[Item Removal from Moontide Outfit Exploit]

Looks like tickets are getting auto-closed now.
Looking back, the thread asking everyone to post their affected character information always felt like deflection and misdirection at best. Those ticket numbers reflect a bracket of at least several thousand. Unless the thread was meant to somehow bump people in front of everyone else in queue, not the first time a certain demographic were given priority, there really is no point in having people post their ticket number.

Support keeps telling everyone to post on the forums so that our concerns would be read. But I wonder if we are posting on the correct forums.

[Item Removal from Moontide Outfit Exploit]

At this point, your excessive purge has created more damage than the initial exploit. 

 

A roll back should have been the first option, ASAP. The flood of pet pods were extensively saturated into the market and playerbase within the first week. Countless soulstones were exchanged, and countless people spent hours farming and then selling them. All the gold that were obtained from trade. How many people now go around with maxed out pets and are allowed to keep them? What about pet gems? How many dungeons and raids were run with the additional boost? And now our paid for outfits are wiped. The least game disrupting factor in this entire exploit, yet most disastrous to the paying player in terms of costly RNG box gambling. 

If you weren't going to roll back during the first few days, then you shouldn't do anything destructive and damaging in the weeks after. 
It's such a muddied mess now that most people I know are sitting back to watch the dumpster fire. 
You could rollback, to the recent maintenance. The beginning of Aug is the cleanest but you'll have wasted almost a month of everyone's time. The compensation would have to be appropriately excessive to appease the masses. 

Although nobody seems to bring it up, we are still in a pandemic. People will remember you for what you do, especially in these times of stress and virtual socialization. This would be a crappy way to present NC's contribution to Covid support. 

Also, I find it extremely ironic and dubious that the emote bug was reported and a client update was available within hours.  

[Legitimately obtained outfits removed]

You even managed to wipe extra duplicates of legit costumes from my premium tab, which is disabled since I haven't subscribed in a while. 
Just rollback my account to the beginning of August. 

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[Way of showing rewards with patch notes on official website.]

Lol the web design for this site has a lot to improve on. Those borderlines would save a lot of squinting. 

10 minutes ago, Grimoir said:

Looks more readable,... and i actually agree but dayum, the moment i opened that second screenshot like it went right in my eyes xD

Maybe instead of pure white use a light gray color?

White text on black background is always going to be hard on the eyes. I ended up creating my own custom stylus skin for the forums just to be able to read without eye strain.  

I wonder how people still using the default skin are holding up. 

[Freezes/Lock ups/Crashes in MSP]

You can also try disabling quest tracking or minimizing the list of tracked quests in the side bar. 

 

Settings > Game tab > Interface > Quest 

 

If you want to keep anything active, you can manually add them with the check box on the right side of quests titles in the quest journal.

 

This is something that helped when Celestial Basin was lagging and dropping tons of frames; but I also found it helping in other raid instances. It sounds odd that it's related, but it was something about the Quest tracking distances?? I forget the details now. But give it a go, can't hurt.

[Cold Storage: nerf it or increase joining requirements]

You have escalated quite a lot from my one liner of text, and as a result, validated a good amount of my points with your essay. Thanks for that.

 

I am intrigued by your use of certain words and phrasing. 

On 24/03/2019 at 1:55 AM, Snowyamur said:

I calmly approached your complaints and didn't jump on you violently and harshly like any other online player with mental, anger-management problems would. 

Is this what you expected in response to my thread? Where are these "other", than yourself, angry and harsh players with mental and anger management problems? I don't see how my thread with rhetorical facts presented in an explanatory manner can garner such a reaction. A reaction which, by most standards of definition, is actually an extreme version of "tilted". 

On 24/03/2019 at 1:55 AM, Snowyamur said:

However, considering you just jumped to the idea that I was tilted, I'd say you have an issue, not just with the game, but with properly reading online text.

I have no issues with literacy, however, might I advocate to you the virtues of reading comprehension? I did not generalize how I form my conclusions; as I was replying to a response in a topic touching on the competence of players in the dungeon Cold Storage, I should expect that it would be obvious precisely what I was referring to. And now indeed I shall refute that I have called anyone inept or incompetent, as I phrased that it is a players actions in-game that define what I perceive them to be. There is a difference. 

 

You have made quite a few "jumps to conclusions" yourself in your leaps of comprehension.

 

You have repeatedly veered off topic, I would thank you to please stay on track. This is a discussion on the current completion issues of the dungeon Cold Storage, in the MMORPG Blade and Soul, for all recommended players. It is not a topic on NCSOFT's business strategies nor any issues with their development team. 

 

P.S. that edit button is quite a convenient feature isn't it? I suppose calling people garbage or trash puts such a dimmer on that sanctimonious moral high chair. 

[Cold Storage: nerf it or increase joining requirements]

At this point, I feel I should clarify: this thread was created to raise awareness of the low success rate of clearing the Winter Mane boss in regards to all players currently recommended by the game requirements, not just the highly geared ones.

 

There is a serious sense of baiting; as the current event involves CS completion and many players are barricaded from this. It is purely RNG whether you can LFP into a party with enough DPS to clear a supposedly 960AP recommended dungeon. The MOML parties are of course an alternative, but people do also get kicked and the sniping is hair trigger. 

 

I figured a few screenshots might help illustrate better. 
This is not all on the same day, nor on the same character.

 

 

Hopefully it will contribute some data in regards to the current threshold of damage required to clear the first boss in Cold Storage. I dimly recall someone in field commenting it should take 500k dps collectively. 

 

Note: all parties started out with full 6 players, the 5 member ones are immediately after someone ditched and I was too slow to hit the printscreen button. 

Most of these players are at the range of 1100-1300AP, some are fresh out of story. Feel free to add your own screenies ~!!

 

Sadly I was talking to one of the people in a party, and they mentioned it was their 4th attempt of the day. 

[Cold Storage: nerf it or increase joining requirements]

14 hours ago, Snowyamur said:

I wouldn't say the people behind the players you queue up with, who aren't doing as good as you expect, are stupid. I'm not one of those "That's rude to say that people," but it is harsh to assume players who aren't up to your level are stupid. I just think they haven't taken the time to fully playthrough or master their current class, which is why their performance is bad.

 

With all these free Level 60 boosts going around like Christmas candy, it's expected to have players struggle figuring out how their class and specs work. That's what happens when you decide to skip through the entire story line, quests, mobs, etc. of the game; you lose out not only on the game's story, but the opportunity to test out new skills you unlock as you progress in the game. It's why in MMORPGs, players who've played through just about everything end up better than players who just skipped everything.

 

If I was in your shoes @Khaen, I'd be pissed off and frustrated as well if the players I queued up with are garbage, but I don't assume the actual people behind the screens are stupid. I just think they should not do CS until they understand their class more, as well as understanding how CS works more in-depth.

 

I would say a temporary nerf for the CS boss would be viable, since so many players either returning or new to the game are going to buy Level 60 boosters to try the end-game content, and it's likely they'll have no idea how their class really works.

I don't assume people are stupid, and whether they are "up to my level". I form my conclusions of them based on their show of competence, or their utter ineptitude. I also didn't say everyone was stupid, please don't insert that in my mouth. I understand you are tilted by my phrase in whether people "possess a brain", but that is sadly indeed a broad statement that is valid for everything in life. Perhaps I should augment it by adding "and the will to use it".

 

Sadly as Blade and Soul stands currently, everything in the main story dies in a few hits. There is barely anything that would test the player in order to force them to learn more about their class. New players, regardless of whether lv 60 boosted or not, start at around the same skill level. 

Yesterday, there were several parties in which the 3rd highest person on the dps meter was outputting 30-40k, while the party composition was roughly HM lvls 15-20 with raven 3+ and legendary accessories, and the odd the HM9's fresh out of story. Meanwhile my alt warlock went in with the base weapons you can get from story: Rift3, base legendary acc, soul and heart all from story, and I maintained a constant 70-80k dps with 150k burst. Something is wrong if my pathetically geared alt is ranked than the geared players, something is even more wrong when even lower geared people sometimes also rank higher. I am aware we are still adjusting to the new skill changes, but even basic rmb/lmb spam should average higher.

2 hours ago, Kozuki said:

Because Wintermane STACKS DEFENSE BUFF. The longer you fight him, the more defense stacks he get, to the point it efficiently half your DPS at 5 stack.

 

In order to overcome his defense buff, you have to do mech to stack Piercing buff, which requires someone to stand farthest and lure the spinning mobs toward him. Then you have to hold DPS (you can over-DPS his mech phase) so that the boss will go into mech phase where he freezes the furthest, then the furthest will get his freeze state thawed by a spinning mob, thus granting party-wide Piercing buff.

Yes I'm aware there are mechanics. Sadly I've never came upon anyone doing them. 

[Cold Storage: nerf it or increase joining requirements]

8 minutes ago, Grimoir said:

Because AP is the least important stat. you can have 1500 AP but if your gear wont provide you the damage needed your dps wont be high.

I understand that. They have sk / vt accessories, crit and accuracy. I just didn't bother listing everything. The issue is the dismal output overall across multiple parties, with multiple players who should theoretically be at a much higher statistic than they managed. 

Whatever. 

[Cold Storage: nerf it or increase joining requirements]

23 minutes ago, Grimoir said:

Doesnjt need to show on the dps meter...its enough you had blackwing from him. I do CS on my alts via lfg and have yet to failt it...even with a party of all hm13 we cleared it with still over a minute left on the enrage timer.

:T Perhaps I've been super unlucky, but failing half a dozen times in a row failing does not inspire confidence.

 

In my one clear of the day, with the bw buff, may I also add that the 3rd person on the DPS meter came at around 110k? We cleared with less than one minute remaining. I can't understand how people are achieving such low dps after update, with on average 1100-1200 AP. Much less how a 1400AP with bw and Aransu fails to break 100k. 

[Cold Storage: nerf it or increase joining requirements]

14 minutes ago, RagingPhenix said:

RAISE THE BAR 960AP ISN'T REALISTIC FOR CS... LMAO why the heck you think it's 960AP now ?
Anyone else remember clearing CS with everyone in the party having 400-500 ap ? I do

Good for you~! I also remember the days clearing 24man DKV with only 13 ppl at 400-500AP. Sadly I just finished a CS on my main, where a warlock in party had 1400AP and BW badge, yet failed to even blip on the dps meter. 

[Cold Storage: nerf it or increase joining requirements]

This is infuriating.

 

I've had a ton of consecutive failed attempts where people either

a) bail upon loading in (Bloody say something while at the recruiting stage, don't waste time)

b) have 1100-1200 AP but can't maintain higher than 30k dps 

c) join as a HM 9 with story gear and solak accessories 

 

The recommended requirements for this dungeon are seriously out of date. 960AP x6 members is no longer a valid baseline to defeat the boss. CS is no longer a free ride for people fresh out of story. Either nerf the boss so everyone can do this event, or raise the bar so the success rate is at least plausible.

Whether the individual players possess a brain with which to utilize their class and character is another story. 

[Wardrobe access for non-premium players]

3 hours ago, DoubleDees said:

And what exactly is your reasoning for why wardrobe "should" be free for everyone?

I think a better question is, why are you, as the player, so eager and willing to pay , for what is otherwise free in all other regions of the game? Not specifically directed to DoubleDees, but in general to the people so defensive for the NA wardrobe system.

[Obiligatory Lyn Male Lover's Show Off Thread.]

Meant to contribute to this thread for a while, but kept forgetting.
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