So, about me basically I'm a returning player and I'm gonna talk on what happens in my case what my perspective of this is. (Simply put it, it's INFURIATING)
So let's talk about soulstone plains for a bit, when I took an hiatus from BnS it was like 2 years ago, when max lvl was still lvl 50 and people hardly were above HM 15/16, I repeat this was 2 years ago.
Soulstone plains was intruduced WAY before I left. The intention of Soulstone Plains was to give players a open world pvp/pve farming content which at the time (AGAIN, 2 years ago) was one good place to farm mats and etc. Everybody could farm them, there was reward there was enough going for a lot of people, there were a lot of different servers, and a lot of channels.
Now i noticed one of the big differences from before is that Ugon and the other now gives a garanteed plus a % chance to drop evolved stones. Which is good cause also to get it you need to be able to get 2 badges from that boss, that is you need to kill him 2 times on respawn. That is good, that is around 1h 30/45m to get both.
NOW, let's talk about THE REAL PROBLEM, see this in MY PERSPECTIVE as a still relatively low geared player, compared to almost every other player in this game, ESPECIALLY THE ONES CAMPING Soulstone plains.
I CANNOT FARM FOR ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤, LITERALLY FOR ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤, in a open world content that was open 2 GOD ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ING YEARS AGO. Before the max dps going about was around 300/400k dps something around those numbers. NOW, let's just say you see 1 low lvl geared player taking that same ammount of damage competing with other 30 players one shooting everything with a 1M dps.
Let me tell you just show an example of how bad it is to try to farm anything right now in Soulstone plains (again a 2 year old content with 2 year old untouched mobs): You know those mobs that spawn on the side in the last 4 minutes of the mining phase? I've came back to this game almost 1 month ago, and still haven't even been able to complete the quest to kill them, EVEN DOE I'M THERE AT EVERY SINGLE SPAWN AND CAN GET 1 HIT IN BEFORE THEY DIE I CANNOT EVEN COMPLETE THE QUEST. in 1 MONTH, I'VE NOT BEEN ABLE TO COMPLETE A SIMPLE DAILY QUEST LIKE THAT TO THE POINT THAT I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY DROP (IF THEY DROP ANYTHING, but of course they do cause you have 30 gorillas trying to kill him as fast as they can). This is not normal.
I've been literally trying days and days to farm soulstone plains, and I can say that at ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ING BEST I can get 200 prestige points p/hour. 200 ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ing prestige points p/ hour. Let's see another example for this: I get 200 points after 1 hour, and the other player lvl 60 HM 19/20/21/22/23 is making about 1500 p/hour. Why? Cause even doe i'm beating that single mob like for 2 full rotations already and get him to about almost half of his hp, that one OVERGEARED guy in a 2 year old content just 1 shots the mob and i get about 20 prestige points and he gets around 180. It's FAIR RIGHT? Let's say i give up to try to farm the mob spawns at the cerulean base, and instead go around killing the mobs in the field, i'm trying to kill one of the unbound, that HM 20 gorilla is gonna one shot those 2 mobs above and come running towards me and finish off mine as well. BIM BAM BOM, i got 10 prestige points trying to kill 1 unbound while the other guy made 450 prestige single handedly killing the 2 mobs in the cerulean base and still with enough time to come down and steal half the points from the one i was killing. IT'S FAIR RIGHT? Or i can i just be trying to kill one unbound and the other guy is going to kill the entire field and be with enough time to go to the spawns at cerulean base, and even if i try to go with him, i get around 10 prestige points for killing the 2 of them with him and he gets 400 or so.
AGAIN, i'm going to repeat this is a content that was intruduced 2 ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ING YEARS AGO.
Back to talking about those "field bosses" that spawn, on 4 min left of mining phase and ugon. 1 month of playing this, and i've not got 1 chest, or completed a quest out of them.
Why? Again 30 HM 19/20/21/22/23 gorillas 1 shotting and charging their ult's that do not require a target. 1 ONE ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ING ENTIRE MONTH, 31 DAYS, 7 TO 8 HOURS FARMING EACH DAY, AND I HAVE NOT EVEN BEEN ABLE TO COMPLETE A QUEST FROM A 2 YEAR OLD CONTENT. ALSO, in 1 month i've not been able to get above the Ascendant level IN 1 ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ING MONTH.
Now, I understand that high level players can just simply get to somewhere in soulstone plains and clean how they want, that is normal about any kind of MMO, that is not what i'm complaining. They are free to farm as well, BUT SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE, because the with the current situation, in a "currently" low level content, low level players adjusted to that same content, CANNOT FARM THERE, there is LITERALLY NO WAY, for them to compete WITH ANYTHING against all of this HEAVILY high geared gorillas.
It's at the point where YOUR OWN FACTIONS HURTS YOU MORE THEN DEALING WITH THE TIME TO TIME PVP ENGAGEMENTS AGAINST PLAYERS FROM THE OTHER FACTION.
It's to the point that even when you get those 200 points after 2 hours or so, and you're either trying to lvl up your rank or trying to get that 300 points soulstone pouch, you're are probably always gonna get that 1 HM 21 gorilla from the opposite faction killing you cause you have been already going about for 1 hour or more to farm those 200 points and it's more then natural that farming for that ammount of time in a row is gonna get you killed.
ONE WAY OR THE OTHER it's IMPOSSIBLE FOR LOW GEARED PLAYERS TO FARM IN A LOW LVL CONTENT. Be it for soulstones, quests, chests, or faction ranks. The 4 REASONS to be in that low level content ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO DO.
Now, here is the solution for this, we have 2 options:
1º the most simple one to fix this, create a new faction zone in Solak with the same kind of content that Soulstone Plains has, with more something beffiting better the high geared players with rewards that interest them to farm there and not make them SoulStone Plains as worth as it currently is for them.
2º Well, this one, it probably needs to happen in all cases so that high geared players stop abusing over on low level content that low lvl geared cannot farm. The first thing is make so that the prestige points are EVENLY distrubuted towards all players that agro the mobs. WHY? SIMPLE, because AS IT IS NOW, LIKE SAID ABOVE IF I TRY TO KILL ONE MOB ALREADY DOING 2 FULL ROTATIONS ON HIM AND DROP HIM ABOUT 60% HP, THAT ONE GORILLA IS GOING TO SHOW UP AND KILL HIM IN 1 SEC AND GET MORE REWARD THEN ME AND CONTINUE TO KILL THE ENTIRE AREA ALL BY HIMSELF BEFORE I HAVE A CHANCE TO LAND A HIT ON ANYTHING ELSE TO GAIN THAT MISERABLE 1 POINT OUT OF IT.
So now that we distribute evenly the points to kill that mob, here comes the next part for this change, AND THE BIGGEST ONE. Make it so that Ulok (or whatever his name is) and both the 2 King Grindthooth that spawn at each side of the quarry at 4 min in the mining phase ARE ONLY DAMAGED BY PLAYERS WITH A MINIMUM AMMOUNT OF POINTS. The same mechanic you have for using the drums when you get enough points to not die to that particular boss (i don't remember his name) MAKE ALSO THAT YOU NEED A MINIMUM REQUIRED TO USE ONE OF THOSE DRUMS TO BE ABLE TO DAMAGE THOSE GRINDTHOOTH AND THE OTHER LAST BOSS. WHY THIS? to stop the abuse from high geared players coming to a low lvl content, DOING NOTHING, and TAKING EVERYTHING. IF THEY ARE GONNA TAKE EVERY SINGLE REWARD FROM THAT LOW LVL AREA, AND ON TOP OF THAT STEALING THE FARM FROM LOW LVL PLAYERS TO THE POINT WE CAN'T EVEN COMPLETE ONE SIMPLE QUEST, AT LEAST MAKE IT SO THAT THEY WORK THEIR ASSES OFF BY OBTAINING THOSE POINTS THROUGH OUT THE 2 PREVIOUS PHASES TO BE ABLE TO GET REWARDS TO KILL GRINDTHOOTH AND ULOK.
Now, since i know there wouldn't be enough points for everyone and it would be a little unfair in many aspects of that, of course i'm going to say, that with this change you also need to increase and add points through all the mobs in the field. So that whoever is actually trying to farm, CAN ACTUALLY FARM. AND NOT GET A HEAVILY GEARED PLAYER STEALING EVERYTHING FROM EVERYONE THAT IS LOW GEARED. AND NOT GET LAST SECOND CAMPERS ONE SHOTTING ALL 3 OF THE BOSSES AND MAKING THE SITUATION WORSE. YOU WANT THE REWARDS? FARM FOR THEM.
Now i know that increasing the ammount of points obtained would cause as well an unnecessary increas ammount of soulstone farming and that would also affect marketplace. SO, it's simple, increase the ammount of points needed as well to obtain both pouches and chest. Simple
I'm gonna be real quick here, if anyone is interested, if i care about the HIGH geared gorillas being opposed to this change: I DON'T GIVE A ****.
All you guys do is literally one shot the mobs in a ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ing 2 year old content stealing every possible way of farming in that area for those same said low geared low level players. You do not deserve an opinion if you are completely against changing the way how soulstone plains currently work. It's already bad enough that you clear the entire ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ing area while we kill one mob, you still have the ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ing digusting attitude of coming and stealing that one mob by 1 shotting him and getting 80 to 70% of his reward when we are in agro with him for the last 10/15 seconds. It's literally DISGUSTING.
As it is now, you can't farm points, you can't farm quests, you can't soulstones, you can't upgrade your faction rank, you can't farm chests, you can't do ANYTHING cause it ALL gets taken unfairly by heavy high geared/lvl players. Change that based on what i said. IF THEY WANT TO FARM THOSE CHESTS AND ETC MAKE IT SO THAT THEY WORK THEIR ASSES FOR IT AND POINTS ARE EVENLY DISTRIBUTED TO SOFTEN THE FACT THAT HIGH GEARED PLAYERS KEEP ABUSING THIS SYSTEM TO HURT LOW GEARED PLAYERS.