As someone who has played this game from the start I guess I just dont understand why such systemic problems remain in this game. A lot has been done over the 6 ... I guess I'll call them chronicles since open beta began to improve the game. Yet such glaring inconsistencies remain that it boggles the mind. Already faced with the fact that c5 is going to make my tyrant unplayable I decided to finish up a project which I began some time ago today. Open beta, prelude, chronicles 1 through 4, and still there is no 1 hand blunt for mages above middle C. If you're a warcryer and you want to use the only weapon which a warcryer should be using, and you want A grade, you have to overenchant a nirvana axe to +8. Otherwise you cannot have A grade. Or B grade for that matter as there are no 1 hand mage blunts in B grade either. Some time ago I had gotten my axe to +7, so today instead of having a +8 I have nothing. I have no tyrant to play as the class will be totally worthless in C5, and now I have no weapon for my warcryer.
Both of these issues point to the real problem. The problem being the disconnect between ncsoft and the player base. So many things point to this same issue. There are some bots I have appealed both in game and on the support web site repeatedly, yet I still see them in game. The player base wants bots removed, yet they dont. The player base wants A grade helmets which dont REQUIRE buying adena on the internet to afford. Yet nothing is provided. Ncsoft clearly has no interest in retaining their non script run player base.
So personally I'm left with a choice I guess. I have a 62 tyrant that I've played for two years who will be unplayable in C5. And still has no SA on her weapon as there is not a single SA above middle C worth the cost of adding to a weapon until you hit A grade. And since the bots farm all the raid bosses there is no way to get a crystal stage 11+ short of paying as much as the cost of a weapon, TO A BOT. Which personally I wont do. Or I have a 62 warcryer with no weapon and no hope of getting an A grade weapon unless I can get a +8 nirvana axe, which is nearly impossible. And since B grade polearms have complete garbage for SAs, my 52 warlord is in the same predicament. If I want a B grade weapon I need at least a +6 orcish poleaxe as any polearm without wide blow is complete garbage. What do I do? Do I keep playing? I dont buy adena on the internet, I cannot replace the 70 mil in equipment that evaporated today. And now none of my characters have a weapon except the tyrant which is pointless to play. It just doesn't seem reasonable to play a game that isn't fun not due to the game, but due to the fact that nukers and archers are ncsoft's babies and unless you play one you have an inferior gaming experience. AND the company doesn't care. YEARS for them to give tyrant weapons SAs that aren't total garbage, to make 1h blunts above middle C, yet still I wait. That's the real issue. Not that there are blatantly obvious problems in the game that have been there for 3 years. But that ncsoft doesn't care.
**** Falsehood I thought you quit already. It's no one's fault but your own that you blew something up without being able to replace it. Oh and +1 before lock.
Some time ago I had gotten my axe to +7, so today instead of having a +8 I have nothing. I have no tyrant to play as the class will be totally worthless in C5, and now I have no weapon for my warcryer.
Explain how this is NCSoft's fault? Didn't you know there was a chance it would go kafloowee?
yeah Im the first to agree this game has a lot of issues that will seemingly never be fixed.
I would also even venture to say that the game makes everything ridiculously hard. And nearly impossible for a legit player (aside from playing the market and making money off non-legit players, thus reproving my point)
I would say that the game leaves everything to chance, and legit players are often forced to gamble away what little wealth they have made for themselves.
But I think ellie is correct that you don't OE something without a backup. And if you can't afford to, you don't OE. Yes I agree having a C grade weapon being the highest mage blunt is moronic of NC (although there will be many mage blunts in C5). And I think its puts players in a bad position. But NC isn't forcing your hand. I think +4 on duals would be a better example of forced OEing.
yeah and switching weapons is teh suck. He has blunt masteries and stuns that work with blunts. But blunts don't give him the matk he wants.
I understand his predicament. If NC didn't want there to be 1 handed mage blunts. Then he would deal with it, he wouldswitch weapons, or wouldn't stun, or whatever. The problem is they add 1 C grade 1h mage blunt, and nothing for higher grades.
So its kind of a tease. And makes you really want to OE your weapon.
But in my opinion that is where his problem ends. He has an issue with NC not adding at least one of each weapon type in each grade.
But I think he went overboard when he starts going off on other game problems (not that he doesn't have a point), and the fact that he broke his axe, when he knew the consequences.
But I do understand his desire to maintain his mage blunt into higher levels.