I’ve been playing pretty hard since launch, and in beta, I fell in love with Musket. My road map was, get 200 crafting armor and Engy, work on building my dream weapons and armor, and pwn newbs.
I got my crafting up early, bought 3 houses, and all the crafting armor for complete sets so I could craft good gear.
I proc’d a 599 +29 Dex musket with Keenly Jagged, made my own jewelry (167) maxing Int Dex and getting great perks, and rolled on light armor to get the perks I wanted with the attributes I needed.
I am now 576 gear score…
The problem is, up until today, all that effort was pointless because of hatchet exploits and Crit reduction… I thought, maybe today my 250 Dex 150 Int, 599 wielding glass cannon would be decent. It is not.
I get hit for 4k by bow users, spammed to death by fire mages, and can’t outrun heavy axe users… I literally stand there in shooters stance (still) hitting healers in the face for 1500 damage per shot, and they don’t even care.
I have to stop and reload powder burn, my only viable skill (unless I can setup shooter stance and fire three shots at a light user before they move, wait for it again, and try to hit moving targets all day.
This is the worst PVP class in the game. The skill ceiling is incredibly high, but the payoff is incredibly low.
I can’t help but feel like dungeon drops at 591 water mark and void bent gear is better than what I can craft, and with the odds, far better…
It costs me 5k in mats to try once for a 600 roll, I can currently roll 582-600 with minor trophies in all three houses, meanwhile, I can’t even run Lazarus, or Genesis in my 576 GS (590+ Armor) light gear.
I love the skill involved in dodging and aiming, but I still get destroyed because there isn’t enough stamina to out dodge left click fire spells, great axe rushes, or archers (who by the way, don’t have to stop to reload).
I got so bored running OPR, that I spec’d sticky bomb, got good at it too, and half the time it did garbage damage, or was dodge rolled which stops it from exploding.
Short of putting down the musket, which at 599 custom crafted, with 590+ custom crafted gear, is hard to do (because of time invested), I am at a loss.
I put all my eggs into a basket I enjoy, and have been nothing but destroyed by void bent healers and hatcheters, only to bow also get destroyed by archers in this patch.
Do the Devs care at all about either musket, or crafters? You post dev corners on HWM systems and loot luck, but you don’t address what you have done to crafters, who have devoted a lot of time and effort into gear that is worse than the 60 PVP gear.
I can’t help but feel like I’ve wasted 3 weeks. Please address this soon. I don’t even like playing anymore. I’d like to have hope that my musket rapier, custom armor build will have some value somewhere. As of now, it can’t do dungeons, can’t do PVP and can’t do elite zones like Myrk without running with 50+ zergs.
Nobody wants us in war, nobody wants us in groups, healers don’t want to heal us…
Wtf am I supposed to do?
And to top it off, I can’t do light voidbent, because it is Strength… wtf?
I have the medium chest, least you can do is have Int for light so I can work with that.