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I played gunner for some time, but I rerolled back to my class because its super boring not having counterplay once you get gear

Hello, I would like to talk today about something that quite worries me, but before, I would like to put everybody who is going to take the time to read everything up in some context. This patch is highly beloved, no doubt, almost anyone I know loves this patch and remembers it with nostalgia, but it has a HUGE problem. balance. You see, in the past people played for fun and used the class they enjoy. I don't think im wrong saying that, mostly anyone in this server has played aion before and the reason they are here is because of nostalgia, meaning they are quite experienced in the game. But there's just one problem. The most experience we got, the less balance we have, and thats because this patch is light years to be balanced. And with all this knowledge people own, the abuse for those juicy wins for glory points, AP, or even reputation starts. and with that, something in this game cracks. People no longer play what they enjoy, they just play the most ideally broken class that exist (which is the gunner by the way). And this is a problem, because everytime someone gets oneshooted in less than 1 second with juggernaut cannon + spirit cannon + something else, their passion for the game is one step closer to the extintion, because lets face it. there's gunners everywhere and the fact that the 80% of them use synapse for turbomacros doesn't help either. On the other side, I totally understand that this patch is the most worthy of all to run in a private server. Is perfectly balanced in terms of P2W. You can farm your stuff, and you can also accelerate your progress donating or abusing twitch streams but this post is not about how massively broken the streamer coops is but just a little bit, there's a cap on your stats and that kinda conforts the f2p and grindy players, some day, you will reach that endgame, soon or later. So no, this is not a post about asking to change the patch before you totally ignore this, I love katalam, the 4.6 and I think this is the ultimate patch, it just need something else. I have a question for you all, do you know the game League Of Legends? (this is not a sponsor in any way, is just an example btw) The most consistently played game in all the history of videogames, is basically, after all this time the same shit. You gotta make your way into the lanes, destroying towers objectives etc till you destroy the enemy base. thats pretty much it. So I wonder, how its possible that a game so "simple" can be so consistenly played? Guys: Patch notes. thats it, patch notes!!! You can expect to leave a game the way it is and think it will run for ever with enough players to sustain yourself or you may work, or you can look for the perfection that will create a refreshing feeling among the players, and also give a sensation that the administration does actually care for their player base. And before you wrap your hands arround your heads and start screaming, no, im not saying "nerf gunners". I understand it. Delete people is the gunner job. But deffensive sets are also a thing and honestly gunners give two shits about magic suppresion. So what can we do about this: Do sighly changes on skills in order to buff or nerf indirectly other classes, for example: Gladiator defense preparation: +3%pvp defense. Bard shield: +5% pvp defense. Play a little bit with sighly changes, see if people feel good about them. If a change is too impactfull, people will complain, and you will know when to turn back in a change. I understand that this might be too difficult, or some people won't like the changes at all. But please, keep in mind two things: 1: Im asking about very little changes, to make things statistically better, not just "now gladiators can facetank anything they want with defence preparation" or now bards sudently can beat anyone they please. the changes im looking for is: "gladiators die a 6% less times against gunners" or bards win a 7 % more against assassins (I dont know, is an example). 2: Leaving the game the way it is, for ever, it's basically sentence it to death. the fact that is exactly the same as the original doesn't mean is perfect, keep in mind that covid 19 had a great impact on this server and this situation will soon end. When the people start leaving, and your numbers of online players dropping, I highly doubt another quarintine will appear to safe this situation one more time. Summary: Change is good. and synapse fucking sucks! edited some mistakes*

I have a keyboard with synapse, I choose to not use it though

I made a gunner long ago and It's completely easy and overtunned, never lost to a 1v1 vs a gladiator unless they get extremely lucky with KDs or determination. and I think it's very clear that I didn't want just to make my class stronger and gunner weaker. I wanted some tunes in general to make the game better. But this is wasting my time with you because you talk like you belive there's ways to beat gunners who have some brain