DenialOfTruth

As you can see, Soul Boost objectives are not giving any points whatsoever. This is a major problem as it renders Soul Boost IMPOSSIBLE to complete until it is fixed. This must be fixed without delay. Don't even try to deny this bug exists.

Why was this moved out of the Bug Reports section of the forum? Without Aerodrome Stage 10 available, this achievement is impossible to complete and requires confirmation if this is intentional or not. Given the absolutely ZERO WARNING in patch notes whatsoever, I would believe it is a bug.

Support does not play the game and does not understand the game in any meaningful capacity. They only know what KR tells them and as far as they are concerned, there is no bug.

Confirmed, objectives are not giving points. This is absurd and rendering soul boost impossible to complete...and odds are we won't get another one due to the mismangement of this region.

You're completely right. With far less of every possible upgrade resource available, I suspect the reasons it was asked about the cash shop and trove recently is to add these missing materials to that. What a utter joke of a set of updates lately.

Nothing will be changed. NCWest has no ability to make modifications to patches, so what we get is what we get.

So it's intended that players can no longer get that +50 bonus and are now forever at a disadvantage to players that have gotten it. Nice design...this entire patch is a joke.

Progression for slightly older gear is also greatly more difficult as well! Scale Support Fragment Chests are only in the older dungeons...and some that had scales had their scales removed! Please explain how I am to upgrade my Pet Aura, Talisman, ect ect without access to various Scales.

As long as the game profits exceed their operational costs (which they do or it would have been shut down already), it is likely to stay around. For how long this is true remains to be seen, but if we see another 25% dip in profits for second quarter I'd be inclined then to believe the days are numbered. Keep in mind we don't know how much it actually costs them to operate BNS as there isn't a breakdown available for it, but it probably ain't much based on AWS costs for what they need and a very small staff working on the game.

Not sure how my post is a cope in any capacity, but if it was 2-3% it would have been shut down by now. It must be higher then that for our region. Regardless, I do not see BNS going anywhere for at least a year.

BNS makes 5.5 million USD (and about 10% of that is NA/EU) before operational costs every quarter. I don't think Green Storm's job security is in danger any time soon, and besides that...why would he be moved to a game that is never going to release in our region? I don't disagree with your points, this patch is an immense mess and damaging to the game, but...it's not going anywhere any time soon despite the best efforts of NCSoft to do otherwise.

Between this and the other changes, Soul Boost is officially impossible to complete a full month before its scheduled end date. Impressive. And knowing how our region is operated, we likely won't get a second Soul Boost round either.

It won't be fixed before the point of no return. As such Soul Boost is officially impossible to complete currently.

Yikes. I hope support can help you, but they probably won't: support does not play the game, so everything likely is 'normal' to them.

And we now know: The objectives requiring AD 1 to 10 have NOT been replaced, rendering it completely impossible to complete Soul Boost if those objectives were not completed prior to this update. Utterly and completely unacceptable.

Wow, this is impressive even by NCSoft's standards, though I am curious why you didn't open the box the moment you got it.

The only thing we don't know is how the AD Stages 1 to 10 objectives in the Soul Boost will be handled.

Do keep in mind that it is not as simple as them pushing a button and the server updates. There are many technical factors that we are unaware of...but this much maint is rather insane. It's drawing close to the time it took for the UE4 update and that one at least made sense for its extreme length.

All good, I figured you weren't but it does help bring into view the time scales the game works with, and thus further reinforces your numbers. Maybe with some immensely good luck, someone could reach a really good weapon well before it becomes obsolete...but even whales might be reluctant with these costs.

I like it when people use actual numbers to back up their points and your numbers are pretty spot on. Without the doubled loot, all raids except Steelbreaker and Serpent's Den would be closer to 840-850g, meaning more then a week's worth of gold would be needed. Not great! You'd have to stack a full F8 train on top of that to make an attempt that week...and with the changes coming it is unclear if gold rewards will be significantly changing on that front either. I will make one additional note, though: no new weapon tier has been announced in KR yet past Upsurge, and we're anywhere from 3 to 6 months behind on content depending on the release rate we get, typically a new dungeon every two months is the usual rate. A replacement isn't due any time soon, but at these costs you may very well be right that by the time we get the weapon to +11, the newest thing will be out. Getting a mere four chances to likely FAIL a month is not great in any capacity, but this may be why people are suggesting getting Shadow Fury Stage 9 to +11 first as it would be IMMENSELY cheaper even with the risk of losing levels.

Yeah, it is clear what the intent is at this point: to destroy a poorly performing game.

Your statement is correct. No one at NCWest has any say in any capacity...what NCSoft goes. The patch as presented is what we will get, no exceptions will be made to account for our region.

After reading the rewards I must deeply question why, for two events in a row now, why there are no Sacred Vials nor Pet Packs on offer? This is extremely atypical at this point and reduces the ability for players to upgrade their Soul, Talisman, and Pet Aura TREMENDOUSLY and needs to be addressed. Is NCSoft intending to make those three items pay to win like they did Heart recently?

With the recent news post, I can finally give some additional feedback on the gold situation. Kaebi Village's return means more gold, and better then I was expecting...but not perfect. Unless I'm missing something, the Kaebi Key is only available to Premium players, locking 100g behind a paywall per day. I am going to assume the Brute Loot if a regular key is used does give 100 gold and 200 if using the Kaebi Key until this is clarified. However, 2800g potentially for the duration of Premium is...not terrible, given the other benefits given anyways. The Bronze, Silver and Gold Gourds are semi-random but more likely to lean towards higher quality ones the further you reach in waves, so stronger players are likely to see Gold ones and thus will get a greater gold income. This could potentially make sense, but we'll see how well it works in practice come update day. This is a better fix then expected.

Soul Boost is per character, but keep in mind the gem rewards got moved from Soul Boost Levels 8 and 10 to 33 recently so it will be more challenging to get them. However, outside of that, there's no really 'accessible' way to get the gems which I feel is the point of the thread.