#lost-ark-discussions
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everybody got killed by cross at least once, i didn't die to it a single time
you know when he agros a player, backs up, and you gotta counter him, then move to his side?
yes lol
there is purple spikes around him when his doing that move
i got 1shotted by the purple spikes in the first hour, ive never had to dodge that in my life
no there isnt huh
wht ishy said
u mean the co-op counter where u move to the side?
hes talking about the lightnbing bolts on the timed counter
nados
purple lightning bolts whatever you wanna call it
it just spawns around him, those things tickle and do 0 dmg
then i just randomly died in tfm lol
OH
the blue lightning
yea that shit hurtsd
i dont think its purple bro
if it is then my memory is wrong
but yeah that tiny lightning, without DR, ur ded
even GLs can die to it without shield lol
ive never had to dodge that before, ever
it hurts a lot
we have bard
well no shit
we just naturally are tanky with bards
when i died progging there, i was like wtf did i sign up for
boss is -40% ap
your supports need to shield/DR for that
and we are perma 30% dr / 20% hp shield
it chunks like a fuckton
i cannot go for those counters on gs
the chip damage hurts too much
I never have counter up for it
our group was also kinda underpowered
I'm still waiting on core essence so I can swap to fatal wave
so I have perma counteru p
lol
2 or 3 of us including me had to run shield piercing engraving
did you ever make it to g2
but we could never make it to 500bars with everybody alive, so there was no point even using shield piercing it felt like
idk that sounds like skill issue

no, coudn't even get past 500bars g1
also, there is sometimes complete bullshit overlap in prokel clone stagger
i died to the most bullshit move, i was going inside the ring explosion, he offscreen lasered beamed me and 1shot me
there is windup in hm with the laser, it felt like in tfm he just does it instantly, if your not constantly straffing he just 1hits you
he did the 1 shot as I was running the to a far side circle safe spot
i don't expect today's prog to go anywhere, but just get some pulls for a few hours for reps
most likely gonna try again in 2 weeks with circa gear
the first time we made it past 500x
we cleared
then we did like 2 good pulls and 3 wtf pulls in g2
in like 30-40 mins
idk if this is true or not, some people say g1 is easier than g2
getting past x500 and to it with everyone alive is the first like
major check
sorry
second major check
getting past prokel is the first check lmao
g1 is harder than g2 if your not skipping x500
after that, its usually a smooth clear
post basement isnt much of a worry unless someone misses just guards
I feel like g2 is not hard if you actually play slow
you guys are prob so juiced you skipped 5x jg or something
i would say g2 was a lot easier than g1
i think we are gonna see that for sure
what gatekeeps people from clearing TFM is nados in g2. and people who think its rng just smash there face against the wall
for a dps check to even be a problem
and i read from the guide if anyone fails even 1 of the 5x jg, he gains infinite shields and the raid is bricked
g2 is just understanding patterns, going for counters, and not burning your stand-up unnecessarily
wait wtf is nados
the real killer in g2 is the nados
blue tornados
yeah
the star pattern that sends you up
i came across many groups who think its rng,
first and second is always safe
they stil havent cleared
there is a correct way to do it consistently without issue
if you can react to it
refused to listen to me
but people dont listen at all and they end up ruining it for others
i still think its rng
either direction is safe
here's MS picture
idk
We just walked/dashed to first or second one that appeared
even if you end up in a bad situation, you should spacebar outside and wait till the red telegraph shows to hyper (thats like backup solution if u miss a puddle/panic)
1- never go in red space (5/7 and close to boss) blue can cut here
2- anywhere not red u can take the 1st nado spawn and it is GUARUNTEED SAFE. U MUST take the 1st nado immediately tho. do not wait cus the end of 1st nado can still get cut in tfm
3- DO NOT SPACE TO TOP. THIS IS MASS MURDER. WALK
TS + HA in pure clear lobbies gg
oh also, ur run can be gimped in 2-2 if this happens:
also to clarify in the image above, the reason you walk is because, the blue puddles that send you up has some targetting to it
You can murder other people inthe process by even 1 person moving too fast
so just pick a side
and just move to the first puddle
angry birds on wall has killed so many people
b-but

ya
angry birds also has set positions but even in situations where boss is not positioned, the safest thing to do is pick a circle thats next to multiple other safespots
theres no skip for 2-1
this way, u can spacebar to the non-red safespot for angry birds
its very easy to adjust
yea the only issue with angry birds on wall is if you click incorrectly, you just die
like if u drag ur cursor over ur char
ur dead
if u click the wall ur also ded
haha
honestly thesse days everyone can run crisis and get a free clear
as long as u pass nados
timestop that joint
btw does the boss in HM
always look down when he does angry birds now
lmao
I swear its never some random angle anymore
uhhh im not sure
We saw it because we run with a progger + giga shitter pugs
nothing we can do about it
somehow pugs are pulling their weight
btw i found out more info about that GL from our TFM clear
that was supposed to help our speedrun
failed grabbing a clash
and actually failed a clash
keep in mind, this guy is toxic and gatekeep the sht out of people
naw, someone else
unless we ironically were in the same run?

idr being in VC with u
did you wipe at the stage break clash in 2-1?
but i also dont know everyone in the run
yeah but this was a TFM speedrun on last saturday
no
oh well
anyways
i fucking hate this GL
i defriended them completely
just a terrible person but 'friend of friend' situation
apparently
their cat they had for like 17 years
died that same day
mind u, this guy is like 40 something years old
so i legit told the others
he's too god damn old to not communicate shit to us
like
if you got problems to deal with
WHY SHOW UP TO A SPEEDRUN
just say u cant make it or have an emergency
dont waste evryone elses time because your head isnt in the right place
fucking childish behavior


Valid crashout tbh, useless GLs are just dead weight
if you mean most busted class in the game and every tfm group wants one, yea.....
just play a class that gets buffed 40 times in a row
Buff pred
useless GLs
aka ones that aren't able to keep buffs up, go their job, counter and keep cpm high enough to give decent dps
that doesnt mean all GLs are useless, im saying that ones that are
I agree, imagine griefing a friend and pet you've had for 17 year's, grow up we got games to play man 
like
how the fuck
are pugs
wiping on guard armoche g2
????
raid too hard ig
hm right?
yeah..
oml tho
pug paladins are so bad this week in my experience
good luck
fk that, even not on main i will try to go for it if its under or around 100k
yeah same
Goodluck 

I'm living through my pugs 
i wish those went for that cheap
every time they've shown up they've always been above 200k

all my alts are around 3600>3900, by NA standards thats weak
if i can grab a ancient rando box for 100k i am taking it
I'll pay max 50k for it 
always the trillionaires that try pay low

by the time the june sacria priest raid comes out ima aim to have at least 1200 core essense on every single char
gonna use it all there in that raid shop
me personally, i wouldnt mind putting a solid bid on things
its just when people bid up but dont want it
just to yoink gold

i wouldn't have minded if i got it since it was on my valk
but someone apparently wanted it even more
This guy.
not screencapping in 2026 is criminal
you do realize his luckier than you, peakes, and kat combined right?
Says no lucky
A week ago he crafted HM
phone snapshot is this man's trademark
I've never said I'm lucky
I'm average with how much I play 
ive never seen 3 embers glowing on the same screen since i started playing the game, you see this every other week 
3 Ember

This guy is hilarious 
My guy you know I've most likely raided a lot more than you and yet you've gotten 4 sids
you're not average lucky mister zhengy.
i know youve raided more, but i don't wanna say ALOT more
i basicly got my 400roster from side raiding, basicly just a normal amoche on the lopangs every reset

idk what this is gonna be able to get me, i don't wanna look at the calculator, hopefully i get far
every alt have this number if not more
hmmm do I want to use the hell key selector on my 1730 or on a 1710...
1730 and wait until the 15th so the key gives new mats
Am I wrong or was we not told that key's don't change and you get new key's with the patch?
we dont know because kr got a new set of paradise
after serca
Current keys stay as is.They dont have a key yet
They have the selection thingy to get a key
like the season ended at the serca patch i mean
Ye I got that,
I'm just not holding my breath for them to update selection chest, but hopefully 
We do know because they said in the March upcoming memo thing
While the maintenance took longer than expected (don’t fear, a compensation will be sent to all players in the near future), our team has had a blast watching players experience the new story, try out new character builds, and use the progression event to get characters ready to face Kazeros— and the next threat on the horizon— Serca.
trash
Just wait. You lose nothing by being patient
yeah, but I do think it probably ends up as a 1710 key
because i dont expect them to add the new key in there
LOL
someone is saying saturn is bussing tfm 12x a week
bro
saturn quit
fucking 5 months ago
wait, you can bus the first mode?

44% to get blue Astro.
3 in a row is green, and 7/10 Green
ok
44% my ass
2/10 was blue 8/10 Green again wth.
Ok, calm down ishy

"THEY DO TFM ON 6-12 CHARACTERS AND EARN SO MUCH RAID GOLD"
YOU DUMB FUCK
WHERE IS THE RAID GOLD

BUSSERS EARN 4M A WEEK
WHERE IS THE 4M A WEEK
I WOULD BE BUSSING IF I WAS MAKING 4M A WEEK
SATURN BUSSES SO MUCH TFM
SATURN QUIT IN FUCKING DECEMBER
MAN SATURN IS JUST RUINING THE GAME BRO
FUCKKKKKKK
3-4 MONTHS AGO
NOT EVEN BUSSING TFM
NOT EVEN BUSSING HM HALF THE TIME
we larping as reddit?
literally all public info what in the fuck is this community saying
I mean, bussing in general make a lot more gold than the general raiding base.
I don't know about Saturn tho.

bro
even if I bus 18 raids
I am not even making 50% of 4m
from raw raid gold
not even 36 busses makes 4m
54 can be argued
but are you even counting those people as fucking normal
Maybe not but you'll be making a fuckton more than the rest and that adds up week after week after week let's not pretend that busser's aren't playing easy-mode on economy.
bussing is an extra 200k a week endeavor
i mean, you can play on "easy mode" too.
smilegate structured the game around gold and made shitty rng systems
what do u expect people to do
not min max?
Yes, because I speak against busssing must mean I want to bus too

never said you wanted too
you make that much if from the bus you are the only one getting paid
Then I'm not sure what your "argument" was, bussing is just playing the game on easymode with gold, that's all, If they don't want people to say that to them then, I don't know, don't bus or just ignore it 
thats not how bussing works
right but who wouldnt want to play on easy mode
its like playing ironman mode and flexing about it
no one cares
people will bus because of the shitty systems smilegate made
and how important gold is
idk there are ppl willing to just help out bussing without payout and funneling
wouldn't be surprised that is common
not everyone wants to play only 1 class and bus, shit's mad boring for some people and other people are just objectivly against the idea of bussing and making extra gold outside your "frames"
It's not rocket science my guy.
many bussers dont play only 1 class lol
its just extra gold
if u saw 100 dollars on the ground and no one is around u not picking it up?

A ton of gamer's play Ironman just for the brag rights tho
some people like a challenge in their game, if you're not one of them then, good for you.
there is absolutely no challenge in what this conversation is about lol
That's a terrible bad faith argument and if you're going to yapp like this this convo ends now 
instead of blaming bussing, blame the shitty devs who made the game this way
every single game with an economy has some form of bussing
I mean game would be massively different if bussing didn't exist
bussing is the driving factor for rats existence
you not gonna blame the devs who made the game shit? lol
I wonder
why
all
games
has
busser's
shocking.
rats can't clear bussing can
the concept of carrying people through a raid hasnt been addressed is a general thing
because. people. like. to. minmax
its not a hard concept
if u dont wanna minmax and be casual thats fine
Because, people, like, to, find, creative, way's, to, make, more, than, the, game, tries, to, limit.
like if they addressed whats required to complete/get the rewards for a raid, bussing (or just carrying people), can be fully locked down
you think smilegating limiting your gold with this massively rng shitty system is a good thing?
everyone always hates on the millionares until they become one themselves
I think that's the game and the frames you should work within 
you have 40mil gold?
myb thanos
I do I can swipe for 500m gold too if i wanted to right now
most ppl who bus have the same mentality of doing 'whatever it takes' instead of being ethical as a player
not everyone, but most
whats your pt
and thats something you want to do. but somehow bussing is the evil boogieman

thats something I want to do?
you said when you are just as rich as them id view it differently
no I don't
yeah im sure ur very rich man
So what is it? You don't make millions bussing or you do?

u can objectively just see bussing carry rats and rats make the majority of gold inflation
i dont believe bussing per say is the 'evil' but it does stem from unethical stances imo
if rats can't get all this gold they can't inflate anything
Bussing killed my grandmother
you could carry and teach people for free, but instead choose to monetize it and create/support greater issues the game has
bussing does not cause gold inflation like you think it does
the same way CoA has no ability to even create gold to trade
what a stark difference compared to 27k yesterday
there's far less people bussing and way more people making alt accounts to farm low tier raids
bussing is what enables alt rosters and gold generation to exist in the way it does
no matter how we look at it, it comes down to whats leading to gold generation
The issue is not only that you could help and teach, It's just that you're pumping more gold into the game that should never have been there to begin with in combination with pumping millions into specific people from that.
It's just playing on easy mode skirting the laws of the game and honestly I wouldn't mind if they just banned bussing totally.
these alt rosters with no hands or gear can't even clear NM raids the fk
guy has never seen actually rat lobbies
ive been in plenty of rat lobbies. made an entire video series about it 
not saying its exclusively the cause, but it has a heavy hand in allowing for it
you understimate alt accounts bud
no I don't you just don't get bussing is a massive enabler
bussing not existing wont change the fact that smilegate will continue to make shitty systems. bussing doesnt change the fact that minmaxing astrogems cost millions upon millions of gold
you either bus, or you don't. it is what it is
ok if it doesn't matter remove bussing
idk whats so hard about that
so we agree
damn was so ez
if it doesnt matter, removing or not shouldnt be a conversation
actually
the conversation should be pointing the finger at smilegate
instead of thinking bussing is the reason why the game is so bad lmao
guy says bussing is irrelevant so removing it hurts noone ok then remove it
You're the one that says it does not matter's, I think bussing matter's in the sense that It's a negative impact on the general population of the game so that a few % can get infinity rich compared.
Stinky stinky
usually the finger should be pointed at both
fail to see the big picture is actually crazy
continuing to eat the shit that smilegate serves you is honestly an amazing feat
and failing to see they are the issue

i agree with shitting on smilegate
Ye, pumping in an insane amount of millions into the economy for sure does not hurt anyone that's why our market's are so nice 
but i have a personal issue of players just promoting shitty behavior
it goes both ways
its the same ppl who make excuses of
its the devs fault i can exploit

RMT ez as 123
then pikasurprise face when they get smited
I mean anything that has trading and allow multi accs always leads to inflated econ
thats just what it is and it hasn't changed in 50 years
bussing doesnt account for the amount of gold you think it does. the alt accounters i know, make way more gold than a busser ever do. there's a reason why people bus. the systems are expensive and annoying. people want to minmax stuff. cant stop it
u ban bussing tomorrow, people will just go to discord and facilitate that way
only way to truly fix the game is to change the entire system of how progression works

Ok.
it was a joke lol
ive never owned 40mil gold lol
So remove anything that cost gold and boom you fixed honing, nice, 
thats a step in the right direction. honing in wow cost 20 gold 
they could make everything material based only
then go play wow?
It's not the same style of game and you've known this for 4 year's.
bussing ppl is peasant money compared to black market sellers and how they earn/funnel gold
but they still need some medium to allow for more flexibility for trading
i am playing it right now

even if trading is locked down, a currency generally always exists in ANY game
good good, enjoy.
yea the problem is structuring the entire game around a single currency
How’s your mount collection going?
not good
in BDO it didnt for the longest so ppl just bought piloting services from 3rd world countries to grind on their accounts 
i dont necessarily think its a problem since we have a lot of other things to collect material wise for upgrades
I just think they need to do a better job with clamping unfairness down through exploitation (including those habits involved wiht it) and let the economy adjust afterwards
raid gold is still the fastest character main gold source on an alt
naw missing the point
dont confuse free/locked down trading with piloting
even if you adjust the economy, the fact that smilegate thinks its okay to create systems that take months to finish is diabolical
BDO had trade locked down since forever, ANY game will always have piloting no matter what
I just did
they're 2 separate things
exactly so it will never be fully fair EVER
are tey even new people?
that doesnt mean we cant have a game that is as close to fair as possible
its a moot point
im not taking about ancient cores
No
or even min maxed astrogems
or just people in the disc who clicked on links
none of the raids require lvl 10 gems

none of the raids require full engravings either
im fine wiht systems taking a while to finish but im also just an old head when it comes to MMOs
i also understand people want more instant gratification
no raid requires cores or level 7 gems. just dont interact with it?
yeah i guess ur right
either direction is fine for all i care
guess what frontier did something right about not needing fking maxed out chars
oh no weirdge
whether ark grid took 1 year or 1 month, wouldnt matter to me personally
guys can't read from lvl 10 gems and maxed engravings which is the majority of the insane gold
Virtually all of those spammers are real people who’ve clicked on a link leading to that discord then got their account hacked by that discord.
your arguement of "dont need it" doesn't mean much. the point of an MMO is to progress
making ur character stronger
guy has never heard of FOMO or whale bait or P2W
Eat my ass bro

i would to memo
yeah idk much about the 'dont need it' part, its a mixed bag of personalities when it comes to that
guy prob has never played a gacha game F2P
do u play
i don't need what i have but i choose because i enjoy capping out progression
Some folks want it 'now', some dont care about the timeframe
Some just settle
all mixed bag
umamusame
Nah
or whatever it's called
FREE YOURSELF FROM GACHAS
Game is too galaxy brain for me
dont u need that weapon and min max STAMINA on subs on gear?!?!?

ive never experiencing systems that took as long as lost ark. then again i come from WoW prior to LA. getting BiS gear may have taken a while, but close to BiS wasn't that time consuming. and you didn't need to do 3 raids on 6 chars a week for that. the combination of it all just makes it feel bad
cos content too hard progression
I quit loa to play more gacha

it's a huge thing in kmmos
like elsword, lost ark, dfo
i know it is
etc.
I’ve been F2P in wuwa for like a week now.
WoW is like the watered down of everything

guy prob never played cabal online dragon nest neverwinter everquest silkroad online lineage etc

no why would i play that when those are all shit lol
opposite for me
BDO and RS took months, sometimes years for some upgrades
truly spoken like an ignorant person
games are shit don't know systems
plays lost ark
wonders why it existed for 30 years

there's a reason why simplicity and not catering to hardcore is a recipe for success
guy legit discovered something that existed for eons
OSRS is a good point, but that's a vastly different category of MMO if you ask me.
i know why it exists
i have 15k hours in the game
Argating in dekaron was the same like honing in loa. But it took way longer to achieve. Dunno why ppl are so lazy nowadays 
dekaron/2moons best mmo!
doesn't matter you just gonna go somewhere else and do the same thing
I mean for the time it was out, it was peak imo 
doesn't even have to be lost ark
i dont bus in WoW
lost ark is just a name
because i dont feel the need too
it sure was, also a korean mmo!
miss deadfront
imagine bussing not existing or piloting account selling existing in wow
or lvling services
etc
Deadfront Best, waiting 20 min with all the groups and have a chat while waiting for peak content, bro I miss those times...
doesn't have a large impact on the game. i play very casually and my main is juiced. you dont need gold to progress in WoW like LA
pretty sure the gold degeneracy is way worse in wow
I mean you are legit talking about 2 different games
Well, imma sleep. Have fun with… whatever you all are talking about. And try to keep it civil.
yes i am takking about two diff games
N8 Bro
good night
wow could learn from LA and LA could learn from wow
just because its two diff games doesnt mean some things cant change and be implemented
... I dont think I want LA to learn anything from wow
damn WoW still hasn't learned after 10 years
how old is that shit game
still didn't perfect it
oh trust me you do. unless you really liked elixirs, transcedence and astrogems
in which case, more power to ya
no one is perfect
I can't wait for the next system they add to lost ark
22 YEARS
thats what bdo turned into
once a week style game
u 'can' grind but dont need to
yeah
even like once human did that
personally i dont mind it cus i dont wanna grind anymore lmao
too old for that
i just like games with simple dailies/weeklies
let me kinda play everything
i play LA/OH/WWM/BDO atm
yea I don't wanna run seasonal nonsense and restart
i can cycle all of it in a healthy manner each week
the restart part is annoying for sure
OH has perma servers btw so its not really a thing
whats OH?
doesnt mean i would want anything wow has
didnt they just get rid of Advanced honing with Serca? i'm scared for whatever comes next
I dont want my purple shit to replaced by blue shit
progression wise you would
no im talking about after serca
combat wise, you wouldnt
just wanted some survival thing and realized the game doesn't even utilize survival as its core
ofc
also advanced honing isnt gone
you need to have finished advanced honing to use the serca mat
no, I do not like wows progression. I do not think it would fit
so no, you are wrong
So you want to do a raid with 20 people but only a few per raids get's something and you have to save up DKP to bid on the meta item you've been waiting for 4 months for?

so u like everything to come from the same raids per week, 3 times per char for months until the next raid?
no other way to progress?
interesting
yea but i believe the base item level is way higher of the neew gear, like AH doesnt show up anymore in the tooltip, hence i thought they removed it
no, wow doesn't really work like that anymore
AH is actually a system i like, regular honing on the other hand
in classic you'd be right tho
it's just baked into the gear afaik after you use the serca mat
but we'll see next week you can just compare base stats before and after
the whole rando loot and not getting gear for months sounds garbo

wait that sounds like doing NM raids and not getting relic cores
yah thankfully that doesnt really exist anymore
So what now? You just play and get loot from derping around? Sounds, unrewarding too.

everyone thought that when they first added advanced honing
and the difference between BiS gear and non BiS gear isn't that massive. can still purple parse+
yea i was one of those people, man i was wrong

ur describing every MMO
if i could put what u said in lost ark words
"you just do kazeros for 3 months and play a clicking simulator" sounds unrewarding"
what I would want is not something wow offers.
and wow is the same in that sense just that you only do it on 1 character.
i think most people would agree that alternative ways to progress is healthy for LA
That's how all RPGs work, you get rewards by engaging with various forms of content- some trivial, some more difficult (with higher reward payouts)
open world content, crafting, etc.
use those rewards to build character
^different stuff usually themed around exploration, crafting, economics, raiding, dungeons or monster grinding
Fun part of wow was raiding with people you knew tho and getting excited for gear, at least when I played 
better than my purples >.>
open world content often boils down to bullshit like just stacking and it being freeloot or pvp shit
I mean, you might be playing clicking simulator since you play OmegaPaladin
Other's have to focus a bit during raid 
and crafting is just a click or time investement most of the time
yes but you still had to do expansion quests / entry-content / dailies for starter gear before immediately jumping to raids
talking about astrogems, honing, etc lol.
im not saying stuff doesnt have its place but im saying that I dont see the point of porting any of that to LA
Sure, but that you also did mostly with people you knew and some puggings,
Oh the good old day's of hardcore wow.
yeah if LA had something like this it'd be great. not saying to change the entire structure but ways for casual to progress outside of raiding is fundamental for long-term growth
I mean people who aren't one-trick-ponies when it comes to just mindless doing LOA Raids also do shit like lifeskilling, stronghold, islands etc.
yeah. it is the small minority but your right
KR team actually acknowledging its needed is a massive step in the right direction
i used to do all that extra stuff
but gave up on them a long time ago

"Non-linear expansion style continent update with various islands, stories, dungeons and explorable areas"
is what they're claiming to be working on
I would do a lot more lifeskills but Busser's ruined the economy for Blue Gem's and now 
right, but will that stuff actually allow you to hone and progress alternative systems without the need to raid. and whats the rate of said progression
thats whats really important

after days I got blue gems for 16k
if they were smart they'd integrate it with Paradise (alternative sources of keys per week etc)
nice
you missed when i posted 30 mins ago, 4k blues were selling for 16k on EUC
sure the prices are up again but hey, I got some
i bought half of it
that would be smart. but paradise also needs a bit of an overhaul
a way to target farm to a degree if you ask me.
and only doing keys will get very old, very quickly
for those who dont want to raid or arent interested in it
that sounds too reliable and opposite to the mass rng strategy everything they have going


yeah its never going to happen lol
oh ofc but it allows them to adjust material rates as a whole instead of just saying “fuck it” and ripping out sources because there’s too many to manage at once
they will just continue the same old strategy they always have
what would be really nice is actually implementing flex raiding. or some LFR type content
Well yeah have to keep the gacha model somewhat active- especially since Korea has specifically pushed the game away from long but fixed grinds it originally had
That looks to be a stretch-goal they’re working on whilst there’s this break period
Give us option to rest a week's worth of raid and get double next week 
YEEEES
damn i wish
i mean they have LFR built into the game already and they removed it
They discussed flex raids with “mercenary players” as an idea in a dev stream showing a mockup but nothing announced
If they did it
oh lord.
You have a bad week? You're sick? You don't have time? No worries, chill this week.

that's one thing i miss about old mmos`s, going mia for a few weeks then come back and grind my butt off, none of the weekly lockout BS
They replaced rehearsal with solo and normal. Normal is now entry-point for group. Solo gives you bare minimum expectations
well this wouldnt be bad in lost ark but the problem is the catchup systems never are enough
i could step away for an entire season in wow, come back and catch up in like 2-3 weeks in terms of item level
cant do that in lost ark
Problem is solo comes way too late so you’re overlevelled by the time it drops and normal/hard community has power scaled past all relevant mechanics that you’d apply solo experience to
imagine how many more alt accounts there would be

well, that goes back to making gold less important
and not embedded into every single little thing
weekly lock big reason for that. catch-up has the same time-delay as regular endgame
weekly lockouts are fine
this is why i made a 2nd roster on different server
the problem is if you want to step away from the hamsteer wheel of LA for a while
for older content tho :L
I'd rather they just work on the system we have and making them better, cube should only drop relic on top-end cube for one 
i mean to be fair you could step away right now and be good to go for whatever they add 6 months from now
like, do Legion Raids need locks at this point? (make them drop bound gold)
it wouldnt be a bad idea to make older content infinitely repeatable for progression until a certain bracket is reached
its all bound anyways
exactly
also gets new players experienced with combat mechs
talking about all the things that will never happen
my expectations for this summer loaon are on the floor too
People said solo raids would never happen
just going to show a new class and raid


They’re guaranteed to show Sea of Aldebaran
what on earth happen in march? that it scared soo many ppl away
Roxx and Henry being fired
that didn't look good for sure
And most mods in official leaving discord
completely understandable
oh right, that did happen, LA future kinda uncertain
Meyham as well
they see roxx and henry gone, serca a pushover mostly, the abyss dungeon is a pushover too
nothing really to look forward to
im not surprised people quit
oh also new abyssal dunngeon in KR that dropped in march looked super EZ, so ppl dont feel the neeed to play and push even more
Heaven forbid a game be fun instead of cbt
now i wonder how much lower those numbers are past fridays, if you remove alt accounts
Serca nightmare a pushover?
all my static runs are done by thursday and half of em dont log on till next reset
The lack of any “Hey Serca will let you earn gear at 1710” is probably going to generate further fomo burnout
i mean once you learn the patterns, yeah? for a geared party and not rats
talking like a 5k+ main
So, any raids?
Serca is a mistake and im shocked they are doing it this way lol
well any raid you’re in :3
They changed it
how so
For RU and Us
i dont recall any change
i mean yes but serca is also just not complicated
Any raid filled with "Knows patterns and is not a rat" is just, homework raid.
You need to hit 1730 to craft new gear but you can earn the materials at 1710
but u cant transfer until 1730 right?
fully adv honed?
yeah this is actually a nice change i didnt expect
yea see thats stupid. let people transfer at 1710 to take advantage of better honing odds
thats my take
You still get materials, gold and Grid cores the same. It’s also the same material rate of doing Hard without buying boxes
of course but they to balance ratshit KR rosters and our version
they are handing you a beautiful salad for this change
but the salad still has shit in it
W

yeah. if only they didnt approach things from that perspective
**Our steak still costs $50 but we also get unlimited breadsticks
Whelp that’s the dogshit market segmentation strategy we’re stuck with.
As an Australian that consumes primarily US media/platforms- I’m used to it
a good example of a company who acknowledges degen behavior like RMT, but doesn't limit the game because of it is PoE
the devs words were actuallt SS tier
when he spoke about it
maybe its a new zealand thing
but they are smart
its a GGG thing
Less runaway corporate greed + not being part of a publicly listed company
is smilegate publicly listed?
i didnt know that if so lol
we gonna need band-aid solutions for ark grid soon for new players, like we had with elixirs handing free 40 sets out, gap in both CP & actual power to big
yep
and the catchup would need to be insane lol
since it cost too much
idk either but the parent company Smilegate as a whole conducts itself as if it is
your calling stash tabs pay to win
xdddddd
You have to pay no?
You objectivly can't trade unless you have one.

you can. you just cant instant trade
the way to trade is something people forgot and its kinda annoying though
I love POE don't get me wrong, but their nicle and dime on QOL is disgusting
they make plenty already and to charge for shit like Charge tab or "Currency tab" after they've made the 50'th unique shit is just, meeh.
not saying poe is perfect. they just have a good dev mentaility
theres a reason why its called path of economy
i just dont agree with tabs being pay to win
So you, can't.
Unless they changed it,
since no one trades using chat or something, 99,99% of trade is Trade-Site + Stash Tabs.
thats a misconception
you always could
pretty sure u did since some people filter out that chat
you can list your stuff on the trade site without a premium tab
Ye, the 0,01% of people I guess.
monetising convenience was always preferable to monetising the direct gameplay experience loop
Monetising skins like League is true peak.
also, lets say it is pay to win. it's a one time purchase
Let's be real.
Anything else is either being a scumbag or something else 
lets be honest about that at least
League is a match based game. Any character progress is over once a round finishes. It’s apples to oranges despite everyone comparing every fucking arpg to it.
there's levels to it. and in this era, monetizing stash tabs, cosmetics and nothing else. is extremely tame compared to 99.9% of games
I mean at the end of the day you dictate what game is fun to you and what your own enjoyment is in a video game
There’s no need to store character data, host large databases of inventory storage, guilds, mounts, open maps, npc dialogue trees etc. that require significantly more development costs
Considering the huge cosmetic shop POE has, and the amount of people I saw with it, I think It's safe to assume they could have easily had the lights on and more with that same model.
see my last message
i dont even play PoE. maybe once every few leagues if the league looks cool.
i just like where there head is at
Ok, wow also has that and they didn't charge you irl gold for bank stash tab's did they? Or to access Auction 
with there mentality
Either way's, they already are making a ton from cosmetic.
Why not just stick to that 
WoW wasn’t F2P
PoE not having convenient trading without having stash tabs was super annoying
the fact that you can't even sell conveniently without P2W is insane
i rememebr GGG answering a question someone asked. it was something like "with how bad RMT is, can you remove the player trading in the game" and he responded basically saying "we wont remove trading because RMT exists, we dont want to limit our players due to bad actors" basically
it was a W response
It became It 
yea thats why PoE economy is always dogshit after 2 weeks
I mean collective punishment is always a shit decision. It just dissuades honest player conduct
yeah i agree zero, but if u remove player trading, you remove a massive part of the game
and by implementing road blocks, you end up limiting a large part of your honest audience
look how well "Trusted" works in lost ark
it does fucking nothing lmao
idk if u removed trading in lost ark you basically kill the game
“If I’m going go be punished for someone else taking advantage of an exploit/poor-conduct regardless, why not also take part?”
This is why If you play POE.
You play SSF 
remove the auction house and the game is dead
It dies in Korea frfr

no what im saying is if GGG implemented road blocks to "limit bad actors", it hinders your honest audience
like LA, they implemented trusted status
which is ass
and its proven to do absolutely nothing positive for the game
lbh
yeah its terrible
the amount of messages in here about how to get trusted status, how long it takes
I mean if they removed trade in PoE its just SSF
just one example of punishing your entire audience because of bots
and the majority of PoE players aren't SSF
so you still cater to your majority of ur audience
well they know there audience, which is what is important
i think thats just a loud minority that you see. i dont believe most players are rice farmers lol
I’m just here to play the fucking game man
also depends on what ur definition of rice farmers are
We aren’t KR
KR believes in the ideology of "game investments" and equating that to IRL currency
the west on the other hand
dont give a fuck about that
because the majority of ppl that play just mimick another region
everything is just being echo chambered in discord/reddit anyways
**80% of gold came from below 1700 when their playerbase had an average of 1750 as their main characters.
KR is obsessed with funnelling and honing main
well NA does look the same because its smilegate who makes the rules and systems.
nah we play 6 man rosters, while alot of KR does not
you would think after publishing the game in so many diff regions
they would learn there lesson
that not everyone likes what KR likes
NA/EU disproved it when not only UwUOwO showed consistently pushed rosters but also Paradise leading to full rosters pushing above 1700
T3 was the golden age of alts, yeah.
Bitch it’s 5pm
yea except NA is insanely RMT rampant
but the cost of maintaining alts in T4 is the same in every region. its a bit easier for us because of continious events
I MAKING NUGGETS
kinda insane that bunch of streamers are RMTers



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