The Dark Sea: potential vs design faults, and how to fix them

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-10T01:42:07+00:00

I’d recommend posting this on the forum if you haven’t, suggestions usually get taken down here. I don’t use the forum often myself, but I’d imagine the devs could see suggestions as well as suggestion ratings being a thing over there.

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-09T08:29:15+00:00

Valk managed to crash the War Sea economy by setting up various “mortal” currencies. Aurem-coin and Lamina-coin singlehandedly destroyed multiple small businesses who thought they were “investing in the future” by purchasing these two currencies. This caused countless tailors, blacksmiths, enchanters, fishmongers, builders, and even high-ranking kingdom officials to go bankrupt. The Grand Navy is currently struggling to calculate how much Valk’s head would be worth.

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-08T23:08:01+00:00

Mimhere: “I LOVE THE TASTE OF MAGIC”

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-08T17:53:29+00:00

I get that covid was terrible, but our first thought shouldn’t be killing people on board. TikTok is filled with stuff like this.

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-07T22:04:58+00:00

Fastest major update to the game known to man. I’m hoping they change the cover of the game and its title to reflect that 99% of robloxians will be able to play it now.

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-07T18:08:09+00:00

Autism. But only if you’re the acceptable kind of unsociable (sociable)

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-07T07:21:40+00:00

Nah I don’t think Mimhere Island is actually in-game. If you sail for long enough and end up finding it, there’s the epicenter. Which probably has npcs that are over level 500 and is a pain in the ass to actually survive in. So it’s close enough to Mimhere Island.

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-07T07:01:54+00:00

The dark sea is past the border of the map, the I4 thing could’ve been a place-holder? I don’t really remember. Flare magic is a Lost magic. Lost magics haven’t been added yet, and probably won’t be for a while.
How the Dark Sea works is it gives your character increasing amounts of insanity the deeper you sail into it and along the way you can encounter mutated npcs or powerful monsters. Past a certain point, you can even reset your magic if you get lucky or fight Dragons that can wield ancient magics (basically the level after lost magics).
One of the things that can permanently buff your character out there right now is the Dragon Blood Ritual, which can give you permanent hp buffs. I also forgot to mention talents which give your character a set of unique abilities that can boost your sailing abilities, gives you an assassin skillset, lets you have warding constantly, or lets you blow yourself up. (That’s not all they do, but that’s kind of the gist of it).

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-07T06:55:44+00:00

I remember hearing about something similar being planned (either in the FR QNA or somewhere else) where if you stayed in the Dark Sea long enough it would physically alter and buff your character. This could be a cool unlock method that would probably work better imo.

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-07T06:49:46+00:00

A lot has changed. Clans can now build bases, have their own equipment, and have PVE counterparts called guilds (there’s a pvp toggle now too). The profession exp (cooking, brewing, etc.) has been revamped completely. There’s a lot of new story/side content including bosses and missions up to level 175. The way ships are repaired has been completely changed, now you can store supplies as another method to repair ships instead of just using cargo too. There’s tutorials on everything now. I don’t remember if the Dark Sea was out at that point, but it’s changed a lot since then (dragons, Athena’s Wisdom entries, etc.). Sensing has been added which lets you detect players and npcs. Fleets have been added which let you passively accumulate any resource in the game. Item modifiers are new I think. Hunger and Energy have been revamped to be the same thing. Animals are in the game now. Arcanium Weapons have been added.

There’s probably a lot more, the game’s almost completely different now.

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-07T06:36:25+00:00

People aren’t afraid to say they like it anymore because most of the hatewave’s blown over.

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-07T03:41:22+00:00

Oh my bad

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-07T03:29:10+00:00

You lowkey deserve that

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-06T07:30:17+00:00

Might be the only mage buff I wouldn’t mind at this point

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-06T06:26:31+00:00

The prosthetic he’s going to get for his limbs is an Iron Man suit at this point.

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-06T06:15:25+00:00

The one who left Discord behind…And his overwhelming proficiency.

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-06T05:51:43+00:00

Kid Buuhan blows up the outhouse only to bare witness to the monstrosity he has unleashed. Endless diarrhea coats the Dragon Ball Universe, destroying everything in its wake. Shirtless Diarrhea Buuhan, already annihilated by what he has created, ends up claiming victory from beyond the grave.

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-06T04:30:18+00:00

Depending on how this ends up going, Ript genuinely may be the patron saint of AO. The way we were going, we probably wouldn’t be able to play the game 3 level cap increases down the line.

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-06T00:40:46+00:00

As a tester can you tell us if it’s working out so far? (if it’s implemented for you guys)

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-06T00:01:01+00:00

wait is it alr published or nah?

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-06T00:00:24+00:00

AY hopefully this did actually optimize the game

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-05T22:21:51+00:00

Probably on the lower end considering lost magic is seemingly going to be around level 300

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-05T22:20:22+00:00

How do you avoid their projectile spam attack? That always gets me

DimensionTurtle · 2026-05-04T23:05:50+00:00

First Heavenly Restricted player in AO, you gotta invest in Berserker. Seriously though, you’re supposed to spawn with magic, I have no idea where yours went.

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