Runes of Magic US / AU

can anyone tell me. should ı play this game anymore? ı'm currently p/k and it's useless now. before gcd it's useless too , after gcd it's double useless . and they still working on gcd problem. realy!! . ı think they are distracting us.

Quoted from "farham;491358"

can anyone tell me. should ı play this game anymore? ı'm currently p/k and it's useless now. before gcd it's useless too , after gcd it's double useless . and they still working on gcd problem. realy!! . ı think they are distracting us.

Honestly, that decision is yours, and yours alone. But the purpose of any game is to have fun. So if you're not having fun, there's no harm in taking a break. You'd be surprised how much some of those other games can make a person miss RoM, though.

I do agree with you though. Before, all we could do was heal. Now that is even more true with broken DoT, and GCD on RT and CoL. And on top of that, our heals are now cut almost in half, because P/K relies more heavily on Urgent Heal than other Priests. Ah well... "wait and see" is all we have to go on. But no one can make any of us play RoM while waiting. Personally, I've been having fun with alts... Melee alts.

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And on top of that, our heals are now cut almost in half, because P/K relies more heavily on Urgent Heal than other Priests.

I mostly duo. With not being able to rely on uh + life link I don't see the point in playing p/k. As p/w I have more hp than as p/k and not much less pdef. My heals as p/w + bms are only 17% lower than p/k + di. Add the auto heal from condensed rage when I take damage I chose a healing p/w over a p/k now if I can not rely on life link.

This has killed the reason why I played one of my priest combinations and with the nerf to heals I am having a lot more trouble with the other combination when I solo killing any urge to play it.

So far the solution has been a cute little hunter and a shadow priest in that 3 letter acronym game that people don't like being mentioned here. After being used to a gcd at the start of the cast there and coming back to a gcd at the end of the cast this is not fun. This feels laggy and frustrating with reduced heals. That other game stops a person from casting too quickly and does not have the laggy feel some have complained about here.

as far as p/k being gimped. it is definitely not as efficient as it used to be, there are many more chances for death to come someone's way. however, should people not do stupid things, you can usually UH your tank all the time (short the FailCD) and weave in group heal after every 2 GH's if there's a massive damage phase occurring.

still usually lots of time to run if your UH is strong enough if you need to, and life link can still keep you alive for most things. though i did have to sacrifice myself to heal someone standing in fire to beat a boss the other day =/

I think it's a good change but it's bad timing. It's something that should have been implemented since chapter 1 but then they couldn't have kept classes unbalanced to tip your favor in one class direction or another (getting you to spend money on that new class armor, resets, etc.).

In truth, this kind of limitation is only normal. This change reduces the ridiculous ability of dungeon parties having all the necessary classes to complete dungeons. Every class has a role and none of them have really been being used because of this kind of pampering. It's an old issue that was addressed at the worst possible time (with the addition of new content pampered end gamers wanted to "progress" through - burn through and farm).

Just another way pay2win made this game fail. I can't believe people are still complaining and not quitting, lol.

no, it's fail. the implementation allows death to run rampant. when 4 people go down to 25% at he same time, and damage is coming very fast, they should be hit with a group heal. you can't start that gheal till the GCD is done. you can no longer urgent those people singly back above 50% anymore before the next big AoE happens, and gheal only MIGHT be fast enough.

you can't say just because weaving gheals in with uh's sounds like it's strategic, it is. it's a death trap, because you can't rely on your skill to heal anything, you have to rely on prayer.

i used to be able to urgent people to life, with fast decisions to a high enough point that i'm ready for the next AoE because i have a gheal casting. now, i don't get to use any skill. i urgent the tank as fast as it lets me, and cast gheals after every two praying it catches damage on everyone. because god knows, there's a whole second after the gheal happens that i have to wait to cast the gheal again. that's a good place for people to die.

on the other hand, gheal spam is now almost viable again. just bring a bunch of phirius e pots.

I feel any Blanket change applied to this game is wrong. The blanket method is lazy and can never effect every class and combo the same. I know it's more work to address every class/combo individually, but this game is based on that very foundation and must be treated that way ALWAYS.


If they want to put a CD on a skill fine, address that skill/skills one at a time and look at each class/combo to see where and how much to change them. The blanket Mana % was poor to say the least and was removed. this GCD looks a lot like the Mana change and seems to be reserecting the same responce from the community.

Yes each class has a large amount of skills to choose from, the issue is many of them are not functioning correctly or lack usefulness due to poor scaling at higher levels. This creates a bottleneck effect where only a handful of skills are used on each class/combo. As it is now we could put every skill available on about 3 Action Bars, but many have no real function so there is no point to even place them there.

I don't understand the previous balance attempts to the classes that have recieved it, if they had planned to implement this change and nullify the previous balance efforts. In my opinion this change is a step backwards and achieves nothing positive.

My suggestion is to look at each skill and implement changes that have at least a shred of logic to them. The GCD reverts any speed boosting effects that currently exsist in the game. The Raid and Curse runes have no use now, along with any and all speed buffs and or foods/potions. Why offer these advancement only to erase their effect? Why have speed ratings on weapons and intice players to try to reduce those limits? Just allow everyone to attack at the one second mark and no less, then replace the speed boosts with something else.

I know my suggestion of removing speed boosts is a massive task but you can't just dump this blanket speed change on the community and give nothing to balance it in some way. I feel this attempt (GCD) is much to late in the life of this game. I feel Ice Blade should have a Cast time and not be instant, but that is another subject to be discussed in a different post.

Sorry for the long post...Sheesh!!:p

I have to give it to you Squirrlee, this post is the best I have read on this topic! I totally agree with everything you have said.

I play a mage and it sickens me everytime I log on to play the game these days. It is so boring and no one is doing anything other than moping around. Our guild is pathetic now, a whole bunch dont even bother logging on, they actually quit playing, and others have left and will be trying to find a new guild. I know all guilds are hurting now so that may be hard for them to do

I know it is time to move on as well, but I am having such a terrible time letting go! I have spent a lot of money and time on my character and I have enjoyed all of it tremendously. My BF is encouraging me that we need to find a new game, but silly ole me is still hoping this will get fixed.

You think I need gamers anonymous or a shrink :p

I think I need a shrink to bring me back to reality... Reality is the game is Broken foreverrrrrrr

Maybe, just maybe they will start looking to the feedback threads that were started months ago for balancing ideas rather then upsetting and driving the community out with this type of release.

1st bad move - Mana %
2nd bad move - GCD

Both removed, but not forgotten. Mana % was a bad move and no one who played then has forgotten about it. As will the GCD go down in the ROM history books, never to be forgotten.

for all you peeps that are ok with this gcd, just who, exactly, heals you when you need a heal? Or are you so OP that you don't need heals?