My first criticism is with the release of GWEN (Eye of the North) and the Norn skill "Ursan". The use of the "Ursan" skill employs the spirit of bear which replaces your current build of skills with a new one to give you armor and health bonus as well as high dmg skills, the only negative aspect being that of energy degeneration over a period of time which is combatted easily by attacking and bringing energy back up. EVERYONE and their retarded cousin uses this build. To get "Ursan" to a useable level you must have Rank10 on the Norn title track which is aquired by repetitive farming, each monster killed depending on hard mode or normal mode you receive 1-2 points or more depending on hunting bonuses.
I. Cant. Be. Bothered.
Because I dont have the patience to repeatedly farm norn points and get high ranking ursan im constantly excluded from doing elite dungeons. Things usually go like this;
Me - lfg
Them - show build
*shows carefully crafted build that works perfectly*
Them - No ursan?
Me - I dont need ursan its perfectly fine
Them - you will die, you cant do it without ursan
*shows various titles all aquired without ursan*
*gets kicked anyway*
Them - lfg slavers, no ursanless noobs
....ffs
I was in a group the other day that told me i needed ursan and that I was a noob for not having it. I told them to fuck off, My build works fine, I dont need a skill that replaces it to make me almost invincible just to play the fucking game. Some agreed, some did not. We went anyway, Got into the dungeon, All the ursans got completely owned and I had a good laugh to myself whilst being the only one managing to stay alive (as ursan has little or no healing capability or rez).
Another thing that winds me up is people who have problems with mixed builds.
My build is comprised of 8 skills, for example my rit, I have restoration, spirits which do dmg and some magic plus rez and my secondary as a ranger allows me to do high dmg with a bow as well. This is fucking awesome. But people always ask me why its mixed and im not a specific dmg dealer or healer. I fucking love my build. My build isnt to help you, Its not my job to care if you cant work your build properly and you die. Thats what heroes are for. Im not going to miss out on fun so I can stay back and heal your ass.
My third peeve, which could also apply to most mmo's, is people calling other people noobs for not knowing the exact specs and price of weapons or location of outpost. You seem to forget you were a noob once. You were a horrible noob that annoyed the fuck out of people who knew how to play the game, you spammed questions in outposts and had multicoloured armor and the wrong weapon equipped because no matter how many times people told you a warrior doesnt use a staff you would be adamant that "im allow to use what i want lol"
I no longer have the problem of being called a noob, probably because im not, But I was once. If someones a low lvl and doesnt know what the fuck theyre doing, HELP THEM, if they ignore your help, TAKE A DIFFERENT GROUP.
I was in a run with a guy the other day who was lvl 20 had 50k elite endgame armor but constanly spammed "DOS ANY1 HAVE A IDENTIFICATION KIT TO SELL"
over. and over. and over. ID kits are 100g from any merchant. Free if you have monestary credits. This man is a noob.