Hello I started this thread concerned about the decisions taken by the publisher regarding the Legendary Dungeons. First of all, after the recent (MAJOR) nerfs to L1 everyone who can clear The Breach H5 should be able to complete at least L1 on all three dungeons. Some might need different approaches (like Carleon) but it is nothing that can't be overcame with a bit of communication and dedication.
Back to the subject, once somebody reaches Lv. 40 and gets his Supreme Commander Set after a few Breach runs/World Boss Killing/ Auction House Buying (with a fixed stat its easy to get decent gear) he starts asking himself what can he do next? Well there are a couple of answers here:
1)Seal your gear with Heroics->Go to some Parna Mark Pinatas (Parna's WB) get some marks, Buy the mark/sealstone on AH
2)Get all familiars->Highlands/Parna are easy enough to get because the heroics drop from the Pinatas we call "World Bosses"; Boom!!! You want to tame Rift Heroics; You go get the recipe for 2 gold and notice you need a lot of stuff including a couple thousands FAMILIAR ORBS; So you go on a grinding spree of lavalight/carleon/matren/cov etc. for 2 weeks to get your orbs for all the familiar marks (which you will most likely fail but anyway that's not the point).
3)Get even better and run the High-End pve content which at the moment is (Attaius/Tranua/Legendary Dungeons). So you grab a couple of friends and start running legendary dungeons on L1,2 etc. looking for the fabled Karasha Armor Pieces. Kill first boss and see loot like this :
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DISCLAIMER: Party members had agreed to have their name shown
You finish the dungeon and the loot is still disappointing. Low gold from monster and loot worse than most H5 dungeons but they are way harder. You run a couple more and notice the same loot over and over again. Then you start asking youself "Why do i do this exactly"? I can get more gold from running Heroic dungeons and more familiar orbs aswell. Then the answer hits you: "FOR THE DAILY COIN, I CAN CRAFT MY OWN KARASHA ITEMS". So you go see the recipe (10 coins a pop for the armor pieces) weapon 17 and shield/crest 7-8(can't remember cuz i'm dumb). Well 4-5 days for a armor piece that's ok-ish will keep me busy till next patch. You need karasha pure souls aswell. Its a daily and you need quite a bunch of em to craft a piece. And.....Magic...Dragon...Essences.
Changing the tone here. Nexon releases major patches (as in level upgrade and new regions) once every 2 months-ish and with a "big update" each month. So hardcore players will burn the content and then have nothing to do and start whining on forums/take a break/ or straight out quit. The way Karasha Gear was initially designed was a great idea to get players busy but it was broken by the western porting team for some reason.The way it was originally designed was that you HAVE to get the gear in steps so you can't rush it AT ALL.
Step 1)Run Legendary->Get coins(At 3 coins per day(you only get 2 feathers remember))->you need 60ish coins to get all the recipes. That is 20 days and because Karasha Pure Soul IS BOUND there is no cutting corners. YOU HAVE TO farm your own recipes.
Step 2)Get Karasha Pure soul fragment->1 a day-> need a lot for the recipe(and the best part THE CRAFT CAN FAIL) so you don't know how many you will need to get a complete set.
Step 3) Get Magic Dragon Essences. Well we pretty much stop here. Drop rate is so awfull there are less than 20 on the whole server(Koroshimo).
So there is no way for a player to progress naturally right now. You just hope the RNG gods smile upon you and maybe get a Karasha item somehow (Raids usually).
So what will this lead to? Hardcore players that spend money and care the most about your game will end up saying....I will just log in for daily rewards because i already have the recipes and can't craft anything. The moment they say that the won't spend another dime on your game until a patch fixes the issues they have.
As a ending point about the loot: The Crafting on the Karasha Gear is limited by a daily quest. There is no need to make an ingredient impossible to find (Magic Dragon Essences) because that will frustrate players because they aren't progressing in any way. If you get a craft and fail you get mad and try again. If you actually succeed you want the next piece. But if u can't do either why bother? Just wait till you can.
Thank you for reading my rant, I hope some official sees it. I wanna see your opinions aswell.
Back to the subject, once somebody reaches Lv. 40 and gets his Supreme Commander Set after a few Breach runs/World Boss Killing/ Auction House Buying (with a fixed stat its easy to get decent gear) he starts asking himself what can he do next? Well there are a couple of answers here:
1)Seal your gear with Heroics->Go to some Parna Mark Pinatas (Parna's WB) get some marks, Buy the mark/sealstone on AH
2)Get all familiars->Highlands/Parna are easy enough to get because the heroics drop from the Pinatas we call "World Bosses"; Boom!!! You want to tame Rift Heroics; You go get the recipe for 2 gold and notice you need a lot of stuff including a couple thousands FAMILIAR ORBS; So you go on a grinding spree of lavalight/carleon/matren/cov etc. for 2 weeks to get your orbs for all the familiar marks (which you will most likely fail but anyway that's not the point).
3)Get even better and run the High-End pve content which at the moment is (Attaius/Tranua/Legendary Dungeons). So you grab a couple of friends and start running legendary dungeons on L1,2 etc. looking for the fabled Karasha Armor Pieces. Kill first boss and see loot like this :
DISCLAIMER: Party members had agreed to have their name shown
You finish the dungeon and the loot is still disappointing. Low gold from monster and loot worse than most H5 dungeons but they are way harder. You run a couple more and notice the same loot over and over again. Then you start asking youself "Why do i do this exactly"? I can get more gold from running Heroic dungeons and more familiar orbs aswell. Then the answer hits you: "FOR THE DAILY COIN, I CAN CRAFT MY OWN KARASHA ITEMS". So you go see the recipe (10 coins a pop for the armor pieces) weapon 17 and shield/crest 7-8(can't remember cuz i'm dumb). Well 4-5 days for a armor piece that's ok-ish will keep me busy till next patch. You need karasha pure souls aswell. Its a daily and you need quite a bunch of em to craft a piece. And.....Magic...Dragon...Essences.
Changing the tone here. Nexon releases major patches (as in level upgrade and new regions) once every 2 months-ish and with a "big update" each month. So hardcore players will burn the content and then have nothing to do and start whining on forums/take a break/ or straight out quit. The way Karasha Gear was initially designed was a great idea to get players busy but it was broken by the western porting team for some reason.The way it was originally designed was that you HAVE to get the gear in steps so you can't rush it AT ALL.
Step 1)Run Legendary->Get coins(At 3 coins per day(you only get 2 feathers remember))->you need 60ish coins to get all the recipes. That is 20 days and because Karasha Pure Soul IS BOUND there is no cutting corners. YOU HAVE TO farm your own recipes.
Step 2)Get Karasha Pure soul fragment->1 a day-> need a lot for the recipe(and the best part THE CRAFT CAN FAIL) so you don't know how many you will need to get a complete set.
Step 3) Get Magic Dragon Essences. Well we pretty much stop here. Drop rate is so awfull there are less than 20 on the whole server(Koroshimo).
So there is no way for a player to progress naturally right now. You just hope the RNG gods smile upon you and maybe get a Karasha item somehow (Raids usually).
So what will this lead to? Hardcore players that spend money and care the most about your game will end up saying....I will just log in for daily rewards because i already have the recipes and can't craft anything. The moment they say that the won't spend another dime on your game until a patch fixes the issues they have.
As a ending point about the loot: The Crafting on the Karasha Gear is limited by a daily quest. There is no need to make an ingredient impossible to find (Magic Dragon Essences) because that will frustrate players because they aren't progressing in any way. If you get a craft and fail you get mad and try again. If you actually succeed you want the next piece. But if u can't do either why bother? Just wait till you can.
Thank you for reading my rant, I hope some official sees it. I wanna see your opinions aswell.