You do have the same fair chance as everyone else? The keyword here is chance, as in you don't always succeed.

How does a better player have any advantage, because they are better at playing the game...? Please tell me you are trolling, because I don't think any game developer would take your opinion seriously with that outlook on game design.

Sorry but if you can't faceroll your way through every boss you might actually have to use both halves of your brain to figure out what you did wrong and how you could do better next time. This is a video game not a movie. You don't just sit there and watch it play itself, you have to actually overcome your adversary.

There should be bosses/content in the game that are difficult. If every player can kill every boss, then what is there to separate a good player from an average one? MMORPG's are built on community and competition.

If you are just an average player, then like Mongo said you have a challenge to tackle and keep you busy for awhile, which means you don't run out of things to do as quickly. The satisfaction of killing a boss that killed you many times is tenfold compared to a new boss that you killed first try because it was too easy. I state that from personal experience of killing extremely difficult bosses from older games vs killing the watered down loot pinata's of instant gratification from more recent games.

You don't HAVE to kill every boss without wipes, this is what I think most people didn't understand when we were trying to figure out zork first couple times, people cared more about their repairs than trying to overcome a challenge. Guess why people used to play old MMORPG's for years yet basically all MMO's made in the last 4 years are beaten and discarded within the first couple of months? Because they were more difficult, the content kept you busier for longer.

However I don't think all world bosses should be difficult, but 1 or 2 of them should require a skilled group or co-ordination though and drop better stuff to compensate for increased challenge. If your stance on the game is that everyone should be able to beat every piece of content (communism gaming), then you are likely in for a disappointment when lvl 50 & ascended dungeons are released.

I made the same thread 2 days ago, they're working on it

Yeah but that would be even cooler! Uses a random monster model, maybe you'd get a giant squirrel boss

Lol randomly generated bosses, I wonder how that would work out

Left click to move anywhere, then try to move the camera with right click while moving. Smooth as a baby's bottom right?

Now try holding W, then move the camera by holding down the right mouse button. I ended up spinning in circles!

The camera is impossible to control whilst using WASD movement, I think the camera turn speed should be the same as my first example (when you're standing still or using click to move).

Bonus: Add an option that lets you adjust camera turn speed.

You mean Rejuvenate right?

It's caused by the animation that your character does when they cast a spell (ie. wave their hands in the air). I've been told animations while in motion are a limitation on the current game engine. However, spells like Plasma shield do not have any animation, so they perform smoothly while running.

I kind of wish all instants worked like that, maybe if the game recognizes you're in motion it disables the animation? No idea if that's even possible, might cause desync.

Spell DPS is not correctly displayed when your essence breaks, it shows a tiny decrease from your normal DPS, however your damage is roughly cut in half as your stats should indicate.

People recommend you should get to lvl 40 first because crafting isn't worth the time investment. Currently it's something you do when you have run out of ways to improve your character.

It's hard to judge your experience personally without having any numbers to back it up with. Personally I reached 40 in 2 professions and combat before even 10 people had reached level 40 alone, but that was because I played more. I bought no resources other than wool, which would've taken a day at most extra if I had to gather it all myself. And that was farming, you can't get any advantage by being higher level there. Some people just either play more, use xp pots, or spend their play time more efficiently. I did all 3.

With that said being higher level does give you access to more zones, which in some cases unlocks the best area to gather a particular resource. This game isn't designed in a way you could run around as a lvl 2 and have lvl 40 in every profession. The game world is full of monsters, compared to runescape which like 90% of the useful land had no aggressive monsters. Not to say you couldn't try to be a crafting 'pure', only it would be completely pointless and worse than just being max level because of how the zones are made.

The only way to change that fact is to put better gathering spawns in passive areas, or add more areas like greenreef and illenska that are just towns with good resource spawns in them. It would also be an improvement if you could get the dragon waypoints at any level, so people below the zone level could travel easier.

But really no matter what you change, being lvl 40 will always be better than being lvl 10 at the end of the day. The gap could become closer however.

It seems a few people would rather world bosses just being loot pinata's instead of having to put any effort into killing them.

Limiting them to 10 players with the current templar/prophet count would cause a negative impact, but my idea of the bosses scaling in power should absolutely be implemented. It is blatantly obvious to everyone who has killed them before that bringing more than 10 people as of current is breaking the encounters. This is end game group content, not hello kitty free loot adventure.

If you're implying that lvl 40's make more money and therefore can afford to buy the materials to power level their crafting, then I would say that is because the value of materials is too low. If crafting was more profitable (by being more useful/required), so would gathering. The gap between grinding level 40 monsters vs gathering resources would be much less.

However i'll go back on my point and say that personally, because the population is low, that it is simply not possible to buy your way to 40 in a craft all the way. There is not nearly enough supply of resources to get the amount you need, at best you can buy all of your secondary resources (coal) and then you have to gather the rest yourself.

You certainly don't level "twice as fast" unless you're talking about a skill that requires you to kill monsters (like skinning).

A better solution in my opinion would be to make them scale in power depending on how many players are present, I totally agree though and said since the first time we killed them. Bringing 30 people completely trivializes the fights, I don't think people realize how much more difficult some of these bosses are with 10 people.

If you want your content to last longer, one of the best ways of doing so is to make it harder.

You could just press the accept res button when there isn't a ground aoe on the floor where you're being ressed, or mash the potion button faster

^ wat

I'm confused at the point you're trying to make. Crit is less dps than attack power in almost every situation. Assassin's dps is all about Dots, which crit doesn't affect.

edit: ok I get what you're going for, you mean you get faster stacks so you can do more finishers. That's true but you are building into a stat which doesn't effect your dots at all, which are a big source of your damage. You are losing cost effectiveness with your allocation of stats. Attack power effects everything you do, including the damage your finishers inflict.

It's a DoT, which means it ignores all armour and damage reduction. I think letting it crit also would be too much, there needs to be a downside to dots if they are going to contain such a powerful property, and to be honest with crit being the worst stat in the game for just about everyone that isn't much of a loss. It would be nice if crit was calculated into tooltip DPS, so everyone could see just how weak it is compared to attack power.

I think Ambidextrous would need to be raised to a 3 point investment if it was going to give 3% crit per armour piece, or it's too cost effective. However I think if crit was a better stat in general, then so would the talent and that would put MA assassins in a better spot.

Something I thought of however, what if dungeon gear was not upgrade able and only crafted gear was able to upgraded? It's kind of strange, how there's so much emphasis on dungeons in this game.

I think dungeons should be a core part of the game. If all the best gear came only from crafting then we would have a reverse of this situation where dungeons would not be worth running and instead gathering iron all day would be the best way to make your character stronger, as opposed to actually killing stuff.

If the best gear pieces for different slots came from all different parts of the game as I mentioned in my last post, then it encourages players to embark on every aspect of the game and gives you a larger variety of stuff to do. Even if dungeons are fun, people won't run them if they aren't also rewarding.

Pretty much all these items would still be tradeable (bind on equip), which gives pure combat players the option of making money too, you shouldn't be forced into gathering/crafting.

Only some of your equipment slots out of 13 should be best-in-slot from crafting. We need the best items to come from multiple sources in the game, especially dungeons. Otherwise there is no point to grouping if you don't need to run any dungeons to get the best gear.

It also serves to give the gearing process a lot of variety in gameplay, you aren't just farming 1 dungeon endlessly or hitting iron nodes until your eyes bleed. 

But you could incorporate this into professions by creating these rare recipes that drop from different monsters including bosses, which craft the best items in the game.

Where the best items & 'almost best' items should come from:

* Rare crafting recipes - Different recipes drop in different places which are unique to their monster or boss. Bind on equip.

* 5 Man dungeon & Arena bosses - Very low chance to drop or roll the best item/stat, these are mainly physical items but a few recipes too. Bind on equip, so you can sell good drops that nobody needs and you can make some cash running group content, group farming should be encouraged because it's social content.

* World mobs - Just normal monsters all over Eldevin, can be both actual items and recipes to make these items, these have the lowest drop rate out of all listed here to create an economy where min-max players seek out these extremely rare items to purchase for thousands of gold. Bind on equip, lets mob farmers profit off gear & recipes they don't need/want/have the skill to make and gives you that feeling that you could win the lottery finding one of these items whilst you're grinding away.

* Wilderness only mobs - Same as the above but only found in the wilderness. People who don't like pvp can buy these off pvpers. The chances are you'll end up buying most of these items anyway (including those from the normal world mobs), because the chance that you'll find all of the correct stat items for your build by yourself is extremely low, which requires you to search the market and trade.

* World bosses +(Future raids?) - A higher chance than the 5 man drops, but limit these to once per week/every 3 days or so. Bind on equip for weekly world boss. Bind on pickup for raids if larger group size dungeons are added in the future, meaning only players capable of being in groups that can kill these difficult bosses can obtain these items.

* Epic/Fabled questlines - Very long quest lines that require a lot of materials and kills of different bosses + story elements! Bind on pickup.

* Regular Crafting - 100% solo to get resources, make them require a TON of regular mats so they are expensive to make. Bind on equip.

Each one of these categories should carry 1-4 best-in-slot items for each archetype, including some hybrid pieces.

The damage of the fire floor was never a problem, it didn't need nerfing. The problem was the obscene tank damage and the frequency that the boss casted his abilities (including the fire floor). We shouldn't be getting players into bad habits of standing in the fire, you should have to move quickly or you die, simple as that.

This also forces the tank to move too, which adds a whole new dynamic to the fight where the tank has to re-position himself without making the boss turn towards the melee/ranged.

One idea I had recently which I was yet to make a suggestion on is that we could get unique recipe drops. The recipes would be for new items with comparable stats (same number different spread) to current items. The recipes would also be very rare so you could find you are the only one with the recipe (or even purposely kept unique).

Also there was an idea floating round a while ago about personalising items. So perhaps an inscription on a blade etc.

Really like this idea of rare hard to obtain recipes. It makes buyers search for that 1 crafter who has the recipe as opposed to finding any old crafter that's online. It's really easy to max a crafting skill so there needs to be a way to distinguish crafters from each other. This will allow crafters with those rare recipes to charge whatever fee they like for the craft, as nobody else or very few other crafters would be able to make that item. It also allows the crafter to profit from buying the raw materials, making his rare/unique craft and then selling it for a big profit.

I didn't say there was anything wrong with high level players buying materials to skill crafting, that is exactly how it should work. The problem is the value of crafting is so low that the quantity of resources you can buy for 1/10th of the effort at lvl 40 really seperates high level and low level gatherers. With prices so low there is no reason to ever gather materials at lvl 40, because it's just a waste of time vs. going out to farm mobs instead and buying the iron bars for like 15g/100. If crafting was more desirable and in demand, the price of materials would go up and it would become profitable for everyone to gather materials, not just lvl 10's with no money to buy their skills.

I'm in support of attaching the dungeon sets to crafting instead of purchasing them off vendors. You should be able to use your 'jungle relics' on random non-set pieces (no weapons). None or almost none of these items should be best-in-slot either, they should be filler items until you get the real deal, to make up for bad RNG & the low drop rate of the best items in the game. A piece of the best equipment in the game should very be rare and or difficult to obtain.

Going back to the idea of recipes, how about the bosses in the dungeon have a low chance (<5%) to drop the recipes for each piece of the dungeon set? They would still cost remnants to craft, requiring a material that is unique to running that dungeon, which keeps dungeon running profitable. There should also be recipes for items that aren't part of a set, perhaps a super rare (<1%) heroic recipe drop from the final boss for a best-in-slot heroic item. There should also be a very low chance (<1%) to get some different recipes drop off normal & wilderness monsters.

I like part of your idea about rare materials in these dungeons, perhaps instead of dropping from the bosses there are rare resource nodes (much like my idea of high-yield wilderness nodes), which contain a much larger supply of rare materials than a normal node and do not respawn unless you reset the instance. Normal gear should still drop from bosses, the random stat blues is a good system right now. We could use more variety with the heroic end-boss loot though, the TR boss only drops a melee 1h and a melee ranged throwing weapon.

I just hope the developers are listening to our feedback, and this isn't all a massive waste of our effort trying to think of ways to fix this game.

I didn't suggest full loot, because it's unlikely they will change the entire structure of their game to accommodate a full loot economy, even though I would like it too. I think at least dropping everything that is farmable inside the wilderness, including all the gold you're carrying is a good start though.

Dots should ignore armour and damage reduction effects as they currently do. However they aren't receiving the recently added 30% reduced damage penalty. I suppose this also applies to heal over time spells too.

I started to wonder why dots were hitting so much harder than everything else and targets under benediction were immortal, the answer has been found.

I agree that you should be able to farm it outside of dailies, time investment should be the determine factor on obtaining these particular prestige sets. So if a hardcore grind could be designed to obtain prestige that isn't limited per day, I would be happy with that. Just don't make it take only a few weeks for the whole set.

Yeah but it's a cosmetic set, you don't NEED to have it. I am sick of communist games where everybody has to be equal, no matter how little effort or bad they are at the game.

It doesn't even change your stats, mmorpg's used to have gear that only the most hardcore players could obtain which was way more powerful than easier to obtain gear. I much prefer that system over 'everyone has to be equal, you pay the same for the game bla bla' and that was back when I had 2-3 hours a day to play video games. But I am ok with unique cosmetic sets too.

I agree somewhat on the skill part, but the game doesn't offer anything challenging so that can't be the case yet. Maybe in the future if there's a PvP ladder the top 1% of players get a unique cosmetic set or something, that would be cool. Also suggested adding uber versions of lower lvl bosses scaled to max lvl to the eldevin arena, maybe those could award some cool looking sets.

But please don't change the way the current prestige sets are obtained or their time investment, because it's unfair for the players who have actually been actively working towards their prestige & reputation count since the game launched. It's easy to see it the wrong way if you haven't yet made the effort to go out and farm prestige.

Yes warrior seems fairly weak to mages atm, but it's a game of rock paper scissors, because prophets and assassins rape mages currently (mainly due to bugged DoT damage in pvp though). Warrior should beat prophets though and have a fair shot vs assassin & rangers.