#failuremaster

So hypothetically, let’s say I made use of the current event and started a new character to get my +9 Void Weapon and +9 Elrianode gear. I know for a fact that getting 3rd job and Transcendence passives will not boost my CP all the way to 400k. With a fresh level 99 character, what do I do now? ♠FailureMaster

Thank you for the quality of life update which provides several welcome changes, such as free B-slots, inventory expansions for older characters, the ability to enhance to +8 without breaking, and much more. I feel there are more opportunities the average player now has thanks to this update. However.....I fear you might be too late. Seeing the changes implemented is welcome, but it worries me about the state of the game. I say that it’s too late because, to my knowledge, most of the playerbase has left by now, with a smaller percent of the once-lively community still playing. Seeing B-slots, one of the most popular items in the game, go from paid to 30-day to completely free...It makes me think the company is desperate to get players engaged again before the game goes out. And I fear this won’t be enough to get players back, because there isn’t a point to get back into it in its current state. We just received Varnimyr, a place in which your attack, defense, and HP are reduced by 30%. This means that if your attack, physical or magical, is around 25,000, it will only count as 17,500, which will artificially make the enemies of Varnimyr seem stronger. I haven’t tried Varnimyr myself, but from what I have seen online and heard from friends, the place is ridiculous even for completely-geared characters. And from what I’ve seen....The rewards are far from being worth the trouble. Obviously there is more to do in this game than end-game dungeon content, but the other options are a bit limited. If you want to PvP, then your only option will be sparring rooms, because the matchmaking in Arena is horrendous in what the game determines to be “best” for your “skill”. Ereda Island is completely dry, with matches nearly impossible to find and the rewards being lackluster. Events in the game are interesting but not very engaging, there is little incentive for the player to complete the event. There is much more to discuss on the current state of Elsword, and I encourage that you look into the feedback of other players to see what they think. This is just one person’s opinion on the issue. Sincerely, ♠FailureMaster

✧Sourcream

This is continuing from Sourcream’s post about her concerns of the newly introduced Force Skill System (Found here), I felt that I would like to explain my concerns about the upcoming feature as well. From speculation, this is a system for 3rd job classes in which you acquire your skills through drops from dungeons. Upon reading about the speculation of this system, I was immediately reminded about the Skill Note System Elsword had a few years back prior to the Season 2 revamps. For those who may not know, the Skill Note System was a system in which skills could be improved through these “notes”, which are acquired through the Item Mall in the game (The notes were acquirable through dungeon drops in KR). These notes would change a wide range of properties, from lowering cooldown to increasing the damage of skills to even changing the appearance of skills. This system was dropped for obvious reasons, I don’t think I have to spell it out. However, at least I could even use my skills back then! With the introduction of this new system, it seems that players will have to endlessly grind just to get the required skills of their 3rd job classes, which is incredibly unreasonable. Who thought it was a good idea to now take away the skills of players and put them behind some sort of Random Number Generator (RNG) drop system? As if players weren’t struggling with RNG already due to magic sockets, weapon enhancements, item identification, Heroic tickets, Heroic gear, Heroic extraction for Henir gear, Elrianode dungeon tickets for dungeons 3 and 5, Secret Dungeon gear, Secret Dungeon Magic Stones, and especially Ice Burners, then why take away the player’s ability to even play their class? The player would have already struggled through the 3rd job quest (which I imagine will be tougher than the Transcendence quest, requiring 20+ Secret Dungeon runs with RNG drops for the first few parts) so why make them grind and struggle more for simple drops? I see no reasonable explanation. If you forgot, my lovely developers, not everyone has the time to play Elsword as extensively as you require. Some of us have so much to do that doing 2 Secret Dungeons is all we can do. Because we don’t put in the time that others can,it takes much longer to be as good as others, and at this point we can’t even enjoy the game’s story any longer due to requirements of Elrianode. We even get as much as chewed out for sharing our complaints with the community who accuses of only complaining and not doing any “work”.Requiring more and more and more from the player only makes this game more like a job, and none of us exactly received our fair share of pay yet. Let’s also not forget, 3rd job and their skills will most likely be buyable in the Item Mall, encouraging the micro-transactions that gamers have come to just love over the past few years. If my class can’t even use the skills there were supposed to be given, why even play the class at all? ♠FailureMaster

So Sourcream shared with us a page of the Pokemon manga in which Giovanni first finds his Alolan Persian. This is the face he made upon seeing it. I thought it would look great on Jakob. ♠FailureMaster

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