Smuggler Archive
Thread: Have you seen the new XP changes?
Killing thousands of Bols, Gurks, Baznitches, or whatever never made me feel like a Smuggler. Killing 10 times more will make me not want to play any more. I wish SOE could understand that we don't grind because we enjoy it. We grind to get to a point where we can enjoy the game. Content is geared and balanced towards a level 80 character. Of course we will all try to get to that point as quickly as possible so that we can enjoy the content and no longer worry about levelling. We grind to get to the point where we can have fun, we do not grind for fun. The XP nerf is crap.
To quote Mr. Zimmerman:
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
Caveat Emptor folks. There's bad juju on the horizon. My Smuggler senses are tingling.
apprentice_of_eld wrote:
Now, why would they reduce xp gained? Hmm. My guess goes toward it's a way to slow down jedi grinding. That's such a great idea! Instead of removing the problem, they just pass along the solution to everyone else. Gotta love it. Word to the devs, I AM NOT GRINDING TO BE A JEDI, so why are you punishing me?
This affects EVERYONE, so get off your anti-jedi horse and stand with your fellow players.
Instead of blaming one profession, blame the DEVS and the people who run the game...they made the change, NOT the Jedi, not the BH's, not the smugglers or ch's or pistoleers, etc etc etc...not any other profession.
I'm sick and tired of all these stupid posts blaming one group or another for the problems with this game...My goodness if you hate jedi all that much go be an elf or something and play a different game. Your GUESS may be right, and it may be completely wrong. It could be that the devs decided that 3-4 months to finish a template is "OK" and will bring them more money...but then again we all know the people in charge here need their medication or they have problems discerning their brains from their butts. In any case, get off of the players' backs and get on the people you need to be ragging on.
/disgruntled
Tyrix I'att
Sorry, This just put me in a bad mood tonight. I don't mean to take it out specifially on you, but the profession bashing is getting old. It's jedi vs bh, everyone vs jedi, everyone vs current fotm...I'm just trying to point out that, right now at least, this is a time that we ALL need to put aside profession biases, server biases, whatever and stand together, friends, enemies, guildmates, even the guy you may have flamed last week. This is a game-breaking change, I refuse to call it a nerf because it's more like an atomic bomb...
Make a stand, have a voice, petition away, cancel your accounts (at least for a month, heck even a week...they still get the notice that the account was cancelled I believe)
Tyrix I'att
apprentice_of_eld wrote:
Name me another reason to reduce xp?
Actually you know what, you may be right in that it's simply a tool to make people play longer and increase revenue. After all, if it takes longer to get to jedi, then those people that buy the game for that sole reason will stay around longer.
/rescind above jedi-bashing (kinda)
Not defending the tools who play Jedi (I'm not a tool, I swear), but Jedi already get a 1/5th reduction in xp. This means that they actually get 1/8th of 1/5th when in a full group. Jedi took it hard today... but Smugglers been taking it hard since launch.
He-who-hunts-jedi wrote:
word from a Jedi to me in game was that there XP hasn't changed..is this true? god I hope not. the ratio should stay the same.
That's not true. It was posted on the jedi forums that jedi xp didn't change and was confirmed as a rumor by multiple people...in a full group a jedi gets roughly 200-250 xp per creature killed some have said as low as 100 and some have said as much as 500...but a far cry from the 1200-1500 before pub 22...ouch...a full 2 master template = approx 36 million xp.
VitoGenovese wrote:
Holy Crap! This. Sucks.
Killing thousands of Bols, Gurks, Baznitches, or whatever never made me feel like a Smuggler. Killing 10 times more will make me not want to play any more. I wish SOE could understand that we don't grind because we enjoy it. We grind to get to a point where we can enjoy the game. Content is geared and balanced towards a level 80 character. Of course we will all try to get to that point as quickly as possible so that we can enjoy the content and no longer worry about levelling. We grind to get to the point where we can have fun, we do not grind for fun. The XP nerf is crap.
Well then theres your answer. Your sunny side of the rainbow, so to speak. Smugglers have no content so there is no reason to rush to become a master Smuggler. No content to enjoy once you get there, no reason to get there.
Isn't it amazing how SOE just makes it all work out in the end?