I was thinking today.....with my one neuron vibrating very very fast... The game doesn't really give players much to "work towards" after the last update. The quests are gone, the rewards are way too low to effect a player's game play; there's nothing to "earn" to help make a dent in a characters progress. Let's face it, no one can afford to buy anything in game because there's no place to fight mobs for adena, and you can't really craft anything with ether drops being SO LOW; basically there's no way to EARN adena anymore to build your gear and weapons in the old fashion "in game way". The game is "hollowed out".... the content has been removed and I want it back. For the sake of expectation management, here's a list of things most players will never have or never be able to do:
1. Never have a high end weapon..... An R110 PVE/PVP enchanted weapon = 40 Elcyum AND 11 BILLION+ adena from an NPC! NEVER going to happen. I played straight 24 hours a day for weeks and weeks on end and earned less than 500K a week on 1 character. Yes, I checked every location. To upgrade a regular R grade weapon it costs 250,000 R grade crystals (expensive!!), 1904 Crystals of Determination (which you can't find anywhere), 400+ R grade gemstones AND 1,500,000,000 adena. Face it; you'll have that same R grade weapon forever.
2. Never going to be in party to fight a dragon.... Spawn times are no longer posted ANYWHERE and who is really going to sit and wait to log it and tell everyone? The game information supplied is absent relative to the content that is missing.
3. Never own a dragon weapon..... if you can't fight dragons to earn dragon claws and you can't buy dragon claws (30-60 BILLION adena!!!)… its NOT going to happen. Those who have dragon weapons, most of them anyway, have paid 3rd parties for adena to purchase the materials for dragon weapons. They've purchased TRILLIONs of adena from 3rd parties...….. So there it is.....the truth of it. Very far out of reach even for the most loyal of players. Forgive me, if I bow out smartly and commit that I will NOT spend 10,000 dollars on a "virtual" weapon. Let's say we play the "chance" angle..... if anyone to were acquire a dragon claw by chance twice a year by participating in a game event, it would take 25 years to gain 50 dragon claws. Just say'in…. the odds for the game events are not in the players favor at all. No hope there. Really... stop hoping.
4. Never own +10 gear or enchant ANYTHING to above +8 without spending ALOT of money. I mean ALOT of money.
Game play problems....What's not quite right:
1. Hunting zones don't match the character levels they're labeled for. In other words, a level 105 character can not hunt in a level 105 hunting zone. Or a 103 level character can not hunt in a 103 level hunting zone. And there's no reward for hunting there in the first place. No quests supporting the hunting zones. Big bummer. You die there and it's depressing. So ALL players go where they can hunt and survive.... Blazing swamp! And they hate it. Trust me.
2. The characters are not acting on the same "grid" in a party. They are "out of synch" on the dimensional grid. On one screen a character appears to be in one place, but from another screen the same character is far away from the place you wanted them to be or intended them to be. This is a nightmare in parties.
3. The crafting system is not useful for a character in the "crafting occupation" with the current material drop rate. Dwarfs have been reduced to nothing; and they can't really kill much either (no very powerful). Its a great class, but the system around the class has to support it's function in the game, but it doesn't.
Now with all of that said; I love the game... we all do. That's why we play. I hope developers read this and take it for what's its worth to support a loyal player base.
