Content Update

GreenLegend - Archosaur wrote: »

So looking at Arc News, it seems they're coming with a content update that claims:

"Perfect World International is approaching it's next content update! This update will include a wide arrange of additions to the game, bug fixes, and the addition of a new world boss, Sarokkan the Dragon-Touched..."

May we be enlightened on maybe what these "additions" will be?

Please and Thank You


Source: http://community.arcgames.com/en/news/pwi/detail/3041483-preview_-sarokkan_-the-dragon_touched

1 Boss a week for an entire server really?

One OP squad will just dedicate time to farming him.... No one else will get a chance...
Thanks PWI for being super fair.b:surrender

LostPoet - Dreamweaver wrote: »

1 Boss a week for an entire server really?

One OP squad will just dedicate time to farming him.... No one else will get a chance...
Thanks PWI for being super fair.b:surrender

Ikr, unless its a quest that pops up in the vicinity of the boss/everyone gets a set reward, I for one see no point in going down there when 1 squad can do the most damage, and get all the loot to themselves.

Even if all the loot that the boss drops is automatically free to pick up for anyone there... I still wouldn't show up, as its difficult getting a drop when there is quite a few people there trying to pick up the drops.

Saw a couple of squads take that "new" boss out in about fifteen min. lol the complants where funny to watch, i guess only the tanking squad got to get the drops. the boss it self wasnt too impressive. i was able to hit it for ok damage..low mid teens to low 20's, wasnt in a party or party buffed. the only thing i can say, is i wish i had a cleric..lol when i didnt use an hp boost item i got hit for about 800-1k over my hp, and when i had an hp boost item going it still hit me for about the same beyound my hp.


meh... overall not real impressed with this new boss, i think what would make it more interesting if it would sommun mobs like the aeu boss does and go dammage immune until there dead and have each wave of mobs be stronger and more aggressive than the wave before. then maybe that poor chump would last longer then 5- 15 min.

bluestuffzzz wrote: »

After looking over some of the core upcoming features on Wanmei's BBS and website, I'm not very excited for the upcoming patch. I'm expecting, as with every single content update, broken features, new bugs, and nothing to work as it's intended design.

I'll withhold any official bias until release.

But, every content update things work as designed.
The game is designed to be broken.
They do all those things fail on purpose, how else could EVERYTHING fail?
I hope they don't come with more reawakenings, 2 is enough to make the game bad.

2 reawakenings are enough to make new players depressed and old players depressed on having to level their alts 2x to lv 100 again.

So no, I hope there are NO new rebirths.

I dont like this boss event either.
only the OP cashers have chance to get the kill..others no matter how hard they try, wont get it.


It would be nice if that boss would be just like the bird event in south arc.
that at the end every1 has a chance for some lil reward. not just 1 person or 1 op squad

1 OP squad farming world bosses right after they spawn is rather frustrating, especially with those ones you need for title quests(but that's a whole other rant >.>).

But I also look at it like this; if you've got the gear, squad and/or skill to down the boss before anyone else, then you're entitled to the loot, you've earned it. And if I was in one of those squads and even though we did the most damage, everyone else got rewarded for it, I would be irritated.

I do also sympathize with the other side, where not being in the pinnacle of end game gear means you don't even have a chance at world bosses, squaded or not.

But what's the solution? If you increase boss spawns there is nothing stopping the same squad of OPs from consistently farming the bosses and alternately; if all the drops were free to pick up then you would have a bunch of people waiting in the wings to snipe the drops when the boss dies. Either way someone loses.

The Auspicious Event is one solution to this, but even then, you have people who complain about time issues and whatever other reason that they miss it. (Which in my opinion is an invaild reason since you're the one that chose to play on the server that you're on.)

Here is my solution; Missive(-esque). Non-public instanced bosses. Each squad member would be required to take a once per week quest within the instance to spawn the boss. Once taken, the same person cannot retake the quest until the next reset and all members must take the quest in order to spawn the boss. This would ensure that bosses aren't farmed repeatedly, that everyone has a chance for the kill, and that drops aren't sniped by passers-by. And if each instanced boss had lvl restrictions it would give something else for people to look forward to when they reached a milestone. Not a perfect plan but I pose this to you PWI communty: What's your solution?

LilyWinters - Archosaur wrote: »

But what's the solution? If you increase boss spawns there is nothing stopping the same squad of OPs from consistently farming the bosses and alternately; if all the drops were free to pick up then you would have a bunch of people waiting in the wings to snipe the drops when the boss dies. Either way someone loses.

The Auspicious Event is one solution to this, but even then, you have people who complain about time issues and whatever other reason that they miss it. (Which in my opinion is an invaild reason since you're the one that chose to play on the server that you're on.)

Here is my solution; Missive(-esque). Non-public instanced bosses. Each squad member would be required to take a once per week quest within the instance to spawn the boss. Once taken, the same person cannot retake the quest until the next reset and all members must take the quest in order to spawn the boss. This would ensure that bosses aren't farmed repeatedly, that everyone has a chance for the kill, and that drops aren't sniped by passers-by. And if each instanced boss had lvl restrictions it would give something else for people to look forward to when they reached a milestone. Not a perfect plan but I pose this to you PWI communty: What's your solution?

But wouldnt that be the exact reason pwi put in FSP? So you can farm for cards, not weekly but at a daily rate.
Those who have the gear to combat the high bosses, didnt exactly win all the gear by lucky lottery. CC or farming, they still worked in some way for the trade off.
So no, asking for a (pretty much) freebie once-a-week-S-card-drop-chance without the competition of beating other factions AND your squad mates for that equivalent of a WBs 1 (or 2) S card isnt exactly a good idea. Its just feels like endless pampering that would slowly eat its way into normal world bosses and pple asking pwi to give them super buffs so that all players on NW/TW field could play "equally".
>.>

theres nothing in this game to hard, or cant be farmed by 1 person, even FSP can be solo'd by barbs or pys... it would just take a very long time that isnt worth it, unless u can auto attack multi acc's. i have seen this done on dreamweaver by a barb playen 5 char an tanken toad and doing axes. If you dont have the gear, then farm more if you cant cash it. As for equal playen terms, there will nvr be, even R9rr +12 can be killed. Am just a lonely barb with crappy damage and not getting drops from this boss doesnt bother me keeps prices stable (somewhat).

Egamoto - Harshlands wrote: »

I can finaly finish that dammed untrashable quest ,..,

ega my love

not to forget the new free inventory/bank slot!

LilyWinters - Archosaur wrote: »

I am not going to try and guess at the reason(s) that PWI introduced FSP.

I don't see how giving everyone the chance to kill the boss equals endless pampering. Especially considering you would still have to form a squad and battle it out to get the drops. And even then, and assuming the squad is on random, with a chance drop and a chance of the chance drop going to you, I see even less how it would equate to pampering. As to my suggestion making it's way to all world bosses; I actually had all of them in mind when I thought of it.

I don't entirely disagree with what you've said though. I can understand the elation of being the 'winner' when battling it out with another squad for dmg dominance on a boss, it makes you feel like the effort you put into gearing your character was worth it. But doesn't PvP accomplish that same effect? If so, I don't see what the big deal would be if, regardless of gear, all players had the opportunity of a chance at a chance drop chancing to them.

Honestly, I don't see how a G15/G16 having a few S cards will be an equalizer on the fields of TW/NW. Also, everyone one having an equal chance at getting a chance at an S card once a week doesn't seem like it would manifest some need in the player base to beg PWI for some mythical super buff so they can win in NW/TW. Not that such a buff doesn't already exist(to an extent) in NW and not that people don't already do some such whining of the sort... >.>

cause with the new updates pvp has become even more broken and now that more and more events a pve/pk based, the guy who choose not to be a sin barb psy or arhcer is getting left out even further in the cold.

LilyWinters - Archosaur wrote: »

I am not going to try and guess at the reason(s) that PWI introduced FSP.

I don't see how giving everyone the chance to kill the boss equals endless pampering. Especially considering you would still have to form a squad and battle it out to get the drops. And even then, and assuming the squad is on random, with a chance drop and a chance of the chance drop going to you, I see even less how it would equate to pampering. As to my suggestion making it's way to all world bosses; I actually had all of them in mind when I thought of it.

I don't entirely disagree with what you've said though. I can understand the elation of being the 'winner' when battling it out with another squad for dmg dominance on a boss, it makes you feel like the effort you put into gearing your character was worth it. But doesn't PvP accomplish that same effect? If so, I don't see what the big deal would be if, regardless of gear, all players had the opportunity of a chance at a chance drop chancing to them.

Honestly, I don't see how a G15/G16 having a few S cards will be an equalizer on the fields of TW/NW. Also, everyone one having an equal chance at getting a chance at an S card once a week doesn't seem like it would manifest some need in the player base to beg PWI for some mythical super buff so they can win in NW/TW. Not that such a buff doesn't already exist(to an extent) in NW and not that people don't already do some such whining of the sort... >.>

i dunno i think for me it all boils down to everyone wanting a fair share of what every level has.

Basically like a lv10 wanting to do a lv10 warsong.
"We cant reach that content, can you dumb it down for our level too?"

sorta thing

Father_gold - Sanctuary wrote: »

but if a single squad can just farm it and track it by spawn time, then it becomes a feature for 1-10 ppl only.

i think WBs should have the ability to make competing to kill the boss more eventful, like a (yeah this is more of a pve sorta thing)long-range AOE that turns everyone white name for 10-15 secs (making the actual racing a bit more competitive on pve) or maybe universally have the WBS span at random and in random locations.

i think the idea of WBs is actually played out these days. as long as you can't squad and enter an instance, the feature will not be available for 99.9% of the population.

and that is why you should hurry up and play pwi