This should definitely be no rant. I know that there's a small team working at Horizons and I really appreciate their dedicated work to improve the game.
Nonetheless I would really like to see all those many old problems, issues and bugs taken care of first before doing any new content for the game. Or with other words: First finish the basics, that are a game's foundation before building anything new upon it. Especially since most of those issues should be able to be fixed rather quickly.
To me those points are more important than crystals, racial quests, a reworked land like LA or something like an elder game. Of course those things would be great to have but there are other important things still in game but broken or unfinished since release.
The things that come to my mind are:
- Dragons got a lot of attention already and are greatly improved but the basic issues of the class are still left untouched.
* Their ability and skill quests still end with 70th level (40th level in some cases)
* They are not able to get a Dragon's Gift V
* They have no stoneworking and smelting trainers and quests.
* Helians that tend to make more use of spells still have very few options to do so
* Drain Strike and Dimensional Pocket abilities still do not have icons
- Many lines of spells are still unfinished or almost non-existent
* Ice and Energy might need a DoT and AoE spell or two
* Mind and Summoning spells are almost non-existent and still need some serious work
* Blight line of spells needs its effects improved, since with very few exceptions they are currently not worth the time to cast them
- The character classes are rather unbalanced some even need some serious work and balancing
* Especially the monk, disciple and crossbowman classes need some serious work
* Others like Conjurer, Wizard, Sorcerer, Spiritist and Crossbowman at least need their armor use skill adjusted as already done with Mage, Scout, Guardian and Elemental Archer
* If time is short perhaps start with this:
http://community.istaria.com/Web/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=111170
- There are still only class-quests for base classes and only to 30th level if at all as with the spiritist
- The annoying bug with colored cloth wristbands still isn't fixed
- The art work for bracers still needs some work to make them less bulky and to not come into conflict with round shields
- I think drop-tablesare already somewhere on the list to be redone ...