Hungibungi

Heartbeat would eat up a few FPS on our side + it would make the server really laggy... Koldrak with hb on? Yeah, no chance. Hb requires frequent handshakes with every client. They prob won't enable it cuz the servers are already unstable from time to time 🤡

It's a Windows thing. If your game crashes there's a chance that Windows will flag it. 'If Windows decides that your application is crashing too often, it will automatically start using the FTH for your application. The FTH is much slower than the normal heap and your application performance will take a big hit.' You can fix it easily with a 3rd party launcher / following the guide from BnS Academy 😄

If you know how to use google, you will be able to find some info about the infamous 4046. 4046 is the error code for detecting modified/added files to the game's folder. There's a solution for it *khhm, pls dun ban me ty*, but the easier one is to delete every modified / added file uwu Killing proccesses (aka closing other software etc) won't help, because 4049 is the error code for illegal program usage. I found these 2 codes with 2 minutes of googling, so if I am wrong sowwy 🙂 But you should be contacting support anyway, or at least write in the correct forum section

I came back to BnS from SW (won't say the full name, cuz we are on the official forum), and let me tell you that this game has a hundred times better end-game than SW. In SW you have ONE, let me repeat myself, ONE end-game dungeon and that's it. We have SEVEN dungeons that we can farm here. Not counting solo dungeons and raids. In SW we had an RNG system for everything. Random stats (like with Soulshields, but we had 12 options and only 3 were good), random chance to upgrade your gear (like the Stage 1-10 system here that we have a GUARANTEED chance to upgrade *yes, I know that we have that RNG +1-15 or whatever system, but that is not as important as making an item stage 10 from 1*) + we had a limitation of how many times you can upgrade (meaning if you got really unlucky and you run out the item that reduced the times you upgraded, you either needed to get a new gear or pay 100+ eurs). SW has an energy system + the number of entries on the end-game dungeon is limited to 3 a day (and the droprates are horrible). We have none of that, only the weekly limit on raids (but we have resets for the newest raid + the drops are guaranteed in the main raids as far as I know). In SW you can only farm really weak mini-boss dungeons that drop nothing, but gold. Here you can farm as much as you want and you have a lot of places to farm in. I truly think that paying more for a guaranteed chance to upgrade is way better. It might seem like that we need a lot of grind to upgrade stuff, but let me ask you 1 thing. Would you rather grind a bit more and know that you are done with the upgrade, or would you gamble for idk, let's say half the cost, but only 33% chance to upgrade? In KR they need less things to upgrade, but they have an RNG system that can make you ragequit after failing 10 times in a row and wasting (idk exact number, but let's say) 3x more resources than what you would need here.

You get 3 full scales a day from Mushin (2 from daily and 1 from Floor 20 chest) + you can craft them. They are pricey, but still cheaper than Golden / Orange / Pink scales. The Floor 20 chest is farmeable if you need to get them asap. Just read these if you need help: *Edit: New story gear is coming soon. Just get the EM suff with that. Hopefully we will get TB1, so you can upgrade your weapon from doing challanges + solo duns alone, so you don't need to buy a scarlet weapon mat / roses. You will have to upgrade a lot if you miss C2A, so the rose shouldn't be a problem imo (just upgrade your other stuff and you will have TB9 soon enough). From there you can do the stuff C2A people need to do, only difference is that you will have 6 PvE accessories instead of 4 + 2 Raid. Not the end of the world, but IA accessories are pretty cheap either way (you can buy both earring + ring for the price of a 3.5k Sanctum box). Ohh, and farm Primewald and the other place for gems, can't remember where we get the weapon gems from.

Story gear will be adjusted (hopefuly) next maintenance (would make sense to adjust it right after C2A ends). Hime said that it is planned to change the story gear, but might not be in the next main.

It would be pretty bad for the economy to let people mail over things for free. It needs a gold sink, and mailing is one of them. Without mailing fees and market taxes, etc we would have too much gold and everything would start to become more and more expensive.

You have enough time to get enough remnants for 2 keys 😄 You can still do dailies tomorrow. That's 600 remnants (without Spectral Shrine Master Class: Extra Credit, Soulstone Plains, Primeweald) + you will get 100 remnants in your mail soon. That's 100 remnants short from 2 keys, but if you have 100 remnants it should be allright / maybe you can do some more today (or try to do those 3 mentioned).

Yes, I know that alt chars are dead atm. I don't think that it's even worth creating 1, maybe only for Mushin farming. Hime said that story gear will be updated soon, so let's hope they will give us at least TB1 and decent-ish (meaning at least white scale) gear. 😄 With that we could do Mushin for scales + for blue scale accessories. With those EM should be possible. It will still take months (maybe less if you play that alt like it was your main) to get to C2A gear level, but at least would be possible with a bit of patience. I said 'and you are not talking about an alt character.', because we can't even take them into F8 without cheesing the system :'D I have an alt as well, but wasn't able to play with it, because got locked out of F8 😞

As I said in the beginning, 'You deal 5+ million DPS sustained.'. Then as I continued, 'In EM I can guarantee that even if you only have really low AP players with you, you can carry them. It will take a while, but you can do it.' ; 'I am not 100% sure that you can solo it straight out of C2A, but after the next event you can solo EM easily for sure.'. With 5 other pary members, be it all story geared players or not, they will contribute to the DPS and will give you buffs, so you can carry them. Also, after this new event everyone should have Silversteel Stage 6, or better. That's why I wrote 'but after the next event you can solo EM easily for sure.'. I am not familiar with many classes, but as far as I know the sustained DPS with same gear should be around (meaning not drasticly less) the same. But correct me if I am wrong. Why does it not? I am pretty sure that you get less vials and pets than scales what you can get with dailies + floor chests + crafting. Also, if you have muliple characers (as everyone should have 3 slots now), you can mail over crafting materials if needed. White scales are not affected at all, as it is a dungeon drop. By the time you finish the white scale gear you will have a TON of blue scales + they plan to add blue scales to challanges and for exchange for cores. You get a lot from just doing dailies + doing Primewald / fishing / NM multies. Ofc, if the player is a casual it might be a problem, but if the player is just a casual he will have more time to get the blue scales (because casuals upgrade their gear at a slower rate), so that player can simply ignore crafting and just do the dailies + floor chests. Also, these can be sent over in mail, so for non casuals you can just simply make 2 more chars and do Mushin on all 3 to get 6 scales from daily + 3 from floor chest a day. We get vials and pets really rarely, so you will have a ton of time to get a lot of blue scales. I didn't mention it, but I usually do 7-8M sustained in NM multies. I said 5+ mil sustained DPS in the beginning, because I have a bit better gear than what c2a players have (only a bit better, you can check the link at the top), so thought saying -33% of what I have should be good. I only mentioned it once, saying that they should be 2k+ and that I am nearly 2.3k. It is indeed important, as people use that for recruitement in faction chat (at least they do in EU). Most people accept lower AP players (like they say 2.4k+, but accept a 2.3k) if they see that they have Stage 10 accessories (and you use raid path ones, not 6 PvE one). I have joined 2.4k+ multies a few times even tho I am nowhere near that. But yes, that is rare. I said 2k+, because in EU the usual groups either ask for 2k+ (for really slow, but doable runs) or 2.2k+ (for usually decent runs that are way faster than 2k+ ones) or 2.4k+ (that are really fast, usually have end-game players in it as well). No comment, tbh didn't think about NA time zones. Dunno what it is like in NA, but I will believe you that it doesn't work there. In that case, try to join a clan that does ET runs / just wait a bit until you can join a burst group (we have those in faction chat in EU, dunno about NA). It doesn't give much at this stage anyways, only gold. Dunno what you mean by that tbh. We just got a continuation to the C2A event now. This gives us Silversteel Stage 6 (or better) weapon for free, it gives us scales and crystals (that you said c2a players need the most). This game DOES support C2A people even now. They are giving out stuff that would have taken a long time to get (especially IA ores and IS weap mat). Idk what that anti-c2a party is in NA, but I can't see any reason why wouldn't people take in Silversteel Stage 6 weapon + IA accessory + Sovereign accessory players... Even now with TB9 weapon everyone should deal 5+ mil DPS (at least I think) sustained, which is more than enough for a slow NM run. You are right that they are harder to get now, but if people bid 3-3.5k gold for the chest you will get 600-700 gold for that. That's almost a week worth of dailies for 1 chest... And if you do multies, you will see a lot of chests. That's why I said just get the gold for now, because you can use that gold to upgrade your other stuff. You will need a lot of gold to upgrade to Silversteel Stage 6 weapon, you will need a lot of gold for soul, heart etc... You get more gold now for NM runs + you invest in gear that won't get cheaper after a while -> accessory chests get cheaper, so you invest into those later. Sovereign accessories are good enough for now. Getting TB9->Silverseel Stage6 + getting better soul, heart, Soulshields is more important atm imo, because Sanctum jewelry needs orange scales that are hard to get (because you need tons of gold scales from the scale boxes + you only get 2 orange instead of 4 gold). As I have written in one of my replies, 'PS2: I play in EU, no sure what's going on in NA.' Sorry if this is not accurate for NA.

As I said, 'It is most likely a software issue, because I know people who have 60+ FPS everywhere with 5th gen Ryzen CPUs'. But it is true, almost all of the players who have FPS issues use AMD CPUs. If you have FPS issues with an Intel CPU it gets fixed almost every time with Buddy (or manually disabling FTH), but it rarely helps with players using AMD CPUs.

I mean the main raids. If you have completed C2A and you have everything from it: Watch a guide on every boss. You should join a clan. The clan you chose might not to ET, but it's always fun to play with others in a clan. 😄 If your clan does ET, you can join them. The loot is usually decided by /roll 1-100. If your clan does not do ET, you can either join the Raid Discord server (dunno whether I can post it here ot not, but if you ask around in game you should get an invite link pretty easily) and do an LFP/LFR or you can try to organize it in faction chat. I would highly recommend only taking in people from faction chat who are willing to give you their Discord, because some coordination is needed to clear the raid. From there you just wait until you find 12 players (once you have 5-6 it will be a lot faster to get the last 6). If everyone watched a guide on every boss, you can go in. It might take multiple tries at first, but after the first successful clear the 2nd one will be easier. And there you go. 🙂 But tbh I would just wait until we get Silversteel Stage 6 weapon and NM accessories cuz u can just join a burst team with that 😄 If they give out free stuff for doing nothing, why not take advantage of that 🤡

In the C2A chest 1 they get a TB1 (or TB2, can't remember). With that they can do F8 LFP (for alts or for people who completely missed C2A, new story gear is coming, Hime already said that the story gear will be adjusted really soon). After that they can do 2 things: Buy the keys (they are overpriced and should be ignored) Do the upcoming event, as you can get enough materials to upgrade the weapon a few times (+get the IA ores and IA weap mat as well, so after a bit of extra rose 'grinding' from challanges and solo duns you can do Silversteel Stage 9 as well) 'Struggle' with EM for a bit and get the Sovereign set (idk how hard it is to do EMs, but I am pretty sure that people will take you into EM multies/trains if you try a few times *just don't apply into 2.2k+ TC EM multies*) + farm Outlaw Island With that you should be on your way to 2k+ and to do NM. With a full Sovereign set you will have more AP than us with IA accessories, so that should compensate a bit for the worse soul etc. If I remember correctly the early soul etc are cheaper to upgrade, but will still take a few weeks. But hey, you still got a lot of free stuff that older players didn't get. Idk about players getting kicked from EM parties, because most of the time I select 3 dungeons in F8 and I start loading in immediately. From inside it is really hard to get kicked, as multiple people need to press vote kick on your name. But again, I am pretty sure that they can join EM multies/trains if they try a few times (and they avoid the ones that say xk+, as they want really fast runs). PS: 1 player with C2A gear can carry a whole team of low HM low AP players, so it should be pretty rare when a party can't finish an EM dungeon. PS2: I play in EU, no sure what's going on in NA.

I am 90% sure that it has to do with the fact that you use an AMD CPU. I am not saying that Ryzen CPUs are bad, all I am saying is that 99% of the players having FPS issues use AMD CPUs. I have only seen 1 Intel CPU user saying anything about low FPS in Academy Discord chat and if I remember correctly Buddy fixed it for him/her. It is most likely a software issue, because I know people who have 60+ FPS everywhere with 5th gen Ryzen CPUs (ofc not in Mushin or in known low FPS places). I have an i3-9100 + GTX 1660 + 8gb ram and I have stable 30+ FPS with everything on max even during bossfights (ofc with chars disabled). The only places where I have ~20-25 FPS are Mushin, highly populated cities, 12 man raids (including Koldrak). If I have 30+ FPS almost everywhere, you should have at least 60+ everywhere. It is possible, there are streamers who rarely dip below 60FPS. *Edit: PS: You can't have more than 45-50 FPS in mushin, whatever you have. Maybe at nights you will have 60, because there are less people there.

'Discordia Necklace has been specifically called out as not available from Junsorei or any other form, but, we are missing PVP accessory exchanges and that has been written up as well.' From Hime.

Yes, that's the floor chest. Sorry if I wasn't specific enough 😄 It is called Floor 20 chest or whatever.

Hi! Before anyone asks, these are my stats etc: https://bns.life/char/eu/hungibungi I still see a lot of whining about 'the game being too hard', 'we don't get enough gear to do anything', etc. So here we go again! For the things under this, I assume that you have completed the C2A event and you are not talking about an alt character. You all should be above 2k AP by now. I am nearly 2.3k AP and I have C2A stuff (only a few things are better than C2A stuff). What does that mean? You deal 5+ million DPS sustained. With that amount of DPS you CAN do every weekly raid up to ET (including Silversteel lab). People did those raids with way worse gear than what you currently have. If you are not in a clan / your clan doesn't do ET (or anything below it) you can easily organize your own raids, there's even a specific Discord server for it. Don't tell me that 'there are no ET teams', because that is straight up a lie, you are just lazy to organize your own or search for 1. With that amount of DPS you CAN do every solo dungeon. If you need help with mechanics, there are plenty of good guides on Youtube / if you are in a clan you can ask other members to help you learn them / even learn some cheese shortcuts along the way. Wih that amount of DPS you CAN do every 6 man dungeons on easy or normal mode. In EM I can guarantee that even if you only have really low AP players with you, you can carry them. It will take a while, but you can do it. In NM it will take a while, but it is definetly doable. I have seen many 2k+ teams (I have joined a few as well) and we succeeded every time, except when no one knew the mechanics and we died / couldn't finish the boss in time (like in TC if you don't do the mushroom mechanic you will have a rough time with 2k+ party). I have seen a lot of requests for soloable daily quests and such. You can just simply go into EM and solo it urself. I am not 100% sure that you can solo it straight out of C2A, but after the next event you can solo EM easily for sure. What do I mean by that? Also, about the 'no way to get white/blue scales'. First of all, about the 'no way to get white/blue scales': As I said before, you CAN get those pretty easily, you just have to look for it. As I wrote in my progression guide for newbies, you can get them from: White scales: Mushin tower (daily or farming Naksun Badges or floor chests) Drowning Deeps in Solak Crafting (it is really cheap, you only need crystals from dungeon completion chests and 0.67 gold a scale) 12 man raids Blue scales: Mushin tower (dailies or floor chests) Crafting (it is more expensive than white scales, but still cheaper than golden scales ) The usual price for scale chests in NM is around 25 gold, so around 3.33 gold for a fragment means 66.67 gold for a golden scale 12 man raids In the near future you can get them from daily/weekly challanges as well (if I remember correctly Hime wrote something about this) About the upcoming event: What you will get from it: White, blue, gold scales Crystals IA ores and IA weapon material Why it's so darn good: Even less scales you need to worry about We get a TB9 weapon from C2A. It is good for NM and even the IA raid itself, but you all are lazy to do IA. So here's the solution for you! With this event you can easily get all the ores you need to do TB9 -> PvE Path weap 6 -> Silversteel Stage 6 -> Stage 9. 🙂 If you need some more ore to finish Stage 9 you can just simply get it from challanges / solo dungeons. And please don't tell me that Silversteel Stage 9 is a bad weapon. DO NOT GET STUCK ON THE PvE PATH BY ACCIDENT! If you need the exact resources you need to go from TB9 -> Silversteel Stage 6 check my 'For the people wondering about how to progress' guide. After C2A this event aims to help new players gear up even more quickly. I am pretty sure that this is a really rare sight for a game to hand out such good gear for free. Maybe you all should look at how they try to help you out and not just whine about getting nothing. You should apriciate these events imo. I know that there are a lot of issues about the game atm, but there's not much they can do. They can only organize events and adjust the cash shop as far as I know. PS: Just by doing the challanges / weeklies / NM multies I was able to get 12k gold. Maybe instead of whining about what you don't have, you should make a 2k+ NM team and farm the dungeon. uwu As I said before, you can just do NM multies with C2A gear and stack up gold + snatch some IA SS boxes and scale boxes for cheap. Sanctum leg chests usually go for 3-3.5k gold, so you are better off waiting till their price goes down a bit. For now, focus on your weapon + soul + heart + unity stones and try to snipe a sanctum leg chest for ~2k gold. That's probably all I had to say, have a nice day! Gl & hf ~Hungibungi

It was deleted for another reason (and the maintenance was for another reason as well), but I am not going to say it again. (or this will get deleted as well)

First of all, I think you are playing a different game. I have no idea what tokens/widgets you are talking about, but this game has none. The Cross Server Dungeon Finder (F8) is one of the best in MMORPGS. 90% of the time you need to wait 0 seconds, as you get loaded into the lobby immediately, 9.99% of the time you need to wait 1-60 secs and 0.01% of the time you need to wait 60-120 secs. I have never ever had a longer wait than 2 minutes, unless I queued for Cold Storage / Mandate (they are only clearable once a day, so you are better off soloing them -with event gear you CAN- or just post it in chat uwu). Just don't expect to find NM / HM with LFP, use the chat in F8. You know, there's a chat for a reason. If you don't like F8, don't use it. Faction chat serves as a LFP chat as well, you will find countless daily trains (Sandstorm -> TC) and multies. If you don't know how to progress, I made a topic named 'For the people wondering about how to progress', read it 🙂 The game's progression is pretty easy and straight forward after you play a bit and not just whine about how bad this game is ☺️ Also, unless we are talking about super super end-game stuff there's no RNG, every upgrade is guaranteed. You just press 1 button and you get a better gear. Even with Soulshields, once you get the base stats you need, you can just upgrade them to max. I know it might seem like Soulshields are RNG, but you can farm them by the hundreads pretty easily, even IA SS in normal mode (they drop every round).

As far as I know you can't enter F8 LFP with alts, only if you are premade and you search inside. If it is your main, get the call to arms box. *I mean alts that have the story / martial token weapon

Ohh. Yes, it is not there on the 1st post. RIP 😄

Woopsy, my bad 😄 Can I edit it to say jewelries instead of necklace? Can't find any edit buttons :c

Hi! I have seen a lot of confused newbies / returning players wondering (rather pointing a finger at NC and not wondering) about how to progress. I am a returning player myself, but I had 0 problems with progression so far, so imma tell you all how to progress 'really fast' (not 2 weeks) without buying raids etc 🙂 These are my stats before anyone asks: Finish the Call to Arms event. It's pretty straightforward, just do the dungeons in F8 on easy mode. Go to F10 and buy the 2 bundles. You can get the keys from dragon express. Pick up Forgekeepers as one of your crafting guilds. You will need Master Field Repair Tools + scales from there. While you are farming EM get as many SS selection boxes as you can. Get critical + accuracy to max on 2,4,5,6,8. Make your jewelry Stage 10. (I am not sure whether we can get the breakthrough jewelries in EM because I haven't seen one yet, so you might be stuck on Stage 6 -but it's fine-) This will take around 2 weeks to achieve. Do all your dailies on EM, then join a NM multi group. (I am accepted with my stats, so you will be as well.) Read a guide / watch a video about the dungeon before you join a NM party, as in NM there are mechs that wipe the whole team. Don't try to join a NM multi party that asks for 2.5k AP, as they want to burst it down and skip mechs. You are not ready for those yet. I would recommend learning HoI mechs first, as you only need to do the double baiting. People love to accept double baiters even if they have 2k AP instead of 2.5k. If you don't want to screw with mechs you have 2 options. Either join a 2k+ team that has someone who does the mech or leave the game. This game requires some brain knowledge to play at the end-game, especially in 12 man raids. If you want to do braindead runs forever stop playing for 6 months and come back for the next Call to Arms event. 🙂 (Or you can do 10 minute Sandstorm 2k+ multies, that's braindead for the most part) While you do NM runs you will get the breakthrough chests to upgrade your jewelries + you will get IA SS + you will get the Sanctum jewelries. To upgrade your soul, etc you will need (white scales? can't remember tbh, but you can farm them in mushin / Drowning Deeps in Solak) blue scales. You can get a lot of them from the Forgekeepers. You will get Rare Element by the hundreds from NM, so dw about those 🙂 You can get more guild materials if you order them on 3 characters (we will get a char slot soon) and mail them over to your main. I would highly recommend not upgrading your weapon yet, as TB9 is pretty strong. After you have all the stuff from NM you can probably join IA runs if your clan does them. You should do the PvE path Stage 3 -> Stage 6 then swap back to IA6. Do it in 1 go, don't get stuck on the PvE path by mistake. (Thank you for the picture, my friend) And that's basicly it. With this you will have 4 Sanctum tier accessories + 2 IA accessories + IA6 (or better) weapon + decent soul etc. These will take a while, but hey, don't expect that you will catch up to the players who have been playing from the start so quickly... With those you should be able to join HM parties. Be warned, HM is actually hard. 😄 From hard you will get Uzume + the new accessories and all the good late-game stuff. Focus on unity stones + psyches + gems. PS: You can buy the Uzume jewelries after you have done 300 TC runs (EM/NM/HM). Those jewelries are really strong, so you might want to consider getting that before starting doing HM dungeons. PS2: I know that alt characters are kinda screwed, but we should be getting the new story gear soon, so hang in there... Even NM multies give a decent amount of gold / run, so instead of doing alts just play some more with your main for a bit 😄 (I get 10+ gold per run + sometimes I get a lot more for outfits / legs / etc. 😄) PS3: It might be better to just hoard gold for now, as everything is more expensive now. I do that as well. I just farm NM and get the gold from it. After the players left because they are done with C2A and doesn't want to play anymore there will be less people buying IA SS, Sanctum legs etc. You get more gold now, you spend less gold later. Double win imo ^^ I only buy the scale box and only if it's 12 or less gold (so 6 gold / box). PS4: If you think I missed out on something or I am wrong please let me know! 🙂 Hope this lil' guide helped at least 1 player. Good luck and have fun! ~Hungibungi

Just for your info: We have CTA going on atm. With CTA gear everyone should be able to do easy mode, as the mechs are disabled so you just DPS them down. They nerfed the hp as well, so takes less time to do dailies. YES, it takes a lot less time with a full CTA geared team. And YES, it is more than doable. The only characters that can't do easy mode are alt characters with that really outdated PvE weapon. We should get better story gear soon, so hang in there people! If you farm EM you can get a really good SS (you can min-max it easily) + after you finish CTA you will have a really decent weapon + really decent jewelry + really decent soul etc. With these you can start doing NM, especially that they nerfed NM heavily as well. YES, I am pretty sure that if a team of CTA geared people watch a video / read a guide about the mechanics they CAN clear it without much problems. From there you farm out IA SS and Sanctum jewelry and upgrade your soul etc as you play. After a few months (shouldn't take longer to get everything NM has to offer + get some Sacred Vials) you can start thinking about HM. 🙂 *PS: I know alts are kinda screwed atm, but let's give them a chance to fix the game before we start rioting for better story gear 😉

Hi! I started playing when the server launched -and stopped after like a month-. I only came back when the last gear event started and got myself to like 1.9k AP with that. I stopped again, and came back 4 days ago... Now I have 2040 AP. I always use F8 and I can find teams with the autosearch for everything up to CC in max 1 minutes. Up till CC no one really cares about ur stats, as they are 'easy' and doesn't require much knowledge / dps 😄 You can get yourself up to 2k AP with those dungeons. From 2k AP you can get into H0, SP, HaHi teams really easily, just look for them in F8 region chat / party finder. I think everything looks fine with this game tbh. I only came back 4 days ago tho, so could be wrong. Just wanted to share my experience as I am a new player, I know that the main topic wasn't about this 🙂 ~Hungibungi