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I've said it before and I'll say it again, treating players right and giving players A REASON to play ALTS and garner interest in them is a sure way to make more money for Nexon. With a reason comes interest and time invested and money spent. If every player geared their Alts like they did their Mains Nexon would be making good money. They just need to encourage it properly instead of designing the whole game around maxing one character.
The Pantheon Vangaurd system could be applied in other ways. For example, if the EIN Lacher completion bonuses contributed to a "pool" for all account characters this would not only be awesome but encourage ALT play and investment.
I can think of literally dozen of ways Nexon could make more money AND a better game so it's sad to see them do something so stupid as not giving out +12 gear.
Hmmm, even though I returned a few days ago I still got all the plus 12 gear when I hit 90 today.
Oh interesting, it was not not made clear that hitting 90 on a new character would also get you the +12 package. So I'm assuming it's replacing the old free gear good for new players I'm at least happy for them. Welp see you all in 30 days if the event lasts that long lul I got 9 alts to beef up. Does this technically count as grinding for gear?
Correct. If you have a character (even on an ACTIVE account) that never received the level 90 character growth rewards, upon reaching 90 they will now receive the new +12 gear in lieu of the old +10 purple gear. I can confirm this firsthand.
Let this be a warning to people who are currently leveling their characters to level 100 - do NOT claim your Damascus steel growth rewards because in a few months down the road the reward will be heavily upgraded and you will be left out. Actually, never claim ANY growth rewards because they will all get improved in future and you will be penalized for playing this game and claiming then lol.
People are actually begging for free gear that is meant to be given out to returners. The gear is **** and not viable for Lvl 95-100 raids.
It would benefit anybody who has an alt they wanted to play but didn't want to gear which is almost everybody. The gear is viable enough to farm for end game gear and it most certainly is viable enough to do 95 content. Or would you rather see people still in their +10 poo poo enchanted purple armor and weapon in your party of 4 people? Not everybody buys gold. The problem isn't even that we're begging it's the fact that the existing playerbase is being neglected in an already dying game which to me is actually dumb on NA's part.
Exactly this. Vindictus currently suffers tremendously in that the game is designed in a way to encourage one really strong Main character then have a bunch of space filler alts for Vanguard purposes. If they did things to encourage people to play their alts more (like giving them a pretty decent "starter" set of +12 armor), this would lead to players becoming more invested in their alts and probably leading to future investment in this alt into another "main." This would, of course, lead to the only thing Nexon cares about, money, as money would now be spent gearing twice as many characters as before. Its not a good sign when a company does things that are against it's own best interests...
As many of you are aware, active players will NOT be receiving many of the goodies reserved for returning players only, including a full Orange Level 90 +12 rank 7 scrolled armor set, weapon, and accessories. In order to help active players decide on whether it's worth it to stay logged in and play during this event or to log off for 30 days then return, I have compiled this list of pros and cons:
NOTE: if you decide to LOG OFF FOR 30 DAYS, you should seriously consider logging off starting tomorrow ( 11/8/2018). Reason being, if you don't log on starting tomorrow you will be able to log back on 31st day just in time to receive the last weekend of free log-in event gifts (the free Gremlin) and Mysterious/Abyssal Shards which are arguably the best gifts form the log in event.
Here is a breakdown of the rewards ACTIVE players receive participating in the current event vs logging off for 30 days:
ACTIVELY PLAYING Freebies:
1x Unstable Enhancement Rune
1x Goibhniu's Stone
1x Airtight Premium Enchant Rune
1x Unstable Enchant Rune
1x Rare Chunk and 1x Rare Chunk (weapon)
1x Free Gremlin
1x Mysterious/Abyssal Shard
1x Premium Enhancement Rune & 1x Premium Enhancement Rune Fragment & 1 Abyssal/Mysterious Shard
Possibly 1-3 max likely RNG based Premium Enhancement or Regular Enhancement Runes from the the fragments that could be collected and formed from collected temporal boxes.
LOG OFF FOR 30 DAYS Freebies:
FREE +12 rank 7 all Orange Level 90 gear for ALL your characters that you have.
1x Free Gremlin
1x Mysterious/Abyssal Shard
ANALYSIS:
There is no way the benefits of logging in and playing Vindictus for 30 days outweigh the benefits of logging off for 30 days if you are an Active Player. 1.33 Enchant items, 2.5 Enhancement Items, and probably max 3 RNG based Enhancement Items. There is no way with 1.33 Enchant Items and 5.5 Enhancement Items that I could even come close to creating a full +12 armor and weapon set, and the disparity grows multiplicatively the more characters you have that can get the free gear. With current +12 probability alone the 5.5 Enhancement Items wouldn't even guarantee getting 1 piece of armor to +12 and the 1.33 Enchant items wouldn't even guarantee getting 1 rank 7 scroll on that 1 piece of armor. Literally Nexon NA is forcing all active players to log off for 30 days due to the way they have designed this event.
So, if you have only 1 main account with many characters, you are better served logging off for 30 days. If you have multiple accounts, log off for 30 days with the accounts that have many characters and only log in with the accounts that have few or maybe just your main character on them.
I hope this helps make the choice clear for everyone.
This decision to not give active players the Overpowered Free Gear is really forcing a lot of players to log off for 30 days. With the exception of introducing Additional Damage (which replaced player skill with player RNG and bank account as the single determining factor of character strength), this may be the next worse decision Nexon NA has made.
