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except u have to do it with 4 people instead of 8. the boss is just as hard as it was with 4 people as it was with 8 now i believe.
OP: You probably won't get too many people here agreeing with you anymore, most vets from your era have already left. Including myself, I just check back in the vain hope that the rise update will be reversed. That said, I know that it won't, the new director thinks that taking the challenge from the game will bring in an influx of newcomers. Seeing the upcoming server merge, I wonder how well that's going for him. (less)
and even your equipment automatically replaces itself with better equipment
I think my brain hamster just flew out of its wheel. There is an option to turn this off, right?(less)
Nope, the game is pretty much ruined. Playing since beta, quit shortly after the update (after it became apparent there was no chance that this will be reversed), I sometimes check the forum out of morbid curiosity.
using rookie weapon and armors and see how they fare in these battles.
I haven't tried old contents on new characters to see how boss mechanics got eradicated but haven't geared players been oneshotting and got bored of these s1/s2 bosses even before update? Who even does ekinar if fast ES doesn't drop there? People are claiming as if they even do hero mode s1, when people only run minimal stuff that yields any source of gold.
Relevant contents are still as hard as they were, and I bet only a few of you here ever thought about soloing neamhain (but that's really gear dependent to finish within one hour). If you really call the game too easy, just downgrade yourself, own weapon ranging from +0 to +10 or higher like I do and calibrate difficulties that way. Players complain all the times instead of finding solutions of their own. Feel free to correct flaws in my argument since I wrote this in a rush.
I'm currently self-imposing a lower enhanced weapon than my main weapon similar to what you've described, but it doesn't help me want to play the game anymore. Most MMO players enjoy some sense of progression, a self-imposed limit does nothing for this, which brings us what my problem with this game was before RISE, progressing became too easy which left nothing to really do. Self imposing limits is a bandaid that fixes one problem but exasperates another.
On a side note, with RISE, progressing actually removes joy from the game. Rather than feeling like you're hitting the top of your character's potential, you're now feeling like you're reaching the end of the game's potential when everything becomes a trash mob. (less)
Glad to hear that season 2 is interesting when playing up from scratch, I have no idea how an update that meant to fix the "most people are quitting at low levels" problem made playing … (more)through the low levels worse. Ball dropped. (less)
