Several skills have had actual functionality removed for the sake of low skilled players.
Nexon has made the game harder to control for those who actually know what they are doing.
This includes, Up + Skill jump being removed on Radiant Driver for Mihile, Leap Attack being unable to be used on the ground for Explorer Warriors, Teleport Boost being a toggle skill for Explorer Mages, Lara's Ground Jump and I'm sure more that I am unaware of.
You can add the ability for up + jump to be used in mid air for those classes that lacked that ability but if anything you should have added the ability for all classes to jump up from the ground instead of removing it from the classes that actually had it already.
The newer method results in less consistency, less height, less speed and more button presses.
Please stop dumbing down movement options in the game because certain people don't know how to control their own characters.
I feel it should be mandatory for new posts in the Suggestion and Feedback section to need post the info. Commenting/reacting here or posting in other sections should be fine. If that sounds too restrictive, consider every anonymous poster in this section as trustworthy as a restaurant without a health grade.
This section of the forums should solely be reserved to actual players who dedicated long hours into the game and know the game and not just a kid whining the game is too hard. The people who put the time in to master their characters, bosses mechanics or just deep knowledge on this game should be able to make actual suggestions.
If this information is stripped of character names, individual character levels and even legion rank (This can be used to identify certain players at top of ranks) then I don't see a harm in making it an automatic feature. But if the system can be used to identify people at all then it should remain opt-in entirely and people should be allowed to post anywhere they want on the forums without having to opt-in. Let individual players decide if a person is worth listening to or not, which they would do anyway regardless of this system or not.
We're already doing this and the new system would really only add credibility to newer forum users or people who make questionable posts that imply they don't know much about the game.
I respect privacy and the ability to anonymously share ideas and criticism so I'm not a fan of forcing people to dox their account just to attempt to make the game better.
I understand the desire to filter out suggestions/opinions from those who don't really have skin in the game, but I don't think it should come at the cost of privacy.
Nexon could make it similar to steam where you are forced to show your hours in-game but everything else is left optional on how much about yourself you wish to reveal.
For example, if you want to hide your character levels/names but don't mind people seeing your achievements you can set it up so that whatever information you want private/public is available in your user profile.
I personally hide my inventory on steam because I got tired of people asking for free stuff. I wouldn't want random people asking me for carries in-game either.
So long as it's optional-opt-in and not a dox of your account for anyone who posted previously on the forums.
This has more use than just suggestions as it can be used to vet accounts for anything really.
Reputation for interactive server traders, better boss party finding, just looking for people around the same progression as you.
On top of making it easier to jump in-game and help people with specific issues they posted on the forums.
Integrating game stats into the forums could help bring some more interest to the forums.
As far as ego checking people there aren't too many users on the forums these days who do that since it's pretty dead but there certainly have been some people in the past that I'd love to have seen them back up their claims of "I've got a million hours in this game and am better than you in every way!" type posts.
A little bit of gate keeping to the people who are actually dedicated to the game is a good thing.
Edit March 17th: This could be linked to the achievement system in-game to add custom titles or extra icons to the forums as well, just something for fun to give achievement hunting a little bit of extra fun factor. For example where it says "Member" if you've killed a boss solo you could add "[Difficulty + Boss] Solo Slayer".
A better solution I think would just be to have familiars not tick down in town. This allows you to AFK with them for looks while not having to deal with resummoning them either.
Blocking Three Slime gates in the trace restore mission can be impossible due to the nature of the boss having random lockups (stun, seduce) and the nature of the rock slimes being in random locations.
The mission should be reduced to only blocking two gates while also allowing players to get this on any wave not just the first.
As it stands now it's just a boring farm first wave for good a RNG pattern until you get it then you actually get to kill the boss.
