hi5josh

I'm looking for some more knowledge as to how defense and critical resistance will benefit my class and playstyle. I'm currently working on raising my defense & critical resistance right now. I finished material synthesis on my weapon and now am working on material synthesis for my armor. My class is strictly spear Lann, as I could never get accustomed to swords as hard as I tried nor do I plan on changing. My playstyle is kind of diverse. I love to sandbag at any given good opportunity with moonsplitter and sometime with succubus fang I will just take hard consistent critical hits onward while using slashing high. I generally switch out to deal optimal DPS at any given time depending on the difficulty of the content I'm playing. So my question I suppose is how will these 2 stats affect my character personally as they are raised and how dramatically? We tend to only focus on offensive stats and their caps against the bosses. I imagine maximum effective critical resistance can be calculated based upon the enemy's critical attack. But how does defense correlate to damage taken? Is it linear or at random intervals as others have suggested? Is it infinitely beneficial, or not? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or if i'm missing something... I don't plan on changing my playstyle because I like it the way it is. I'm just in the process of maxing out the stats available to me without changing my character build. If anyone would like to see my character build currently to better understand where I'm going with this, I can post it here...

P.S.
Which Spear Lanns have the highest stats in terms of survivability (HP, Defense, critical resistance & DMG Reflection)?

It's threads like these that allow me to have a poor outlook of future content and how it will effect me personally. There was a lot of fear for S3 before it came out, and some of it ended up being justified. However, for most of us that have been faithful to this game, we adapted while some of us moved on. The thought of regearing with level 95 gear scares me after everything I had to do to get what I have now. But like others have pointed out, it only effects the newest raids and content. Hopefully the normal storyline​ won't be too dramatic of a change in difficulty. If you can live with the idea of moping the floor on the latest raids till you get free handouts or level 100 gear is available, you may be better off forgoing level 95 gear entirely. You'll still need to upgrade past 90 gear eventually...

I wish they just created a system to where we could upgrade to higher level gear since the community is shrinking and threshold of dedication that people have for farming is dwindling. I would like to see a system that is practically farmable that would allow us to change the primary material out allowing the item itself to evolve to the level 95 equivalent. Upon doing that, you would either keep the secondary materials you currently have (their current status) or would be upgraded to the current orange grade random rolled stats, thus requiring you to work on material synthesis again. Stat release mats would be refunded to you and you would need to finish material synthesis again prior to reapplying them.

As things are now, I'm not fond of the idea of level 95 gear, nor do I currently plan to upgrade. I'm not saying I won't. I just feel as if its a waist of time and money. I hardly play any content anymore, especially farming raids daily... The question I ask myself - " Is it really worth the headache for a couple chapters of story content and a handful of raids?" Currently I don't think so...

Sorry for the formatting and rambling. I was typing from my phone. XD

I'll try to make my way over there when I can. We need to stick together and help each other as much as possible. Without an active community, this game is meaningless... XD

Ragnastorm wrote: »

hi5josh wrote: »

Ikarsu wrote: »

hi5josh wrote: »

Wow Cessa got banned?

To be fair, he was warned multiple times and chose to ignore it.

From what I read it seemed he was just expressing his opinions. He might have been a little assertive, but not necessarily disrespectful. When people have played this game long enough and try to help others you generally see two different approaches. You either dictate what you personally believe is the optimal choice for the individual or you explain all the options and possibly outcomes for each one, possibly followed up with your opinion depending on the situation. I usually try the latter, allowing the individual to make a choice and play the game their way otherwise I feel as if I'm playing it for them. However I would be lying if I said I haven't used the first method from time to time, especially when it's time critical and the most likely optimal choice. The first method doesn't have to be considered disrespectful.

Regardless of all of this, I feel as if Nexon is in the wrong, and it's quite obviously when reading the the comments on the thread that im referring to which was closed. There are so many instances where it seems like it's constant 'damage control' with the forum moderators. Cessa brought up some things that have been posted that are clearly against the ToS and haven't been delt with properly. I see them on a regular basis. Also, I find it funny that the moderators always bring up "this thread is off topic" mostly when they intervene for damage control where in fact nearly all threads become off topic sadly.

TL;DR
A moderator called out a user that was criticizing the game and standing up for their self after other users where being belligerent while backing up their different personal opinions and perspectives. It ended in the user being banned while trying defend their self...

lol i remember your ign from a few years back, you know this is the norm on forums.

I've been here since the beginning, and I've experienced a lot of good and bad things including being banned more than once. Just because I'm used to these things doesn't mean I condone them or won't speak out about them.

It's nice seeing you again too.

Ikarsu wrote: »

hi5josh wrote: »

Wow Cessa got banned?

To be fair, he was warned multiple times and chose to ignore it.

From what I read it seemed he was just expressing his opinions. He might have been a little assertive, but not necessarily disrespectful. When people have played this game long enough and try to help others you generally see two different approaches. You either dictate what you personally believe is the optimal choice for the individual or you explain all the options and possibly outcomes for each one, possibly followed up with your opinion depending on the situation. I usually try the latter, allowing the individual to make a choice and play the game their way otherwise I feel as if I'm playing it for them. However I would be lying if I said I haven't used the first method from time to time, especially when it's time critical and the most likely optimal choice. The first method doesn't have to be considered disrespectful.

Regardless of all of this, I feel as if Nexon is in the wrong, and it's quite obviously when reading the the comments on the thread that im referring to which was closed. There are so many instances where it seems like it's constant 'damage control' with the forum moderators. Cessa brought up some things that have been posted that are clearly against the ToS and haven't been delt with properly. I see them on a regular basis. Also, I find it funny that the moderators always bring up "this thread is off topic" mostly when they intervene for damage control where in fact nearly all threads become off topic sadly.

TL;DR
A moderator called out a user that was criticizing the game and standing up for their self after other users where being belligerent while backing up their different personal opinions and perspectives. It ended in the user being banned while trying defend their self...