few keys that are off limits. These include Esc, Enter, and the Windows key"

We were doing well vs the rangers but lacked the mobility to avoid the sandwich. GG was fun!