Posts by Warth

tamberleigh wrote:

Why do you say that, Pen? Is it just because of the time needed to train up the life skills for one character -- for armor and whatnot -- or for some other reason?

I like both tanking and healing so I'd planned on one of each class, and a third character just to play about as a DPS.

because enchanting/runing 2 characters is a huge pain. Even keeping up 1 is difficult if you aren't playing for multiple hours a day.

If you want to go both Pala and guardian, make sure to go pala first. Guardian can use your Pala gear without a problem. Pala can't use guardian well though.

You can only mail items between your alts, not to any character on an external acc

Sultan Alaaddin Thanks for posting this, may i ask a few questions:

Is there a cooldown in between declaring wars with other guilds?

Can you only declare once on the same guild every season?

What's the maximum amount of wars you can have each season?

Rewards for Guild Wars? Do they scale depending on the guild you had a war with?

Thanks a lot.

Pentrep wrote:

If your talking about will characters be wiped from EA to Official release? There answer is no. Your character will carry on from EA to Official release.

I think he is talking about alt and 2nd characters. He is too lazy to LVL up another char and wants everything transfered. At least that's how I interpreted it

Dest wrote:

Thanks, then what do you think they will implement in the West?

In the combat previews you see a number in the circle. I'd assume that's "Stance LvL". I suppose it's related to that.

Maybe your stance gets stronger the longer you play

Already exists.

Sure i can, mind that this system won't be ported to the west though.

Once you reach 45 you will keep getting exp into your expbar. When you fill it completely you will get 1 skillpoint to distribute into your skilltree

Khaam wrote:

U only gain around 3-4 honor points

Compare to arena, u gain 160pt for a win and 40 for a loose (or 700pt for BG100v100)

We will see on steam version if PvP is more rewarding

Wrong, you gain between 3 and 25+ depending on the enemies PVP Rank.

P.S. the 700pts for BG100vs100 is only once a day, but you get honor while fighting as well

Meaning to participate in OWPVP:

- Basil Canyon (open world pvp zone with rewards and bosses)

- Secure Farming/Elite spots

- World Bosses

The enemy loses:

- durability (both in instanced and open pvp

- runes (only in owpvp)

BlackHorde wrote:

With a Level Cap in game from 50 to 55, will there be an Advanced Level system like other MMORPGs out there too?

right now in JP there is.

Post 45 you still collect exp which gives us you 1 Skill point whenever the bar fills

Ezenkrul87 wrote:

Trading needs to be guild only. Once you are in a guild for a set amount of time you can trade with other guild members only. If you leave the guild then you are locked from joining another for a set amount of time.

People would join trading guilds with their alt

Pentrep wrote:

Legendaries? Legendary what exactly? This game doesn't even have legendaries yet does it?

Gear. Yes it does.

Namus wrote:

There are many reasons the game failed in other regions and its not all devs fault.

1. Korean version failed because the game was not finished and their market is completely oversaturated with MMOs they get like 20 new ones every year...

This can be blamed on Neowiz.

2. Russian version failed because of the publisher 101XP. It was highly P2W in their region and servers where so bad it was almost unplayable.

3. Japan version failed because JP players got very specific taste (check how gear looks in FFXIV and you will get what i mean) and Bless Online does not fit that spot.

Honestly i don't even know why they bothered with JP in the first place when Bless Online was clearly not designed for that audience...

That gets us to EU/US. Neowiz has a chance here to take things around for the better. They got much more polished game (reworked combat, much better optimization and tons of content already done just being held back), they are self publishing and they will probably get best servers available because lets face it this is their last chance and if they fail its over 60 million dollars down the drain... Pretty sure they wont risk it.

Also lets not forget this is EA so even if EA is not super success they still got official release down the road.

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I still believe that JP is more of a public test environement than anything else.

Namus wrote:

They are not bound on purchase AFAIK.

that's correct for the JP server. We don't have any information for the western servers yet. The assumption is that they will stop that with IGN currency you can convert into Lumena per NPC. If they decide to keep sellable cs items then they might as well enable currency since that won't matter in the end. In that case it will end just like so many other MMOs before, dead and buried in a couple of months.

Misty wrote:

And you think RMT won't happen when trading is disabled?

tell me how they should if you dont mind

and yes i think so because there is absolutely no way to trade something without equal worth traded against it with that trading system.

They just need to make cs wares be bound on purchase and we are rmt free

Misty wrote:

Then there's mixed information going on about the premium.

With the fixed price for example selling runes is not profitable, you actually lose money. Materials for making runes costs more in AH than the finished product. Chilli is better to be sold for NPC than AH atm in JP. You save the 30% taxes since the min. price is almost same in AH than the selling price to NPC.

I don't see any logic behind those 2 items, how the game defines the price in AH.

For trading I've already mentioned in my first post to this thread, that instead of completely disabling trading, they could just disable gold to be traded. That way RMT wouldn't be that big of an issue.

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that will end with people buying awakened weapons for irl cash.

i like the system the way it is

Namus wrote:

Actually on steam store page it says now that EA will last up to 1 year. So it could be 6 months but it could be 1 year i guess it depends on player feedback...

I totally agree with you, nonetheless it's noteworthy to say a lot of early access devs didn't give a single fuck about community opinion. Nor did they even try to stay in touch with them.

Constant community interaction, sharing of future plans and a transparant development are the base line for a successful EA game. In my opinion, the bless team did a damn good job with that so far.

That only leaves the hope that they will do the same post EA release. It's far easier to sooth the community when they see that the game progresses in the right direction.

Things like QoL changes, minor optimizations, events and slight rebalancing on a weekly/monthly basis amake a hugh difference already. A main problem is the mindset that big updates every 6 months while being a closed book for 5 is enough to keep the community happy. That might work for an established game like WoW or FFXIV but certaintly not for a recently released MMO and even less for an EA title

Mages can wear heavy armor. Whether it it's useful or not is another question though.

They will probably lose out on the Territories yes. The amount of realm points you get from owning these territories is pretty low though. Equipping a full guild with legendary would literally take 1-x years.

You also get realm points from winning guild wars, in case they didn't change that. I don't know the amount you get though, even though smaller guilds with a dedicated core will surely have the edge in this regard.

Namus wrote:

My guess is they will most likely announce release date and packs a week earlier than press release and just focus on showing off the game at press release. On the other hand if they do wait for press release to announce it then it means they are very confident in starting a sale after game is shown to the public and that's a really good sign.

finally someone that uses common sense these days.

Pentrep wrote:

Tax is an interesting concept. Coming from the FFXI perspective, tax didn't always work and RMT was quite prevalent in that game during it's hay day. RMT usually went around the tax by running bazaars where tax was free. If Neowiz does the tax system then it needs to be realistic enough not to penalize sales on the AH. Especially since trading isn't allowed right now, I could see there being alot of drama if that was the case.

RMT can't work in JP. No way to get a large chunk of gold/item from 1 char to another.

If they reduced the AH Tax they would have to significantly raise Repair Costs, Travel Costs and Merchant costs. Which would overall be a bad idea.

While AH Tax mainly hits the rich and the fortunate, an incease in Vendor or travel costs would hit everybody equally. Even worse, repair costs will hit poor players far harder than rich players.

Overall the AH system is well thought through and probably one of the best gold sink systems I've seen in any game. Sometimes you need to stick with a system no matter how much drama is generated by the less knowledgable/intelligent parts of the playerbase

P.S. the AH Tax doesn't punish selling on the AH.