Update 28-4-2011

My feelings about Stumme-era GW are definitely better today...challenging content finally? glad to hear it. Hell, non-solo content finally? great!
Fixing the in-store advantage mercs provided is a big one. THIS is definitely the right direction. Theres an awful lot of terrible decisions this live team has made that I *hate*. But, this does at least ease that some.

I can't say I really like the no-mini decision; not what I would have chosen, cause it kinda screws the poeple still working on HoMs, and is just a tradition that a lot of people looked forward to - but its not one of the things I would say is awful. It's ok.
Good job (mostly), and Happy Birthday.

(Now remove the damn Kath Hammer BS and the approval scale could move all the way over to the favorable side...mostly)

so why dont they post here instead of us hearing from someone else?

Stephane's eating lunch. Martin's on a business trip. And I don't know what Regina's doing

not sure what that new build did, maybe just birthday presents?

he was eating cake

Lies!

(12char)

Cooking all the cupcakes DUH!!

The cupcakes are a lie!

well i don't got any proof for it but ya cake is a good thing in life

Again, what advantage? I've yet to hear of any team build that REQUIRES Mercenary Heroes to succeed (ie, that would go *splat* if you replaced primaries with secondaries to get to the amount of a profession that was desired), nor of any farming speed gains, nor even getting through regular content faster than is already possible (beyond levels 2-9 in Nightfall, where you'd have to do without leveling Koss, Melonni, Dunkoro and/or Talkhora - which would be bad since they're required to progress the story).

Don't rehash that argument here.

Who are "people"? Are you under the impression that most players don't actually complete quests, just in case they want to farm them at some point in the future? Do you also believe that most players didn't do one of the most famous quests in the game, just so they could redo it in a harder difficulty mode that was released years after said quest?

Come on, already. "People" do, in fact, complete quests. "People" do, in fact, do content for reasons other than farming. "People" do, in fact, do content in NM, and then go back and play in HM, and it is for those "people" that HM quests would actually be appealing.

9:01 and still nothing , some areas it will soon be the 29th

Yep, 4k xp reward for Galrath was a lot back then before Factions was released, considering the slow xp gain in Prophesies pve.

They always go by PST/PDT so technically they still have 11 hours until they are late since they never actually gave a time. It better not be another 11 hours though.

Edit: But that was probably obvious to you haha

Well, at least Razah basically becoming a free "Mercenary" (from a gameplay point of view) will be one less thing for the boo hoo in-game store advantage people to whine about.

it already is in plenty of places..pacific time is at the end of it....japan, Australia--its what 5am? (on the 29th)

I don't get what the debate is about?

Choice.

Now: