1st of all i understand this is a suggestion but no attention is paid to that section so im putting it here....
how many people have lost birthday buff due to game glitch? im not talking they got killed or canceled i mean they jus lost the buff for no reason on log out or something...
ive heard of this happening on a regular basis and the solution always seems to be a 1/2 job by the GMs. 12hr vita buff cant be replaced by a handful of vita pops and called good... it doesnt even come close. i mean really how hard is it to figure out how to put a vita buff back on a toon? if gm can give out hour long cov etc. youd think they could give out any buff.
so anyway, since they cant work that out.
i suggest removing the bday buff system and giving out a 12 hour 300% XP Talisman.
1st of all you could equip or unequip allowing you to do oly,siege,etc. w/o killing time on your bday prize.
you wouldnt be able to lose it via game bug and you wouldnt have to worry about being hero pole griefed, killed by lag w/o noble blah blah etc.
normal vit would work w/ the rune but not stack on top of it so you could get 600% xp for a short time or play for a hour each day at 600% allowing alts to actually benefit from the bday prize
personally i dont care to much about vita but its only fair if you are handing out a prize and most people get a 12 hour buff that a handfull of people shouldnt get shafted w/ about 50% that amount of xp w/ vita pops
also it would be nice if you could get your bday talisman to appear in WH like the halloween transforms or chronos... that way they jus show up. people wouldnt have to write down all thier toons birthdays or remeber them all they could jus log on and access thier prize.
I hear ya. When my bday came around it wouldnt even let me get it. I got 8 vita pops, which is better than nothing but still a big loss.
There would have to be something in place like you'd have to have your vita back to 100% full to re-equip.... or you vita is frozen at current level while wearing but still get the 300% bonus.
They should also come automatically. If its a bday gift it should be given, not sought.
Umm a BD talisman is cool but if im not wrong theres not a NO grade/D grade bracelet to use it so people would get screwed at low lvls. Maybe if they did something like that agation that buffs vitality, or maybe a rune that stays at the inventory...
Umm a BD talisman is cool but if im not wrong theres not a NO grade/D grade bracelet to use it so people would get screwed at low lvls. Maybe if they did something like that agation that buffs vitality, or maybe a rune that stays at the inventory...
Playing a year and still being Dgrader, he would need more then a bithdaybuff to get to Cgrade :D
But you are right, a Birthday Agation with a timelimit that fades away when summoned would be a good I guess.
But i kinda like my birthday buff also at it is :D
i wonder what will happen after 1 year passes since introduction of birthday system ...
will we receive second similar hat? will vit buff remain? technically it's also a present and presents supposed to be different .. so maybe they will change buff for something else too.
Umm a BD talisman is cool but if im not wrong theres not a NO grade/D grade bracelet to use it so people would get screwed at low lvls. Maybe if they did something like that agation that buffs vitality, or maybe a rune that stays at the inventory...
Who is still NoGrade/DGrade when they get there BD buff?
i know a couple of shop toons, who are level 2 and over 1 year old...
LOL ... very true ... also I liked it when I got my birthday buff, white screened, logged back in and gone...wooooo! Petitioned and they asked what quest I was referring too...but nevertheless ...
if they add it as a talisman, it would be a 24 hours birthday buff, cause u just need to equip it when u down to vit 3 to refill your vita
So a better way to implement it would be a birthday box with a talisman inside, you open the box and instantly gives you vit level 4 and starts counting down. It doesn't count down when you log off.
OR...
12 vitality scrolls that give you a vitality buff for 59 minutes.
i wonder what will happen after 1 year passes since introduction of birthday system ...
will we receive second similar hat? will vit buff remain? technically it's also a present and presents supposed to be different .. so maybe they will change buff for something else too.
one of my characters has had the birthday buff almost 10 months.
no .. f.ex. i made a few level 40 chars on all available slots for cubic. some of them I intend to xp some day later, those classes i have not played yet. for example there's a bish i am going to get to 74 for 90% rez. stuff like that.
but its not a problem since you can get to 40 really fast, all you need is PoWind and S+ grade 150 attributed blunt or fist. you can solo all RBs lower than 40 and it takes about 10 of them (did not count, probably less) to get from 20 to 40. SE should be nearby to rez u when you die and rebuff PoW and noble... lowbie RBs are not farmed much nowadays so you don't even have to wait for them too long. takes me about 3 hours from 20 to 40. if it's a mage then it should be leecher with another char of fighter class killing though, so it will take a bit more time.
Just get rid of that buff already. Then we wont see the ppl crying about how they missed picking it up on their main, and now they are so sad that they might quit the game.
Ppl need to realize that you can actually lvl a char even with no vit.
Just get rid of that buff already. Then we wont see the ppl crying about how they missed picking it up on their main, and now they are so sad that they might quit the game.
Ppl need to realize that you can actually lvl a char even with no vit.
BS! Screen-shot or it never happened... :P
yes i understood the 40- problem when i wrote it, but if your 40- you shouldnt need vit... the B-Day Rune was my original idea but since runes inherently count down while logged off i went w/ talisman wich would require no change in the mechanics of said item...
to smittie i agree... but at this point they wont get rid of it. my suggestion is jus to simplify the process and make it more effective. i really hate the vita events, to me more xp isnt really a prize but hey...
i do not mind the Bday system since its not a server wide event that messes up gameplay. if they got rid of vita i would still xp the same way and at about 90% the same speed.
Well the talisman is a really nice idea :) .So how about players getting the talisman AND a D-grade bracelet, only with which you can use the vit talisman, and nothing else?
As it is true that one can level a char without vit, pls do answer me how long will it take for a regular guy(meaning - 2-3 hrs of play per day) to go 80? Hell, even 76...And I mean all legit n stuff(also no OE weps and OOP buffers).
Just get rid of that buff already. Then we wont see the ppl crying about how they missed picking it up on their main, and now they are so sad that they might quit the game.
Ppl need to realize that you can actually lvl a char even with no vit.
It's added in the game by the developers saying oh just screw it don't cry if it messes up is ridiculous. they wanted it in the game and you deserve it that's why it's there.
Nobody cried saying they can't level without vitality, just they wanted what was suppossed to be given to their character.
76 is pretty easy because of noob buffs. I think depending on time you put in, 1-3 months. Getting to 80 without buffers or parties will be extremely slow; it can be done in herb solo areas but it won't be very fast, and it also depends on what class you have (a good DD melee class will be able to go almost anywhere and can get the best xp; all other classes will be limited either by where they can go or just not doing a lot of damage).
Good parties in a good clan you could get 76-80 in 3 - 6 more months, perhaps. Getting to 79 is pretty fast still. Getting through 79 is the hard part, and the xp after that is only the same and then worse. Typical legit xping 1-3 hours will be getting 0.5-1%, maybe 1.5%, at 79+. That's 3-6 months per level. So, maybe really fast 4 months 1 to 80 or 9 months if you are really consistent but don't do more than 2 hours/day (3 months 1-76, 3 months 76-79, 3 months 79-80).
L2 is very long term game. I get about 0.8% or so per hour at my usual solo spot, but that's aoeing, with pretty good gear and mostly oop buffs (I'll xp my SE if she has vit). That's 125 hours/level or just over 2 months at 2 hours per day, but not everyone can even get 0.8% per hour so allow 3 months. But it will get even slower at higher levels. So to anyone who starts L2, be prepared to invest at least 9 months before getting to a decent level (80 or 81 for most classes). Yes, it's a long time, and a lot of people aren't patient enough for it, which is why there is a big problem with cheating in this game.
On another note, Pets are really good stand alone buffers, well worth leveling if you really don't ever intend to make a second buffer account, they will suck some of your xp, but they will buff and heal or recharge you pretty well all the way to 85.
Well the talisman is a really nice idea :) .So how about players getting the talisman AND a D-grade bracelet, only with which you can use the vit talisman, and nothing else?
As it is true that one can level a char without vit, pls do answer me how long will it take for a regular guy(meaning - 2-3 hrs of play per day) to go 80? Hell, even 76...And I mean all legit n stuff(also no OE weps and OOP buffers).
about 1.5 times longer than it would take w/ vita...
if you xp properly your vita should be gone after about a hour, 2 hours at the most.... that leave 1-2 hours out of the 2-3 that your xping w/ 0% vita... on top of that your at 300% and 250% for a very short time. the bulk of your vita gives 200% xp and the 150% last no time.
the more you xp w/o vita the less vita means...
question: Why do you wanna get to 80+ if you only play 2-3 hours?
most of the fun high lvl PVE content takes more than 2 hours to get set up and complete less your super organized and if your super organized it has to be assumed that more than 2-3 hours of play has gone into getting that way.
PVP is kinda hard to log on and find a good pvp in a short period of time... specially w/ the small # of pvpers on most servers. playing 2-3 hours a day even w/ the vita systems isnt going to let you compete w/ even a legit person that plays say 5 hours a day.
so i guess i really dont see what you want your lvls for... if you play the game just to grind on normal mobs for a couple hours w/ friends then its the same @ lvl 20 as it is @ lvl 80.
about 1.5 times longer than it would take w/ vita...
if you xp properly your vita should be gone after about a hour, 2 hours at the most.... that leave 1-2 hours out of the 2-3 that your xping w/ 0% vita... on top of that your at 300% and 250% for a very short time. the bulk of your vita gives 200% xp and the 150% last no time.
the more you xp w/o vita the less vita means...
question: Why do you wanna get to 80+ if you only play 2-3 hours?
most of the fun high lvl PVE content takes more than 2 hours to get set up and complete less your super organized and if your super organized it has to be assumed that more than 2-3 hours of play has gone into getting that way.
PVP is kinda hard to log on and find a good pvp in a short period of time... specially w/ the small # of pvpers on most servers. playing 2-3 hours a day even w/ the vita systems isnt going to let you compete w/ even a legit person that plays say 5 hours a day.
so i guess i really dont see what you want your lvls for... if you play the game just to grind on normal mobs for a couple hours w/ friends then its the same @ lvl 20 as it is @ lvl 80.
First off, I never said it was me who played 2-3 hours per day, but a regular person(who likes to go out, rest after work, and have some other type of fun).
I added the last part due to what Smittie said about not needing vit to lvl.As to what you said, yes, it is true and I can't rly deny it(not to mention I don't wanna bother meself coming up with a counter-argument).
All those things like upping a lil bit the exp from rbs, kama, quests n all can help those who play less.
Coz really, not everyone in this game can afford to play over 5 hours every day just to be on par with most players.
As to what I want, plainly put-it's fun.As long as I enjoy myself, I don't rly care for the rest :) .