@virumaandi -- Don't worry, as long as no one takes offense to it I think this is a good topic/debate...
I cannot entirely blame players, I honestly don't think sins can accept 100% of the blame for the game being out of balance. However, if one thing IS surely true, and cannot be refuted, is that PWi
IS out of balance. Now I do personally feel sins are at LEAST partly at fault for this un-balance, but I suppose if you wanted to get to the square root of it all; it's really the developers fault
It does NOT help matters that (I hear) the original developers have since abandoned this game, and the current devs are new, so surely this also must have something to do with the fact that the game is so un-balanced !!!
However, this all does not alleviate the fact that the game IS out of balance. To me there is NO excuse why it should be so un-balanced! Old or new devs, sins or not, they should be working their asses off to restore equal balance...
I'm not saying make all classes the same, of course they will need and will have their own pros and cons, but when you have 5.0 APS sins (and BMs) and they can solo almost anything, yes, this is un-balanced... DOES make them OP ~ why would anyone need a Barb or a Cleric or an Archer, or a Wizzy, or a Veno, or anything else. To me, this game is SUPPOSED to be a MULTIPLAYER game (hence the MMO part). Well, if there is ANY class that is so OP they can SOLO SHIT, the game NEEDS BALANCE RESTORATION! Another favorite quote of mine is "If you wanted to play a single player game, go fucking sit on your couch and pop on your console game" ~~ seriously PW(i) is SUPPOSED to be MULTI player !!!
That's why there ARE people like me who think the game was at its best prior to the Raging Tides and Genesis expansions, because at least then; prior to Sins and Psys, Seekers and Mystics, Genies (and so on) ~~ the game was better balanced than it is now (even though it most likely still wasn't "perfect")...
Now of course there are two ways that balance (within the classes) could be restored:
1~ Nerf the new classes to be more on par with the old ones (this option I think is the best only because I don't think the new devs should touch the old classes)
2~ Make the old classes more powerful to be on par with the new ones (not too hot on this one, because like I said, I don't think these new devs should touch the old classes - they're the ones that screwed up the new ones, they should keep altering them until there is more balance again)
Either way, Honestly, I don't think they will even try -- because of course if they nerf the new classes they know they will loose a decent amount of players who will QQ about being nerfed =\ I also know about the tendency of Chinese MMOs and how they make them, milk them for as much as they can financially, then move on to the next game, to rinse lather and repeat !!! So they don't give two shits if the game is balanced or not, they want to milk it as long as they can. Then before you know it, it will shut down, and they will be rinsing lathering and repeating with another game...
So, in all, I am actually quite glad the 'private servers' we have are in the state they are (1.3.1/1.3.6 [client]), I agree with the fact that, that is when the game was at it's peak, at least balance wise...