Family Name: Rage (GM of Combat)
Region (NA/EU): EU
With today's patch you have completely screwed over all the small scale guilds. Our node changes were not announced ahead of time and are even worse than those on last week's KR patch notes. Every 30 man on what was previously t2 had at least 8 and usually 10-14 guilds placing on them. Most guilds doing these nodes did them because they enjoyed small scale nodewars over the higher nodes. In the smaller nw's there is less lag, it is less strenuous for people with worse PC's and frankly skill matters more than on the higher caps. Many people do not enjoy the 50+ caps.
We specifically chose to not go to higher caps because we are a tightly knit group of players that enjoy doing the small scale content. Now you have simply removed it for us and the hundreds of other daily enjoyers of small scale. Please considder reverting this change. Also if you plan more such changes in the future at least considder asking for feedback from the players and guilds on your regions. These changes are terrible for the community and this could have easily been avoided by asking for our feedback.
Totally agree with your thoughts here.
Personally I've been considering returning to T1 or T2 nodes because they've typically always had more engagement and were just more fun than T3+ nodes and I have always found them more fun. Now I'm really not sure if I want to bother with these changes.
These changes heavily promote larger guilds and are unfavorable for smaller guilds/alliances. Lag and performance issue aside I don't exactly know where these changes came from and I would like them to be re-evaluated. If this is just a change that works for other regions then it should be applied independantly on a per region basis and not globally. The devs have clearly demonstrated that they can and are willing to make changes specific to each regions needs (IE: Dec changes, Shai changes, Marketplace price changes) so I really don't understand why this change was pushed out with no prior warning to get an insight on how players might perceive the change in the region.
I agree PA pls listen for once.
They killed nodewars with these changes. Revert this shit immediately.