Prototypemind

MisterWhiskers wrote: »

Prototypemind wrote: »

It's sad that everything but S3 has been trivialized by slower, weaker, lower HP bosses and overtuned add damage.

and once again you're speaking from veteran point of view

theres plenty of (NEW) players who don't find season 1/2 a steamroll experience

I hate something =/= everybody should hate it aswell

Please do show them to me. I couldn't find any S2 boats on the board last night other than people doing story instances like Just to be Sure. I wanted to do some old bosses, but if you don't see any boats then odds are your boat is just going to sit as well. Since they've taken S2 raids out as raids there's no quick way to filter to them because there's not enough to cover them and S3 with the limited number of favorites. S2 has been dying since Rise launched, especially as most of the vets can just solo it with all the add damage.

Rise has broken so much of what allowed community in Vindictus. No, there aren't plenty of new players who don't find S1/2 a steamroll experience because there aren't plenty of new players. Players are trickling in and they aren't sticking around. Go look at the new player section here on the forums. It was a lot more active before Rise. The Director thought his changes would bring people in but the problem is catering to new people exclusively leads to poor retention on both ends.

You're free to hate, like, or not care as you please, but S1 & 2 are trivial at this point. New players who take the time to enhance weapons and gear to +8 the way many did back in the day will cakewalk all of S1 as a group even if their skills aren't that great. Additional damage on every single hit from both weapons and armor makes everything melt. The Giant was done with a Rune Blade and a little Mana Edge action. It's a joke. The game has been made easy.

Maybe they'll mention one for this at the last minute. The staff hasn't exactly been active here lately and it looks like some people may have been dropped from the team by the lack of information lately.

@Rezi the OP asked specifically about Neam so that's why I mentioned it. I agree, making content irrelevant by nuking real difficulty for Hero S1/S2 has done a huge disservice to what the game was supposed to be about. The Director specifically said that the changes were designed to draw new players for whatever uninformed reason he thought that would be better than retaining those who do join and what we have now is a result of that.

I used to love going to lower content and joining with new players to help them with fights that were actually difficult for them and could even kill geared high levels if you didn't pay attention. It's sad that everything but S3 has been trivialized by slower, weaker, lower HP bosses and overtuned add damage.

If your focus is S3 content and you can deal with mostly 4 player runs then you're golden. The community is incredibly small, so a lot of the social aspects have been lost. We just had a merge and the amount of high enhancement/pre-enchanted items are pretty sad. Intermediate gearing is the easiest it's ever been but so much of the game being gutted, and that combined with additional region locking and no more direct launch blocking people that Nexon's launcher won't work for and who can't use Steam or who have multiple accounts has killed the community.

They didn't merge the servers because the game was teeming with players. That said, you can find at least nightly groups for all S3 content, so you're good if that's your aim.

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Western Blouse/Skirt as well I think.