and ingame wise ill be back instantly for months if Prof ever decided to actually do "essentially 2013"
I still don't know what this means.
You should lay everything out exactly as you think it should be. Rather than saying "do essentially 2013", because nobody knows what that means. You yourself are arguing against what is happening in 2013, that is why I pointed it out. I seriously doubt there are any sort of archival backups that go back 5 years. And like what was said numerous times, we would lose soooo many cool new features.
Which btw takes an absolute fuck ton of time and effort for even the "simplest of changes". You don't know what is going to break what, how some crazy hidden code written by a guy years ago who didnt comment it out, which bases half the mechanics off of a simple value. All the time to fix said change when its broken for only a small group of players who's very lives crumbled for that brief day.
This means, you should lay out EVERY CHANGE that would make today's state of cRPG this "essentially 2013". Or else there literally isn't anything to debate. And don't say "Zomg, u stupid whore I already laid out my grand plan <insert vast generalized statements like 'Ranged is teh Gayzorz, make polearm and 2h Awesomez!'>".
THIS IS WHY THIS POST IS IN THE CHAMBER OF TEARS. Do you not get that man? I'm trying to help you out. Your post is just complaining with absolutely nothing telling them how to "fix it". There is nothing constructive here. I'm hoping that you actually want it to change for the better instead of what everyone is writing you off as: someone who just gets enjoyment out of complaining just to complain, offering no solutions because you don't have any, and ultimately you don't even know what you're asking for.
So please, write out what you think the state you think every class should be in, what exact changes would make it happen, and people could actually talk about the changes, come up with more solutions, work out better changes that would accomplish that and more. You have supposedly been playing the game for a long time, seen the changes you didn't like happen over the years. So you should be able to come up with a list and how you think they should change, and what those effects would be. You troll these forums enough to have the time to do that, no problem.
Instead of "YOU FUCKING SUCK, #2013, #2013 #2013, WHY YOU RUIN THE GAME BY PUTTING IT INTO A STATE THAT NOBODY KNOWS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!?!?!111". Because that's all we are seeing.