On KR right now, does a new player have to spend 600 hours grinding though t1/t2 and early t3 to access valtan or vykas?
No they do not.
KR figured out that legion raids are the fun challenging content that keeps people playing so they help new players reach this mark asap.
They even apologized when they put in the honing buffs saying that 1340-1370 was the point that most players quit the game and labeled it the deadzone.
The only reason to not want the honing buffs in our version is that you’re upset that a new or returning player will be able to reach 1415 in 2/3 weeks when it took you 2 months. The honing buffs do not give a free 1415 character with no work, there is still a grind that requires significant time and effort. It just shortens the grind so players reach 1415 faster so they don’t burnout killing igrexion twice a day for a month.
And SG already has data showing that once players hit 1415 and get to experience valtan, they are much more likely to keep playing.
Good news is they don’t have to!
Currently sitting at 607 hours since 3-day early access. I hit Vykas on release.
Doesn’t take long if you play efficiently. Especially with material prices being the lowest they’ve been since launch, I’d say new players will have a better experience than all of us who are already at endgame did getting there.
We definitely need a better experience for new players.
July patch is also comparable to release times for RU and the last buff in JP.
RU: T1/T2/1370/1415 global honing buffs in between Vykas and Clown JP: T1/T2 with Argos, 1370 a month before South Vern, 1415 in between Vykas and Clown
Western: Vykas in June, Clown probably August (was 2 months to Clown in KR).
So July patch is a logical place to release them, unless they plan to screw us even more and release it later than RU/JP even though we’re supposed to be catching up faster.
The only honing changes left to be added into the game are the global honing buffs to t1, t2. These didn’t get added to KR until brelshaza was released. It will be the same for our region.
There’s no evidence to suggest we will get it at the same time. The honing buff was introduced because the game was dying in their region, nothing more, nothing less.
Considering our version of the game hasn’t even closely followed the path of JP/RU there’s no reason to suggest why we would receive things in any different time frame than the region our version is actually copying
Yes and considering our version isn’t dying thanks to artificial bot inflation of concurrent, we have no real time line of when our save face honing buffs will be given, as it was in Kr.
No I’m just not one of the delusional people that somehow think there are over 30k bots in the game with 250k concurrent players, bots haven’t surged since the initial ban wave when queues times on NAW went out of control. Feel free to comment if that happens again
There is something wrong with you if you think half the concurrent playerbase is bots considering there’s barely any of them running around anymore, what a funny guy
Shout out to all the gatekeeping tribalism in this thread… who cares for the players who wanna do the content, it isn’t fair to us because we already got there. Imagine wanting better for a game dummies
They buff the success rate and give you +2 lvls per gear piece in t1 and t2 from 1-12. You also get increased chance in t3 until a certain point (believe it’s 1415 and it really helps counteract the 1340-1370 deadzone)