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Fuse it, delete it, I don't care, but I want NC to take note and revert it asap. Why is it all of a sudden Call to Arms & Soul Arena tokens & rewards are removed when they were tagged as redeemable for way longer (btw, still written redeemable until 11/9 in the ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ tooltip) ? We got Soul Arena weekly and seasonal rewards AFTER THE MAINTENANCE, like you're supposed to get it and have some time to grab your rewards. But nah, it makes too much sense for NCSoft so they decided to just remove them early, despite redemption periods being there for years (excepted few special cases, but iirc they were recipes in transmute, not dragon express rewards). Now I'm sitting on tokens I didn't have time to use, and I cannot grab conqueror title either. Feels rewarding to play the game ! Feels great to be able to plan things ahead thanks to the greatest NO COMMUNICATION. Also, why is the answer to botting to actually punish the whole playerbase, especially the people playing the game without breaking ToS, instead of banning botters for good ? Screw it, I'm done with this company. They're Blizzard level of stupid.

So if they ban win traders there's even less people in queues making it even harder to get matches making it even harder to rank up and get into the ladder. It's not because they start banning win trading that all of a sudden the whole 5k players of the game will flock to PvP at once. They won't. PvP can't recover because the people who were interested in trying it out just got their ass handed to them so hard in bronze (because only exp'd players play arena, because BG is a p2w and exploit mess) they just said "Screw it, not worth my time". Once a player came to that conclusion, they don't look back. PvP isn't as attractive as people think it is. People don't like to lose, and even worse, they don't like to lose knowing they just lacked the skill or, even worse again, the gear. Go through the five stages, kill the ladder reward and let the 10 people who actually enjoy pvp duke it out between themselves.

If anything, they should just remove the HMC from the all the pvp ladder rewards. Issue fixed. They killed ToI ladder rewards... twice iirc, so why not pvp, it's a dead game mode anyway, only exploiters... well... exploit it. Inb4 : "it's not dead" => it's not because 20 people do pvp that it's not a dead mode. When the ladders have, what, ~30 people ranked, knowing a lot are just alts : )... Of all MMOs, even that fantasy that is said to be final has more people in their pvp ladder ! That says something.

@Hime you also need to revamp weapon progression, everything below TB. You need to cover the fact people may have done Act IX part1. Anyway, the cost just sucks right now. It's unfathomable that you need like 40 Transformation Stone Crystal, at 3 a day that's 14 days, for one upgrade of very outdated gear power (Stormdragon to Shadowforged tier, e.g). It's ridiculous. Add then all the stages in that tier. Holy cow. Yes, you can cheese F8 with entering the dungeon and then recruiting at any weapon stage below GC3, but probably very few people actually know that, so they're stuck with... Mushin's Tower as their only content for weeks. It.Sucks. You shouldn't count on cheese like C2A or soon-to-be soul fiesta or whatever the name of the battlepass will be. Unless NC believes waiting months to be able to play some basic catch-up with alts is that fun. /shrug I already pointed this and more in a topic that just went submarine-style apparently.

Maybe do a file repair. Idk, as you see people using azerty keyboards report it working. If you use a 3rd party launcher you probably skipped the update.

The keys work though. And I'm on azerty layout too. You don't see as the shown keybinds in the option (instead you'll see 1 2 3 4 5...) but everything works. I actually prefer seeing 1 2 3 than & é " . Also, as someone already said, it worked like that in UE3 too. Nothing wrong, everything works.

Holy crap OP's message is insane. Publicly defending cheating, literally cheating (no, the few QoLs like faster opening/transmuting etc doesn't give gameplay advantage, but modifying the way the classes works (timings and watnot) is) because "everyone does so, especially whales". 1. I'm sure they won't ban the whales but 2. ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ the whales, you cheat you get booted out, as you should be since the beginning. **** IF **** they act upon whales they'll probably give a warning first. Whales are addicted so they'll just stop cheating. We've seen multiple "I quit" moment from whales, deleting all they gear and within 2hours they messaged support for item recovery anyway.

Let's be honest, the anti-cheat will only make the barrier of entry higher. It'll also possibly make it an "exclusive club" (you may not want your anti-anti-cheat to become public so that it doesn't get busted so soon). But the worst, is that we all know NC won't act on whales, they've been cheating for years (account sharing, godsword, automated "gameplay" in areas you're not allowed to, botting,...) and they never got anything done to their account despite the proofs. They'll only ban the people at the bottom and let cheating be rampant and be a whale exclusive. Even worse, they'll say "we're sorry here is 20k HMC" to them when they'll complain their account got even just suspended. This is the "two-tier justice" of F2P games.

Hopefully they'll notice : ). I'd like to add that I don't think GC3 of baseline gear is going to be enough to start F8 to begin with, lol (dps too low)

@Hime, please tell to the team to not nerf them too hard. I think if people manage to get 10 DoT stacks from range check and what not they should deserve to be in danger and eventually dying. They just ignored the boss rotation completely (or have a tank who can outlive all of this and doesn't care about rotation and killing teammates, but that's another issue). Do not turn EM into UE3-NM, it's not gonna solve anything once people start attacking NM. As Minimihi said, if EM becomes braindead it's not going to be the place to learn anything about the fights and the game, and you'll have an influx of players running into NM and ruining it for a lot of others. You must find the balance so that the fights still take some time, but just don't instakill bad players anymore (I outlived them with much worse gear than C2A starter, lol). It should, imo, still kill if the run goes terribly bad (as pointed in my first paragraph). Also, please don't nerf HP by 66% (like that one person mentioned), boss is going to enter into mech by his 2nd move & is going to die before completing the first mech. It's pointless.

So I can confirm. Exalted3 from ActIX (which is where our story ends for now ?). You really need to revamp the progression.

Hey there, So, basically, I was curious to test out UE4 as everyone else, F12 was smooth and I wanted to test out dungeoning. But... you need Grand Celestial (GC) 3+ to even start being able to use F8. The thing is, the majority of my characters have extremely outdated gear (as low as Riftwalk/Dawnforged 3), and I don't want to lose the 6 gem slots unlocked on all of them. That is why I am suggesting for a revamp on the early returnee/new player experience (especially when there is no C2A (and even there, some people don't know how to start it) event going on) Let's see it from a new player perspective : as far as I know (and I may be wrong), story gives StormDragon 3 or so (too lazy to go through the acts again rn but it is what I was told). What are then the options for a new player once they're done with the story ? Mushin's tower. What else ? Mushin's tower. Basically forcing them to grind martial tokens for their weapon (to skip to Storm Dragon 9) and their essential Soul Badge. But other than this, they cannot do much more. And no, AFK auto in the Primeweald and the other area isn't gameplay (and mobs HP have been buffed while exp gain has been lowered, so clearly NOT new player friendly). Also, I've heard the dungeons deleted from F8 don't give anything anymore (but that seems untrue ?) Secondly, the cost of upgrading is so ridiculously high for SUCH MASSIVELY OUTDATED gear. 40 Transformation Stone crystal (TS crystal) from DragonStorm 9 to ShadowForged 3 ? The rate of acquisition is for one very low (due to the very limited amount of martial token a day you can gain) and the cost of transmuting it is very high for a new player (mats needed for their upgrades to begin with and 3 gold per transmute (120g)). Not even talking about empyrean stones and the need to upgrade the right crafter, get the mats & gold (or pay 175g in Auction House). How much gold does a new player make, daily? 16g from Mushin's tower, and that's with Yeoharan and all the HM fights (yunsang, naksun, yeo). They're not getting there anytime soon. Also, where do they get the mats from ? Nothing in mushin's tower giveAFK auto areas ? This is dumb. There is no mat drop from any of Mushin's encounter/fights they can tackle in their early journey. Not just the usual crystal mats, but the scales, players are complaining about gaining anything, really. The fix is simple, downscale GREATLY the cost of upgrading (10s + 1 token, something like that) or make it so they get GC3+ doing story. Let's see it from a returnee perspective : returnee with a bunch of gold and mats, not willing to lose the 6 slots, issue being getting the lacking mats to upgrade and catch-up to entry dungeoning gear, and the feel of being extorted on these outdated stuff. Again, nerf the cost heavily (and the mailing cost of old mats too). Who cares, it's very old stuff (both pve & raid weap paths). Or, like accessories, just condense the 9 stages into 1, and make one upgrade to the next tier until GC. Something like 5 TS crystal + 1g for Raven > Aransu and then 10 TS crystal + 10g for Aransu > GC ? Wasn't the point of TS crystal to allow people to "catch-up" ? they seem to be doing the opposite. Also, make changes so older dungeon still appear in F8, so that people can dungeon and progress. Make a tab pre-Sandstorm for these dungeons. 1 difficulty only, very braindead (mechanics happen but the punishment is losing 1k HP per hit or so) and make them give blackstones, silver/onyx scales, and don't be shy (and you could even review the amount of gold given, but I'd prefer you would not). There's so many things you can do to ease the early progression. The revival is going pretty badly right now : people are confused and/or pissed that they cannot F8, they don't know what they can & can't do. They don't know how to start the C2A event. It's very opaque to them. As a returnee myself, I have no incentive to come back, the early game I know Mushin's tower by heart but you're forcing me to stay there or to wait a specific event for no reason at all. As a new player, I'd probably be discouraged by the fact I'm just stuck doing Mushin and AFK content. The game feels like there's nothing to do. Or... am I simply missing something ?