Genies and why i quit

erethizon1 wrote: »

While I am a pure magic cleric (5 vit, 5 dex, and just enough str to wear armor) I am not able to hold Blue Ball or Red Ball for very long either because they throw you into combat mode which cuts your mp regen rate down to 25% of normal.

Without going off on too big a rant I am very much against the existence of BB and RB. In my opinion they are an extremely blatant attempt to get higher level clerics to spend real money at the cash shop. The fact that they throw you into combat mode even though they are just healing and buffing spells is proof of that in my opinion. For this reason I never use them. I am not an item-oriented person and only go into TT when I have a quest to do there (or when asked by a friend) and even then only when there is another cleric.

I come from a school of thought that believes that buying items for a video game with real money is a form of cheating. While I realize that it is not cheating in a game that exists solely to sell items in a cash shop, I cannot shake the dirty feeling that I would get for buying cash shop items. The only cash shop items I have ever used were inventory and safe expansion stones and I bought those with coin from another player. I realize I can buy charms the same way, but the design of charms and the BB and RB spells make me so annoyed with PW that I refuse to use them. BB and RB should not put you in combat mode and you should be able to set when charms go off and how much they fill up. For example, you should be able to set your mp charm to only go off when you are down to 10% mp (or whichever amount you choose) and have it only fill you up to 50% mp (or whichever number you choose). If they made that change I would probably start using charms, but as it is it is too blatant an attempt to waste my money for me to be willing to use them at all. I still have the charm that I got as a level 4 or 5 quest reward in my safe.

erethizon1 wrote: »

Level 80 at the moment.



I don't play a pay to play game because this one is good enough and is free. A pay to play game will not cost me less money because this one has not cost me any money so far and it is hard to cost less than that.

Of course I "care" for charms. Just because I have never used one does not mean I have no ideals. When I saw that mp charms activated when you still have 75% of your mp left I knew the purpose of that was to cause your charm to activate more often than you wanted to so people would spend more money. I am not whining because I do not use them. MP regen rate in this game is just fine even without any items. That does not mean that I do not put myself in the shoes of people that use charms. If I were to use one I would like it to work the way that I described. Since there is so much social pressure to use charms in this game I would probably cave and equip one if they worked the way I described. Earning 400k to buy a gold charm off of someone is not that hard, but I am not going to do that with the way charms currently work since they activate far too often and it would waste it way to quickly. And I am not crying about charms. I was asked how it is possible to be a level 80 cleric and never use mana regen items so I explained how I did it and why I did it. Just because I have not used one does not mean that I would not like to see them improved. I still have the bronze charm in my safe from that level 4 or 5 quest I did on my first day. Some day I will probably face enough peer pressure to equip it and it would be nice it if worked better when that day comes.

As for why I have not suggested it, it is because I doubt they will listen. I have heard people complaining that mp charms activate too often since day one. I seriously doubt they never changed them because they did not think of it. Charms work the way they do so that you will waste more charms since you cannot regenerate as much mp between fights as you would if they activated less often.