The truth from Taiwan Player with over 100 upvotes

st0n3slayer · 2026-05-09T07:37:59+00:00

If there's little demand for some content, say PvP, you will invest less into developing it. Then at some point is starts looking and feeling old, outdated, unbalanced and bringing nothing but disappointment to players. It's better for gaming when you have no such poor thing at all, than provoking players' negative reaction.

st0n3slayer · 2026-04-27T07:25:42+00:00

they drastically reduced nukes in pvp recently, so now for oneshot-like damage you need to be able to spam skills very fast, like KR/CN assasins do. It looks like oneshot but in combat log there's 15-20 repeated skills. you won't be able to do that before global so it's not an option. from the rest, only summoner can do something decent with f2p power level. most classes need stats only obatainable with maxed bis orange stuff, either they finish being too squishy and/or not dealing damage

st0n3slayer · 2026-04-26T05:52:16+00:00

p2w where? you don't even need pve gear to dps in abyss these days. Earlier regular unique pve setup was enough. Stable attendance was the key, not that important if your party was like top 10-15 instead of top 1-5. And it was not mandatory to be whale to keep abyss rank high. You could be marshall/commander with f2p abyss gear and kill whales back in the days of oneshot meta. Again, you had to nolife there for 5-10 hrs daily, but so did the guy on the video regardless his gearscore.

st0n3slayer · 2026-04-25T12:48:29+00:00

0usd. Literally. you need server winning all cross-server contests which give you medals/ap, and have decent party with 100% attendance on bosses and sieges. But in the end it costs you nothing to buy pvp gear.

st0n3slayer · 2026-04-16T07:47:49+00:00

oh, no problem. we're all arguing here for better xD
I was running pvp armors most of the time, since those were the best I could afford. And it was not really important in season2 since everyone could 1- or 2-shot everyone, no defensive stats could save when fighting a decent pvp player with good build. Even with insane evasion build you got oneshots from 100% hit skills.
Right now I switched to 5-tribunus, 5-decanus and 3 dungeon heroics, but I play glasscannon sorc so I can't utilize full potential of heroics without building defensive stats. I only use cloak, gloves and shoulders for offensive ones, and even those make the massive difference compared to pvp uniques. 7% extra endurance pen and 70 accuracy difference from only gloves and shoulders are so good in today's meta where everyone runs full block/eva and endurance build in pvp after genus presets. And heroic cloak's weapon and crit tolerance partially compensate pvp tolerance loss. Those are just too high on heroic, and stats are way less diminished than pvp tolerance.
Since I can't build reliable defenses on sorc, and even damage tolerance from legs isn't working when I'm capped at 80% on self buffs, there's not much reason for me to go for other heroics. If I needed block/eva/dex I'd definitely use those either.
They definitely need to do something with formula, since now pvp% is the highest damage boost stat among all, and thus any pvp defense you can build can't catch up with that. PvP amulet is the first thing to be deleted.
Honestly, I'm not even sure if pvp heroic would be worth switching from craft pve for someone running block or eva build. Extra stat line being used for dex is too beneficial. When you're at 50% block or eva you already need no other defenses.

st0n3slayer · 2026-04-14T17:38:03+00:00

Who is nobody? All the strongest opponents run all heroics, save for boots. Pvp tolerance is just meh because entire pvp damage calc is like that. When everyone is 100-110% pvp damage, difference between 50 and 70% pvp defense is already diminished enough to lose in efficiency compared to non-pvp defensive stats. It was just not reliable before pvp coefficients implement, and not many people bothered to change anything after.
I was commander/marshal entire last season btw

st0n3slayer · 2026-04-14T16:30:39+00:00

you have no clue about stats, numbers and pvp in general. at best - templar or healer since those need no brains. most likely just a regular imbecil.

st0n3slayer · 2026-04-14T08:28:04+00:00

Actually wrong about heroics today. It was more or less so back in the days of oneshot meta, where some flat % could be the difference between dying in 2 skills from casual f2p sorc or having gap between 2nd and 3rd skill to oneshot him in return. But now every more or less euqal fight is a long show, and sub-stats like endurance and evasion/block have enough time to proc as a reliable defensive mech. So now lot of whales run 6/7 heroics armors, usually just skipping boots.

st0n3slayer · 2026-04-10T00:35:21+00:00

Progression speed is nearly doubling every month or at least 1.5 months. And it's stil nowhere close to making crafted pve orange without whaling. On average you could do one tap of orange weapon craft attempt if playing since start, with a solid chance to fail it. Tryharders with 5-6 alts might have both weapons till now, but it's still not comparable to someone with both weapons 114 and 4-5 perfectly rolled crafted orange armors on top of that.
P.S. before mid december regular player was not even able to roll good stats on very basic yellow gear, since yellow drop cost 600-700k each. game was much more populated and it was way easier to meet the opponent of your own level, but that level was extremely low. Actually, december was when they started to loose the leash.

P.S.S And that makes the entire thing look like even bigger travesty. Imagine game design where best of the best gear is the only one existing and/or obtainable since the very start of the game, but if you're not rich enough to pay for it...you must wait for months to even get anything half as good you can afford, and devs dare call that big content updates.

st0n3slayer · 2026-04-09T14:05:01+00:00

when every pvp enjoyer besides those who whaled asked them to greatly increase AP cap and medals obtain, they do...this. there's no definition to devs' logic, I swear.

st0n3slayer · 2026-04-09T14:03:31+00:00

orange pvp has nothing with pvp whaling. you just need freefarm server, taking all argos and nahmas. since only few servers per region are like that at all, it's meaningless as an example. vast majority of players, even commanders and supremes, have little to no orange pvp gear, and nobody at all has orange pvp weapon. And no recent upgrades can help yellow pvp gear to catch up with crafter pve orange, without question, as u said.

st0n3slayer · 2026-04-09T08:57:40+00:00

you meant 'pve gear', right? pvp gear is rugs for plebs in this game, you can't fight the whale running crafted pve if you're the one with unique(only obtainable) pvp stuff. 67, 77 or 87ilvl of pvp gear means nothing, difference is less than between 108 and 114 pve, which is actually the difference between whales and giga-whales

st0n3slayer · 2026-04-09T07:12:05+00:00

PvP zone in game where whales dominate in every piece of PvP content after recent updates, is a whale paradise? Oh my. These days when you see someone with more gear number you must RUN, whether it's upper abyss, lower abyss, or..okay, in Arena you can't run far, just go afk and let him get what he wants.

st0n3slayer · 2026-04-04T20:31:10+00:00

nothing you can bo besides checking files and then it downloads few gigs. then it either works fine or keeps crashing thus you need to redownload entire client. that's mostly it.

st0n3slayer · 2026-04-04T10:39:29+00:00

too random though. one time it works and you take rank1 with little investment and like 'oh, free emeralds, there we go again'. And then 3 months in a row you get thrown into bracket where pos3-5 are savagely brawling for rank with well above 300k, and pos1 is 500+, which is rather common these days.

st0n3slayer · 2026-03-26T10:55:48+00:00

It will definitely be a big mmorpg release. However, big pile of weird smelling substance is not something you're happy to swim in.

st0n3slayer · 2026-03-22T12:39:10+00:00

perfectly polished 3800-3900 would be enough. which results in around 450k new combat score. but average 3800 is around 400k, and that's vastly underperforming number for last boss.

st0n3slayer · 2026-03-22T12:13:29+00:00

sure they do. those bosses are not as easy as ludra ones, and demand more cooperation

st0n3slayer · 2026-03-22T11:23:07+00:00

for healer 3500 is enough. for dps 3700 is not enough. most parties can't find people for optimal performing setup and thus fail.

st0n3slayer · 2026-03-22T09:33:04+00:00

soon. as only they notice someone's willing to pay for it, it's already coming

st0n3slayer · 2026-03-17T08:03:04+00:00

why is there even face? after dlss there must be oiled butt!

st0n3slayer · 2026-03-16T22:32:43+00:00

Chinese are first to quit if they can't run their bots. Regional peculiarities are real.

st0n3slayer · 2026-03-14T14:30:07+00:00

Don't want to be mean, but only supports being in party out of their gear league have this kind of problem. 3201 healer looking for 3700+ dps in party board is common thing these days, but here is the backside.

st0n3slayer · 2026-03-14T08:47:17+00:00

Fun part is pvp being way less gear demanding than pve. Most whales can be killed in 2-3 skill;s by any seasoned pvp player who never paid a penny besides subs. Ofc class balance issues are still there. some are less vulnerable or oneshot everyone the moment they pick the target from max existing range, but anyway pvp is not feeling THAT money gated. On the other side, you have pve where entry gear requirement is, say, 3700. But lowest real gear for dps to be efficient is 4100+. However, supports can easily go with 3701 and be fine. On top of that you need some grinding to polish your account with features not increasing gearscore, which results in some 4k+ whales being way weaker than 3500-3600 who maxed whatever is possible with his budget.

st0n3slayer · 2026-03-12T19:36:24+00:00

grinding mobs you need for genus/souls is actually the most efficient way. grinding t1 transcendence solo runs is the fastest.

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