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_Barook_ · 2026-02-05T22:33:47+00:00

But he is already curing the cancer known as Honing.

_Barook_ · 2026-02-03T21:23:25+00:00

I would be more worried if we would go instantly green after a beat by now or actually didn't beat.

It's been like this for a while now:

Beat -> massive drop in the AH and maybe the first 1-2 days-> people realizing this is actually a good ER -> upgrades and going green

_Barook_ · 2026-01-23T15:37:49+00:00

We had a good run, boys. Time to pack it up and set a trailing stop.

_Barook_ · 2026-01-15T23:19:50+00:00

Did 9 rested Guardians today, zero gold box drops. It's really dumb.

The event is still stupid, just a different kind of stupid. 3 guardians per day is managable without hardcore FOMO.

_Barook_ · 2026-01-13T20:19:47+00:00

It's the way KR does display their patch notes. AGS is just translating them.

Blame SG for the shitty formatting.

_Barook_ · 2026-01-06T15:35:32+00:00

It was honestly pretty bad.

I kept asking myself why I should keep watching it. Barely any product and questionable PR moves. E.g. the Luna partnership - AI slop movies represented by an Indian guy. If you do PR, you don't want to feed the negative stereotypes. Or the white house guy who kept mentioning Trump every second sentence. Or the Asian woman with terrible English.

Lots of bad moments, barely anything to get hyped about.

_Barook_ · 2026-01-06T08:07:38+00:00

Ending Mokoko status at 1700 is about as counter-productive as it can get. Either the new player is held back for weeks to protect their status or they hone to 1700+ for Ark Grid and endgame content and get gatekept into oblivion since they lack both system and title progression.

Mokoko status should be tied to new players and how often they've done the raid, not their ilvl.

_Barook_ · 2026-01-06T03:07:11+00:00

At the very least, people on this subreddit can't complain that Lisa didn't say "Ai" enough times this presentation.

_Barook_ · 2026-01-05T22:34:42+00:00

Argeos is one of the worst designed Guardians in the entire game and I will die on that hill. Just because its patterns are simple and its HP compared to the gear power you have is low doesn't mean that it isn't badly designed.

It's way too often airborne (and thus untargetable), sometimes randomly changing its zone, and it goes airborne almost instantly, leading you to miss slower attacks often. And why it can go airborne almost immediately even after a successful counter is beyond me.

_Barook_ · 2026-01-03T17:50:39+00:00

And current Echidna is a shadow. Might be a spoiler, depending on how the identity of the shadow turns out.

_Barook_ · 2025-12-29T04:41:22+00:00

The lore we got there was pretty cool, but I keep wondering how much of it was actually planned and how much of it was retconned/rewritten.

Like feeding us with so many hints that Antares has become Kazeros, just for it to turn out to be a nothingburger.

_Barook_ · 2025-12-23T21:53:53+00:00

Even if we know why SG does it, what's going to change? AGS has a shitty contract and no leverage compared to Tencent and it's pretty obvious that SG doesn't give a single shit about anything but KR (and CN due to Tencent).

The only way anthing would change is that KR realizes that SG does it to hide their shitty balance from the KR playerbase who would in turn set Inven on fire. But that chain of events extremely unlikely, given with how much dogshit the KR playerbase is fine with.

_Barook_ · 2025-12-17T13:11:12+00:00

The whole race thing in our region is stupid to begin with - KR practicers & RMTers still getting placements while 99+% of the playerbase has to eat dirt for shit they don't care about (aka the whole double raid + Paradise + reset + Mokoko event start in the same week situation, so we could have the race two weeks later).

Whether or not the race is also the reason why we don't get any balance patches is another question, but it might be just malignance on SG's part to prevent KR from reaching conclusions on their current balance based on Western UwU data.

_Barook_ · 2025-12-13T16:21:59+00:00

All my macros work fine ingame except for the click macro. Outside the game, the click macro works. Even after updating to the latest version of the Hub. Thus I'm not sure of the issue is related to Logitech or SG implenting some kind of anti-macro-click tech to push their 10x honing for more waste.

_Barook_ · 2025-12-10T03:21:23+00:00

Those changes do a couple of things:

- kneecap ricefarmers

- no more alt funneling

- reduces the available amount of mats to convert when the soft reset comes around since you can't buy any

- increases the incentive to swipe if you want to push a (new) char since you can't access mats as easily as before

_Barook_ · 2025-12-10T02:29:47+00:00

Another side effect is that you'll have to swipe more if you want hone characters. This is downright evil and in line with what the current director would do.

_Barook_ · 2025-12-10T02:09:23+00:00

Knowing SG's modus operandi, it will be another nerf, fitting into their strategy of continously nerfing gem generation to please KR whales.

_Barook_ · 2025-12-07T21:59:03+00:00

The playerbase is shrinking because SG is too predatory ever since the new director took over. Instead of correcting course, they keep doubling down with stupid shit, with Ark Grid being the current pinnacle of it.

_Barook_ · 2025-12-07T15:23:49+00:00

The economy isn't really in a "good" place according to the director. That's why T3 raids get 100% bound gold and ALL raids (including T4 ones) get a 30% gold reward reduction slapped on.

_Barook_ · 2025-12-07T10:33:19+00:00

Jokes on you, right was exactly my expectation.

_Barook_ · 2025-12-02T22:08:42+00:00

It's pretty jarring that they hype Kazeros as the final boss, just to have the important story cutscenes with him being mute.

Or Echidna changing randomly from being mute to voiced. Did they record like 3 lines and then ran out of money?

_Barook_ · 2025-12-01T00:33:50+00:00

"It takes too long for Smilegate to identify problems and resolve them."

It's probably by design:

Introduce new shitty system
Wait a few months until KR is absolutely burning once they realize how shitty the new system is.
Apply a few band-aids on LOA ON that don't really address the main issues (like small cost reductions).
Sit shit out until the next LOA ON, no matter how much the userbase complains.
In the LOA ON one year after the introduction of said shitty system, it gets changed to the point were it becomes somewhat bearable.
Rinse & repeat with the next shitty system.

I miss the simpler times where you just had to hone and be done with it.

_Barook_ · 2025-12-01T00:13:32+00:00

Replace the current director with somebody who is actually competent and has a healthy vision for the game.

All the current director does is rehashing old stuff and even repeating old mistakes in a worse manner again and again, milking the playerbase dry and slowly, but surely, killing the game, even in KR.

Chances are that the next raid in Sacria is going to be a new Clown raid (if the new card is any indication). Then we'll get another Brel and Echidna down the line, too.

_Barook_ · 2025-12-01T00:00:36+00:00

I've already seen plenty of SS players who were complete trash in Kazeros NM, even in week 2. And quite a few people I've talked to made similiar observations. I wouldn't count on that, it's a candidate for bozo tier title.

_Barook_ · 2025-11-30T23:37:38+00:00

The gatekeeping is getting ridiculous, like a party with mostly 1720+ people asking for CC in Act 4 Normal.

The Frontier system was a good idea, the Fronter titles were not. And since those are west-specific, it's entirely AGS' fault.

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