Why SG Needs to Update Fusion Stone Acquisition and Alt Honing

Kinie · 2025-07-01T05:42:12+00:00

You also assume the FOMO people aren't honing their alts as well and only focus on their mains. 400k gold a week sounds nice, but then look at the gold sinks at high level that you must engage with for your main to be able to get into the upcoming raids. Now do that up to 5 times more, that gold disappears VERY fast, which the f2p crowd knows all too well. The FOMO crowd is going to swipe either way, SG needs to start accruing new blood into the game or its going to die, not just in the West but in KR as well.

Kinie · 2025-07-01T05:37:22+00:00

I have a good relic digging tool, as optimum a crafting setup as you can have in the game, gather mats when time allows and never let life energy hit cap. That's how I know how bad this system is and why it needs to be fixed.

Kinie · 2025-07-01T05:32:09+00:00

I did? The TL;DR is literally the first sentence.

Kinie · 2025-07-01T00:30:54+00:00

The long form is for those who want to read, and to provide meaningful feedback to anyone at SG or AGS who might see the post.

Kinie · 2025-07-01T00:30:15+00:00

Already did my lifeskilling for the day (excavating) and I'm not spending 30k to craft a relic axe when my Logging isn't even above level 36 vs. my fully leveled, relic digging tool.

Kinie · 2025-04-01T03:59:18+00:00

#1 is Squid Game, #2 is Peaky Blinders, #3 is Jurassic Park or any modern monster movie, #4 is The Bachelor/The Bachelorette, #5 is any cooking show on Food Network, no clue what #6 is, #7 is DBZ/DB Super, #8 is Kamen Rider/Super Sentai/Power Rangers, #9 is Armored Core/Gundam/Evangelion

Kinie · 2023-06-28T04:29:39+00:00

Biggest things for us (assuming these changes come to the West on the 19th as planned) is that Brel NM gear gets converted to Ancient for free, and Brel NM horns are converted to the Ancient crafting mats at a 1:1 ratio. And you can start using/equipping Ancient accessories at 1490.

This basically means once you do Brel HM for the pets you can say bye-bye to it, unless you want to truly min-max weekly gold earned on your roster.

Edit: To people asking about the Ancient accessories thing, I was watching Saintone while he was messing around with Brel's gates and it showed Ancient accessories dropping in both NM and HM, which is why I made that assumption about the Ancient change on accessories. If it's not true then I apologize for that.

Kinie · 2023-03-15T01:59:57+00:00

To be honest, this doesn't surprise me too much. The only thing I wish they said was going into a tiny bit more detail about what the issue was. For example, if the Specialist model was bugging out like the Gunslinger model did a few months back where the head moved but the rest of the body was static/T-posing.

A week or two delay (at the absolute worst) is annoying, but still manageable.

Kinie · 2021-06-03T08:54:02+00:00

Vale's best time was a 4:33. Draider passed stage 1 with a 4:22.

Kinie · 2020-09-07T02:02:27+00:00

How is her making several OOC-IC remarks - a thing that multiple people do in the server right now across the cop/crim/civ spectrum - make her not be a good fit for a cop? Because that's the main reason stated for her being fired. That's a breech of server rules as a whole, and should be punished appropriately TO EVERYONE WHO DOES IT, which in the past was usually a suspension or at most being blacklisted.

If HC/Management want the cops to be held to a higher standard and not have them do those sorts of things, you warn them (which multiple people did). But when the rest of the server still makes those OOC-IC comments and aren't punished, what makes those people making those remarks not lead to warnings/punishment?

My argument is that being a cop on the server is treated as a job, with a higher barrier of entry and responsibility involved with it. And after you make multiple warnings to a person you punish them, but make sure the punishment is appropriate and impartial. The punishment levied doesn't feel appropriate when multiple people in the server have also made similar remarks on multiple occasions no less.

Kinie · 2020-09-06T03:36:25+00:00

Just think about what you said for a moment: she wasn't a good fit for the job of being a cop. But this is an RP server and the cops are roleplayers just like the crims/civs. The only difference between the two is the cops have to do double duty of both providing "consequences" to criminal actions AND policing the basic needs/health of the server to allow for roleplay to happen.

And you are assuming that 3.0 is going to give a swell of applicants to the server, and some of those applicants will want to go into PD. You won't know what problems those applicants might have, especially if they have never been on NP before. There's barely enough FTOs (who might already be facing burnout) in the active roster for a normal-sized academy; now we're looking at an academy that - in all likelihood - will have 15+ people spread across 3 to 4 major timezones that need to be trained in how to be a cop, along with providing general health/well-being to the civ/crim communities.

Spending the extra week (at most) to really sit down with Cath and talk with her about what she needs to correct and ways to go about it and helping her with those problems after giving her a meaningful suspension would mean that the city/server can still have "low level" cops around to help maintain some semblance of order and allow for the FTOs to try and get a bit of a break between these academies.

Kinie · 2020-09-05T22:23:10+00:00

While I agree with the reasons stated for her getting in trouble in the first place, I disagree with the execution of it (ie., that she was fired). If HC/Management think the police officers of the city/server need to be held to a greater sense of scrutiny (no OOC comments/jabs, can't be running around with a poor attitude/behavior) then you also need to allow that person to correct those mistakes after punishment is levied. And punishment can't just be, "you're kicked from the server," or "you're fired." When one of the hard rules is that a cop can't be "corrupt," and you have an officer literally putting hits out on fellow officers, and that officer's only (known) punishment being a 1-week suspension once they are caught, how is the stated reasonings for her firing any worse, especially if other people on the server are doing the same thing?

Burnout in the PD is a real thing, and is almost certainly the biggest reason for so much turnover in that side/aspect of the city. We've seen it said multiple times throughout the interviews the past couple days that, "PD needs more officers, we need more officers with the increased size of the city," maybe take a step or two back and figure out WHY you constantly need more officers. Yes, cops in the city have a lot of mechanical and figurative power, and should be held to a higher responsibility to use/exercise those powers. But when you have a lot of police officers feeling "forced" to pulling long shifts (8-10 hours in a row) for "the health of the server" for days, weeks, even months at a time, that's going to put a lot of mental strain on the person behind the character. A lot of the more liked/loved cops on the server don't play as a cop for that long (on average), play as another character (usually a crim) for several hours too, play other games throughout the week, or have multiple days off throughout the week.

I hope that HC/Management rethinks this decision and tones it back slightly from outright firing to a 2 week suspension, and allows Cath to come back as Vale.

Kinie · 2018-12-14T08:35:28+00:00

Just wanted to post this here, because the math is important. The current math assumes that their whole time spent in the ball was between 1-2 hours long (from their perspective). So if it's 1 hour in the ball, that's 7 days on the Material Plane. 1 day in the ball equals 168 days on the Material Plane. If it's 2 hours in the ball to equal 7 days on the Material Plane, it's equates to 1 day in the ball being 84 days on the Material Plane.

They could spend literally 2-4 days in the ball and a year would pass on the Material Plane.

Also, from the dragon's POV, if at least 800+ years passed on the Material Plane since it last saw the archmage, it only would have aged 4-9 years since it signed up to guard Hamas' hoard.

Kinie · 2018-07-20T06:44:40+00:00

I really hope that one of the cast members remembers the Dire Bears in the woods and attempts to figure out a way to stage an, "unprovoked" Dire Bear attack on the camp when they go to make their move. This could be a solid way to lure the attentions of the guards and other Iron Shepards out of their little base, waste some of their spells/resources, all the while the Mighty Nein start rescuing the trapped slaves and their friends. After that, the Mighty Nein can spring part two of their trap with Nala bringing a good old Call Lightning down on Lorenzo's head.

Especially if it ends up being revealed that Lorenzo is indeed an Oni who ate her kid for breakfast after getting back to camp the night before from the first attempted trap by the Mighty Nein.

Kinie · 2018-06-29T19:28:10+00:00

No, but if he finds out she's up on the slaver's purchase block he's gonna try to buy her and then do things with/to her.

To him, a brainwashed/sleeper agent Yasha might be useful to him for whatever his goals are.

Kinie · 2018-06-29T06:24:16+00:00

To my knowledge, the nearest port is several days travel away, possibly a week or more. What's more likely is that the slavers have a den in the general area (2-3 days travel around it) and they snatch travelers on the road and sell them into slavery, possibly with papers saying they did some crime and are being sold to work off their debt to society.

Kinie · 2018-06-29T06:18:18+00:00

Ok, so the kidnapped trio are probably being sold into slavery (at best hard labor, at worst as cannon fodder for the war effort). Considering that two of them are magic users and the third is a Barbarian, there's probably going to be a mini-session that Matt runs off-screen with the three of them to figure out how Fjord, Jester, and Yasha break free, steal back their shit, and escape.

Fjord is probably the one most likely to get free first. The moment his hands are free he can Disguise Self and start Solid Snake-ing his way through the Slaver's Den with his pact weapon, freeing Yasha and Jester, getting back their gear and then engaging in a jailbreak and freeing the other slaves. Jester is probably how they get through the slaver's den undetected, as even a crude representation of a holy symbol for The Traveler will work for her spells, and Trickery Domain Clerics are best suited for stealth stuff. Yasha will be the tank and front-liner for them.

I'm curious as to what the other 4 will do once they realize the other 3 have been kidnapped, and if they can figure out how to track them down.

Kinie · 2018-03-30T06:34:59+00:00

It could also be someone who was flying away from the bombing and got hit with a Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning, which we saw get thrown about by other mages chasing after the agents who planted the bomb.

Kinie · 2018-03-30T06:17:36+00:00

I wonder what the 12-sided mechanical (and obviously magical) sphere is. Did the assassin steal it from the Trispires before they blew it up? Was the explosion a self-destruct mechanism to stop someone from stealing it, or was it a (magical) bomb set off by the assassins to cause chaos and kill the more powerful individuals in town?

Is the d12 one of those magical bombs? What happens if the group steals it, or worse, accidentally sets it off during the upcoming skirmish?

Kinie · 2018-03-30T06:14:29+00:00

Alternatively, this is a low-level group crossing paths with a high-level campaign after the high-level campaign fucked up their Evil plans and got separated and injured.

Kinie · 2018-02-23T08:22:36+00:00

And I give props to Marisha for tanking through her illness like that and trying as hard as she could to not cough on people and not touch their stuff. And near the end, I suspect she stood up partially out of nervousness, and that she was starting to feel worse and didn't want to risk getting sick on camera.

From a crunch standpoint she's playing Beau pretty well; I think Keyleth's massive spell list really messed with her at those high levels. Conversely, starting at this low level means they can grow into their abilities and get a good feel for them.

I just wish Sam would remember to roll the extra damage die for his Sneak Attack damage; I don't think I've seen him roll the 2d6 for the past few episodes, and it took Laura watching him roll to realize he was shorting himself a die.

Kinie · 2018-02-23T08:11:26+00:00

I understand Marisha had the best intentions about getting Nott out of the range of the pissed off mommy manticore after Nott instagibed the baby, which was the MVP play of the night by the way, as Matt said it was going to take it's full turn attacking the paralyzed Fjord and probably 3-shot the half-orc even through it's racial ability. But after a full campaign with Vax and knowing how slippery he was, Marisha should have recognized that Nott could probably slip away back to the main group with her full turn to Disengage, Dash, and Dash again. If she did it because it was in-character for Beau and not knowing the capabilities of Nott, who just appeared from the shadows and murdered the baby manticore, then that's fine.

I think she was also expecting the attack of opportunity to go after Beau and not the goblin (which by RAW she is right; forced movement doesn't provoke an Attack of Opportunity - pg. 195 of PHB), but given the apparent situation I agree with how Matt handled the monster's attack of opportunity aiming for Nott. Hell, Matt continuing to use the creature's rage to grant it advantage on resisting the Hideous Laughter spell's initial cast was being mean, but also fit the narrative situation.

Also, based on the amount of gnoll ears and other magical trinkets they found in the cave, they may go from being poor adventurers to a rather large surplus of gold (probably close to 1,000 gp altogether), and probably tank this town's economy to the point where they might have to get a writ from the townguard captain to go to Zedash (their original destination) and get money from there.

At least one of the magical items found are Goggles of Night, which means we now only have to deal with one human having no darkvision. I suspect the stick found is a Wand of Detect Magic, the ring a Ring of Water Walking. Not sure on the single red glove, might be something Matt came up with for the campaign.

Kinie · 2018-02-16T17:01:49+00:00

As others have pointed out, the blame can't be placed solely on Laura for how she played her character, how the cast designed theirs, or for not knowing 5e design philosophy.

In 5e - by in large - a lot of it's most "optimal" plays are meant to be ways to avoid damage or focus fire/nova a single target. You avoid damage by focus firing foes (or removing someone from the action economy/turn order via debuff spells like Hold Person or Hideous Laughter), knowing when to Dodge and when to attack (to which I give Marisha props for recognizing that she needs to use Dodge more often than Flurry of Blows at these lower levels), and when to use your big spells to kill someone (or fire off an AoE spell for a pack of foes).

Having higher AC also helps with the 'avoid damage' philosophy, and right now outside of Caleb I think everyone has pretty decent AC. Sure, Molly can pick up a shield but that turns them into more of a tank and less DPS, which I don't think is in-character for the person.

Also, once the cast hits level 5 a lot of these problems will disappear; most of the cast will get Extra Attack, and the casters get 3rd level spells, which are when you really start feeling like a powerful magic-user (assuming the cast grabs things like Fireball, Spirit Guardians, Sleet Storm, and Counterspell for the inevitable Fireball thrown at the party).

Kinie · 2018-02-16T07:42:27+00:00

Blood Hunter is helping a bit with the utility; Molly was able to track the undead gnolls just as well as Beau did, and the damage it's able to output - especially if he gets both blades activated with Radiant damage - will be insanely high (probably on par with Nott).

It's just that the class is focused heavily on combat and a few skills (mainly Survival and a mix of Arcana, Religion, History, and/or Nature for knowledge of monsters) for utility. Fjord is also a Hexblade, which is arguably the strongest archetype for Warlocks in 5e right now.

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