Well I didn’t actually put it into a calculator. I was mostly just trying to find actual numbers that suggest there is a difference between versions.
is the Korean site that information supposedly comes from, but it’s too annoying to try to navigate even with google translate. If someone wants to look around on that site for numbers though they can go for it.
+1
There is a button for solo training tho its called enter 
but i do agree that people should enter solo and practice before joining a party, who knows they might even kill the Guardian solo
I think a large part of the difficulty people have is that hardly anyone ever uses any battle items at all besides hp potions (not that some will even use those) and I think the content is balanced around their use from an entire party, particularly if you’re all only around the minimum entry level.
In some Korean youtube videos comments about the nerfs for NA you see a variety of perspectives, but one thing I saw a bunch of times was commenting on how this region doesn’t seem to use battle items much. Multiple comments about how such and such a streamer “didn’t even use a tornado bomb.” That’s a google translate so I’m not sure exactly what a tornado bomb is. edit: I guess that’s probably a whirlwind grenade for stagger.
A large part of why people in this region don’t use battle items is that most of the players in t1/t2 do not have the resources to make a ton of battle items, especially for multiple characters. We’re also never really encouraged to use them. A combination of making battle items easier to make/buy (without RM) + adding a more visible tip of suggested battle items to bring to a fight on the UI for each fight might help change that behavior.
They also commented on how hardly anyone they saw in this region had a single engraving at level three. It is very true that hardly anyone has that level of engraving in t1/t2. From the Korean perspective, I think they were in T1/T2 much longer and spent more time optimizing their gear at those levels. For many of us, we’re just taking whatever we get with the right stats and not min/maxing t1/t2 engravings at all since we just want to get to T3. In T2 they probably also slowly built up more gems than people here are using in T2 content.
The question then is, should T1/T2 content be balanced around optimal item and gear usage when we’re not expected to be in it very long?
West is not east. Korean players have waaay more time to enjoy and learn mechanics and enjoy hardcore stuff in MMOs! That is why theres a shit ton of MMOs launched in KR. West is different, and cause of that there will always be differences. Some work more etc., and dont have time to fail raids after raids etc.
Dont get me wrong, I love the content so far, and that some raids/abyss are hard AF. It makes my brain work for it! :)). But there are also people who do not have the time. And honestly there is nothing you can do. You cant make both sides happy.
The problem here for those that needs the nerfs, are the wipe mechanics. Unfortunately from what I`ve seen so far, no one even tries to learn them or do a quick Youtube check on how to do it. And cause of that it creates even more frustration for people that know the mechanics, but still fail cause of random people that have no idea what a mechanic is :))).
I mean, I had a dude in Hildebrand palace that says he failed 20 times, and then I saw why, when we reached the last boss… after 20 fails he still did not even bother to check a tutorial on the mechanics… i had to type a freakin essay on the boss mechanics so he could understand, cause the didnt want to ALT-TAB to view a 2 min YT clip, cause he says and i quote "It dont want to view a yt clip cause it ruins the idea of getting it done on my own"… At that moment i just left the dungeon… and went for the biggest “FACEPALM” of all times.
So yeah, trust me, nerfing will do 0.
What the game can do, is maybe a short description of boss mechanics, boss counters etc.
YOU are responsible for all the decisions that are being made for making the game different from KR/RU/JP. YOU and not Smilegate. You seriously think you can just shift the blame and damage control like that? Who’s idea was to change so many NPCs and names? Who’s idea was to change class names? Who’s idea was to change a big chunk of dialogue and censor so much of the game? Who managed this launch without a second thought of bot protection and server fallback and nerf majority of endgame content on a whim’s notice because they were afraid of losing customers? You don’t even have a proper update schedule for pitty’s sake. Such a bad track record of managing games and not once have you learned. Not once did you agree to be at fault. If Smilegate is so involved then they should just self publish the game at least when it comes for the EU.
Do you have a link or is this just a figment of your imagination?
Looking up interviews with this person, one of their goals is for all regions to catch up so they can release content globally at the same time. It would make sense that in order to achieve that goal, T1 and T2 would be more viewed as catch up content and not something to spend a lot of time struggling with.
The full version of Twitch.
The director appears around 1:40:10.
I can assure you many will quit the game if the raids remains as frustrating as they are and many probably already have
But also any successful business needs to know its target audience, which seems to be more and more of a problem nowadays. And it looks like AGS does not know the target audience of this game or any MMO.
Do you think that the players who complain now about difficulty will suddenly stop complaining about difficulty when the true endgame stuff comes to us (which is many times harder than anything we currently have). This game has been such a huge success in other regions because of this content and this content is definitly not casual friendly and is not meant to be played by casuals. This game offers plenty of activities for someone who just wants to log in for an hour and do something and then log off again, but endgame is not the content for that type of player.
For a MMO to succeed, you need a core of players that love and play the game A LOT and also spend a lot. Casuals come and go, but this core is what a MMO needs to protect.
just putting my 2cents out there. If you watch Zealsambitions, he’s the number 1 (certain class) player in KR. He’s mentioned on stream that nerfs have happened as well in KR, this is not something that is new. However I am appalled by the fact that cosmetics were actually nerfed and censored regarding the launch items/in game npc as well. THAT is something that we need to not have happen, otherwise I’ll just stop playing. I’m here for the cosmetics of the KR version of the game and gameplay as well. But knowing amazon, they’ll probably do nothing and this will just result in another New World fiasco.
There is a difference between nerfing new content that just came out and adjust it as it was indeed too difficult or nerfing content that has been in the game for years just to cater towards some casuals. I watched his vid and in general he’s right, the problem however is that we are simply not as far as kr with the content patches and thus those nerfs make no sense as this is the content we currently have.
Why are you even deflecting that, YOU, as in AGS, asked Smilegate to change the game. They didn’t do that on their own.
Good luck getting through to people. I’ve been trying to get the word out and there are still folk beating a dead horse. It absolutely insane. The West is the laughing stock of Korea, players not even having the intelligence to do research before speaking. They imagine things and them they speak. I’ve never seen anything like this before in any game.
The need an enemy and i can’t be Smilegate. They are perfect
I’m pretty sure that metric is only for Alberhastic and she’s using it as an excuse. The way she said it implies it’s the lowest metric of all of them, yet the changes are for a lot more content.
The Guardian Raids are way to easy even without those nerfs, the T3 Raids are a fucking joke, i watched a video where someone explained 3 different key mechanics the boss could do to wipe the party, and guess what, he didnt make a single one of them because we skipped it with our dmg. Nobody was overgeared or something. I could let my 12 year old cousin play that boss fight and he would have got it, just because those fights are just a joke.
The fights are so boring, i already thought about quitting. After Tytalos i thought the difficulty would ramp up from there, but the bosses even got weaker. After Tytalos ive never had a fight again where i had to que twice to get the kill. In T1 i had some ights going for 10 min straight and in t3 there wasnt a single fight longer than 4-5 mins.
Alberhastic was a damn joke, he didnt got to use a single key mechanic in 2 runs, 5 min fight, every t1 boss was harder.
Are you…stalking me now, reporting my posts? It’s rethorical. Go ahead and read. Maybe you’ll be less panicked about the changes that are coming and you will find more clarity on the Amazon-Smilegate relationship here. Cheers!
I’m just having a laugh, don’t mind me
