Quote Originally Posted by BananaBandit View Post
Actually you guys deleted whole sets of forums that was a very important, irreplaceable community written resource for people that have been looking for guidance on how to build the most effective classes in this game. All gone.

It contained not only explanations of the skill trees, but also discussed maximizing those skills and stat points for the most efective build for each class. All Gone.

Thousands of irreplaceable posts that you can bet that nobody here is ever going to bother re-writing. Written by highly respected players in this game. Anybody want Imba's guide to building a str guard? Sorry - its gone.

How about the best way to build a Hybrid guard? Page Not Found.

Yurneroo's guide to Str Dekans? Nope.

I get it that your VBulletin database is freaking big. At one point you had hundreds of active members using it. Its called maturity and it happens. When a game has been running 7 years and its VB forums have been active for 5 of those years (A lot of the deleted content was actually ported over from phpBB because even then is was seen as an extremely valuable player-contributed resource).
Those deletions were not intentional, they were automated. Trust me, I read the ranger, templar, and Vit Dekan ones once upon a time. I can also assure you that if any of our current players do somehow take the time to rewrite in-depth guides such as that, I will sticky them in their respective class sections and make sure that information that valuable and informative does not get lost again. Part of my website redesign (in the character class section actually), I decided that a short blurb about the class story line was less important than an actual class description, and I have also added several of the classes abilities to give newer players ideas on moves that are powerful/worth investing in.

But that's enough of a spoiler for now, and I will probably ask more information from the player base in the future when the pages are closer to finalization.