Squad Leader Archive

Glad to have you on board old chap. Anyway, here are my current thoughts and some of the issues that annoy me most about being a squad leader.

Rally Skill - The negatives outweight the positives. No one wants to be rallied as it effects some of their abilities and the bonues you get from it is... well there isnt one.

Our current top 5 list - No offence to whoever put it together but how did HAM costs get to the top of that list? I can take the HAM costs if the skill is decent. Reducing HAM costs for a SL fixes nothing as no one wants to use any of the specials in the first place! Please address this issue with the devs.

Squad leader - Not really any benefit to the group. Number one on the list should be implementing a special that will noticeably benefit the group. Just ONE special that was of use would be a massive improvement that would make our skills worthwhile. You mentioned a BUFF to the regeneration rate, if it could be somelike meditation but not as powerfull than that would be excellent (perhaps call it focus mind). Another potential would be a special to LOWER HAM costs of your groups specials. Thus say at master you can lower the HAM costs of all groups specials by 25%.

At the moment I remain a squad leader as it is what Jebu is meant to be in line with politician. A leader on and off the field. Others are not so patient and unless we do get some sort of improvement you can understand the frustrations of the last correspondant self exploding on the forums.

Thanks for listening and I hope these thoughts along with the others on the board can help you get some attention to the devs about SL.

Thanks Jebu, and I very much agree. I was thinking of writing up a new "State of the Profession" to include a prioritized Top 5 issues tonight, but I'm finding myself already staying up FAR later than a person should and so I think I shall do that when I'm a little more cogent and can write something worth reading. Instead I went ahead and made the Official discussion threads since that required less thought.

In the meantime, can we re-open the Top 5 can of worms? I understand and completely agree that there are FAR more than 5 issues with Squad Leader...but which ones are the very most important? I have some ideas, but my job as correspondent is not as much to present MY ideas as to gather and report from the community...

Also, I'd like to remind all the Squad Leaders out there that are considering changing professions they should stick it out at least until the next big patch... I can't make any guarantees that the profession will be improving anytime soon (tho hopefully I'll be getting SOME idea soon), but if you've waited THIS long you might as well stick around and get a badge for it!!