chickenpoodle

it still works. its kind of like the issue before the patch where you had to multi click the venture tokens for the ui to register properly. annoying? slightly. but you can still get it done to use for now. https://i.gyazo.com/9dd6ef88dc740f96a5634645d483225c.mp4

you can enter easy mode of spectral shrine, which will still work for soul boost credit. content related to ranking isn't available - thus mao, toi, and normal/hard shrine is cut. (in addition to pvp modes) but easy mode was never part of rankings. so you should be able to enter.

the problem is that in KR, they had some soul stages removed. two of the brightwill awaken stages do not exist. so they only have 7 stages of upgrade in the brightwill tier of soul. we still have 3 awaken stages, thus that is where the two missing stages worth of evolution stones are from.

I think we all need an actual source of these Divination Psyches. Right now they're available from NCOIN sources only. We're given a means to transmute the new better version of the psyche, buuuuuuuuuuuut...... we have no psyches to perform the transmute with. Yes, we are sometimes given one psyche with one event. But not every event. Until recently, we went maybe... 9 months? or 10 months? without a single one too. So if we do the math... one psyche every two events, thats about one psyche every 3-4 months. We need probably FIVE psyches per badge, with two badges to upgrade. thats potentially 3 years. We're gonna get new badges by the time get remotely close to enough to finish upgrading the badges! OH WAIT, THATS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED LOL we got the new serpents den badges BEFORE we finished upgrading our old ones. In KR they can transmute the Divination psyches. They've been able to do so for very long time now. Where is our ability to do this? A lot of us try real hard to defend your company when people say BNS is all pay to win, trash like that. And honestly it isn't always. There is a lot of ways for free to play players, or very casual spenders to progress quite far in the game. But honestly sometimes you guys make it real difficult for us to try to speak the truth. Throw us a bone.

The population is lower than before, but it is far from "dead". BNS buddy user population is low because there is a different public 3rd party launcher that is being used too, and you see up to 3000-3500 during peak hours on that. And those are just people using the 3rd party launchers. Based on my experience as a mentor over on the Academy discord server, majority of the players don't use 3rd party launchers of any sort. Really only the players who have played BNS in the past and is returning, or those who have been playing for a long while. There is a lot of players in and around open world wandering around doing storyline that we never see because we never venture back to those areas since we've completed story and gotten to level 60+. and yes, in NA, majority of the time, no one uses the LFP button, thats to avoid bots or afk'ers. it still doesn't prevent people from afking in your instance, but at least if they made the effort to click into the dungeon and ready up, its a bit more likely they're ACTUALLY there, than just clicking LFP and leaving for a while. people do honestly spend too much time waiting for other players to make a listing in f8 or to post a recruitment message in faction/region chat though. they gotta just step up and post their own. you could have 20 ppl waiting for the same dungeon, but all 20 of them are doing JUST that - waiting. someone has to post one. thats all it takes. so on that note, that person could be you. that'll solve some of your "i'm getting kicked due to my gear" problems. might take a bit of time on occasion for people to join your instance, but hey, you know the requirements for the dungeons, you know how much it takes to clear mini's and final bosses. you know how much you've got to contribute. and i'm assuming you can gauge well enough how much other characters may or may not be able to contribute as well. so maybe f8 just needs you to be that guy (or gal) to make the listings for them to join.

they can not be traded. they're not even bound to account, unfortunately.

I would like to make a note that Power Play talent spec randomly... "fixed" itself after the maintenance of December 2. It was functional and working as it should of been. We tested it for pings up to 450ms and the auto volt salvo's were being cast properly. BUUUUUUUUUUT....... with the maintenance/patch of December 16.... it broke again. and this time even worse than before. there are people with ping as low as 100-120ms reporting that it is not working for them either now.

i don't know how mythic thornbreaker weapons look... but with silversteel, all the blue accents on the weapons, turn orange, when you take enhance it to mythic stages. the post creator wishes that this re-color does not exist. the staff posted above is the enhanced staff obviously, so the preview, and the ingame appearance will both be orange. but if you recall, before you added mythic enhancements, it was blue in color. for example, with my bangle, here is the enhanced and normal silversteel

if its meant to open up as more ppl are present, i don't think its working properly. for two days now, every spot has 2-6 people fighting over the same group of mobs (anyhwere from 4 to 12 mobs) so unless the system is made so that its expecting 1:2 or 1:1 player to mob ratio or something.... its not counting players properly.

half a year has gone by. still no response.

Ok me and few friends went and completed a VT run today with some alts. At first when i heard about the nerfed enrage timers, i thought "oh it can't be that bad" But after seeing the difficulty we had with 7 people, I can safely say its literally impossible to do with an alliance full of anyone at the appropriate gear-level for VT. You're meant to be able to complete VT with BT gear. You're meant to be able to complete TT with VT gear. etc etc. You lose far too much time during the spider phases since the enrage timer is still ticking. Plus while the clock is ticking down, the spiders are healing the queen. You need a whole buncha TT geared players to clear this. I don't care if they gave out freebies for TT level gear at one point in time. New players who start now (well after the call to arms event has set sailed and gone), will not be able to come close to being able to complete this content with BT gear.

There are some issues regarding the Power Play Talent choice. Certain skills trigger automatic Volt Salvo attack when used. That is on the tool tip. While this is partly true, it is entirely random, there is only a chance at triggering Volt Salvo with usage of Lightning Palm or Zap. However there is a bigger problem at hand. After thorough testing with many others at BNS Academy in NA and EU server, we have discovered that there seems to be correlation to a player's ping and the chance at triggering Volt Salvo. We devised a test where we charge 4 stacks of lightning, where after when we use Zap and Lightning Palm, should grant a chance at triggering a cast of Volt Salvo (one attack of it per stack of charge, for a total of 4 hits for each instance of Volt Salvo). However after hundreds of samples between many members, when a player has approximately 150ms or less, there is a high chance at triggering Volt Salvo. This can lead to 15 to 20 some triggers of Volt Salvo over the course of a 30 second sample. When a player has higher ping than 150ms in game, there is little to no chance at triggering Volt Salvo. We can test it over and over and it will yield anywhere from 0 to 3 or 4 triggers of Volt Salvo over the same 30 seconds. You can replicate the test by doing the following. Generate Lightning Charges via LMB. use RMB and 2 on your target during the 30second buff period of Lightning Charge. Pay attention to your ping and record the number of Volt Salvo's you get. if you have one charge, each Volt Salvo should result in one hit. if you have two charges, each Volt Salvo should result in two hits, etc. The expected outcome is that at higher in game pings, such as 200, 220, 240, 260, 280, etc, you should get little to no triggers of Volt Salvo. We have hundreds of screen shot samples, some videos for evidence and we'd like for this matter to be looked into. Feel free to request more samples as needed.

they don't need to patch files on our end to alter drop rates of rng boxes, or unity chests. but what DID change was the visual bugs related to the bracelet boxes looking like tt accessories. probably more, but i haven't seen any other changes yet.

A handful of us got disconnected from the game simultaneously. We can all log onto the website still obviously (because I can post this). But can not log into the game. What is happening?