Quote Originally Posted by Katie_Seaglen View Post
I spent years getting my toon to the level of power she is at. She has 2 TRs and 15 ERs. Epic hard was my difficulty level of choice. Overnight, I am getting ganked in EH quests. When running solo I have no possibility of recovery (I won't buy cakes). I had just started doing Epic Elites with a friend and was quite enjoying them. But that is off the table now.

This is how it should have been done: Champions should only have appeared either as an option, or as a new level of difficulty. Champions should have been worth extra xp and renown. A set and generous amount. Killing 30 champions in a quest should be 30,000 extra xp and 2000 guild reknown. XP and guild renown are the only true incentives left in this game and people would have stepped up.

Instead, you have taken away people's perceived level of ability, without any increase in reward (I stop looting chests when my inventory is full as it is). I think you have made a huge mistake. I can't emphasize that enough. You are going to lose accounts. It may be temporarily satisfying to say "ha ha, look how upset everyone is", but this is going to affect your job status down the road, and that won't be quite as satisfying.

You have different audiences to cater to. Some are very vocal on the forums. But there are many many quiet ones who are not. Sure everyone pays the bills, but when a sizeable measure of everyone gets frustrated and leaves it's going to hurt. Be very very careful how you handle this.
I'll second this. Lots of the forumites may say they like Champeons, but there are probably a lot of "ordinary" players out there (I'm one of them) who may not enjoy the crazy ramp in difficulty. And these folks generally tend not to be as vocal on the forums.

I was just in a three-man group and we got torn apart in EH VON 3. It was embarrassing. The other two guys were dying left and right, and only my 900 hps, regenerating lay on hands, displacement clickies, and crazy paladin sword and board PRR and MRR helped keep me going as long as I did. But it became obvious before we got 1/4 in that we would never be able to complete.