Hanuku
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36 minutes ago, Grimoir said:
I have the same, somewhat, my Router is configured to renew the IP lease every 3 days., pretty sure you can set it up on your router aswel to refresh every few days and not daily.
I know about about traversing my router's config, but I can't say I'm versed on it. I know where to check on who's using it and even how to configure local IPs. But other than that, I'd have to check on my ISP. As I said, it's a very recent change. Something I'm not used to.
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6 minutes ago, marvellynx said:
I think i said this wrong, i just literally don't know what to do when I open the marital tome, since it's a different layout from what i see in videos
Oh. The awakening content update changed it all. You now can edit it only after reaching level 60 HM7 and doing the Hongmoon Clan quest. Before that, all you can do is change your main skill set (Fire/Frost).
If you want to see how it works, look for "Blade and Soul Awakening" videos.
I assume you are using a force master since you talk about flame and frost. here's a video explaining how it all works now, including rotations and such later in the video.
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So, I've been in and out of this game for a while, and I access it through two methods. My home internet and when out of home, through my cell phone hotspot. Don't worry, I stick only to single player content while on the go... Anyway, as mobile carriers go, the IP from them is dynamic. Meaning, almost every time I access this game on my mobile hotspot, NC triggers it's "unknown access" protocol, which sends an email with a code I have to apply to be able to log in, giving me the choice to save it as a known address or not. In the case of my home Internet, this address was static for the longest time, so I didn't have that problem at home.
Well, things have changed and for the past few weeks, it seems my home ISP started issuing dynamic addresses. I assume it's on their end because I have not changed anything on my configuration. My PC is directly connected to the modem via Ethernet, and I haven't edited anything in the modem's configuration file. Drops in internet connectivity may also cause IP changes, but I haven't seen any such interruptions on my service. Reading around in the net, I get that issuing a dynamic address is cheaper for the ISP, and for the most part, internet access remains the same for users (meaning they are charging me the exact same fee for the now dynamic access they were charging for the static one). But in the case of this game, it means that pretty much every day, I have to run through the whole "unknown access" thing just to be able to play.
Not only is it bothersome to have this happening every single day I play. It also fills up the known addresses page in my NC account, which I then have to go take even more time to go purge, and also I don't know if I'll get in trouble with NC for it.
Now, I know there are some solutions. One is to ask my ISP for a static address and see if they will do it, or if those are even for sale(making me pay more for a service I previously had), or there are services like "noIP" which are supposedly free. But I don't really trust anything outside of official NC sources, which is why I've never tried stuff like BNSBuddy either. So, anyone out there has the same problem? How do you all handle it?
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6 hours ago, Riss77 said:
Even if loot boxes were banned, NCSoft would just put evething available at a fixed price and that's it.
Then it will be a true pay to win instead of a gamble to win.
If the law is passed as it is presented, even direct purchases would be banned, which is what the Senator who posted it wants. So I feel the only option would be for NC and more than half of the current MMOs we have in the West would simply close off and keep themselves in the East for good. Basically the whole MMO genre as we know it would die off, leaving only the monthly pay to play stuff and the few grind to earn games that may exist out there. But since almost everything from Korea is run on a f2p + micro transaction chance model, it would simply have no way to stay afloat here.
Unless every game agrees to switch back to a pay to play and leave their chance shenanigans behind. And that takes a lot of resources to do and nobody is sure if such a model would benefit them now. So I doubt any company would be interested in saving an already dying genre. I suppose there are other genres to play, so killing off most MMOs in the West wouldn't be such a hard blow to the gaming industry as a whole. Maybe we already need such a reckoning...
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As said above, you need to grab those points from the achievement "U" interface. You don't get them automatically.
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8 hours ago, Snowyamur said:
To be honest, what I'm more concerned about is if through this Archer update, most if not all bugs will be fixed and resolved, and that paywall barrier will be weakened a bit so new players have a chance. That's something that'll help in the game in the long run if they're addressed and fixed through this upcoming update.
Sorry but I so doubt this. I'm actually more worried about even more bugs being introduced, plus an extra class for pvp to fall into madness with because more balance issues. Seriously, I may be a small minority, but I believe a new class was something this game didn't need, even though there may be many interesting ideas for classes out there that would fit. But the current state of the game, I feel needs a lot more tweaking before venturing into extra content. Then again, bug fixes aren't known for generating lots of revenue in the short run. And this game sadly also needs that.
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2 hours ago, MassiveEgo said:
@Snowyamur I have no idea about half the stuff being written in the chats. Nothing ''pretty well'' about that. Also impossibility to weed out people who can't communicate in a given language now. There's negative level of ''pretty well'' on that point, especially then in comes to hm dungeons.
I thought people gave up on in-game chats long ago and were sticking to Discord groups or something.
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Disable bloom?
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4 hours ago, Astarae said:
Don't take my willingness to have strong feelings arguing a point meaning that I have issues with *you* as a person. Please. I realize most people get very distressed about disagreement, but *generally* I don't. Most of the time, I don't remember people's names as I usually pay more attention to what they are saying/writing and how they are saying it.
Now admittedly, I start to recognize some people by their writing style , but ask me to remember their name? That takes alot more time.
Besides -- actual grudges take too much energy -- but arguing about something you want -- that makes it's own energy coming out of passion or something I care about. I wouldn't bother posting if I didn't have emotions and feelings about some of this...
However, the behaviors I see coming out of the wrong people having or holding power -- makes for a good case for them never holding power in the real world -- unfortunately, often they do and I don't see things getting better in the immediate future.
I have no personal problem either. It's just the whole "people in power" thing felt a bit over board considering the topic. But I'll try to answer that part as well.
I don't feel that people are holding information about rotations and dungeon tactics for their own. Quite the contrary I think. Just to grab 5 minutes of fame or to genuinely help others, many rush to post their findings. Usually the first attempts need corrections, which come later from more tested input. But in the end, what we get is a lot of player generated information aimed at helping other players who either started to play later, or those who can't really find it by themselves.
This generated this culture that believes all info is out there for the grabbing, and gives no excuses to later players for not seeking it out. So in the name of efficiency and fast runs, discovery of a game's mechanics and character perks by oneself are not too popular in multi player games. There's also the part about being multiplayer and affecting more than you if you fail due to not knowing something others already know.
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8 hours ago, Snowyamur said:
Which is why governments shouldn't try to "parent" the parents; that's called an oversight dictatorship. From this fact, it might just be enough to make it so this bill doesn't pass, but I wouldn't know any better; I don't work in a legal firm nor law.
The state still has a responsibility towards children as citizens of the state who cannot protect themselves. That's why child protective services take over and pull children away from abusive homes. So while a state won't tell you step by step what to do with your child, it has all the right and responsibility to tell you what not to do with a child. There are already laws in place that make illegal for children to gamble. This law here just wants to add video game loot box shenanigans in the same level as actual gambling, to make it illegal for games aimed at children to have such things included.
Now, games like BnS are aimed at near adults and adults. It's ESRB rating is M which is 17+. Adults are allowed to gamble, but 17 year olds are still considered minors by the state. This is where the law may see most hurdles. But if approved and passed, games that don't change may see their rating moved to AO (Adult Only 18+), of they'd be forced to change their loot box mechanic. Then again, loot box or not, BnS isn't a game I'd let anyone under 17 to play.
Now, the gaming industry will do whatever it takes to prove that loot box stuff is not gambling (because an HP pot is not a "try again" card for them). And that loot boxes do not cause a gambling addiction (because 1000$ in virtual chance purchases is mighty fine and not a sign of any illness). How will they do it? I don't know. But that's what this law will be going against.
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Well it wouldn't be a bad thing, and since this was a costume given for free, nobody loses money.
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About to log. But I was playing a few hours before and everything seemed fine.
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I'm using MoW only for the extra unity gem box it sometimes sells, and the rare occasion it sells old event outfits.
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As I said, it's called rng, but it favors indeed certain results. The uncertainty lies in the fact that it can yield it's best prizes quickly to some people, while others will be left with no prize at all after many tries. In the case of these, the random number generator is still tied to a set chance per number and favors the results with the cheapest or no rewards. The same system is used on loot gamble boxes when they check on what to give you as you open them. Every prize has a chance associated with it, with the better stuff always having the smallest chances. The wheels of fate have a pie texture with some bigger sections than others. The biggest parts of this pie represent the worst prizes or no prize at all, with the smaller pieces of the pie representing the best most desirable prizes.
People still refer to it all as rng, even if the chance of one result is lower than the chance of some other thing. So in essence, it's not real, or at least not equal rng.
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If it's working in training but not in actual combat, there may be a bug or error. First. make sure you are not running in simple mode. Second, do a file check on your client. Third, check how much ping you have while in training, then how much you have when in regular combat.
These are mostly generic blind shot advice bits, but against the unknown, try the known stuff first.
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1 hour ago, Grimoir said:
I wouldnt call the current pouch P2W....to me at least...P2W means you get an advantage that no one else can get by normal gameplay and that simply isnt there. Ignoring the farming time, everything in that pouch can be gotten by gameplay (excepot costumes but we dont count those).
All it does is make the farming time shorter, by oit does not give any advantage you cannot get in game already.
Either way if tehy decide to remove the rng boxes / trove, that will hit the f2p players really really hard....because then the wealthier players will just control the market with the tradable materials. because lets face it, those rng events are what significantly drops the prices on market.
Indeed. The p2w argument people make against BnS has never been in the offerings themselves, but their accessibility to free users versus those who pay, and the speed at which a free user can catch up to a paying user per content patch period. People won't mind it much if a free user can catch up in a relatively fair amount of time. But the argument made is that catching up becomes increasely difficult with the quick content patches and the pay for "convenience" events.
Note that this is the argument as I see it. Not my own opinion.
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NC and all other companies will decide if to make things more fair for free players, or if it's better to change the games they offer in the West, or even simply pack up with their current winnings and go back to Korea, if bills limiting video game gambling are approved, have no loopholes, and are strong enough in the enforcement part. Other than that, corporate heads know plenty of ways to go around laws and other legal hurdles to aim for what they want.
Also remember that law and justice are different terms as well. One deals with what is agreed upon in a society by those leading it. The other deals with what's right and fair. Not always do both are served together.
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Loot box and p2w/p2c (pay to win and/or pay to convenience) are two different things. Banning loot boxes doesn't mean p2w/p2c would be made illegal as well. The reason p2w/p2c and loot box gambling is talked about together is because loot box is the usual method to extract more money from a good or service associated with p2w/p2c. But if loot boxes didn't exist, corporate heads would seek other ways to still insert p2w/p2c into the game.
One method would be to make more legit chance boxes with items worth roughly the same value to players. For example, a box with costumes and only costumes. Or a box with materials of the same tier, used for roughly the same gear tier. These should not contain HP or buff pots, as those are the items people see as "you lost, try again" cards. Another method would be a sort of failure breaking point. A box gives you one or several of the chance items, and also gives an item that if collected enough times, allows you to buy the reward you were looking for initially or something of similar value to you. Pretty much like the lustrous box in the current event.
Now, BnS may have some sort of defense in the fact that most, if not all of their chance boxes and chance based events can be accessed freely, just in smaller amounts for the free player. Trove has a free tier, and the current event lustrous box can be bought using HM coins which can be earned in game without paying a cent. Sure, we know that those who pay for more get a ton more chances to get the actual goodies. And at the level it's happening, we do see a marked gap between whales and free players. But still, in a court of law, the prize goes to the smartest lawyer, not necessarily to the one with justice on his side.
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If I remember correctly, there was another topic about this, with some users disliking it so much that they unequip their weapons when going idle. Being able to toggle this on and off (and the same goes for premium windwalk effects) could be a nice detail to have.
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This was a 2016 thread. The rng is these has always been very bad. Some people can get what they want in a few spins. Some people have been spinning since 2016 and still not get anything worth. That's how rng works. It's uncertain because it's random. Add that NC refuses or doesn't care about posting actual chances, though some people believe the chance to get the coveted item is usually at 0.5% or even 0.1%.
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You can actually check your ping. While in combat, ping shows up as a tiny number around the top right of the screen. The lower this number is, the better. Good ping is usually 100ms and less, while bad ping is somewhere over 170ms. Loading faster into dungeons just means you have a faster drive and processor that speeds up loading times. People with high performance CPUs and SSDs tend to load fast. Now, while that helps, ping is mostly noticed when in combat. How often you can attack per second, and if you can pull animation cancels quickly. As in, a person with good ping can attack more often in a given time frame than someone with bad ping.
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1 hour ago, Beaumagi said:
I am running Windows 10 Pro 64bit 1809, AMD FX 8320 Eight core 3.51 GHz, 8gb ram. Did malware and virus scan and made sure all was updated. All my drivers are up to date even according to hardware websites. What running background programs should I look for?
The 1809 update was installed on 05/14 which is about the time I started having issues.
Hmm. 1809 is the now notorious Windows October update. Fire up your favorite search engine (not Bing, though) and look for news about it to see what I'm talking about. So unless you are desperate to play now, you can wait for 1903 which is just around the corner. Also, see if you can roll back that .net framework update and see if the games start again. If all else fails and you can't wait for 1903 (which is being used right now by people who allowed the Insider program in their PCs, but I'm not sure if it's on inner or outer ring testing atm), you may want to try a fresh installation of an older version of Windows 10. Depending on your PC, you may have a recovery partition. If yes, try going for that, unless your computer is old and the recovery is of windows 8 or 7 or older, or if you built your PC yourself and you don't have any recovery discs or partitions made.
Either way, any recovery option will not redownload 1809 because Micro$oft killed it off their list of things to infect PCs with. So at least if you can go back, you will be auto updated at most to 1803.
As for background programs, I'd say look for things you installed yourself that are not fresh from Windows. Certain programs default to "start with Windows". So go to your task manager and check what's on your start up tab. At minimum, make sure you don't have a ridiculous amount of programs listed there. My own current list has 9 programs, so anything more than 20 I believe is reason to worry and start cleaning down.
You can roll back from 1809 to 1803 only if 10 days have not passed after the update. Otherwise, Windows deletes the old version's files.
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@Astarae Aren't you exploding this a wee bit too much? It's kind of blowing out of proportion. Anyway still. As I said and as I will say again, I'm keeping my opinion because regardless of your points, I can't agree with yours. It's as simple as that. This doesn't make us enemies. Just two people who like and play the same game but view the meaning of 'basic stuff' in different ways. You want more info while I feel better with a bit less. So as I said before, I don't see flaw in any of these views.
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38 minutes ago, Snowyamur said:
Don't you get a reward for completing it? If so, that would be why.
The event reward is given by the daily. Not by the dynamic. I'd need to run the thing again tomorrow and check where the exp is given, because that would be the only thing (and a pink HP pot) that you get from this dungeon other than access to the daily.
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another patch coming that has nothing to do with pvp
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I suppose there are two reasons for this. One, pvp in this game is cancer. You get killed either from whales or unbalanced classes. I don't know too many people who can find fun by always losing despite their constant training, while the next guy has it easy because they have money and/or the flavor of the month class. Second, it seems those few players who want to pve instead of killing each other in the over saturated NA competitive market, are flocking to games like this. So you may not find too many dedicated pvpers in this game. IF pvp was fixed, then I'd see more pvpers sticking more to this game. But on the current state, I don't see too much hope for that.