GhengisJohn

I have exactly 80 CF, and I spent a FORTUNE getting it. For me anyhow. 90 million gold, my dudes. I mean I only had 117 to start with. Did you know a ring can fail to enhance 10 times in a row before it's success is guaranteed? I found that out recently friends, at about 1 million gold a pull. Failstacking is nice, but it's still a slot machine. So anyways, hot tip, you can drink the Kitty's Encouragement Potion to gain 30 Counter Force. My brother tells me this after I've spent a fortune. But the more's the merrier it turns out, because at 80 CF I am doing 10k-13k on average per amaranth kick to Claire, while at 110 I am doing 17-23k.

So to answer a question asked earlier in the thread, your CF does seem to effect how much damage you do.

BUT if you just want to get on the boat the kitty's encouragement potion is a godsend.

Also rings seem to add more CF per enhance level than anything else. Even though THEY ALL COST THE SAME THING TO ENHANCE. So if you have your pick between enhancing a ring or your belt, go with your ring.

I vaguely recall him being privately nice one time when I ran into him in game way back when, but most of the time he publicly acted like a blowhard and he was always an asshat on the forums. I do not know what his complication was and I suppose it doesn't matter now. I still feel a little bad for the guy but he acted like he didn't want to be here as it was, even though he was perfectly free not to come around anymore. More or less, good riddance.

I don't know any other way to say this so I'm just going to come right out and say it. The servers are bad at the moment. I've had good chunks of time the past few days where they feel literally unplayable. Just yesterday for instance I had two RaR's just dump everyone in the raid back into town, then the third RaR completed only to not give anyone any loot. The only option was to forfeit and return back to town.



I can't count the number of times I've been just dumped out of a battle I was in:




I have been seeing more and new occurrences of bugs like this guy, the "numbers challengers" bug which leaves me no choice but to relog. I've had it happen when I return to town and when I have been standing around in town a long time :



Also this, it's rarer, wonkier cousin, the floating head bug, that just screams "we have problems":



I've had all kinds of random bugs in fights. Both me and Anastacsia for instance experienced Dullahan attacks that should have been stopped by heavy stander going right through it in this battle.



Here I am finishing Rupacious and not getting any loot. First of all it should be unacceptable that the entire mechanic of the fight, using spears is broken, but here nobody even threw any spears, I experienced a wholly different bug where I was the only one who didn't get any loot in the party and I didn't appear in the rest of the team's system messages at all.



Speaking of exotic bugs here's what greeted me one time I went to the avatar shop. Say hello to Fionann.



And how about this, one time I was in town, got booted to the main screen but all of my hud buttons were there and working.



And yes, I've even been seeing the classic T-pose on the character select screen,



This is in addition to all the other problems the server has been having. Guild chat or whispers not working. Boats that fail to launch. Boats that hang on a black screen for forever instead of launching. Rar Queues that refuse to let you enter the battle. Rar's that can never fill to 10 despite the fact we have people outside the run from our guilds trying to sign up. Items not appearing in inventories after a battle. I've had solo battles complete and been unable to leave by any means other than forfeit. I myself have not experienced this one, but I have had reports from guildies about items getting lost in the mail and in the server's current state I believe them. And then there's departure licenses being used up on battles that didn't complete. And what about all of the ghost boats?

I have a lot of other games that I could be playing. I want to play Vindictus though. But the thing is, when I experience 6 or more Royal Army Raid dumps in an hour it is frustrating, it is disheartening. I sigh. I feel bad and it's because I'm trying to play this game and I can't. You guys are failing on the most fundamental level, to a new extreme. The people you still have playing, I think, are a pretty tolerant lot, but I have been hearing from a lot of my guildies and my friends that they're going to be taking "a break" from the game until all of these problems are sorted out and I worry that a number of them are not going to come back. And I don't blame them for wandering off now. Trying to play Vindictus at the moment is incredibly frustrating. I myself, wasted soooo much time of my day yesterday on server failures. That is a terrible feeling. Things are not getting better. I had hoped that after the last maintenance they would improve but they just seem to be getting worse and worse.

I do not know what course of action to offer you guys, I don't know everything that's happening on your end. The problem is probably complicated by the fact that Vindictus has probably had so many hands in it by now that fixing one bug might introduce a slew of others. But you do have to do SOMETHING. If you just accept that you're on a downward slide and do nothing to stop it, you're still going to hit the bottom eventually. The only help that I can offer is that it seems to me that after the last patch many of these problems started appearing, or, got much worse. I love this game, it's the only reason I've put up with it this long and it's the reason that I'm writing to you today. Public acknowledgment of the problems would help a little, fixing them would help a lot more though.

I was so excited for this. Until I realized the tickets were a thing you had to buy. I'm going to be completely candid here and say, that I am not a whale by any means, I'm actually rather poor and I spent more than I probably should have during the amazon days sale. But all that said I would have willingly paid 30 dollars for the succubus companion. Heck, maybe even as high as 50 on ONE character if Nexon really wanted to gouge me, but 120 dollars is ridiculous and I just don't have the money to buy this succubus. I mean, yeah they'll make some whales happy but they probably could have made more on this item if they sold them at a price point more people would accept, to say nothing of the ill will they'd avoid. 120 dollars is cheaper than the 500 or so the SQ outfitter took at one time, but that 120 dollars still hurts.

Really sucks because the succubus is now and always has been my favorite boss. The design is just plain sexy and cool. And I've never been able to afford any of her related merchandise.

This especially burns my biscuits because I bought an extraction rune January 2017 for 25 dollars
http://forums.vindictus.nexon.net/discussion/2206/need-some-info-on-the-extraction-rune/p1
Only to be told in April: "Oh we're phasing those out in Rise, you'll have to use those up now." I asked for a refund and was flatly refused. What's worse there's a version available now, cheaper. Was it just too much trouble to replace the old stones with the new ones? Why sell me an item that they must have known I wouldn't be able to keep? Why NOT just give me a refund? Every time I think about spending money I think about how I was screwed over there and it grinds my gears, particularly when they ask me to spend THAT much money.

I think I've been saying this for about 4 years but for the love of God, OPTIMIZATION. It never should have launched without actual multi core support and the ui still murders the frame rate (it actually got worse after they updated it ). The game would probably be in a MUCH better place now if somebody had cared to get it running better a long time ago. I feel the game could recoup itself if you actually got it running better and then advertised it. Advertising now will only bring people in to discover what feels like a buggy beta.