2012-05-18, 10:58 AM
New, better host.
p2p.
all microtransactions have an ingame equivalent that is obtained with a "normal" amount of effort as of endgame.
NO MORE DAMAGE BUFFS. Nerf all damage to pre-4th job level, or buff all bosses to an absurd extent. An idea a friend an I had was, square their current HP; remove all timers on bosses, instance it for infinite number of raids. Zakum on a full god level DPS group should take 5 hours, HT 10, PB 20, Empress 30, as a benchmark for what I am talking about. If you d/c or leave you can come back. All boss heal skills removed. Drops buffed tremendously/new, better drops added to reflect difficulty/time increase. Increase group sizes to reflect this. Make healers useful in runs again, perhaps by disabling potions as well as zombify.
All fashion permanent with ingame obtainable equivalents.
Maybe square the fucking required EXP, getting to 200 is now under a week, it used to take years. New job/level cap would be nice, but balancing to the former "no more damage buffs" would be difficult so I can deal with keeping cap at 200/4th job.
Random daily quests for incredibly good rewards, to remove some of the godawful monotony.
At least 2 GMs on every server at ALL HOURS, that will respond within a minute.
Fully serverside, no more of this clientsided hack filled garbage.
To elaborate, "buffing drops" on instance bosses should not just mean more and better stuff with better stats, it should mean they also drop cash shop items, TRADEABLE and permanent, including pets. Speaking of pets, remove autopot entirely, fucking lazy people. In fact, the entire potion system needs to be entirely redone, as it is now it's retarded. I like how pets have their own unique buffs, passive or active, in other games; add that, gives a bit of pet individuality. Autoloot is the only "auto" that is acceptable, though.
Authentication.
Even if all of these are done, there is only a small chance I will play it more than a few times a month around TERA, anyway, but whatever.
p2p.
all microtransactions have an ingame equivalent that is obtained with a "normal" amount of effort as of endgame.
NO MORE DAMAGE BUFFS. Nerf all damage to pre-4th job level, or buff all bosses to an absurd extent. An idea a friend an I had was, square their current HP; remove all timers on bosses, instance it for infinite number of raids. Zakum on a full god level DPS group should take 5 hours, HT 10, PB 20, Empress 30, as a benchmark for what I am talking about. If you d/c or leave you can come back. All boss heal skills removed. Drops buffed tremendously/new, better drops added to reflect difficulty/time increase. Increase group sizes to reflect this. Make healers useful in runs again, perhaps by disabling potions as well as zombify.
All fashion permanent with ingame obtainable equivalents.
Maybe square the fucking required EXP, getting to 200 is now under a week, it used to take years. New job/level cap would be nice, but balancing to the former "no more damage buffs" would be difficult so I can deal with keeping cap at 200/4th job.
Random daily quests for incredibly good rewards, to remove some of the godawful monotony.
At least 2 GMs on every server at ALL HOURS, that will respond within a minute.
Fully serverside, no more of this clientsided hack filled garbage.
To elaborate, "buffing drops" on instance bosses should not just mean more and better stuff with better stats, it should mean they also drop cash shop items, TRADEABLE and permanent, including pets. Speaking of pets, remove autopot entirely, fucking lazy people. In fact, the entire potion system needs to be entirely redone, as it is now it's retarded. I like how pets have their own unique buffs, passive or active, in other games; add that, gives a bit of pet individuality. Autoloot is the only "auto" that is acceptable, though.
Authentication.
Even if all of these are done, there is only a small chance I will play it more than a few times a month around TERA, anyway, but whatever.