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AT LEAST now the story puts your character in a better starting point towards end game. Also, the new Temple of succession quest gives a riftwalk/dawnforged stage 3 weapon, some upgraded accessories (the ones being sold at basin so you save ALL those peaches now), hex gems and 5 pieces of the raven soul shield. The rest? It solely depends on how high you want to go. I don't think you will need to min max 100% of everything just to be competent at end game. This game still requires some player skill (ahem! memorization and some hand eye coordination which I sadly lack) to do end game mechs. Just do what you can little by little and concentrate on one thing at a time. Not to max it, but to get it as good as you can without getting bored of it. So yes, I do agree that the game has a LOT of things to do just to upgrade a character. But you don't need to complete each and every one of them to max. Just ask around or check guides to see where everyone else is in terms of gearing, and try to do what they did.

My two cents here. I utterly suck now, but I've been in gaming since the Atari 2600. Back then I had my full senses to play so I could complete games properly. I say this so I can explain my point. Now, I know that many concepts about gaming have changed since then, but back then, the concept of "playing the game to learn it" was pretty strong, and I think many players still do this to this day. They want to learn mechs by themselves without the input from a guide. Now here's where I believe the problem lies. Back then, most games were learned solo (most were single player games after all), so if you failed, it affected only you. Not such thing in multiplayer games, since failing means you take others with your failure. And this is where the "learn before entering" mentality comes from, I believe. As for OP and the thread topic, I kind of understand OP's frustration. I mean, a mini boss one shotting people? wat? But my advise would be to dial the fury down a little. Maybe leave the game for a few hours and come back with a clearer mind. Despite what everyone around here can say, getting good at this game isn't the smoothest, easiest thing. This game may not be the most complex experience out there, but certain things may take some time to learn (and let's not get started with all the hoops needed to gear up). Even I with my time in the game still forget sometimes that SS, CC and interrupts exist, and only getting hit repeatedly (in game, mind you) serves as a reminder. I don't play with others anymore. I feel my time for that is over as I grew old and uncoordinated (I also get huge headaches if I do content that taxes my brain, so feh!). But I know mechanics exist and we have to learn them and go around them. Some may seem unfair, but after doing them a few times, I suppose they can be etched into memory. Anyway, keep your head clear and don't let a game make you mad.

Nope. You might want to submit a ticket and see your options through support if the change was very recent and can count as an honest mistake. I wouldn't get much hope up but it's worth a try. OR, you could try warming up to that character and use it as it is.

I should be the one feeling ashamed here. I have wasted money in this game. More than I'll admit, YET I have absolutely nothing to show for it. All my characters are on story gear, but they have changed race, gender and clothing an infinite number of times.... I'm no whale. I'm just a waster... >.<

Now if we could get the premium running effects to go with the selected path(or just be able to switch them off). It's dumb to throw icicles while running on a fire themed FM.......

I didn't read all the posts but I'll add my two cents about poor DPS. First. This game isn't the easiest to DPS with (regardless of what those who DO find it easy tell others). This game is simply casual unfriendly to the max in regards of any hint of end game. Simply throwing what's off cool down won't make it for you in end game, so go beat up Poharan and Hae Mujin if all you want is laid back casual play. Gearing up a character requires way too many steps and a ridiculous amount of different resources. So while anyone can glide through story, entering a dungeon is a completely different matter. Now, my recommendation to players who want to try? Spam the training dojo thing. It's the perfect place to train proper rotations (which are 100% mandatory for this game's end game) and work on strengthening things like crit, buffs and debuffs. Check guides online if you need pointers (I should apply this to myself but I'm casual and lazy, so nah!)... This game demands everyone to bring their A game until you can memorize and make your moves on muscle memory and boss patterns become second nature. Oh, also DO the newest orange quest (the one with the red poison flowers and the lyn dude). It gives upgraded accessories and hexa gems.

Same problem here. Thought I was the only one still using a Steam pad for this game... Now the game only accepts the "Default Desktop Configuration" instead of the game specific shortcut config. I lost the ability to use BnS's gamepad mode so I had to emulate the full KB+M just as if the game had no gamepad support at all. The one plus to this is that now I feel a bit more free to change the keys around...

From what I understand, the first iteration of the new launcher was buggy and deleted the old launcher and the game. The launcher I downloaded installed itself in a "Launcher 2" folder and did not delete anything. Maybe that's why some people didn't have problems.

I liked lightning BD leaf slash animation.... But now I'm using wind BD, so RIP my preferences. Guess i'll have to get used to the silly poke... The warden guitar solo looks funny on my lyn, though I would have really liked to have a smaller scaled weapon. Even with smallest hands mine clips through the ground. >.<

UE4 should work better with more modern hardware by better allocating resources and allowing the system to stress less (your 1050 SHOULD be fine with UE4). But if the rest of your computer is ancient, like having a very old CPU and ram, chances are this or that new technology or piece of code in the new engine may have a chance to mess with your experience.

I'm also getting a 1.97 gig update.... I thought the game was already updated...

On the new launcher, there's a tiny gear icon at the upper right side. Click that and go into the "Game" tab. There's a "run 32 bit client" option there.

though sure, I'm now finding myself unable to launch this through Steam. The basic shortcut it created has no target but can mysteriously still open the launcher normally. But passing this info into a Steam shortcut now makes it throw an error.

Odd. While the new launcher is slower by itself because it downloads more stuff to put in your face at a time, it never messed with my game installation and recognized it on the spot. So my only recent download was the launcher itself. My game is installed in my D drive and the launcher is in C drive.

Ugh, so they did the same move as tera. Removing story to "shorten" the level up phase.... Now I'm starting to wonder when they will start removing old dungeons like blackram narrows or or tomb of exiles..

Cho does get to talk with the player (remember one of the announcements of this episode was the upgrade to your windwalk to 40k points). I won't spoil what he says if you haven't done it yet. As for the rest, I'm also posting in the "Little girl in the rain" thread. But I agree quite a few things felt badly written for the sake of constructing a certain type of finale. It's like they had the finale all written well before the rest of the story, and they are fitting that story to this exact finale, no matter how broken it gets. So many events could have been avoided or at least made in such a way that the player didn't look like a total dolt. First. Leave the kids in Zaiwei, damnit! From the very start when Yumna fei shows the letter to Cricket, everyone KNOWS it was going to be a trap. Maybe we need an Admiral Ackbar character here (After all, this game has Yogi bear, Timon and Pumba among others as joke characters...). Then Yumna fei herself falling directly into said trap too, in her dumbest act ever. That was a very facepalming event indeed. But before all of this, wouldn't Cricket just stay in Zaiwei and just awaited information from the Talus party beforehand? I mean, if Cricket feared about leaving the kids behind with the already proven incompetent Zaiwei security, he should have stayed with them. But noooo! Every concern for security and preservation of self and the ones he's tasked to care for goes out of the window at the mention of the POSSIBILITY of finding Ryu. Still. Funny that Ryu is now stronger than Cricket..... wait... EVERYONE in this damn story is still more powerful than Cricket.... Heck, even the Yes Men at the Cinderlands had a better intro (which was damn cool if you ask me). Also, shouldn't Yumna Fei and Namsoyo be like sisters or something? Why they had absolutely NO interaction when they were together? I mean, I wouldn't expect a dramatic hug or anything, but Yumna Fei should have known about the tale of the separated siblings by now. So at least a mild exchange of words to acknowledge the fact would have been nice. Another dumb moment was when Cricket and that general guy ran to the prince's place. They fought the Ebondrake only to find the prince under the peaceful care of... the Ebondrake? Are there good and bad ebondrake now? Why the Ebondrake even went through the trouble of killing those soldiers when they could have just ordered them to leave? (as the letter Cricket finds actually says?) And then the non ebondrake guys in front of the prince's place didn't even see all the death in front of them? This part of the story makes zero sense to me and felt like ultra cheap filler. At least at the end the general did note the Dowager using dark arts and was angry for it. So not everything was abysmal writing. Lastly. What about Zulia? What about Gubong? They just poofed and nothing else is known about them. And nobody even seems to remember them after the fact.