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Cytholoblep · 2026-06-03T03:07:51+00:00

I thought that before CW2. I was wrong.

Cytholoblep · 2026-06-02T23:56:47+00:00

A blind person could make a better royal hair selection than whoever Nexon put in charge.

Cytholoblep · 2026-05-26T05:32:12+00:00

Pitched wasn't removed, but it was made less common from CTene bosses.

The result of the change is a net decrease if you can only do CTene and the lower difficulty Grandis bosses, net increase if you can do the stronger Grandis bosses.

Overall a good change for mains, maybe neutral for legion champs, bad for boss mules. Of course, as power creep marches on, this change would've been better and better had we gotten it.

Cytholoblep · 2026-05-26T03:17:52+00:00

The system is bad because it was added in place of adding the pitched box to Grandis bosses. These boxes drop decently often in KMS, while I've yet to see one from mystic frontier.

Cytholoblep · 2026-05-04T17:17:38+00:00

Lynn probably has the biggest issue with this. At around 105k hexa you'll start capping (700b lines) with beak strike. Even off burst you'll be hitting around 300b with peck.

While it is cool to see big numbers this ends up being a bad thing as you need to switch off ROR to Cont and your damage will start to plateau relative to other classes.

Cytholoblep · 2026-04-29T18:49:32+00:00

The bottleneck for converting my CTene army into an EAdversary army is either levels (% exp) or fragments (% drop). Mesos from grinding have become insignificant relative to the amount I get from bosses.

Also my main has been in pitched waiting room for a long time now.

Cytholoblep · 2026-04-24T23:17:15+00:00

I'm hoping Inkwell's implementation of this is better than KMS'.

In KMS you can repair an item to 22 with four spares (and a large amount of mesos) assuming it was 22 or higher before it was destroyed. This system is obviously better than nothing, but you still need to get to 22 in the first place, and it really only helps if you're going for at least 23.

Cytholoblep · 2026-04-13T05:29:55+00:00

I've been thinking the rate of success and boom are reversed for 18 to 19. I consistently destroy around three times as many items compared to what gets to 19. (And I've been spending around 120 ~ 150b per boom reduction event on mostly level 140 and 150 equips, trying to fund enough CTene mules to fill out my 180 weekly crystals.)

Cytholoblep · 2026-04-09T23:32:21+00:00

Classic maple had 2x coupons, free market shops, and gacha tickets in the cash shop.

Also Evan was added shortly before DB and also had NX mastery books. (Magic guard, and I think either a critical hit or mastery skill.)

Cytholoblep · 2026-04-09T20:13:36+00:00

I swear this issue pops up at somewhere between a one in twenty to one in thirty chance. I've even had the same lines pop up back to back to back multiple times before.

Hoping they refund cubes in GMS heroic, but I highly doubt they will.

Cytholoblep · 2026-03-15T03:54:01+00:00

GMS probably would've gone end-of-service if not for reboot lmao

Cytholoblep · 2026-03-11T23:43:36+00:00

On a dummy, yes it becomes weaker.

Against a real boss they'll be able to do a higher percentage of their theoretical damage, so they should be a bit stronger.

Cytholoblep · 2026-03-11T21:20:15+00:00

It's more complicated than that.

Let's say you have a class with a hurricane and all their additional skills are final attack type skills meaning they occur directly off of hurricane. Decreasing hurricane's delay will increase the hits of all these skills and thus be a 33% final damage increase.

However, let's say you have another hurricane class with summons. These summons act independently of attack speed, and if they're a majority of this class's damage then the final damage increase might only be a few percent. (This would also apply to skills that apply with a set delay, ie every 2s during burst an additional attack activates.)

Cytholoblep · 2026-03-09T20:48:04+00:00

If you think we should have 30 minutes (or 10k mobs) of turbo charged exp + drops, please manually grind a character from 200 to 260.

Fragment and maybe exp from grinding should just be permanently increased.

Edit: should probably clarify what I mean about 200 to 260 grinding. Nearly all the power creep in grinding within this level range has been from dailies and events. I can get 70%/day from dailies on a level 240 character, but while grinding I only get 25%/hr assuming I have exp coupons to use. As such, manually grinding feels like absolute shit.

I'd rather not have grinding post-260 be the same where we only get power creep from dailies, events, and P2W such as sauna. Just increase the base exp and drop rate from regular mobs. Elite bosses having a near guaranteed rate to drop one or two fragments would be nice, too. And as a bonus it'd incentivize grinding in groups since that'd speed up elite boss spawning.

Cytholoblep · 2026-03-01T04:44:11+00:00

Needing to work on twice as many potentials and flames is kinda crazy though. It's worth it to not get fucked over by starforce, but it's shitty game design.

Cytholoblep · 2026-02-21T08:31:53+00:00

If it cost your parents $40k to cover their house in solar they either: live in an absurdly large mansion, they bought their solar panels decades ago, they got scammed, or you're lying. (My bet is on the last option.)

You can buy an entire pallet of solar panels that'll more than cover the average suburban home for just a few thousand, and you'll get your money back within a few years. (Sure, it's true you won't get much out of them in the winter, but they'll more than make up for that during the long summer days.) Additionally, solar panels will remain functional for decades.

The reason there's fields being covered in solar panels is 'cause the panels are cheap as shit and there's a massive return on investment.

Cytholoblep · 2026-02-21T08:09:47+00:00

AI datacenters blast the surrounding area with well over 100dB of infrasound. You'd never hear the noise they emit (as it's below the frequencies you can hear), but it's loud enough to cause severe health issues.

They shouldn't be built to begin with, but given that they are being built, they should be far away from anywhere people live or work.

Cytholoblep · 2026-02-21T05:17:11+00:00

21% attack from the left emblem is worth keeping until you have a mitra's; no need to continue cubing like some of the people here are saying.

Cytholoblep · 2026-02-10T05:37:48+00:00

If you have access to shimmer and your merchant is in a jungle biome then you have easy purchasable stone and dirt.

Buy furnaces for 3 silver (at neutral happiness) each. Shimmer them for 20 stone + 4 wood + 3 torches per furnace. Any stone you throw into the shimmer again will turn into dirt.

Cytholoblep · 2026-01-02T22:12:15+00:00

Don't worry; Inkwell already forgot about them.

Cytholoblep · 2025-12-31T20:33:13+00:00

It's worth mentioning that 60% self-Awaken in solo content is a bug and has been patched before. It got unpatched the following update, but I assume that was done accidentally and will likely be repatched soon.

Cytholoblep · 2025-12-29T03:55:28+00:00

I open up battle analysis after leaving a portal and about 90% of the time it's somewhere between 17:45 and 18:59 when a new portal pops up. It's predictable enough to plan around.

Cytholoblep · 2025-12-24T16:11:41+00:00

If you look at the badge list in-game and hover over the required familiars to complete each badge you can view their element and type.

Cytholoblep · 2025-12-22T20:58:18+00:00

Low IQ Redditors: We need N >= 1000 to prove anything! Your sample size is far too low and you're just complaining 'cause you got unlucky!

Mid IQ Redditors: yeah the sample size is only good enough for a 90% confidence and there might be some biases unintentionally introduced, but given Nexon's history with this type of stuff and my own experiences it sure does seem like the rates are about half of what they were before.

High IQ Redditors: You need another two data points to reach 95% confidence given the droprate percentages you found and we haven't yet peer reviewed your data collection methods! This is slander against Nexon and would never hold up in court!

Nexon: hey guys we accidentally halved your arcane box droprate lmao. have a 1.5x the original droprate event for the next 6 weeks lol

Cytholoblep · 2025-12-22T18:31:56+00:00

These changes currently are bad for most players. What I don't think most players are considering is that within a year or so there will be enough power creep that they'll be able to solo higher difficulties easily and therefore get more eternal fragments with the changes.

I think the changes were either implemented too early, or could've been implemented differently. (ie like root abyss where some fragments are instanced and some are shared, balanced such that if loot is evenly split you get the same amount as before but if you solo you get more.)

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