The patch introduced a lot of really good things, including 3 new
monster types, secure trading, and dyes. I really like these things,
but, Secure Trading should've been in here to begin with, as someone
pointed out "Even UO had secure trading." Of course, you could
justify
stealing as Role playing, but only one game actually let you role
play
a thief -- Ultima Online. In AC there was no thief skill (Except
lockpick) so you could never justify thievery in the game. In UO, if
you were caught, bam, you become free to attack, in town, the guards
would kill you. In AC there was no retaliation to it. (End Rant) The
new monsters are really cool to look at, and the Destroyers are tough
as hell, so it was nice, but it seems like more hack and slash, which
grows tiresome after a while. The Dyes are cool, but much too hard to
use. Especially for 3 colours.

The patch also did some bad things. The first is that every bug from
last month is still in the game, and on top of that Three Towers and
Aerfalle Keep are both uberbroken. "Look we fixed Aerfalle keep
chest,
but you can't get to it, hahaha." How sad is this? The biggest
complaint that everyone has, and I have it as well, is the lack of
things to do. First 5 minutes of the new patch I had figured out
there
were new quests. Wow. Next couple days I searched and searched. Then
found out it was admin triggered. Well, this wouldn't be too much of
a
problem, if they had added some new non-quest dungeons. Or fixed BSD,
or kept BSD the way it is and added 3 more of them. I understand they
don't want people to be bored through the entire month, but since
June, they have added nothing in the way off things to do to the
game.
Yeah, Aerlinthe was nice, but laggy and hard as hell, and that is
broken now. The SoLL Update was useless. More level 4 spells! Not
only
that, but the update required going through the entire Aerlinthe
Quest(except the keep). So we have gone 2 months (maybe 3, can't
remeber if June actually added to the storyline) and one week without
seeing the storyline advance.

I'm not saying I don't love the game, hell I love it more then most
people ever will. I just wish Turbine would honestly take a look at
what they have and start fixing and adding appropriatly.

How about a BSD for level 20's? I mean one with Goldenback and
Crimson Tuskers.
How about an Aerlinthe BSD? One with Guards and Silverbacks. (Why are
Silverbacks lower level but much harder to kill the Guards?)
Why not add new dungeons and towns out in the middle of nowhere. (Me
and Rach ran around out near Mt. Alphus, talk about barren!)
How about real monster towns. I'm sure Lugians are smart enough to
create Lugian Towns, etc... make them non-aggresive creatures.

Jeff