Well…
In part we have to blame people.
Society is diseased and it’s people will bring their diseases, toxicity into multiplayer gaming: So they “tea bag”, insult you - exploit the game.
Then people cry about it.
Game devs, if they listen, tilt the scales.
Then the oppressed become oppressors when the scales tilt on their favor.
Then devs tilt the other way.
To some degree they will appease players.
You will also have to blame devs for their incompetence.
We like NW because we all know it has potential that is being purposefully killed.
So… we’ll go back to the Diablo world once D4 comes out until that game becomes the drudgery that D3 became.
I was a fire mage. Couldn’t cut it in PvP or PvE.
Now I’m Hatchet + Blunderbuss. Kicks butt unless someone is heavy armor and high con.
This is as far as I’m willing to go for now in regard to melee.
Sometimes I’ll use spear + great sword. I still die a lot.
I refuse to use great axe for the cancer that it is.
Rarely will I use war hammer cuz, again…cancer.
Then there’s this asinine economy in NW.
I’m waiting for the devs to realize that player driven economies never work.
You will need an automated backbone economy with an additional, by choice player economy if you want balance, success.
But you see…
Society is diseased…
So the devs are also diseased…
Thus you don’t see many people implement very good, balanced ideas anywhere in this world.
There is always…
Some cancer, somewhere.