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You can experience all the new content with very little time commitment, the same way you can join a city and let other people do the heavy lifting. What you want isn't just to experience it, though, you want the reward at the end like being a city leader would be.
You're hyperbolizing how much time EL needs, and you're arguing in bad faith by doing so. You spent orders of magnitude more time getting dragon just fine.
Checks progress. Um, clearly, @Jadys & I doing something wrong.
Save me, Tom Cruise! Help me Tom Cruise! Tom Cruise, use your witchcraft on me to get the fire on me!
But 100% agree: Making this a purchasable class is wholly antithetical to its introduction and set-up. Imagine too the frustration of everyone who can't afford to go this route and has taken real-life weeks to work on it.
You are behaving like such a hypocrite
You and your friends said it was 'alright for people to feel frustrated from IC mechanics and should be allowed to express that here' when you were leaping to defend one of your citymates.
Someone else comes to complain and suddenly you seek to insult them and state they have a "spoiled child mentality"?
To quote one of you:
"She does have other options, but bringing feedback is not "tantruming", even if it is worded in a way that comes across frustrated and upset. Devs will take it and apply it or not change it, that's fine."
Let him express his dissatisfaction to the system. That is his right as a player. At least he worded it well enough and expressed the issue, rather than just cuss the system.
If you want to buy your way to it, offer commission for people to kill things for you or acquire items for you. I've seen plenty of people doing that, and it's actually been one of my favourite things about the tree. I've almost become a mercenary with how many people have paid me to go kill very strong mobs they need for quests. It's been a lot of fun, and I've had some neat interactions with people I ordinarily wouldn't have had the opportunity to interact with. Especially offensively, @Shirszae (grumble grumble).
There is no 'feedback' behind 'let me just buy this.' Letting people buy this would worsen the game. Making water lord harder or easier would not have had a tangible effect on the overall game. Situations differ through context.
You shouldn't cling to 'lost' arguments so hard that you bring them up like a week or two later, it's weird.
I can't even get to the puzzle part. Fire faction people are being about as tight-lipped as a doxy house worker on her day off too.
It's just terribly frustrating though to see someone come into the realm not having done any of the quest line prior and 3 hours later have what you've been toiling at for 14 days.
- Progress is determined largely on an individual basis which takes into account numerous factors that I won't elaborate on here for obvious reasons
- This can cause some discrepancies in how fast people get through the areas as compared to others
- I would advise anyone comparing progress to others to look at EXACT conditions rather than taking only time spent into consideration as time is only one of many things that affect it
- As well as that, there are varying quest cooldowns and some environmental factors in play that determine whether a given quest is available, this includes whether the item to complete it is already held by someone else
I hope this clears things up a little bit - I have painstakingly reviewed a lot of data to ensure things are progressing on the right track and barring some issues over the first few days with unforgiving timers, we're happy with the pacing (if anything, as @Makarios pointed out the other day, people got Elord a lot faster than we were first expecting.)
Also just realized - while bashing a Dreadpilar in a group, I realized that I could possibly survive its last few health percentages by GOING TURBO going Titan. The stun-at-end is less of a liability when other people are smacking it around.
do I get an honours line for that
Tecton-Today at 6:17 PM
I will sell you an earthen shovel set for 2K credits from this month's promo, in appreciation I will bring you to get Earth Lord.
1. The amount of "fuck you" that is on the tree, or on the various planes. Examples being things that block all your exits AND chase, or prevent you from leaving the room entirely, or that do insane afflictions so that running isn't really an option. Walking up the tree without bashing for 15 minutes is almost impossible as a high level, massive artied dragon. Normal people can't even think about doing it.
2. The amount of extremely powerful stuff that just randomly smashes you and you die, causing you to have to spend the time to embrace death, embrace flame, walk back to the plane, embrace flame, and then hope that thing doesn't walk into your room again.
3. The weird syntaxes that no one knows about that you're just supposed to figure out. No one would have been able to figure out the Water Lord quests without repeated hints from admin, because some of the stuff was so obscure that it was beyond reasonable to figure out.
4. The general direction of making mobs so powerful and so hindering, that it is almost pointless trying to bash them. See: things that do restoration breaks (or multiple restoration breaks at the same time) while proning you faster than you can cure, doing blackout over and over, doing double loki afflictions every 2 seconds, etc. This is not fun, or rewarding. Blackout causes massive anxiety, and adds nothing to what the denizen can actually do.
5. The general direction of making stronger mobs crit immune. Honours mobs I am fine with, but if it isn't an honours mob, it should not be crit immune. I paid thousands of dollars to be able to kill things more quickly, and this is almost entirely negated by "lol this mob is crit immune". It used to be only extremely powerful things were this way, but the amount of stuff on Yggdrasil this way (some of it that you have to kill to walk up the tree) has gotten ridiculous.
6. Low gold drops, low xp, for things that are much harder to bash than something like vertani or sidhe or Moghedu, etc. Not only does it take a long time to walk to these places, they are much harder to bash, AND the rewards are lower.
7. Unrelated to anything Achaea admin can do, but crowdmap does not work for me for some reason and I wanna throw my computer through a wall having to type map every 3 seconds to get places.
The content is awesome, the new stuff is amazing, I love all of everything. Just had to bitch cause bitchy.
Hands down agree with all of this. And don't get me wrong, I LOVE the lore behind the World Tree--I always have. And I understand the new content needs to be difficult enough to engage the stronger players who have invested so much time and money into the game. However:
1)/2)/4)/6): I feel all these points go hand in hand. I rather dislike traversing up the tree anymore because of how much of a chore it is to even climb it. Not distance or time wise, just slogging through mechanics that exist only to seemingly one-shot me.
I have Atavian flying that luckily takes away the risk of the rats that dogpile on me and soak in two afflictions a hit or the Slavers that block all exits unless I tumble away (who chase and continue to block). But THE DAMN VINES almost up at the top prevent any sort of progress. They snatch me down which usually results in 3 afflictions and a Slaver pound fest. In fact, I have lost two sets of scimitars to the Slavers (finally got smart with fist sigils on my newest set). I'm not really sure why the vines exist in this area other than to snatch me down and ruin any motivation I have of exploring the top.
The mobs on the tree aren't really fun to bash. They are annoying and provide little to no reward for putting up with them other than afterwards I can actually play the game. Honestly I don't know how anyone around my level range (80-90) can walk around without flying or evasion or something.
I'm a bit confused at the recent mob power levels too. Many are listed as extraordinarily strong which I normally can tank with ease, even one or too crushingly strong mobs aren't too bad. But these ones hit like a Mack Truck laced with dynamite shooting up steroids. I walk into the Fire Plane and can almost immediately be indiscriminately smashed by Krractle's finger, a fire slime, or some random collection of rocky dudes that appear and start punching on me. Exploring other planes for fire quests have resulted in similar situations. Perhaps the game is just telling me that I can't do much without a group, which is a shame if I want to complete quests or bash but no one is around the fire camp or in city.
3): I haven't had this experience yet, though I've had some frustrating experiences with quests such as Digging the Latrines. Or after thirty minutes of hunting 5 lesser air elementals (see post above), I returned to turn them in but Rra'den apparently took the month off and was nowhere to be found.
5): I haven't experienced this yet either (and probably won't) but I would agree that only really important or honour mobs should be crit immune, unless it fits their lore and that's like their one power/gimmick. The rats give disease so I can understand the afflictions, maybe some mobs shrug off crits like D&D constructs and slimes used to due to lack of vital points or weak areas?
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
Things are either utterly trivial and or they're bullshit. It's all but impossible to make anything in between, and I've never really seen any IRE game manage it outside of some gimmick bosses designed for multiple players(Imperian's Lhortae, Rynar, Alekmanhala).
If those mobs weren't such complete bullshit, they wouldn't present any kind of challenge at all to the artifacted upper tier of players who, let's face it, make up a large percentage of this game. I'd much rather have an area full of bullshit rats like the Tree than a supposedly high-tier area like Catacombs that I could basically AFK bash if I wanted.
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
dor kill dreadpilar
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.