I'd like to go on the record that I, as a solo player who enjoys people but hates team hunts, have no chance in hell of keeping up with the rest of the community. I love the pace, and I absolutely love the changes, but I'd love to see some sort of penalty put on team hunters just because I'm spiteful. Perhaps increase the healing if you hunt solo but put a healing penalty if you're in a party (for those who like to party up and have 3 healers and make their team able to hunt things that were unrealistic to even TRY before the healing was nerfed even).
I mean, it is great if you have friends here and are in a guild and can hunt with other people, but the current situation is a nightmare for all the new players I meet. The majority are manual players (<3 manual players) and they are unnecessarily grinding and trying to find any monsters that the plethora of spellbook bots missed by chance. It is kind of sad really, I kind of am getting a little exhausted of the community just because I cannot even show a new player around without having to look in 6 different spots before I find one where there are monsters to kill. I have no problem with being a noob, but I really would like to show off the better qualities of the server instead of having to say "Yeah, there is a lot of bots running around here. You just kind of have to work around them and try to not follow the same waypoints they are going in."
That and I wish there was a damn site. I want to make a couple guides so I don't have to constantly tell the same crap to every new player and then have to walk them all over the map to show them what everything does/is. I don't HAVE to do it, but I really want people to see just how awesome and unique this server is. If I could just point them to a few guides/basic overview links for the server (I'm willing to make them, I r gud @ engrish) then I would save myself a little bit of trouble. The current situation is just killing any ambitions I have left to even bother with trying to help out new players.
I too have the same feeling, I have been working out some ways to deal with this. Many perks are unused because willpower is so necessary. Also the healing system was really cool for a bit and did promote team hunting but it really makes it hard to solo.
Some things I am planning on doing:
Reduce soul cost/increase amount healed for self healing spells (or both I'm not sure)
Increase the effectiveness of numerous perks so they are more appealing.
Add basic health and mana potions to the shop for people who do not want to sit and pick flowers all day.
Reduce the armor penalty of most enhancement spells so they are more useful. (atm it just makes you die faster than you already do)
I have also been playing with the armor formulas, making armor a bit more effective and making power give a bit more base damage. The idea is to make players less susceptible to damage from monsters but reduce the effect in pvp as much as possible. A side effect is a bit more damage which seems to be another problem with solo hunting anyway.
I don't understand why youre not doing anything about this t6-t7 stalagmite...
We've been hunting wyrms for a good 2 weeks now given no information on whether or not youre either going to be adding in the jungle or fixing pirates/quaras.
Yes... wyrms were meant for lvl 600 but we've been hunting them since level 300, the OT isn't the same it was before the wipe... wyrms are suitable for lvl 300s now.
This isn't old news, we've been bitching about it for awhile now and you always just wipe it off this is getting ridiculous.
We could be hunting pirates if you didn't have that stupid ass team split up after the boat crashes. You make the OT impossible unless you hunt in teams and then you throw in a team split up to get to the next area after wyrms... wtf. fucking get rid of it already and if you think we should be stronger before we hunt pirates then make them stronger, the team split up is complete bullshit.
First of all, just because you run around botting 6 characters so you can loot every spell in the game and then take 10 people to wyrms and crush them at level 300 does not mean "wyrms are now a level 300 monster". All cheese tactics aside, you will not be hunting wyrms at 300. With that said, I am working on the jungle and I have said that already. What you fail to realize is that I am developing this server by myself and although you may like to mass bot and no life the server I do enjoy doing stuff other than working from time to time. Unfortunately if you are going to continue playing the way you are then you will have to wait for content. Right now whats more important to me is making the server enjoyable for people that are playing solo.
And funny enough you think I made this server require a team and THEN made quara area split, its the other way around there big guy.
P.S.
I have put more hours into the development of this server than you have worked a job in your entire life. Don't you fucking dare try to imply that I am not doing anything.