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  1. 6 hours ago, sFMos said:

    You're the one that feels entitled to not having people without gear on your team..

    Like you haven't been carried and had help to farm your gear..

    Actully its possible  to not join stuff you clearly have no gear for and still progress pretty good in this game.

     

    You need 1 Million dmg to solo everything expect CC this already needs 3 Million. (DST 7.1 Million) and ive proven times and times how low your actual gear has to be to reach 1 Million DPS. Now divide the minimum you need in the dungeons by 6 and you have the minimum gear for the dungeons. If you cant manage this you should not join the dungeons or you have premades. Its as easy as that.

     

    1 Million/6 is not even 170k.

    3 Million/6 is 500k.

    7.1 Million/6 is not even 1.2 Million and since this boss is only dependant on ur Burst cause its short af not much gear needed.

  2. On 6/17/2021 at 10:05 AM, sojaa said:

    Best you can do is create a discord and bring them all to light. We can all assist.

    BG Discord did this a long time but even tho there where dozen of reports thoose player got no punishment. Each time they reported someone and still saw this guy ingame it got less and less atractive to report at all rendering the ammount of people who are willing to reports into the single digits and eventually they stoped completly reporting cause why boother.

     

    Everything that got reported should be really really easy to investigate themselve. If they wanted to keep the game cheater free they would ban thoose obvious cheaters without any reports.

  3. 10 hours ago, repliergod said:

    yah sadly nsoft banning people permanently and never let them get 1 last chance 

    First off there has been several known people who got permanent bans but thoose got lifted pretty quickly even tho it was proven they are guilty of what they have been banned for.

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    its like this if u get 3 time report ur account get banned permanently no matter what year u get reported 

    If that where true we wouldnt have a single cheater in this game cause i can assure you they get reported more than 3 times. Some got reported even more than 3 times per day but nothing.

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    this system is really bad design

    Its litterly impossible to get banned in this game. There is only 1 reason i could think of that would lead in a ban which will not be lifted and thats fraud. If you pay ur stuff with stolen credit cards for example. I knew one person. No matter how many accounts he uses he will be perma banned in the matter of 1 day.

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    @Hime i appeal hime to try to give 1 more chance for those people who played ur game very long time  its possible people will change after coming back

    year 

    There is a reason people dont get a 2nd chance after they did something ban worthy and knowing NCwest they probably only ban if something like fraud happened or if you are not a casher and used really big cheats.

     

    In his case i am pretty sure its not cause of a changing IP-Adresse. I got banned for this too. I logged in from work and i still do for Forums. This lead them to believe someone unknown was on my account. All i had to do was provide them with the email i used to create the account and i got unbanned.

  4. On 6/19/2021 at 11:05 PM, Ioseppo TiLtEbUg said:

     

    I play in pvp every time I can, sorry: I find it more interesting and ecxiting than pve, and I think to have your same right to play and increase my skill level. If you don't like it send a formal complain to NCSoft.

    Like ive said please dont think i am toxic its just like this if you dont boother gearing up. I dont mind you doing pvp but if you dont boother getting gear which sadly includes alot of pve then you should stay in arena for a while. You can also farm gear in arena. I also dont get why you wanna improve in a gamemode litterly everyone and their mums one shot you while you cant even do 1% of their health with ur gear.

     

    On 6/19/2021 at 11:05 PM, Ioseppo TiLtEbUg said:

    if a low level player doesn't  have the gear to reach this the game automatically denies the points at the end of round, even in case of victory.

    Well there is a reason for this and its a good one. Its a competetive gamemode and people wanna climp. Now imagine you are the only one who boothered getting pvp gear and do 30 kills but still lose by a far margain cause your whole team has story gear and is one shot against even a normal leftclick of most classes. Or to give another example imagine you play League of legends and there is this one mid laner who feeds the enemy team on purpose. Thats you.

    On 6/19/2021 at 11:05 PM, Ioseppo TiLtEbUg said:

    I think that a clear improvement would be to consider all the activities that lead to victory: not only the damage then, but also the capture of braziers and statues for the benefit of your team.

    Here we have different oppinion but i can tell you mine is way more liked in the community. Just lock out everyone below a certain gear level. For example Ascendant 9 and full PVP Accesories. To be equipped like this you need maybe 100G or even less.

    On 6/19/2021 at 11:05 PM, Ioseppo TiLtEbUg said:

    This obviously in addition to the implementation of a system for selecting opponents that takes into account the equipment and not just the ranking.

    Do you think we have enough players for such a system that takes gear into account ? We are already queing in a range of 300 rating or something. You can get a full Gold lobby as a Bronze player nowdays. You can also ask to remove 6v6 entirely instead would have the same outcome.

  5. On 6/19/2021 at 7:46 PM, sFMos said:

     

    I don't mind doing some pve either, but if i have to grind 200 runs each time cause i never see any drops... it gets extremely boring.

    I totally agree and ive written it over and over. PVP Gear should be completly obtainable via pvp since you dont need pvp gear only the way we have it right now. You need like 8 million dmg in a parse to beat eva normal mode which is already 3rd gen pve gear. I dont wanna talk about the ammount of time needed just to have a competetive soul and heart or pet in pvp.

    On 6/19/2021 at 7:46 PM, sFMos said:

    But 1 hitting people shouldn't be a thing at all... people just do way too much damage.

    As ive wrote i cannot argue here since i am not getting one shot even tho the gear of my alt is by far not last gen. I mean the Soul is True Cosmic that should tell you enough.

    On 6/19/2021 at 7:46 PM, sFMos said:

    Why shouldn't people have to combo? 6v6 was soooooo much better when people did have to combo.

    It totally depends on class. Assasin can spam just like sum and fm but Soul fighter, KFM, Destroyer, nearly all classes still need some kind of combo to kill even if the ammount of buttons needed has decreased alot in the past combos are still needed unless you play FM/SIN or Sum.

    On 6/19/2021 at 7:46 PM, sFMos said:

    And i'm not in favor for an equalized bg either... just there shouldn't be this much of a difference between specs/classes/gear... the difference should be small... noticeable, but small.

    To their defense its super hard to balance classes but even tho i defend NCsoft in that matter there is no excuse why third spec FM exists. I mean they are not even trying to balance it or any other class.

    On 6/19/2021 at 7:46 PM, sFMos said:

    i'm literally talking about me being in my veil and being 1hit by everyone and their mums... or sometimes 2 hits..

    Thats something i complain about too. FM third, Archer can just shoot through. Their attacks are ranged attacks which veil is supposed to block but no not even a dmg reduction. All they have to do is give tab walk on fm a lil cd and make veil work against range attacks again.

    On 6/19/2021 at 7:46 PM, sFMos said:

    It's just soooo boring, and who would wanna play this for a year to get decent enough gear to take 90% damage per hit instead of 200% of your hp.. it's stupid.

    You dont need that much time but still you need way to much time and most of it will be in PVE. The game is not even trying to give you a reason to play pvp so its also unlikely new players will even try to play pvp.

    On 6/19/2021 at 7:46 PM, sFMos said:

    And don't see why they even bother working on UE4 and releasing it if they don't bring back people, seems like a total waste of time and money to work on this for years and then release it while the game is dead..

    Thoose are Koreans. Ever seen how they work ? they take pride in their work. Its a bit different than in the west. If its not profitable the west ditches a project but koreans are different. If this is a bad thing is up to you.

     

  6. 1 hour ago, sFMos said:

    No it's dead because of the people abusing dual client to feed their alts to plat.. now you just see how dead it really is because of what they been doing.

    What do you think Wintrading is ? If Wintrading would get banned the top players wouldnt que in this low elo cause there is litterly no reason to do this but they need rating which they cant get in gold rating since there are no players.

    1 hour ago, sFMos said:

    I know many pvpers that quit for this reason, people been trying to report these people for over a year now... but most gave up and just quit the game cause ncsoft doesn't do anything...

    Most people i know who quit left cause they knew even tho they are the 2nd best or 3rd best of their class or sometimes even the best of their class they have no chance to reach the top spots cause on last day there is this one guy who wintrades his chars above yours. It dosent matter if you have 2300 rating or 1900 he will be above.

     

  7. 3 hours ago, Satorii said:

    -buying from other players or f5 . with this method people need 2,2275 million gold to get these not even maxed unity stone and another 2,2275million gold to max them out. i think not a single player has that amount gold atm

    I know 1 or 2 players who might have that much. Imagine you are max gear and sell raids each week. Someday you will have that ammount.

    3 hours ago, Satorii said:

    possible solutions:

    - bring back the etherial vial bundle with 180 vials and 1 badge psyche in f10

    I am waiting for this. My HM coins are ready.

    3 hours ago, Satorii said:

    - increase the droprate from dungeons by arround 1000%

    I dont want to see that. As i mentioned in another thread. PVP is ducked by alot since SSP got reworked. The income of 6v6 got reduced by 50% and 1v1 by probably 60%. Its so freaking unatractive due to this another decrease in income wouldnt be good for pvp. HM coins are currently the only reason a player goes into pvp and what would you do with hm coins ? either buy Gem powder or etherial vials. Gem powder is cheap af so the ethirials are litterly the only valuable thing you could get.

  8. 26 minutes ago, sFMos said:

    PVE was always a boring grind..

    Depends on the player. I personally enjoy PVE as long as i dont have to multi the dungeons all day.

    26 minutes ago, sFMos said:

    The p2w keeps getting worse and worse.. 

    There is no pay to win in my oppinion everything including F10 can be farmed ingame thx to Hongmoon coins. I do think some limitations should be removed thou for example the limit of Trove keys. Currently you can only buy 20 keys. Its not like we have unlimited HM coins so it shouldnt hurt them to much.

    26 minutes ago, sFMos said:

    6v6 is just nonsense.. people do waaay too much damage.. even at like 2.4k still getting 1 hit by everyone (even in veil lol), i can understand this happens if you're 1300 ap... but with 2.4k gear this really shouldn't happen anymore.

    If you have 2.400 AP with PVP gear there is no way you get one shot. You might get killed in one combo but not one attack only if its like Divine Strike for example which if you get hit by it its your own fault. My Alt has not even 2.300 ap in pvp and even the biggest whales need 2 - 8 direct hits on me to kill me.

     

    If you only have pve gear of course you die one shot. PVE gear has no defense stats.

    26 minutes ago, sFMos said:

    it's just silly how much damage people do, there's absolutely no reason for them to be 1hitting people.. 1hitting people has nothing to do with PVP (and don't act like 6v6 is PVE, we're fighting each other... not mobs.)

    If you dont boother with getting gear there is definetly a reason for them to oneshot you.  Dont get me wrong i think the whole concept of gear should be removed from 6v6 but thats not gonna happen.

    26 minutes ago, sFMos said:

    Then 1v1 arena where all day long everyday the same top 5 people on a broken class farming low rank people to feed their endless accounts to platinum with using 2 clients at the same time

    This started in 2018 when people noticed they can wintrade without getting any kind of punishment. I could write a dozen of players who wintrade but i would get banned for this. Since reporting dosent do anything i stopped reporting them around 2019 probably.

    26 minutes ago, sFMos said:

    Glad UE4 gonna solve this game's issues, and bring back all the players... cause they'll be having so much fun...

    UE4 is only supposed to reduce the lag there are no plans to get new players. They are not gonna make it more enjoyable everything thats currently planned is aiming to reduce the ammount of players on the server.

     

    Like the new Accesorie system or the new mythic system comming out.

  9. 3 hours ago, jujubs said:

    I've noticied some ppl from server received compensation but i didnt receive yet, so I sent a ticket yesterday than they told me to visit the website??? 

    By now i just think its miscommunication between the community. I think it could have been made more specific what the actual bug was thou and if it was actully just a visual bug i dont think why anyone should be getting free keys but thats ncsoft.

  10. 11 hours ago, repliergod said:

    they shutdown people multi alts character for fun that why it dead like hell  also cause of this  bad event no point in playing 

    I dont get what you are trying to say here. It seems like you write they forbid people to play on multiple chars which is not the case.

     

    Its so dead cause Wintrading is so popular and just like xml cheats nothing is being done about it.

  11. 1 hour ago, Bobthemonk said:

    There was 1 specific crit, I am asking what was in it. If you have no idea what the crit even was how can you say "yes I had that"?

     

    Your post also says that you got "2 star crits that where actually 3 star crits" when there post is saying that there was 3star crits showing up than were really 2star crits and it was simply a visual bug. Sounds like another attempt at getting keys with no idea, like half the people in faction chat who failed to read it but remembered last trove and were spamming earlier "oh I never got my 100% crit on 40 stacks, where are my free keys? They posted we get 40 free keys"

    i got told it was the crit with 1 pink scale which i have gotten.

  12. 9 minutes ago, Bobthemonk said:

    I have no idea what that even means "got 2 star crits that where actually 3 star crits".

     

    What crit was it that was even bugged?

    look at the patchnotes from the maintance last night:

     

    Fix a visual issue with one of the Tropical Treasure Trove 2-star crit appearing as a 3-star crit.

    As a token of appreciation for your patronage, a one-time 40 Tropical Treasure Trove Keys will be given to players who received the affected crit.

     

    There where crits that appeared wrong.

  13. Hello,

     

    ive asked the support already but they are unwilling to answer me properly and sent me a link to the foums.

     

    I am one of thoose that got 2 star crits that where actully 3 star crits but i havent seen my 40 keys. ive asked in faction chat and there seem to be others too.

     

    So how do we get our keys now @Hime support is unwilling to give them.

  14. On 6/17/2021 at 11:01 PM, ActualWorstGunner said:

    At the suggestion of a buddy... 

    Oh Cool, I'm Rank 5th!
    Somehow Rank 7th

    Yeah i am still waiting for my missing HM coins from a season in 2018 where i got rank 7 or something but got rewards for rank 32. They dont care if its pvp related so dont waste your energy. Just look at my post in pvp categorie. I am asking the mods directly to speak up since they are getting paid for it but dont care.

    I assure you i will be banned before they finally answer.

  15. 1 hour ago, lillvargen said:

    Most likely the reason is: people farm on main and send to alts
     

    What would be the bad thing about it ?

     

    I dont see anything bad about more chars having the ability to run the content. Since NCsoft is not trying to get new players rather to lose new players the existing players activity would only increase from having more chars with good gear.

  16. 10 minutes ago, Grimoir said:

     

    End-game accessories are never bound to account for a while after release. Most likely it will take quite a while.

    Thats the complaint. This whole system with the Brilliant sealing charm exists to make it possible to change your class so there is no reason for locking IA or Uzume. No one has any advantage from changing class only disadvantages.

     

    You lose your Unity, HM level, HM Scrolls, HM skills, Achivements ...........................

     

    The only reason they do not allow IA Ring and Uzume stuff to be send over is to keep the players on the classes they dont like. This way people who decided to play Assasin for example have a huge advantage cause others have no option to also play the strongest classes.

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    @Hime@PhoenixMitra 18:37 pretty much the primetime for Arena in an elo that should be lively as hell.

     

    The timer goes on and i will most likely reach 30 minuites before i get a match. Do your job got damn ! You are getting paid to support the game !

     

    P.S it reached 30 Minutes. And you wanna tell me people managed to reach 2000 rating last season somehow ? if i cant even find 1 single player in 1500 ?

  18. 15 hours ago, sFMos said:

    Please enlighten me how wallbang is op..

    I meant it more in a way it shouldnt exists. Its not op like FM third godmode skill op but i dont think you should be able to do a untabable combo which can only be evaded by predicting the grab. Grab cannot be tabbed either cause the throw comes way to fast. I simply think it shouldnt be a thing but its not op like the godmode skill.

    15 hours ago, sFMos said:

    You wanna compare a 30 key combo where you have to time everything with lets say BD's who just 100-0 you in a single air with 2 buttons covered by infinite shields and having tech chases that are impossible to miss?

    BD has to combo too for 100/0 unless you only talk about 6v6 but even there usually i survive an aerial of them. Booth are combos but the difference between BD and FM is that you can escape the BDs. I dont want wallbang to be removed cause without it Ice FM is useles nowdays but atleast it should be possible to escape it like with any other combo.

    15 hours ago, sFMos said:

    And wallbang is easy to counter, all you have to do is stay away from walls and keep an iframe against grab... the grab animation on fm is slow af.

    Not always possible if the fm stays on range. It will be a waiting game if you dont attack even if the FM hugs the wall.

    15 hours ago, sFMos said:

    There's maybe 2 classes who can't counter being wallbanged, everyone else can... also there like 2 people who can do it without macro.

    Like i said i just dont think it should exists its not op in general its just bad gamedesign in my oppinion. I mean why does a tab escape exists ? its to escape from CC and this is a CC that cannot be tabbed.

    15 hours ago, sFMos said:

    Its only op if you have a much lower ping and can insta throw people before they can tab, but this doesn't happen against people gold rank+ they'll tab or use grab counter if you try it.

    It dosent happen in gold yeah but in silver cause no one plays above silver anymore. But yeah there is only 1 ICE FM i know and he has huge problems doing wallbang.

     

  19. 7 hours ago, ARC-1276 said:

    No, seriously, just ban it from Arena.

    Has been requested even before the BM got released.

    7 hours ago, ARC-1276 said:

    Third specs are ridiculously broken and horribly balanced.

    Not all of them. KFM third is garbrage. BM third is okish but far inferiour to light or fire spec. Destroyer depends on matchup but mostly worse then earth too. Assasin, Summoner, Force master are broken beyond reason.

    7 hours ago, ARC-1276 said:

    Des reduces damage to self by a metric boatload

    Not enough thou. Force master has way more reduction. You can just pve them when they go into their stance they dont have that much offensive abilitys.

    7 hours ago, ARC-1276 said:

    destroy everyone's FPS

    Hopefully fixed with UE4.

    7 hours ago, ARC-1276 said:

    BM has a literally two "I'm invincible" buttons (one literally is invincibility and the other is block everything that isn't behind you, passively),

    1 is 2 seconds the other is not against anything but it blocks a lot yeah. Thats definetly not op. Only thing id like to be removed from them is their passive. Sometimes they have randoom resists to aerials. But look at what they lose form going to third. 1. 2nd tab escape, 2. Untargatable ability, 3. alot of dmg since their dmg is aerial based which is hard to do.

    7 hours ago, ARC-1276 said:

    Assassins also have an invincibility button, two actually.

    They have 1 but it only has 18 seconds cooldown which is the problem. Compare it to soul fighter who has the same skill. 3 Minutes Cooldown and nearly 2 seconds animation time which will give you a cooldown of 3 minutes without activating the skill if you get stunned in the animation. Also it heals 30% not 50% for assasin while soul fighter heals nothing.

    7 hours ago, ARC-1276 said:

    And let's not even get started on FM's 3rd spec

    Tab walk to op in my oppinion. Has no cooldown and can heal you 100% health back. If Godmode atleast had a cooldown of 3 Minutes that would be fine but it has 36 seconds or something. Its super hard getting 2 tab escapes down while he has a tab walk without cd that gives him immortality and protection against anything. Most of the time he will have his tabs back cause to low cds.

    7 hours ago, ARC-1276 said:

    the 3rd specs also seem to be the source of most of my issues with class balancing here.

    Not entirely but they are a huge factor. There are several non 3rds that need a serious nerf too. BM untargatable iframe, destroyer red spin, Force Master Wallbang, Warden Blade ward (6v6 only) ............... there is alot. Banning thirds would help alot thou cause fm, assasin are thoose classes destroying the balance the most.

    7 hours ago, ARC-1276 said:

    I don't think I'm alone in saying that these specs need to be banned in general 1v1 and 3v3 arenas for the sake of balancing. KR tournaments have banned them as well because they're so game breaking!

    At this point it dosent matter what 1v1 and 3v3 is doing since no one plays them. 3v3 are no players at all i doubt there is a single player gold without wintrade in there. 1v1 is litterly 3 or 5 players wintrading with their 20 accounts. Even if you wanted to play 1v1 you wouldnt come far unless you play like a platin player yourselfe or atleast close. I can only manage with my main class at this point.

     

     

    Look at the vid i posted there litterly only platin players. The SF is Nagisa Yuki which i encounter in 1380 too.

     

    I think i told you that already but NCwest dosent support this game anymore even less in pvp. i doubt Hime will even listen this thread since its about pvp.

     

    Thirds are definetly one of the biggest issue but do you really think they gonna do something about it after 2 and a half year of unbalanced game without a single decent patch ?

  20. Actully i disagree.

     

    What is the biggest gold source for someone who dosent like running 24/7 pve ? Exactly HM coins and since thoose vials and the gem powder are the best items you can buy with the hm coins i would rather like to see the same thing happen to the vials than what happened to the gem powder.

     

    If not for the wintraders the price of Gem powder wouldnt be as low as 9G - 12G it would be probably like 28G. I imagine the gem powder will increase a bit now since the vials are way more worth but if this continues the vials will be avaible for around the same price as the pet pods.

     

    I dont mind it if everything is obtainable via PVE but since the reworked ssp PVP has no real gold source it decreased way to much. So HM coins are the only thing left.

     

    1 weekly box just like we have with the sacred oil would be nice thou.

  21. 13 hours ago, sFMos said:

    This isn't really the problem, the problem is they aren't banning people.

    I think otherwise since the playerbase is pretty low instead of banning id like the approach of perma banning them from F11 if its something pvp related and restict their ability to multi run certain dungeon for example in pve if its pve related. For example not allowing them in raids for 2 weeks etc.

     

    This would result in serious dmg to the player cause people know they cant 100% expect this player to come at the raid time making this player unatractive and raid is the biggest gold spot for thoose.

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    It would be easy to ban the win traders for example, especially the ones trading it with their own accounts.

    I can count several players wont write any names but i can tell you ive reported several including the one you mentioned. You can pretty much open F11 and everyone above 1800 needs to be banned from F11. I mean in 1380 i get people i know played in worlds. Thats litterly the lowest elo you can have.

     

    Also look into this thread of mine: 

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    But even though the whole server knows "player who earns $$$ through hm coins but is actully not allowed here since he is from RU" for example is feeding 7 accounts full of chars to plat, ncsoft can't figure it out.

    He might even do more. To my knowledge 90% of the plat 1v1 chars are probably him and nearly all 1700+ chars in tags.

     

    If you look into my thread and see the vid. I consider myselfe to be one of the best Warlocks left (its an alt) but i cant even manage 1550. Ok a big factor is that every class ingame counters Warlock expect destroyer and gunner but even so silver should not be a problem for me.

     

    P.S @ Mods we are talking about wintrade the most cause its the most obvious in this game. It dosent need detection tools it just needs 1 player who is not bad in pvp to know at xxxx rating is no que. Guess how they manage to get like 200 rating above the rating you cannot continue since no que.

  22. 19 hours ago, SamSalaBim said:

    Well no one posts his PC parameters for some reason

    People do and UE4 seems playablle with a GTX 1060.

    19 hours ago, SamSalaBim said:

    , but if we would accept its his 1660 geforce as todays games limit, and UE4 shud go much beyond it

    Just to be safe. I understood you think the GTX 1660 will be the minimum requirement ? And you think the RTX 3080 will multiply the fps or should ? Thats not how it works to be honest.

    19 hours ago, SamSalaBim said:

    PCs newer stopt progressing why u need it only on your 15 year old hardware...?

    I cant really understand this. PCs dont stop progressing thats true but they dont progress as fast as they did like 15 years ago. If you had a 9800 GT or whatever highend was back then. it lasted for how long ? 1 year till you couldnt max the games ? Now you buy a high end GPU and you can play on Ultra for several years.

     

    MY GTX 1080 is still capable to run everything on Ultra settings this card is already 5 years old. This was unthinkable 15 years ago.

  23. 17 hours ago, Grimoir said:

    EU and NA are two separate data centers. Meaning, they cannot just transfer a char over, they literally would have to re-create the character in the new region.

    CTRL + C on NA Server and CTRL + V on EU Server but check if a char with the name exists on EU first.

     

    Have you read the post here ? i know some people who got this service. They dont play anymore but they did get this done. It was back when Soul fighter got released thou so pretty old but i know they can do this. Also can you tell me how Black Desert managed to send over all the players chars to another server when the provider changed ? Is it like magic the Blade and soul team will not be able to ?

     

    17 hours ago, Grimoir said:

    Also what comes with that, is any RNG based stats you would have on one region you would lose on the other, and i am sure you would complain about it.

    There is no such thing cause they would create a copy and not an entirely new character. Different server dosent mean different data.

    17 hours ago, Grimoir said:

    That being said, they do not need to care if someones real life causes them to move to a different part of the world.

    I agree its not their responsibility to cover for that but they should atleast give everyone the same service no matter how much of a casher theese people are.

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