Why exactly do people need Talisker to post each week that he's been reading our posts and concerns? This is exactly why Sigil has reps assigned within the community, such as our own Quinn the Mighty. As our rep, Quinn is responsible for going through all of these posts and consolidating them into a single message back to the devs to respond back to him to so he can then convey that message back to us. I personally feel that QTM has been doing a tremendous job thus far but some of these responses seem to imply that some of you do not.
Also, realize what you're asking for here. Talisker isn't exclusively responsible for monks. Expecting him to post here a set amount of times means every one of the other 12 or so classes deserves the same expectation. If he lived up to that expectation of simply reading and posting, where exactly does he find the time to actually make any game changes to address them? He doesn't.
Seeing Talisker or any dev post here is great but I certainly would not want the devs taking precious time away from actually fixing our issues just to come post on our board letting us know how they actually feel about those issues. That communication between dev and player is still happening. It's just through a middle channel: the class rep. And ours is doing a great job of it too.
What have we heard about any of our skills being looked at? One post saying Monk love inc is utter bullSNARF. Posting AIM conversations is bullSNARF. Not sayign Quinn isn't doing a good job, he is, but it is messed up that Talisker is giving nothing concrete to Quinn to pass to us. The Dev <=> Class Rep thing is good for most things, but when a Dev does not post at all, it is poor customer service. How many posts has Talisker made since the game was launched? Now compare that to
just about every other Dev. If the job is too tough for him...I guess it might be time to hire more help? But I do not feel that him taking time to post would be taking too much away from fixing our issues because well...what issues are being looked at? The fixes tossed our way have been crap, they look like they were conceived when he was drunk at 3 AM as a joke to us. Saying he is working on an AA system shows that priorities are jacked up. Fix what is in game before adding to already broken content.
FOTM here we come.
seems every game I play that the less then good class I play ends up gets buffed to super class.
TKA in SWG
Spines/Regen in COH
Hunter in WOW
I have the feeling it will be the same with this but I really hope that we don't become a dime a dozen class because a like toughing it out with a low played class. Kinda makes you feel good when people who don't normally have a chance to play with your class is in awe at your abilities. Like yesterday I got a bunch of of my guildies jealous and envious of my soaring leap.
Don't count your eggs before they are hatched. We have heard things are on the upside before. And I would gladly give up Soaring Leap if they fixed the multitude of our broken skills and brought us to where we are supposed to be. I seriously doubt we will be the FotM class, that would be Pallies. I really hope that Pallies are not going to be the standard all other classes are brought up to. Classes will basically be too powerful too early in the game.
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