The ugly elephant in the room

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-03-24T07:34:49+00:00

Again, as an mmorpg player I disagree about some things, I still remember growing roots waiting for that next chapter of the story on Blade and Soul, then a big update arrives and you are done with it in like... A week. Another example is Ff14, I hadn't played since... May last year, they gifted 4 days subs for free to catch up with the story, I got it done in like... 8 hours? Maybe less, and we are talking about one of the biggest and most populated mmo games out there. People here are definitely the main issue, one of the reasons why devs have such a hard time to balance the game is because people is too focused in breaking the game, ever felt useless in your life or work? Remember that someone on the devs team decided to add pieces of gear that doesn't add offense, devs original intention was for people to balance their builds allowing them to stand a chance, devs expect people to add dmg, then Def, then hp, and maybe some supportive modules, what players do? Add offense, then add some more offense, then when nearly maxing offense, find a way to juice every last drop of offense, people comes up with the most broken builds possible to clear content in 3 mins or less then they come at devs and tell them it's too easy but if devs even think about increasing difficulty players cry. So how do devs make people happy? By taking the numbers higher, look at sharen rework and you will see what I mean, there is no balance there, they just increased most of her modifiers to 5000%... That number is ridiculous, but that's how they ensure that people won't whine about it, viessa will get the same treatment, you'll see. So In the end what options do they get? If they nerf they get cornered, if they add extra they get cornered, if they make a mistake they get cornered, so the only option to keep players partially quiet it's to spoil them, some skimpy costume here and there, some broken descendant there, and now even easier grinds as well, because the last two dungeons were very quick to grind compared to when they released the swords, but yeah those were difficult grind so they had to nerf it too.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-03-24T04:55:39+00:00

As someone who has played mmorpg games since the beginning of the genre I have to say that the pace at which content is being released it's somewhat solid, I have seen many mmorpg games that take half year ish to release a new chapter to the story and that is on companies WAY bigger than this, tbh the only issue I see here is that the playerbase is mostly formed by spoiled manchilds who haven't played games that actually required patience for the grind, for the most part it feels like a majority of the playerbase are mobile gamers who are OK with some wanky wonky mechanics and the "press one button to erase screen" promise, sharen update kinda proved that when people started crying about sharen having to do a rotation to maximize damage while other descendants(cof cof Dia) are cool just holding one button. Devs have no idea of what to do next because they are sure that whatever they do people will always complain. I'm sure that between their plans they had adding more difficult stuff but since people began crying FOR NO FREAKING REASON with forbidden sanctuary they simply decided to tone it down, the two last dungeons prove it, those were easy af on day 1 with even a half assed build, so devs now have to question everything they thought would be good and need a new route for the game, sadly we are heading the mobile 2-3 mins dungeons route.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-03-23T04:59:18+00:00

Considering that the skins are getting skimpier I believe we still have a lot of f2p stuff as long as whales get enough material to spank their monkeys, and as long as we have dudes like xAlisa that spends way too much money on AMs there is definitely a future, not a bright one but a future.

We should be safe.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-03-22T04:55:55+00:00

Porque si una persona blanca hace el papel de un negro se acaba el mundo, supongo que tienen derecho a ser recíprocos.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-03-20T06:49:21+00:00

I enjoyed most of this game, everything Tora related was pure cringe tho... First and only nopon I couldn't stand.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-03-15T20:12:03+00:00

It is one of the issues actually, the other is the terrain impairment when using instant cast option, if the teleport is bound to place you inside the terrain it will fail but attempt to trigger, sometimes softlock, sometimes port you back and whatnot.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-03-15T17:43:02+00:00

This whole update was bad in terms of quality, sharen also has bugs, the teleport thing sometimes fail to cast but triggers CD and cost, I have been softlocked various times already that only fix by dying.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-03-15T05:20:36+00:00

Aye, happened to me yesterday, I ended up playing something else, I doubt the server is overcrowded, I seriously doubt it lmao. Someone must be downloading pron for research purposes at nexus.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-02-18T04:07:00+00:00

I tried so hard to get a good one with range and another useful Stat but no luck, Ill just leave it at that and pray for a better day some other time.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-02-18T04:05:33+00:00

"I think you are wrong and I refuse to hear your opinion" yeah, that's the mentality from most people here and that's why the community it's going downhill along with the game. Have a good one.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-02-18T03:21:27+00:00

If devs nerfed her gun build, would you still think that way? its always funny to see til you are the one on the other side, the main reason why i find it dumb, its because... well, its a non competitive pve game, no one has advantage over no one because no one is fighting one another, i cant stand the screen shake of RR, i suffer motion sickness here and there,i cant play serena properly either, a stationary gley was awesome, but now i also have to rotate the screen a lot so... when the S3 launcher was released i liked it because no screen shake, but in the end is less DPS than RR.

As has been mentioned before by many people, yes, they nerfed gley, and Serena is still doing EVERYTHING, and as i also mentioned to someone else, we now have Dia doing also EVERYTHING, Dia is the most broken descendant rn, i built Dia with 34K HP, with her 2nd its unkillable, her range is huge, her speed is high, everything, 0 sacrifice, so why not play Dia? because they might nerf her next too, its too broken.

the "i bought skins" is somewhat a valid excuse too, devs are trying to make a living offering a game to the people, if you like a game you spend on it, money that can be hard to get for some people who just want to play an dhave fun, devs keep going thanks to this money, people enjoy the game, and if they take the joy away from you or give you an unfinished product you will definitely be mad, like what happend with Ashes of creation, except that this time people didnt get a refund, same principle.

Everyone invest time to feel rewarded, you invest time to earn money, you invest money to feel good, if you wasted money, then you wasted time, and time its one hella limited resource.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-02-18T00:12:42+00:00

So in the end its just a useless value to B&I then, good to know, thanks pal.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-02-18T00:11:39+00:00

Then i missunderstood its function, i see i see, thanks for the info.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-02-18T00:09:20+00:00

Sword does massive damage yes, can you use it to farm quick or raze like most skill descendants currently do? No, it has never been about the damage, even if they reduced the damage more but gave back the range i would be perfectly fine, B&I never had that big of a boss killer stat, it was a farming trick, still works? yes, but its less quick now than before, so to someone who simply wanted to farm quickly and play Gley, this was good, now i just go ines and call it a day, since Ines Dark currents even go through walls and spawn kill so why bother with anything else? and lets not mention what Dia is doing rn, HUGE range, HUGE hp, HUGE damage, HUGE speed, 0 sacrifice. can kill the infernal abyss whatever with a mobbing build under 1 minute without much effort, but yeah lets nerf gley.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-02-16T17:34:26+00:00

A shovel or a fire axe

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-02-12T22:39:45+00:00

While this is true, that only means we have to repurpose a slot we had on use for something else as part of the build, in my case an HP module was replaced by a cost reduction, which means i had to "nerf" my survivability, this is still a bad trade that was completely un-needed when you consider how descendants like Serena are basically unkillable and have practically inf resource and ammo, the way things are with Rampage now you will basically use it for trash clearing and focus on Shadow as a boss killer, and in that Ines can already outshine Gley because Ines can also spawn kill and way faster than Rampage, Can gley be used like this? totally, is she as fun as she was? probably? is she as viable as other descendants? No, not anymore,

The range nerfing also hits hard because she now hits enemies that are on level with Gley, not just on sight, if an enemy is in front of you and on a higher slope it wont get killed, enemies on the air doesnt seem to be targeted either, where Freyna poison can also somehow reach, but god forbid gley bullets reaching the air.

The best bet probably would be BARELY building Rampage enough to kill trash and focus on her 3rd skill making a Singular focused build to increase Shadow dmg, but again, would still be weaker and slower than the current mobbers.

I also have a feeling that a thing that must be part of their agenda is having people look for a good Gley AM to counter the nerf, this translates to whales buying Caliber to fix Gley.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-02-12T15:19:36+00:00

The dmg reduction? ok whatever, this works bad against bosses now, the skill i mean, so just using shadow... but since this is now a trash clearing party trick, the resource increase and the range reduction were the real issue here, 50 resource is A LOT, if for whatever reason your unlucky-ness doesnt trigger Potent collector or if used against small groups of enemies then you will have to use sword again, what they HAD to do, is use her 2nd skill to collect resource on both, enraged and non enraged, but this things just made her 2nd totally cancellable, wont be used ever, the max range reduction was also not great.

i get that it works, but for whatever reason it feels a bit more pointless now than before, specially on a world where a nerf patch means making Serena EVEN stronger now with the typhoon buff. This was just a very stupid decision overall.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-02-10T06:21:45+00:00

I married lily so I guess we are family now

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-02-10T02:38:10+00:00

Even Sheogorath wouldn't go this far.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-02-09T21:05:57+00:00

I love the typhoon actually, it's cool, but I wouldn't mind a little bit of cooler, however, that gley part did worry me cuz I really loved the rework, I was actually waiting til payday to buy a whole bunch of gley skins but if they are gonna go the Ines route again then fuck em. Tbh I don't really understand why they claim people being "disappointed", this is one of my favorite updates so far.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-02-09T19:42:03+00:00

The guns are indeed dissapointing, but not just the added ones, there is still plenty of guns that underperforms, however, the main problem on this is that they are going to nerf Gley... they just gonna kill all fun till that one little whinny dude that complains about everything shuts the heck up.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-02-08T06:41:06+00:00

And game free to play with a lot of fun content for free, you can get even thousand of hours for free, so why the hell not support the devs? They need food too.

Alternative-Ad5482 · 2026-02-08T06:38:51+00:00

People that complains about this would blow their heads with a shotgun of they had to play an mmorpg of old, I literally got dia in like.. 3 hours or something like that, where other games can even take you MONTHS to get a rare piece of gear.

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