So whats your thoughts on the new "Improvements" on wizard enchanting essence?

[Fortybox]

Huh. It's not often that I am in-game more than 6-8 hours a week.

I guess the changes make slightly more sense for a certain design paradigm, but it throws the more casual players completely under the bus.

That’s the point, it’s completely architected from a P2W perspective.

Simu doesn’t care about low level wizard essence - they can’t do much other than simple projects. Restricting both essence overall and further restricting the capped audience means more opportunities to sell enchanting services.

It’s really that simple.

[Maerit]

Said bitching got results.



People got shit to do!

Especially people who like to log in their other characters.



Glad Naos pulled his head out of his ass with the node thing though. That was the dumbest part about this whole thing.

Can't disagree with anything said here! My 2nd wizard (the pure one) will see how it goes tomorrow when lumnis resets. Hopefully he'll be faster than my warmage!

[Maerit]

That’s the point, it’s completely architected from a P2W perspective.

Simu doesn’t care about low level wizard essence - they can’t do much other than simple projects. Restricting both essence overall and further restricting the capped audience means more opportunities to sell enchanting services.

It’s really that simple.

I mean, I want to agree with you, but the design of new-style 925 is in complete opposition to your statement. This promotes player enchanting way more than premium enchanting because with old-style there were so many restrictions on what could be enchanted. Anything with CAT B that wasn't an elemental flare, or anything with a Bane was off limits.

That's:
- Defender
- Acuity, mana, non-elemental flares, etc
- TD Bonus
- Temporary padding / resistance
- Anything with resistances
- All the banes
- Lots more things!!

There's a massive list of things that just weren't even possible for an old-style enchanting wizard. I don't agree with a lot that Simu does, especially with how much they're promoting unregulated online casinos that prey on the weakest willed players. However, this change to 925 (new style vs old style) definitely flies in the face of your theory that they want to sell more paid enchanting services...

And 8x-10x was always a premium service. You always had to obtain 8x-10x potions through some pay event, premium points, or via a merchant / HESS. There was no way for players to do these without it being paid for in some way beyond in-game mechanics...

[audioserf]

Yeah. I don't like everything about how they changed 925 (mainly how poorly organized the entire effort has been from start to now, which we cannot possibly call 'finished' because you know more changes will happen) but I don't think it's P2W geared at all. If they bring back enchant certs at HESS, I'll change my tune.

[Murrandii]

Ok, again.

1) It's LONGER to cap essence if you are not a minmaxer (;bigshot, go to node, get essence, back and repeat). Who are those people? Already self sufficient players. THOSE WILL BENEFIT FROM IT. (and they ALREADY try to maximize anything, so for them it's beneficial EVEN IF IT'S LONGER TO CAP)

2) Since it'S LONGER, Simu's putting MORE grind to the 925. Effect: People won't bother trying to cap. THOSE ARE SHAFTED FROM IT. THESE PEOPLE ARE LEFT IN LIMBO!

3) SPECULATIVE SOLUTION: enchant certs will cover it.

point 1 is understood for the dedicated players. They are NOT negativaly impacted besides reasons such as: waste of code dev, could had dev something else. Stuff

point 2 is the NORMAL reaction from most casual players: Shrug it off, I'll pay cause I don't have time if simu is giving me the opportunity to do so.

point 3 is EXPECTED behavior of SIMU: they put more grinding to an already fucked up feature and will gladly use luxelle and milax to promote the mitigation ($)

[Sighisoara]

never gonna stop LOL'ing at this spell, honestly, it's so Simu

1-Release update to spell that wasn't broken that nobody was complaining about
2-The update is clearly un-tested and not ready for production with formulas that are super out of whack and even the GMs are having a hard time articulating what's supposed to be going on
3-Rush out an 'update' that sucks perhaps even more dick than the first one, EXTREMELY begrudgingly permit players to remain on the old system since you know your new one is buns
4-Dick around with wild formulas with like weird arrows and squiggles and shit while going 'I am so smart, I am so smart, S M R T' to yourself and condescending on discord
5-Release another update and a fixskill, with as convoluted an explanation of how the spell works as ever there was

This company has the opportunity to take a straight line from A to B and never does and instead turn every dev piece into a maze on the back of a McDonalds placemat, except they take a shit on it instead of using the provided crayons

I would just like to take a moment to acknowledge that this is quite possibly the greatest post in PC history.

[Realk]

I think the current closest thread like that is the rescue raise service on teras thread.