PWI: Rising Call - Questions and Answers! [2013-06-12]

So let me get this straight, nothing will change for venos below 100? If that's the case I'm seriously considering uninstalling, because I'm not seeing myself ever getting any chara to 100, and anyone below 100 has got the short end of the stick in all recent content updates. In this game endgame seems to be 100-105, everything before that is just a grind to the top. If dqs 81+ get nerfed to 1 gold npc'd, then it's really over for me, when not even grinding can get you any cash.

I hope I'm wrong and there's something for us 80s 'lowbies', but I'm not exactly holding my breath.

Sicle - Raging Tide wrote: »

So let me get this straight, nothing will change for venos below 100? If that's the case I'm seriously considering uninstalling, because I'm not seeing myself ever getting any chara to 100, and anyone below 100 has got the short end of the stick in all recent content updates. In this game endgame seems to be 100-105, everything before that is just a grind to the top. If dqs 81+ get nerfed to 1 gold npc'd, then it's really over for me, when not even grinding can get you any cash.

I hope I'm wrong and there's something for us 80s 'lowbies', but I'm not exactly holding my breath.

well... duh? what gave you the impression that endgame could be <100?

Jadsia - Lost City wrote: »

While it's true veno and pet skills have an affect on aggro I was able to steal aggro from my pets, herc too, at every level since I got them. And considering that being a veno my DD isn't as much as other classes because we have pets to supplement our DD the other classes were able to steal aggro from it easier than I did.

Herc's hardly the touchstone of pet aggro-holding (that would be a pet with Bash and 3 elemental bashes, each manually triggered as they come off cooldown.)

You got the wolf, didn't you? Its long cooldown Flesh Ream makes for poorer aggro keeping than the scorpion's short cooldown Bash; I can see a newbie veno taking aggro on a mob that's attacked while Flesh Ream is still in cooldown, no way is a level 3 veno taking aggro from a scorpion, which should have no problem holding aggro into the teens.

Most other classes fail to realize that a herc is not a barb and shouldn't be treated like one. When I escort 7x+ chars through HH (TT for those who can't stand I call that instance HH) and FBs they even steal aggro from my 101 herc despite of all my warnings about out DDing the herc.

7x will steal from herc on mobs and BH59 bosses, no way should 7x be stealing aggro from a herc with leveled up Bash on TT bosses (with the exception of Barbs Flesh Reaming.) You don't still have Pounce on your herc, do you?

My nix is the only pet I haven't been able to steal aggro from, as a level 101 HA/AA. I do, however, know how to keep aggro on my herc when I don't want to steal from it.

What is relevant though is how the new pet skills and the evolution and pet 'personalities' are going to deal with the pet getting and holding aggro.

From what I've seen of the skill descriptions, I am not holding out much hope on better pet aggro keeping.

Sicle - Raging Tide wrote: »

So let me get this straight, nothing will change for venos below 100? If that's the case I'm seriously considering uninstalling, because I'm not seeing myself ever getting any chara to 100, and anyone below 100 has got the short end of the stick in all recent content updates. In this game endgame seems to be 100-105, everything before that is just a grind to the top. If dqs 81+ get nerfed to 1 gold npc'd, then it's really over for me, when not even grinding can get you any cash.

I hope I'm wrong and there's something for us 80s 'lowbies', but I'm not exactly holding my breath.

Isn't that meridian system unlockable at 40...?

Then us lowbies do have something to play around with. No worries.

Desdi - Sanctuary wrote: »

Well, technically..NW is still available for lvl60+ so they get to try the new maps too...b:surrender though it still would have been nice to have level ranges for NW.

Nation war is an OPTIONAL PVP Instance. No one is saying these level 60 something HAVE to participate. Since its PVP expect people to out gear you. I'm full R9S3 there are still people who have better refines, shards, ornaments, etc., and I don't run around complaining. Its the reality of the situation. Put on your pair of big girl/boy panties and suck it up and deal with it just like everyone else or don't go. I'm sick and tired of people on the HT server and any server in general complaining about how PVP isn't fair. How ppl shouldn't spawn-kill and all this other stuff. No one is forcing you to go, so if you don't like it stay the heck out.

XShadowshotx - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Nation war is an OPTIONAL PVP Instance. No one is saying these level 60 something HAVE to participate. Since its PVP expect people to out gear you. I'm full R9S3 there are still people who have better refines, shards, ornaments, etc., and I don't run around complaining. Its the reality of the situation. Put on your pair of big girl/boy panties and suck it up and deal with it just like everyone else or don't go. I'm sick and tired of people on the HT server and any server in general complaining about how PVP isn't fair. How ppl shouldn't spawn-kill and all this other stuff. No one is forcing you to go, so if you don't like it stay the heck out.

>QQing about QQers.

Sicle - Raging Tide wrote: »

So let me get this straight, nothing will change for venos below 100? If that's the case I'm seriously considering uninstalling, because I'm not seeing myself ever getting any chara to 100, and anyone below 100 has got the short end of the stick in all recent content updates. In this game endgame seems to be 100-105, everything before that is just a grind to the top. If dqs 81+ get nerfed to 1 gold npc'd, then it's really over for me, when not even grinding can get you any cash.

I hope I'm wrong and there's something for us 80s 'lowbies', but I'm not exactly holding my breath.

b:angry Who are these people who play this game for years and worry about not advancing past level 90............


WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU DOING IN THIS GAME and WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF STAYING PERMA LEVEL 80?!?!?!

This is beginning to disturb the few brain cells I have left......The ENTIRE point of the game is to PLAY the game. You ADVANCE in levels. They need to add new content and raise the level cap for the MULTITUDES of players who are at or near the level cap and have had nothing to do for years now because they have been catering to you Forest Gump hybrid children who think they are supposed to enshrine the game at or near level 80 and never use any of the other content =.=

EmeraldFire - Lost City wrote: »

b:angry Who are these people who play this game for years and worry about not advancing past level 90............


WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU DOING IN THIS GAME and WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF STAYING PERMA LEVEL 80?!?!?!

This is beginning to disturb the few brain cells I have left......The ENTIRE point of the game is to PLAY the game. You ADVANCE in levels. They need to add new content and raise the level cap for the MULTITUDES of players who are at or near the level cap and have had nothing to do for years now because they have been catering to you Forest Gump hybrid children who think they are supposed to enshrine the game at or near level 80 and never use any of the other content =.=

Completely agree with this. The content for levels below 100 is just to get to 100. Even if we had a healthy amount of new players, we would still have most of our people in the levels 100+. That's why wan-mei makes content mostly for these players. And yeah, what's the point of being below 100????

evilurborg wrote: »

wauw that rip off from League of Legends' crystal scar on the new nation wars map :S how ***

No, it's a rip off from Final Fantasy Chronicles

Annalyse - Heavens Tear wrote: »

And some of us do stay out, for exactly that reason. What does that mean? We can never do things like upgrade necklaces because supply tokens are untradeable.

Things like that start to make it feel less optional, since there are no other options to take.

And what exactly do you need an upgraded necklace for if you're not doing PVP? G16 Cube neck isn't enough for PVE?

Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

From the expansion site here: http://pwi.perfectworld.com/risingcall


and yet:



So which is it? Is PWE advertising features they don't intend on releasing again? (remember Faction Base Wars?)

b:laugh

Kharybdis - Harshlands wrote: »

lol this. An option to do something other than BH/FC(/Morai quests for 95+) from 80-100 would be nice.

Amen to that. I'd particularly like to see something bridge the gap from 90-95. BH/FC/WQ/CS have bored me to pieces.

X_Beo_Wulf_X - Sanctuary wrote: »

New Quests

Venture out and tackle the new quests available at levels 50 through 80. Where will your next adventure take you? ER



why in the hell would you be adding new quests in for lvl 50 to 80
has it is you can lvl from 1 to 70 in under 2 weeks with just quests alone and still skip alot of things out ( most ppl will just FFC there away pasted this anyways).


really it should be lvl 80+ getting newer quests

If those quests aren't boring as the actual ones, if those quests will be more interactive, not so repetitive, with a number of 999999 mobs to kill, I might start doing quests on my alts again... And not all people FC their chars till high lvl, there's a lot of them, but not all

Boartracker - Raging Tide wrote: »

b:chuckle Maybe they are hinting that the player base should donate new servers for PWI use, possibly upgrading servers to a newer server using a Commodore 64, Timex-Sinclair, Atari 5xx series, TRS-80 model I's, or even a VIC-20. Moving up past 2k RAM to a 4k RAM plug in card could eliminate server lag and possibly allow Cross Server events to happen. Please, nothing too fast as Basic Level II can only run so fast before it gets unstable. b:mischievous

b:bye

I'd recommend a serious business machine over those toys...







like a TRS-80 Model II running P&T CP/M.