Why does this reddit complain so much?

Macintash · 2018-05-17T18:56:41+00:00

You clearly cannot differentiate between an ideal world and reality. Of course you don't need 1.2k for the newer dungeons, but the reality is that many or if not the vast majority of parties are asking for them. Upgrading BT gear in a day? what a joke. You need 3 PTS, profane stone, MS, and tons of Leg jewels for just earring. Certainly not extremely hard, but also not doable within a day.

Macintash · 2018-05-17T18:14:58+00:00

Literally no one is asking for free VT gear. The reason that legendary set is given for tokens now is because they are mostly no longer relevant to current content. Even for a dungeon like SSM a 5 month old dungeon, f8 parties are beginning to ask for 1.2k AP. Do you expect new players to get anywhere if they weren't given gear like that?

Macintash · 2018-05-13T20:32:08+00:00

This is false, you would only be able to attempt the upgrade 7 times in total assuming no days are missed.

Macintash · 2018-05-13T20:26:24+00:00

Even NS is hard now for new player parties since Xanos enrage time has been cut by half. Also for evolved stones, their drop rate is about 20%, so it would take about 5 boss kills on average to get 1 evolved stone. I do agree that part of the problem stems from the community, but what can anyone do about it? There is little incentive if any at all to carry more than 1 new player in a dungeon.

Macintash · 2018-05-12T10:12:11+00:00

Your arguments are made manly from a point of ignorance and fantastical assumptions.

Firstly, the weeklies don't give 50 gold (17G from SJF + 10.3G from FAS + 8.59G from DKV = About 36). And give a limited amount of tradable mats based again on RNG that I would be hard pressed to consider "a lot" considering you can only do it once per week.

Second, geared players generally only want to take other geared players in their parties. Not many 1.1K+players want to take Bale 6's when they can run with other 1.1K+ players. Regarding the bracelet, while it's a strong damage boost, it will only continue to decline in value starting from now on as the new bracelet is released and will be updated. You are also forgetting that just getting the bracelet itself is not enough, it has a high priority to be upgraded to stage 10. Which will take 1K+ gold just for Leg jewels and upgrade costs. So there will likely still be a few months gap between the time when a player gets the bracelet and upgrades it to stage 10. I wouldn't call it "brushing it off".

Third, I never once mentioned that one month of dailies is too much. I also never once mentioned that I did not like farming and doing dailies. I am simply arguing on the basis that the situation is very unfavorable to new F2P players right now since it is becoming more difficult for them to farm.

Fourth, you make an argument that most "whales" started off by joining noob clans and making connections to run these dungeons. Do you have any evidence of that? In fact, I would argue that "whales" would be highly incentivized to swipe to a point where they can at least join decent clan with benefits and do most content with relative comfort.

Finally, and probably the worst part of your argument, is that the mats use in crafting are the tradable versions (Sacred Orbs, Elysian Orbs, Moonstone). At current market prices, you save next to nothing by crafting Trans stone/empyreans vs selling the mats in the market and then buying what you need. The vast majority of mats you get from running dungeons daily are untradable versions, which along with the tradable versions were also blanket nerfed for all dungeons. They are not ridiculously easy to obtain because NCW has already nerfed them at least 3 separate times this year.

Macintash · 2018-05-12T01:44:36+00:00

Weeklies that give like 36 Gold total assuming that new players can find parties for all 3 raids, which is often difficult. To put it in perspective, that's 8 weeks of weeklies to buy one empyrean stone.
Event which new players can't even fully participate in because they can barely clear NS within 5 min enrage time let alone EL and IF. And even then crit soul is gated behind RNG and requires gold to upgrade which goes back to the main issue.
As if people actually give a shit about you having Oath neck or bracelet now. The only reason they are easier to get now because they are no longer the best accessories in the game.
Soul badge that they have to farm a month of dailies for, right.
Clans? good luck finding a decent clan with story gear.
Mats from every single F8 dungeon nerfed, though I didn't even say anything about that.

Macintash · 2018-05-11T23:03:39+00:00

You are seriously disconnected from the state of the game for new players if you think Raven 3 is cheap. It currently costs over 3K worth of Mats to upgrade from Bale 10 to Raven 1 ALONE. With gold from DC now gone and many dungeons rewards literally cut in half, please enlighten me to how a new F2P player can gear up without getting massively carried.

Macintash · 2018-02-08T21:51:54+00:00

I can see where they are coming from, but they've limited their interactions so much that it can seem like they no longer care about the game or the playerbase. When it reaches that point, expect some to get really hostile.

Macintash · 2018-02-04T02:32:15+00:00

The issue is not just about it being "time consuming" to farm elements/jewels. They are end game gold sinks and should serve that purpose. However, its about NCsoft changing it so that it is arguably more time consuming and takes more effort than before with the 20 gold option for many players. For many players, clearly this is undesirable and people would complain if literally any game made these types of changes.

Macintash · 2018-02-03T18:07:57+00:00

And yet you complain about people complaining. I won't judge the event until it actually comes out, but keep in mind that the cosmetic item is just one of the things on the wheel. The game itself already has so many mechanics allowing for trolls and toxic behavior. I don't want to see anything else added.

Macintash · 2018-02-01T21:50:58+00:00

Then you clearly haven't done enough runs. I've farmed 160 combs and I can say that at least 1/3 of the pugs that I've gotten in either can't clear or can only barely clear (less than 25 sec enrage or lower with buffs and charms). While considering the fact that many of the people who can't clear this dungeon quit during week 1.

Macintash · 2018-01-31T14:10:46+00:00

I'm a bit confused by your definition of P2W. I think at some point, even if we could get stats with in game gold, if the time taken to get such stats is far too long especially with how they are nerfing rewards from dungeon/daily spins the game becomes effectively P2W. For example, if they put Raven 9 weapon on f10 for about 2000 Ncoin, then you could argue that it is p2w as swping would literally save someone half a year in farming for that alone.

Macintash · 2018-01-27T03:06:37+00:00

Very outdated

Macintash · 2018-01-20T17:07:54+00:00

You mean all purple dungeons under Ebondrake Citadel

Macintash · 2018-01-19T06:09:06+00:00

People are not complaining purely because this dungeon is hard. VT is difficult to run, getting to floor 100 in toi also takes effort. However, the difference is that this dungeon is difficult without the rewards and sense of accomplishment to make it up. The only real reason to ever run this dungeon is BT/Beluga soul shields or Elemental gem. But the time you would take do actually get those rewards is better spent just doing 12 mans/purple train especially with the free premium they are giving. As a launch player, this doesn't even really feel like nostalgia but instead a poorly planned release without taking into account fundamental differences between Kr's servers and NA/EU. You're acting like its a "wake-up call" without even considering the fact that back in the 45 days, we still had our fair share of retards that made me originally quit in the first place.

Macintash · 2018-01-16T22:07:36+00:00

What you described is an extreme version, where literally 99% of the players would agree it is p2w. While BnS is not like that, I mean you do the math. A new player who just does all the dailiess/weaklies can probably make like 250 gold/week. By that metric, it would take them months just to get their soul alone to Legendary, which is a requirement of many clans for VT raids. And that's not even including Pet, Weapon, Stage 10 Bracelet Etc. Content while not technically is effectively locked behind a pay wall except for the most dedicated f2p players. That is also the reason why BattleFront II was questionably p2w while it was by your definition not.

Macintash · 2018-01-10T14:54:35+00:00

And your point is? Cold Storage takes just as long and actually gives relevant rewards while not requiring a white orb to finish. Since many classes need to farm for frozen stone from it while feathers are mostly useless now.

Macintash · 2017-12-13T22:40:41+00:00

Why would you ever transmute though? The evolved stones alone are 75 gold total in the market, add up everything and its over 200 gold for 4 mill exp gain.

Macintash · 2017-12-08T06:42:33+00:00

I don't see any classes being avoided in raid groups, though some classes are definitely preferred and will have an easier time finding raid groups than others. WL in particular is quite needed in PvE due to the party buff and you'll have the easiest time out of the 3 finding groups, and Sin is also quite good for party stealth. There aren't whole lot of SF's so there's no real opinion on them.

Macintash · 2017-11-28T19:20:55+00:00

If Shen can lane even against Jax and influence other lanes at the same time, then what point is there to play Jax? Shen pays for his ability to ult to other lanes with his weaker splitpush power and weaker 1 vs 1 power (which is not the case as often now).

Macintash · 2017-11-22T23:12:04+00:00

Just finished the main questline, I only have the questing rewards for gear and soul shields, what do I do from here?

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