Crow Scarecrow

I think the worst offender of material reuse is not putting the same bosses in different dungeons, but reusing the same dungeon as is to fill in a lack of content. This has happened in 2 ways, the first is to take a dungeon that has seen its glory days pass and that has been forgotten, put it above the current dungeons and renew its loot, giving more HP to the bosses, which is the case of Naryu Sanctum, the Second way is by taking dungeons that are still active, although not as needed, increasing the hp of the bosses and keeping it on the list of dungeons for the daily challenge, which has happened with Heaven's Mandate, Sandstorm Temple, Brood Chamber and Cold Storage, making them more "difficult" dungeons than dungeons that were added to the game more recently than them and I put the word "difficult" in quotes because it is not really that they are more difficult, but that the bosses have more HP and therefore it costs more to kill them. This is a game design issue and speaks to a big issue with the developers as it is a content issue (so the white knights defending NC West can save their duel to the death to defend the honor of their damsel). This really is a problem that greatly diminishes the appeal of the game, since before they could say "Well the way NC handles the game is bad, but the content itself is good", but when you reuse the content over and over again because you don't know or don't care about what else to add to the game, there is a big problem. Games are designed to give you a sense of progression, the more you play the better the prizes, and those prizes allow you to advance further in the content, discover new horizons and keep yourself entertained with the different challenges that you find in the world. But BnS has reached a point where you no longer advance, but keep doing the same dungeons over and over again because they keep reusing them, so that your new equipment, which does more damage, keeps taking you to the same place, facing off against the same challenges, that is not progression. How is it possible that Sandstorm Temple, a dungeon that was added in May 2018 and was intended to be done with VT equipment, now requires that you have TT or ET equipment so that you can finish it? How is it possible that after years of playing and investing thousands of gold and time in the game to progress and make higher-level dungeons they put you to do the same dungeon that you did 3 years ago? That totally invalidates all the time you invested in the game, since you have not overcome that dungeon because they keep reusing it. And before the white knights of BnS come (although I know they will still fight to defend their damsel in distress), yes, a little content is added every several months, but, if is not a dungeon being reused as it is, as in the case of the ones I mentioned, they take elements from past dungeons and just give the bosses a new color, as the people before me mentioned. And they don't even take the bosses that had interesting mechanics, they take the most boring ones, whose only trick is to create explosions to knock you out over and over again so you can't even play if you don't iframe 20 times in 30 seconds (and this is where someone totally ignores the point and argues something out of place like "it's not 20 iframes every 30 seconds, is only 10 iframes" as if that invalidates everything else). Sure, there are some new dynamics in the new raids, but to be able to do them without having to empty your bank account you must stay in that purgatory that the developers have created in which you cannot experience new content beyond a "new" dungeon every 6 months in which the only new thing is the landscape. And all for what? So you can keep doing the same dungeons for several more months because the bosses' HP went up again? But what impresses me even more about all this are those people who ask to reuse old dungeons because they miss them... but as the saying goes "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Why would you invalidate years of player effort to do dungeons that you can already do? Sure, now you can do them much easier because you have better equipment than was in the game when that dungeon was added, but that's normal, that's progress, that's what people play for, not to continue in an infinite loop where it doesn't matter how much you improve your equipment because you'll always keep doing the same dungeons because someone had the "great idea" to reuse them. And I know that there will be people who defend BnS tooth and nail and try to invalidate what I said by misinterpreting or completely ignoring my points, those who have even a little discretion will know that what I say is true. With so many MMOs on the horizon there is no reason to keep wasting your time with one that is dying. I had come back for the UE4 and the C2A event, but due to this content issue and mismanagement with the Hongmoon store, I am quiting.

I am quoting what they themselves said publicly in an official stream, I am speaking based on the information they have given themselves, so obviously they are not going to do and undo what they want of the game, but they have a say in what ends up being added and the proof is right there in what I published. Not everything is all or nothing, there is the middle ground. They clearly have a say in what is added, again, citing what they themselves said, but clearly they also have to move within certain limits for the company and the game itself. So do not misinterpret what I said, it is not "half true", it is totally the truth because at no time did I say that they have more power than they have, I simply cited what they themselves have said officially. So unless you say that what they themselves express in their official broadcasts about the company is "half true", what I said is totally true and I think that they, the members of the company (at that time), would know more about it than someone outside of it. I don't know what you mean by "people did not use that back then", but the proofs you gave to show me wrong are totally out of place, because precisely in the quote that I left above they clearly state that the content they have in Asia is going to arrive here 99.9% of the time and what you want to use as proof that I am wrong is precisely content that has been added like is supposed to happen, so you did not understand or didn't read the quotes before replying. Obviously we know what event is going to be added, like the iron conqueror event, because it is part of the content and, again, the content is 99.9% sure that it will arrive here, as they said themselves in that stream and as I put it in that quote. So you're not proving what I said wrong at all by using content added as "proof". What they expressed at that time is that they have a say in what is added in the business part, in the store, just as I left it on the quote and as I clarified later too and they also let it be seen that it is within their possibilities to ask for changes to things such as the outfits that are added as in the case of that Naryu Labyrinth costume. And then, for the last part, I never said that they are making executive decisions, I showed that they themselves have expressed in the past that they have a say in what is added in the West in the business part. As I said before to Cor, I am not saying that they have more power than they themselves have expressed that they have, so do not put words in my mouth when I left proof of everything I said in quotes from their official transmissions. You and many people seem to assume that it is all or nothing, that they either have full power in what is added or are but pawns in NC Soft's movements when, according to what they have said themselves in official streams that anyone can go to check, they have a certain capacity to handle what we receive in the West. But what happens is that people go one of two ways, they blame absolutely everything on the western team or they use that excuse saying "Leave them alone, they just follow orders, they can't do something about it" when, again, according to what they themselves have said, not what I made up or what I believe, but what they have said themselves, they have the ability to decide (until a certain point) what is added to the game in the business part and also a little in terms of things like outfits. Given that, probably the part of "people did not use that back then" was also born from a misunderstanding of what I said so the answer to that is probably in my same comment above, just like the answers to the rest. I do not know how I can quote what has been officially said and yet there are protests that what I put here is wrong or is "half true". But hey, I have left all the evidence there, I have said everything I had to say, to continue would be just going around in circles because the answers to the protests of what I said are exactly within what I said so i'll leave it here.

So, a few things. First, the reason I posted that is because, if it was in other regions why it was not in ours? Laura said that it was like that first but they removed it later when the 4 man was gone but that's not the case, the proof of that? If you go to the stream where they presented Blackram Supply Chain and E.Fleet Supply Chain for the first time in the west, before the game even launched in the west, when BSC was a 4 and 6 man dungeon, they showed the items that you could get from that same NPC and this is what you would get, soul shields, weapons and accs but not the outfit. Blade & Soul Weekly Livestream: Blackram Supply Chain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMsJiORciIE And this is what you could get in the asian version around the same time So is not that we had it while the 4 man version of BSC was in use, we never had that outfit in the same system or it would be shown at that livestream, it was actually the last stream before the game went live. Also, they talked about the drops from the dungeon and they never mentioned the Red Pirate Princess so I really doubt it was ever there. In the stream where they presented Bloodshade Harbor they showed this briefly and there's no costume in the list of drops. Second thing, I've read a lot of times people defending NC West in many topics saying "Oh, well, they don't make decisions, they don't have a say, they just implement what NCSoft tells them to put" but that's a lie and a very sad one, because, again, if you look in the old livestreams, when they took questions from the chat, they repeatedly say that they didn't want to put things in our version that Korea or Taiwan had in theirs, for example, legendary weapons. Maybe people don't remember this, but legendary weapons were obtainable via Hongmoon Store in the asian version and NC West didn't like that so they were very firm in the decision to make it an item that everyone could get by playing normally. They also didn't like certain outfit decisions made in the asian version so they asked for changes to the dev team and I leave you proof of everything here, livestream titled "Blade & Soul Weekly Livestream: Unchained Update - February 18, 2016" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcmy2Ec3FSM Quote 23:00 "We asked to the dev team that the outfit was a little bit inconsistent, so the male version of this one originally had, you know, the cool pants and everything else, the lyn female actually had the pants and everything else but the other females had this dress that was beautiful, it's a lovely dress, but it felt a little bit inconsistent, specially since the lyn female had this particular outfit. So we asked the dev team if they could possibly either create a male version and a lyn version of the female outfit or a female version of the male outfit and so they created this particular version of the costume to drop in the instance." Quote 43:30 "if you've seen it in other regions chances are we will, it like almost 99.9 percent chance that we will have it. The exception would be if it's related to business model, because our business model is custom, so, like, legendary weapons being on the store or legendary weapons being on a RNG box or legendary weapons, I think, in general are not available in our client right now. And so if they're related to business model stuff, you know, we make the decision in whether it's going to be in or not. Content related stuff, like pets, wings, stuff like that that you see in other regions we will likely get them in some point too, we just don't know when because that stuff is things that are kind of nice to have but are not necesarily tied to a particular content piece." So, according to they themselves, they actually have a say in the things that they put in the store, so is not like they're mere victims of NC Soft greed. And they also have a say in the costumes that are put in the game. And maybe this is not an "important" topic but is one of the many things that you can take as evidence of the little care that the west team have nowdays compared to the old days. Yes, this outfit was not there from the begining, but they used to actually listen and stand up for the west players, now they barely answer a post.

It was actually not a drop itself, you could get a ticket in the dungeon to then buy it from a NPC outside both, Blackram Supply Chain and E.Fleet Supply Chain, just like what you can do now with the Temptress outfit outside Bloodshade Harbor. At least that's how it was in Asia, but maybe it was one of those things that they didn't port over here or they removed it eventually, because if you check those NPCs now they don't have any cosmetics and if you put the cursor in the dungeon there's no ticket for the costume in the rewards. I leave proof of this in some screenshots and the link to the video itself from the channel LOLIPANGXX LLP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwoeTfGX3rk

I'm glad that Kicsiduda has offered you their help, since, indeed, the game is full of toxic players, including leaders who do not wait for others or who do not organize groups, but then they insult everyone if the mechanics are not done correctly then go back against the bosses without bothering to explain the mechanics. What I do is block people that I know are toxic and only apply for groups in which the leader has not given me problems. There are still good players, those who listen to the instructions of others to do the mechanics well, those who take the time to explain those mechanics and wait until everyone is ready for combat, but unfortunately a large part of the game population seems to only use it to vent their frustrations on other users.

I had the same problem when I started doing HaH to get the remnants, it becomes somewhat annoying when despite the supposed random choice of who receives the mark you are always chosen and if you fail to block the rock (or whatever that they throw at you) there is always someone insulting you through the chat, saying that you only have to block, showing that they are obviously not aware that not all classes have omnidirectional blocking. What I did to be able to complete the dungeon without so many problems is to enter alone and practice doing that boss alone, obviously you cannot pass it alone if you enter with a character that you are leveling up with the event, but the idea is to repeat the fight over and over to get a better idea of how it goes. Of course it is not only that, when I saw a video on YouTube of a Warden doing the dungeon, I realized that he expands his field of vision to see the entire stage in that boss, which I applied to my runs and it has helped me a lot, Since when you see the whole place you can perceive where the rock is thrown at you before it reaches you, so when you receive the mark you start to block and look in which direction the stone is coming to turn your character and block the attack. You do this by opening options and at the bottom you set the Max Camera Distance field to the maximum. Another thing I did was put all the points that I would normally have in HM Focus to Move Speed for that fight, because that way I can get out of the miniboss attack area fast enough to be able to start blocking, see which direction the rock is thrown at me and turn my character to block it. And for the previous answer, talking about a mechanic not causing a problem for you does not help those who have it, the fact that it does not cost someone work does not imply that it should not cost others either, that is simply to minimize the other's problem because you don't have it, it's like seeing that a person has problems finding a job and ends up homeless and saying "I got a job as soon as I finished studying", well, how does that help those who have problems with the subject?, in nothing. For Ayanaye, I hope these tips will help you, it is what I did and I already managed to complete the 12 stages of the chest. Maximize your field of vision, put points in Movement Speed and practice entering alone so that when you go in a group it is easier for you to react on time.

Is there any news about it? @Hime

I am testing with another character and I leave you a list of the correct requirements to complete the "Favor And Fortune" quest - For the Stonescale Passage/Bood Chamber requirement you can do Hangar 0 - For the Warped Citadel/Halcyon Hills requirement you can do Brood Chamber - For the Cathedra Cliffs/Nary Sanctum requirement you can do Warped Citadel Doing Cathedra Cliffs has no effect on completing the quest

I was doing the weekly quests that are completed by entering certain dungeons and I realized that there is a problem with the name of the dungeons, since it is wrong, I thought it could be a bug in my system, but today while doing the daily quests someone else mentioned it in the chat, so I share what I recorded when I realized the problem. You may notice that when doing CC the "Favor and Fortune" quests didn't take it into account but "A Masterful Task" mission did, I abandoned the "Favor And Fortune" quest to try again and I realized that the problem is not that it cannot be completed but the names of the dungeons you have to do are wrong. For example, you can see that to complete the 3 entries to CC or Nary Sanctum you have to do WC instead of one of the other 2 dungeons. The worst thing is that in none of the options it mentions H0, however if you do H0 it will count as one of those dungeons that you have to do for this quest. If someone else realizes that they cannot complete the "Favor And Fortune" quest, no matter how much they do the dungeon that indicates said quest, try doing another one from the list, since, I repeat, the quest can be completed, but the order of the dungeons is not well programmed I thought of sending a ticket to talk about it, but since there may be many other people with that problem, I wanted to create this post so that others are aware of the situation and can get their Weekly Remnant. Hope the support team can resolve this issue in maintenance on Wednesday. EDIT: These are the dungeons that you can do to complete the quest - For the Stonescale Passage/Bood Chamber requirement you can do Hangar 0 - For the Warped Citadel/Halcyon Hills requirement you can do Brood Chamber - For the Cathedra Cliffs/Nary Sanctum requirement you can do Warped Citadel Doing Cathedra Cliffs has no effect on completing the quest