Old player

sincerely? No.

Agree..it's a huge expense and no venos aren't OP anymore..they're bottom feeders now!

things are diff then before now PWI becoming PTW not F2P anymore

Nekuxdesux - Heavens Tear wrote: »

there has to be more reasons than that

I'll give you some off the top of my head.

*Glitchers were able to exploit hundreds of +10 orbs, thousands of event gold, and million of exp + charms while most regular players got nothing in a recent promotion. They got to keep those items in exchange for a 1 month (or less) ban.

*Glitchers got free, instantaneous lvl 105, while regular players had to grind for hundreds of days in phoenix valley and FC just to even get 104. They got to keep those levels in exchange for a 1-week ban (later shortened to 1 day).

*They regularly run promotions where they promise to hand out rewards based on zen spent, but to date very few people have actually gotten those items (in the meantime, they're handing out thousands of free ocean orbs to glitchers).

*They used to have medals of glory in the DQ shop. When they found out those medals could be glitched to be non-bound, they quietly took them out of the shop, thus giving those glitchers 500-1 billion in free coins because of the instantaneous rise in price of medals. Those people were not punished at all.

Do I need to say more? I still have about 5 more examples of this, but these are just the most obvious.

Nekuxdesux - Heavens Tear wrote: »

it really doesnt seem to bad. how im seeing it (except for the gold and level part) is just things that wouldnt effect me too much

Well, if you're willing to play a game where cheating/exploiting is encouraged, while things keep being taken away for regular players (medals is a HUGE example, it increased the cost to get Rank 9 gear by hundreds of real life $$), then feel free.

Game has had many changes since you played but the fundamentals are the same.

Assassins are the PVE farming class like Venos used to be. Much of the recent content has been geared to nerf them but they still destroy the older content like Twilight Temple.

If you want to PVP seriously at this late date you'd probably plan on spending some real-life money.

I recommend trying the mystic class it's a lot of fun and wasn't around when you left.

I still enjoy the game and will honestly probably stick around. It's still up in the air. This last week has been so discouraging it feels like any hard work and effort I put into the game will either be ruined or later be given away by PWE, either intentionally or in a glitch. I've stayed here for years but its a game I stopped recommending to people years ago also because its been in such decline and had so many poorly managed events.

Right now you'll find a lot of whiners who will tell you not to come back, specifically because of the events of this week. What happened was a code was given out for a reward/compensation for poor maintenances, bugs, and because one server had so many issues they needed to roll back. That code was glitchable and dozens of people on each server exploited it to get 80-250 10* orbs (enough to +12 all their gear) and many others loaded up their alt accounts with 30-80 more. There were also charms, apoths, and event gold in the reward packs. PWE was slow to react, decided not to roll back, told us it was very few people who actually did this, and its sounding like they'll get little more than a slap on the hand. 90% of the population will get nothing. So people are very mad right now.

I'd say don't come back because the game has not kept up with its competition, and starting now would mean you are almost 5 years behind everyone else. Cost estimates to be competitive in this game would be about $2000 for gear and another 2-3000 for refine and shards.

It's not worth come back now. Besides everything that was said, we have others things that affect every single player. The last expansion - a small one - came with so many "simple" bugs and bad things that could be fixed fast and easy and still PWE didn't move a inch to fix anything.

Nekuxdesux - Heavens Tear wrote: »

it really doesnt seem to bad. how im seeing it (except for the gold and level part) is just things that wouldnt effect me too much

Every single thing would affect you, unless you can charge zen all your way to R9s3+10+.

-People with higher gear/refine (and a lot of free Charm's/Event GOLD) can farm easy/fast. The TT economy was kinda of broken. Now it'll be...well, we'll see soon.
-Now we have 100 skill book on morai stuff, Chrono page: Card/World bosses and Treasure Hunt Quest are done (bosses still worth for perfect stone and other mats).
-Abba and SoT was revamped, mostly people can't farm books there anymore.
-They took out coins from RB, no one want to do it anymore.
-NW map is 10x smaller. Again R9s3+12 does a **** lot more Tokens and under geared people does a lot less than before.
-TM/FF runs. < Again higher refines and free Charms will affect this too.

/\ This is mostly all the farm thing you can do (endgame) for money. Besides that you can try your lucky with packs (that people don't open anymore, Tokens of best lucky is so expensive that hurts), merchant, or wait for some zen promotion, charge zen and don't get nothing of what PWE said you would receive.

Now we'll have another expansion soon, but we still have a lot of bugs from the last one. The new system will be based on lvl, so people who abused from the FF glitch will be one step ahead again. And of course we'll have new glitch to be abused. (Maybe it's a good time to come back b:victory)

Then you'll farm for months/year so you can afford to buy your gear and PWE will give it for DOZENS of people for free (not only a few like DoD said - yeah PWE we're not blind and you guys are not stupid, everyone knows that was more than just a few). Then people who abused the system will say that the others that play fair has no reason to QQ and PWE will support the abusers like they always do.

You can call this a QQ if you want to. At least I'm here saying what I think without hide myself behind some fake/alt avatar.
If even after all that was said you think it worth come back, you can take my place, cuz probably I'm one of the ones that will be leaving soon.

(At least I had fun times here practicing my english) b:victory b:bye

Nekuxdesux - Heavens Tear wrote: »

can you go over the "buying FC Heads and Hypers"

Of course dear... b:cute

Once you get the "Billboard" quest that teleports you around the main cities, make sure you open up the teleport NPCs at each one (saying you do not already have them)... Especially at Thousand Streams (also known as 1k) city which is located quite to the North-Western portion of the world map. From 1k you make your way North towards Snowy Village (make sure you grab the teleport NPC your first time there too), where you will spend countless hours taking in the lovely scenery and waiting with baited breath for a seller of FC heads

Now, what "Fc heads" is is basically a room which lowbies pay to get into from higher characters... This room is located in Frostcovered City, and thus known as FC or sometimes FCC.

BEFORE YOU GET INTO FC HEADS : You will need to obtain "Hypers"... these are obtained by way of getting Perfect Tokens (through various cash shop packs, but not all packs any more) and heading over to the PW Boutique Agent, under the Gift Exchange or Luck Exchange line... Go to the tab then that is luck I believe... and get yourself 5 Hypers, each consuming 8 or 9 of those Perfect Tokens. So about 40-45 Perfect tokens will get you 1 hour of (and make sure you choose wisely here) X12 Xps b:victory
You can also buy these Hypers directly from the Cash Shop. And then you just repeat this as needed.

Some tidbits on Hypers. You can put them on pause like 9 or 10 times. They come at the cost of a decrease in xps when not activated for a decent but usually not problematic length of time. You will likely forget when to activate and pause them as you run through FC, and people will likely **** things up at some point which will waste your Hyper time too.

There are groups of creatures and a Boss mob in that room that you will not be able to kill when you first start buying this room. Make sure to talk with the seller to find out if they also offer "Full Service" (killing those creatures and the boss) or you might be wrongfully world chatting about the seller leaving or scamming you, when in fact they sold you what to them was assumed business as usual.

Also in that room is a series of one-shot heads creatures via a quest that the seller can activate (possibly the lowbies can too, so i suggest not talking to the npc there or you will be the most hated character on your server)... these heads are worth a lot of xps, because the seller leaves and everyone at low levels gains even more xps... No matter what class you are, make sure you buy the lowest level bow off an npc or get yourself a dreamchaser pack bow even... get like 10k+ worth of the lowest arrows off a blacksmith npc. Just "Tab" key and auto attack click to kill heads fastest.

Buy FC heads after lvl 40 - 50?? Really?

I started FC when I was lvl 80, and I did it in squad. I did buy few times, but mostly I did it with squads. I did all my quests, and I got everything from hard work.

You don't need to CS If you don't want to, but then prepare your self that it will take you a long time to reach end game armor and weapon. And to be honest, it's fun.

Game is good, PVE is fun, PVP is kind of fun (when you are not shooted by R9). But no one, is forcing you to CS, not PWI, not game it self. I did CS couple of times, and I may, or may not do it again in future. And I do it because I wanna speed up the process in to getting something (fash or wathever).

Game is fun, there are glitches, there are bugs, there are scammers, there is everything that you will find in any other game. If you will like playing, nothing is stopping you from trying it.

If you decade to skip FC part of leveling, it will take you longer time to reach 100.

But to be honest, what if in one week you reach lvl 105 (let's say), and you get your endgame gear, with best shards, and refines. And when you reach point when you can get anything you want. Will that still be fun?

Game is fine, people are not. Keep that in mind.

Nekuxdesux - Heavens Tear wrote: »

So i haven't actually play played this game in many years. Is it worth coming back to, What's a good/populated server, are veno's still OP with cash shop pets? thanks in advance

the game is at its best. dont believe those hypocrite and archo is the best server to be.

Labells - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Why is it people think you "must" be lvl 100 before you've "made it".

Since this is a ~>MMO<~ RPG many people have chosen it specifically for the community and team play and social interaction, or possibly the pvp. Under 100 is pretty desolate, to the point that PWI is offering 156 stat points for their reincarnation patch just to encourage people to become low levels again (a plan that will obviously fail without a change in FCC format). For pvp people are all 100+, and have... 7 gear steps above non-level 100s? Most of the under 100 community logs in for about 15 seconds to pickup their Jolly Jones. Questing is almost always done solo because there is no one to do it with. The time and coin spent on shouting for a BH squad us almost always less efficient than just buying an FCC instead. And 99% of the community that has low levels also have high levels to provide gear or just rush them through the required quests.

I like the game, but there is little socialization for people under 100 and a lot more opportunities and fun at 100+ unless you plan to play solo.