[Maintenance Discussion]-3-5-14 COMPLETE

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sparkiesoft wrote: »

Do you like to PvP? If not, why so?

In small doses. I'm not too good with negative counterfactuals.

I like it, at least when the difference between my opponent and I aren't too significant. Its a lot more fun than mashing monsters all day who act predictably....and more often than not, cannot match up to today's standards of end game gear.

The trash talking can be ignored, but I feel its a bit too expensive to participate regularly (Cost of Charms, apoth, ect) at times.

sparkiesoft wrote: »

This week's maintenance question:

Do you like to PvP? If not, why so?

Yes, sometimes i do. But not too much hate & ego in PvP... So prefer to stay away from it.

Heres a question, when are we going to get a ACTUAL patch instead of just a bunch of grammar corrections?

LifeAfterDth - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Heres a question, when are we going to get a ACTUAL patch instead of just a bunch of grammar corrections?

Dude, chill. Grammar is way more important than a true update.

I like PvP but in this game its very expensive- so i have to pass

For the most part, I guess you can say I like pvp. Having a main on a pvp server sort of forced me into it lol. But after a while I didn't mind it so much. Like most, I adapted and ended up pking quite a bit too a few years ago. But I sort of fell out of it and don't pk as much. Pking can be fun when you're fighting people and everyone's being a good sport about being killed or killing others. I've died plenty of times (in tw, nw, or just regular pk) but it's not so bad. I guess the main problem with it are those who take it too far and start trash talking or plain out harrassing you, regardless if they were the pker or the one pked. Some people like doing that because they think it gives them an edge. As for me, I say let your skills and weapon do all the talking . If you're good, you're good. If you're not so good, don't worry; one day you will be. So pvp is fine. Trash talking and mess is not.

sparkiesoft wrote: »

This week's maintenance question:

Do you like to PvP? If not, why so?

No, not in this game anyway. The PvP in PWI is too imbalanced in gear. It was fun for a bit when Nation Wars first came out. Then people started getting full T3 gear that was farm-able. There was a brief time period you could stand a chance against R9's. It was actually fun. But then later on more R9's updated to R9RR. It took longer to farm and more coin to make, but eventually it caught up. Now it is once again a major imbalanced in gear. I've stopped going to Nation Wars because its no fun getting one shot and not being able to participate.

It doesn't help that PvP is completely boring out of TW and NW. All you hear over world chat is a bunch of foul-mouthed players just looking to trash talk each other and not PvP for fun. I also repeat what players have been saying for years, that there is also still an imbalance in skills, it's better then it use to be, but still imbalanced.

Kuddadar - Sanctuary wrote: »

Hey PWI, Are you ever going to fix the Air Pet summon problem for Veno?

China's gonna fix it and send a patch when they feel like it.

sparkiesoft wrote: »

Hello everyone!

This week's maintenance question:

Do you like to PvP? If not, why so?

In balanced situations yes. PWI, though it has lots of PvE servers, its essentially about PvP; as most MMORPGs are. All these dungeons, dailies and all, are just there to ramp up characters to their end-game PvP potential.
However, when people gain advantages (not cashing or hacking) but simply because they were around for certain events, it creates a significant imbalance, until people have "Ramp up time" to catch up. In about 3 months, when most people are atleast rebrithed once or twice and higher ends of the Arcane/Mirage sky levels, PvP should return to a better balanced state and be more competitive and fun again.

(There will always be those players who are so much significantly further from cashing, but usually lack skill, and thus will always fall when the proper group effort is put into killing them.)

Why cant pw stick with the normal day and time for maintance which is tues night instead of pushin it a day later? Its always been maint time on tues night instead of wed since its been like that for over the last 4 yrs and counting why suddenly have to change it since last week?

sparkiesoft wrote: »

Hello everyone!

Tomorrow, 3/5/14 there will be a maintenance from 11pm PST - 2am PST.

To clear any confusion, Today is the 4th and this patch will not be available until tomorrow the 5th at the specified time PST.

Patch Notes:


Localization
Classes
Blademaster
*Corrected a typo in the Mage Bane tooltip to more accurately describe its effects.

Mystic
*The Demon version of Energy Leech now displays the correct duration.

Venomancer
*The Demon version of Bramble Guard now displays the correct duration.

Wizard
*Elemental Invocation no longer displays its cast and channel times in meters.

Quests
*The quest log for Blighter's Punishment no longer contains corrupted text.

User Interface
*The "Walk behind enemy" Combo button has been renamed "Repeat" to be more accurate to its functionality.
*The German version of the patcher is no longer displaying English ads.
*The Seeker class in character creation no longer incorrectly has the Mystic header.

*Misc. grammatical fixes.


This week's maintenance question:

Do you like to PvP? If not, why so?

I like to say that I only PvP when I get paid for it. That means TW and NW. Once raptures get so cheap that we start npc'ing our supply tokens, I might not NW anymore. What the authors of the other posts said was true, open PvP used to be fun before damage output got insane. Fights are now much much shorter and it's so unbalanced it's just not enjoyable, to be blunt. If you want to make it more enjoyable, boost character hp for all classes so we can tank damage easier. That's why so many people quit, they have the best gear they can get without selling an organ and they git hit for 50k by a cash shopper. It's depressing for them, so they quit.

I don't enjoy to pvp. In the past before r9 even existed I would of considered pking but now the damage output is too high due to all the attack levels, spirit, and rebirthing stat points and rebirthed skills. Its a bit ridiculous how much work, time, or cash people have to do put in to be pk ready with decent enough gear, nw gear, refines, skills, waravatar cards, rebirthing for more stat points and so on. Also the amount of dailies you would have to do whether they be bh, crazy stone, morai order quests, and the primal world dailies just take too much time. Not to mention it gets very repetive going to the same caves, doing the same quests almost everyday. I mean sure we can merchant and what not, coins are not that hard to come by. It just takes way to much time to be pk ready with skills, gear, refines, stones, and leveling to 100+ 3 times just in an attempt to max out your character for pk. Think me of being lazy if you wish but I rather not focus on all that and just have fun with the game even if my gear may suck compared to over 70% of the people I see.

I have done nw and tw in the past and they were fun I suppose since you got a reward, minus if you loose tw ofc. But I rather not do nw and tw since I'll just be 1-2 shot left and right every time.

TLDR: No, it takes a ridiculous amount of time, work, cash just to be pk ready in my opinion.

what about Archer's Winged Burst Cant Search for it in Auction House but only by its old name.. b:surrender

I joined a PvE server because I don't like PvP. I don't like to kill people, because it makes me feel bad and when others kill me it makes me sad. I never do events that inclued any PvP or PK.

It irritates me that most of the new Cleric Morai skills can only be used on players, so I chose not to bother with them. It feels like PWI has been pushing me to PvP. I would love more clericing/player assisting skills.

I like when players can work together and help eachother to get what they need or want.
Advanced Endless Univers and Flowsilver Palace are perfect examples, and they are awesome and fun.