The Ninja Nerf

I woke up yesterday, and prepared myself mentally for patch day. Patch day generally sucks. The servers are down for hours, and you sit at your computer watching the update like it is going to save you from a horrible and painless death, or be what causes it. Yeah, I know I could have got up during that four hours and did something productive, but no matter how much you try, or think about doing something else, you just can’t. The launch pad becomes a beacon of hope, a light leading the way into your world of pure enjoyment. You are glued to the screen and cannot and will not move until it says play.

There was one thing I could do. I could click on the chat button that takes you to a world full of spam and chatter that goes by so fast that your head spins. Did I dare click on this button. Would I throw myself into that utter chaos and hope to be heard? Would I need advil after to relieve the headache? I did dare, and yes, I did need the advil. I clicked on the chat button and sat in the little black box with a whirlwind of text flying by. I tried to read some, gave up, tried to type, gave up, and then finally just sat and waited for the moment when Galantee would moderate the room and give us some words of wisdom. The game was to be down for another two hours. This was disappointing, but I could handle it. I didn’t fly off the wall with hate spam trying to take out the moderator. Galantee did moderate again, and give us the patch notes. This was great, it made it worth sitting in that chat room of death.

As I read over the notes I didn’t see anything that would really affect me. Frostfell was back, and this added aspect was much welcome during the holidays. Satisfied that my life was not ruined I walked away from my computer to do something more productive while the game updated. My hubby says that although I am a level 70 Conjurer, I am a level 2 housewife. He is mostly right. I just never feel like xping that alt.

A few hours later I log into the game. I am playing my pretty little pink and white fae. As you all know I rerolled a new toon, and the fae are such a joy to play. I jumped into the air expecting to gracefully glide down, but instead was smacked right in the face with the nerf bat! My fae did something of a half jump and half glide. It dropped to the ground like an overweight gnome! How could they do this? Why SOE? Why?

I ran to the patch notes, ok, well I quickly tabbed out and reread them. There was NOTHING in there about nerfing the fae’s glide! They did a ninja nerf and thought we wouldn’t notice! How could they do this? My fae is almost a level 40! I have spent a lot of time on this toon, and I loved my fae because of that ability! I feel so slighted, cheated, and stomped on! I quickly did a /feedback letting them know how upset I was, and then asked around in guild to find out if anyone else noticed it, and they did!

Now the question comes to pass, “How did they think they could get this one by us?” I mean, seriously, we as gamers notice the slightest detail, and they think they can do a ninja nerf, go behind our backs and remove half of our glide ability and we will not notice? Besides the fact that we had to choose glide as one of our race abilities, and now it isn’t the same? Are we going to get a respec? Why do they take everything that is fun and full of life away???

Overall though, I do love this game, and have had a ton of fun with it for the last 2 years and hopefully years to come! I never would have imagined I would ever play a game this long and enjoy it:)