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We hit a falcon and check his life.
Sure it doesn't have to be, but the idea is that it's open to every single person that plays the game regardless of faction and all that, and it's a goal everyone can have achieve.
That said it's also a wonderful business model for achaea, make dragon worth while, and then look at the amount of time to acquire it, but then you can drop some money and drastically shrink that timeline.
I literally just switched to Monk and dropped a couple thousand credits on monk arties so that I could bash to dragon... FML
I think the point is PTV is a -free- reward for hitting dragon so you don't have to spend 800cr on wings. I've never had any need to buy wings on Sobby as Universe Tarot was just as good for getting me around, albeit a little slower. In my experience, wings are used more to get to fights / fight on clouds rather than getting around.
PTV for me was only ever useful for getting me out of places like Istarion or other areas which I couldn't universe from, again, not such a huge reward for the effort put in.
Even with the old Dragon I always used to bash as Jester unless I was feeling particularly lazy as the utility of priestess / magician / hermit / universe I found far more useful. I do have an SOA, level 3 pendant, level 3 Blackjack and other defensive artifacts though
No, the cost of PTV/Dragon is hundreds of hours of grinding playtime in which you can't do much else to further your character (unless you break automation rules, which would allow you to chat while bashing too - but that's a shrubbable offense according to the admin).
Alternatively, I could buy a set of Chenubis wings for much less than I would earn working during that time, and have something even better than PTV.
I only glanced over most of the thread but what is this about lairs? If I could please have one on Meropis so I can ptv from mainland to Meropis then hunt in lesserform*, that would be great. Thank you.
*my survivability as an int-Monk is very low. Even between transmute, numb, and regeneration (boosted) my ability to be a tank is really pathetic not to mention I have 11 str so that makes it all the worse. Then there's that wp drain.. My comment about hunting in lesserform is obv a joke. Well for the moment I can at least grin at things hitting me in Dragonform while I flail at them with nerf toys
Priest party!!!
thx for the new ability to bash bearably with only a bastard sword and trans weaponry, I feel so freeeeee
Wait, Achaea isn't real life...?
I hate everything about this change. It was poorly researched, poorly tested, and made bashing more uneven than it originally was.
If I wasn't banned, I'd explain.
Just you wait. I'd hold on to that big boy.
No homo.
I died FOUR TIMES IN A ROW with starbursts between testing all this out on glubbers. I'm an IDIOT...and anyone who knows me knows that me dying that many times is just like HUH?
ETA: can't spell.
No, Achaea is just a fantasy...
etcetera etcetera...
GALILEO (GALILEO)
GALILEO FIGARO -MAGNIFICO-O-O-O
and so on and so forth...
BISMILLAH! NO, WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO (LET HIM GO!)
couple of guitar riffs later...
BASHING really matters - BASHING really matters...to...me
I had some RP reasons to switch from Priest that supported my OOC lackluster attitude towards our awful bashing. Plus, Alchemist seemed like a fun combat class, and it is. Now I kinda wish I'd stayed. I will say the Alchemist bashing is much improved and I'm loving lesserform hunting.
The XP boost to dragon bashing has me interested in trying it at some point, but Alchy is just so much fun that it'll likely be a while before I give it a real chance.
I really sympathize with a lot of the sour feelings about dragon bashing here. Achaea doesn't have a very linear endgame like most common MMOGs do and so dragon was that epic loot feeling personified. I understand the concerns over economic imbalance but it seems to me like attacking that imbalance directly would be a more efficient way of controlling it. I feel this is a passive way to manipulate gold earning that's caused more issues than something more direct like a cap on CFS or a cap on how much gold a player can carry in their hands/pack. Not that I'm suggesting either of those things be implemented, just offering examples.
I do understand the sentiment of making dragons less powerful to keep gold farming at a minimum, I just think there could have been more direct ways of managing the issue through direct system manipulation rather than alternating an outside variable.
However, with the changes to bashing making it much better to hunt in lesserforms, isn't this going to expand the economic issues rather than contract them? People who loved playing as a serpent but hated the bashing will now have more incentive to do so. I suppose you could argue that spreading the gold out across players is helping, but if that elite 1% simply becomes an elite 5% you haven't really ameliorated these issues.
I also really appreciate @Tecton and @sarapis for being so forthcoming and willing to listen. I know from my own experience that sometimes you make a decision you think will be beneficial to your organization and it turns out to cause consequences you can't foresee. The people affected are in a much better position to comment because they deal with those changes each day. However, it really sucks to hear that you did something no one liked and it made things worse instead of better.
Int monk isn't a real thing. quit doing it already x.x
Since you don't pvp anyways. Int monk in pvp is likely a thing.. kinda like Con Knight or Strength blademaster.. or um.. Stonefist Strength Magi..
Oh idea, Dex build Raja with dodging trait Paladin for epic cleaves and no attacks hitting me to stop it!
Int blademaster is now a thing though, if you don't care about PvP. Burst is pretty good.
As it stands, what would you currently consider to be the dominant bashing class, seeing as Monk might have been knocked out of the title?
How high is the bashing damage on burst now? I always wanted to try an int bm build for PvP but never could afford a level 3 collar and +3 int slash and Talisman to make sure it'd work.
Also always kinda figured Decay/Warp/Burst was the same skill.
I still need to see burst at some int other than 12, just in case it's actually not affected by int. If it gets the usual int bonus, then burst is simply overpowered and needs fixed.
It's 780 damage at 12 int, 4s eq.
I'm still missing info on a lot of classes. I'm missing priest (I've only seen L2 mace), knights (don't know much about DSL damage now), shaman, and bard. Besides that, the dominant classes are the ones that seem broken/overpowered right now, and will probably be adjusted down to more reasonable levels. So I can't really say yet.
It was always the case, it was just useless before (unless you didn't have a sword).
Priest, 12 str with Nimble. 480 damage at 2.6s
@Sena: This might give you a start with Duality damage.
Results of disembowel testing | Knight limb counter | GMCP AB files
What were the speed stats of those weapons? It seems to depend on more than just the damage stat.
Soulpiercers 90 198 228
Vorpal Broadswords 151 167 167
That's the damage of a single hit, not the DPS.
I came up with about 380ish dps from a lv3 mace 14 strength.
But I don't have th actual numbers anymore.