main cypress
Having to grind gold for hours and hours to be able to afford a single pet hatch that just so happened to have the gloomy eye body (if I didn’t get it first try I probably would’ve quit there lol) was a very time consuming and generally straining process for me. To some extent I understand that grinding like this is a core part of MMOs, that part I empathize with the fact that the genre just might not be for me. But I feel like having to spend over 10 hours just to grind to be able to make the 2nd world in the game go by about 2 hours faster was annoying.
This is not the end of the story though. One thing that kept me going through Krok was knowing that once I hit level 20-25, I could finally start farming couch potatoes in order to feel like I was actually doing the right progression in this game. One problem, the death frog doesn’t consistently do enough damage to oneshot the troubled warriors. And I really don’t feel like having to do a blade into it and adding an additional 2 minutes to each encounter. Because of this, I decided to invest into a deer knight jewel, doing all the crafting quests, gathering the gold to get the onyx and dream shield TCs, praying and hoping that iron would show up at the bazaar so that I didn’t have to spend another 10 hours getting stone in krokotopia to transmute.
After 16-17 crafts of the 15-25 death jewel, I haven’t gotten deer knight once. I’m not saying that this is an issue by itself, this is just a case of bad RNG on my end. But this failure on my end combined with everything else has just made me really frustrated that I’m spending 5 or so hours a day not making any actual story progress (which is the reason I wanted to start playing wiz again), and that’s become really demotivating.
2/3