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Sixth wrote: »

People complaining that other people playing more than them get da gear faster than them?
People complaining that other people paying more than them get da gear faster than them?
Yeah, nothing new.

It's an MMO (the massive part is questionable, but still multiplayer regardless). Every single MMO operates this way, no exceptions, and it's really just common sense to accept this. It's how life works too, just saying. You invest more (be it time, money or both), you gain more.

Vindy especially has some trash aspects to it, as evidenced by the fact that no one plays it. Maybe they got tired of the grind of the rehash "special" raids, the raids with same recycled AOE attacks (every raid since Claire I believe), the removal of some fringe content like Hero mode for normal missions, the gauntlet, and all the other garbage the Rise update brought, etc.

Sixth wrote: »

I'm a regular player too, got nothing OP in my inventory, yet I can manage to do 15 to 25% damage even in whale astera parties.
Time to stop complaining and instead improve your playstyle/gear.
7% is too high? Well, I guess, awarding AFK players should be the next move than, right?
Even my eira was able to do 13% damage with 2 whales in an agares party with only 96 CF and nothing higher than a few +13 dulla gear (which is easily obtainable now with the seal shop, so don't tell me it's unreachable for "regular" players).

BRUH, you need gold to update gear, and the best way to consistently get gold to update gear is to raid the endgame raids (plus RAR maybe), and starting with this Counterforce bullshit, it's getting increasingly difficult to deal with trying to meet the requirements. You need gold, to update the gear, to farm raids, to raid with.

Getting smug and saying "aFk PlAyErS sHoUlD bE nExT tHeN?" glosses over my issue (maybe you just were itching to give me that anecdote about how you have no issues) that I shouldn't be qualified for a raid gear-wise and be able to miss out of drops while I'm actually playing the raid, that's retarded quite frankly. I had issues on a bad host but still.

That genuinely pissed me off. For years I played this game and did pretty decently. Then they add extra mechanics to pander to the pay-to-win community and skew the raid stats in their favors and somehow that's my fault? Back in the day seeing people drop 75% damage in a raid basically never happened. Whales always existed but the difference wasn't as striking as far as I remember.

Sixth wrote: »

Astera raids are NOT the only place to get those gold coins, contrary to the popular belief here. You can't do enough damage there? No worries, there are level 95 and 90 raids around too, among other battles that can net enough gold for you to upgrade your gear, even in a timely manner. You can also do some OS if you have the nerves for it for profit, you don't need 7% damage there (I think - I can't bear that mode, so not sure :P).

u wot? What level 90 mission do you do to get anything worth any decent sum of gold besides steel? None of the 90 crafting mats are worth anything really.

Undo the power creep that means you NEED +15 to come in 1st or 2nd in a raid.
Remove the binding system so you can reasonably sell armor and weapons without needing to spend money.
Basically everything cheappariya said above.

But once they started adding titles and flair for people who have every type of pet and many, many inner armor sets, they basically admitted to the players that they only keep this game around to squeeze NX out of the whales who wanna compare waifus in the hot springs when they aren't getting gifted 50/75% damage in raids because they have all +15 gear.

Did an Agares last night and got ONE Enhancement Elixir as my drop because my gear sucks (laggy host I joined didn't help, as a staffie). Then I spent 120 million to go from 11 to 12 on my Astera staff. Having +11 armor and a +12 weapon made you OP back a few years ago when the game was, you know, actually playable. Now I'm obliged to burn all my gold to power up my weapon just to have a *shot* at recouping the hundreds of millions I already spent trying to gear my character. Gear just to have a shot at top 2 in a raid, mind you. I don't have my sights set on hitting the top ten for Staff Evies, I just want the game to feel playable again. Where I don't run around getting my teeth kicked in for 10 minutes and get a banana sticker at the end as my sole reward.

The more I talk about this game, the more it's reinforced in me that the ONLY reason I'm logged in right now and play everyday is because of the person I raid with 99% of the time. If she quit the game tomorrow I'd uninstall it instantly because it's clear Nexon doesn't actually care about an actual cohesive enjoyable game experience, they care about putting players through the wringer in hopes that they'll dump real money on NX. Basically sunk cost fallacy; "Well I've already spent money on this game, I have to spend more to make it enjoyable again, is all." No, I reject that.

I'm not spending money on your game when your idea of new raid content is taking pre-existing raid bosses from S1 and S2 and just giving them extra health and damage. Call it 'special' all you like, it's only special in the 'riding the shortbus' sense. You don't even award titles for playing them FFS. Between that, the endless endgame whale circlejerks of Redeemers and PVP, and the twee messages people spam in the server mega, I ask myself more and more why I bother putting up with it everyday. And the answer seems more and more like Stockholm syndrome...

DarkOptimist wrote: »

When restoring Skill Awakening points at Dianann in Rocheste there is a new area above the skill list called "Collect Awakening Durability Points". It starts at 0/999999. You can click on it to fill it as per normal skills. I guess it's a universal pool that draws points from there to restore awakening points to your skills automatically when they're low.

Pretty handy feature with no mention of how to use it.

Thank you for the explanation, you officially can explain this game better than the person who wrote the patch notes lol.

Gotta finesse those whales I guess. Still, they've made changes in this game that can only be described as desperate. Scrolling "PLEASE BUY OUR GACHAPON BOXES" in the middle of missions springs to mind. And yeah, encouraging people to pay a lot of actual money to get pet titles is pretty sickening.

"Well that would be the initial thought, until you find out that you need to click + in chat and add a new Promotion tab to see these promotions. Barely anyone checks that... But even then, the promoted messages don't appear in All chat, you need to click on that tab to see them."

wew. As I posted in another thread, Halo 2 had party systems figured out 15 years ago and that was on Xbox, SURELY a PC game in 2019 should have easy lobby systems that can join/play any mission without needing to split up and reconvene in special QB or RAR lobbies that have their own rules *you would think*, but I guess not?

Here, I'll even spell it out. Let me make a party in the party tab, invite my guild members, then launch a boat, FROM WHERE EVER I WANT. Maybe we can do a Macha run starting from the Guild House, maybe from Colhen. Let me pick the mission from where ever and then launch it. Don't give a buff only to QB lobbies because then I have to try to get my guildmates to hurry up and join me before it fills and I either have to run it without them or ask someone to leave and hope they don't take it personally. And after I make that party with guildmates, I should be able to join parties for other missions, as a party leader. Is there a 4/8 Neam run up? I can join with my team of 4, now we all are in it together and the Neam host is the party leader. Maybe we wanna do RAR, let me join with my team of 4 in RAR without gettting split up. Is the only RAR up 9/12? That's cool, put us in our own lobby that can fill up afterward as people queue for the next one. Then afterward, kick us all back into my party so we can go in again as a group if we want.

Is this sequence really that much to ask? To not have to finagle with their QB system for an extra shot at a shard in an S3 daily or cross my fingers and *hope* my friends and I can will ourselves into the same Lakoria RAR together? For being a social game, it sure is a pain in the ass to play socially.