> No bridge, but they should have played some tag, hide and
> seek, kickball,
> hopscotch, monopoly...social contact in games is, I hope, not
> new at all.
>
But none of those can you turn on or off when you feel like it as you can
EQ.
> Monks can't. Verant believes the ability of classes to pull so safely
> at high levels was simply too powerful, and thus they took it
> out of the
> game. Half the power of FD is gone; its time to learn to
> live with the
> change. There is no work around, monks need to suck it up and go on.
>
Perhaps, perhaps not. Some are expressing some of their old success since
the last patch.
> Formal, well thought out complaints are fine, but I find
> statements like
> "Its more than a game, gimmie FD back" just plain silly. How many
> weeks of venting do I have to endure?
>
So why argue back? Surely you can see that it doesn't help, and just
extends it that much longer. Nothing you can do is going to make the
argument/venting be over any sooner other than expressing your symapthies.
> I play a wizard...I have watched them take away our easy
> root/nuke/nuke
> strategy. I watched them take away our escape tool, jboots.
> I watched
> them take away our toy, manastone. Each time I suck it up. I still
> have friends, I still meet new people. My power is greatly reduced
> still.
>
Yes, and so have my other characters been nerfed, so what? You don't see me
yelling/arguing back. It doesn't help. Offer constructive counter
arguments, yes, but saying, in a sense "You are a bunch of whiners who need
to shut up" is not going to make anyone stop complaining, nor adjust their
point of view to the position that maybe it's not so bad.
>
> But The game is just a game. Monks have been tuned (nerfed), life
> and game go on.
>
Fine, you've moved beyond it. Others haven't. No reason to extend this
thread further by calling them whiners and telling the to suck it up and
live with it. It's just plain inflamatory and extends the thread even
further. It you really are tire of hearing it and want the thread to die
off, then stop responding and let it die off. Unless you are the list
admin, there's no other way you can end the thread.
Lei
Warrior-Poet
Bristlebane