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i'm not trying to prove anything,just saying any class can have a good build,depends on you.and your ability to play,it's not for dev's to fix your toon to ur specifications,i was just showing a match with a good DK build in it.this is for the weaker dk's to show them Hope,i guess.

 

Hello CM Haruki,

Just popping by with another question. Any chance you could give us a list of all the possible pets from the lucky companion package, much like what was provided for the lucky mount package?

 

+ you forget to write that we dont have anymore where to farm ess and anders.Very hard and Extreme maps are coming - it will be 100% pay to play.
If you die on map you can wake up only at 1 entrance what is sometimes far away,no more tactic in the farm.
Uniqs and new sets are not worth for me.
Events are boring and old,with the same prize like before.
Red,purple,blue ess (300% dmg not 30%,etc..) in open arena 1hit - 1 dead
We dont have what to buy for drakens - I mean something what could make my hero stronger,not pets,emotions...

Only nice thing is design part. I am not understand what BP try to make....I see less and less very good old players online.

 

Hi CMs

I wonder if you took out the old witch hunter set forever? I'm sitting on 2 pieces and cannot complete my mighty witch hunter set right now, is there any chance gnob's offer will be updated soon?

Now as you finally released some official data (breakpoints), I wonder if you're planning on continuing this kind of direct and informative dialogue with the players and may release other data such as official drop chances of uniques/legendaries and so on as well?

Thanks for your time and have nice week

 

Hello there playful creatures,

first of all, this is one of the very first times that I had to hit the Edit button and add some ninja edits, basically to tear down bad words and not so respectful wording. PLEASE, LADS: let's try to keep the thread civil, even if it roams free over the realms of OP-ness and what-nots. Remember all of you that this is a forum and it means that some people are not going to share your views. If you are uncool with the fact that someone offers a comprehensive answer to your version of reality with another version of his/her reality maybe this is not the place for you.

Anyway, here we go!

Hey there Mister,
I always comment on the fact that the written medium is quite a painful one because between what I think, what I write, what you read and what you feel about it go already layers and layers of minuscule miscommunication. Please understand that it's not my desire to always pick wrong posts of yours... I simply comment on them; nothing personal.

Returning to the topic of the essences and the damage bonus - actually, this needed a necessary tweak and this will come with Rel159. Basically the tooltip description was rather ambiguous and pinpointed in the wrong direction. With rel159 everything will work correctly because all relative damage increasing effects will be text-consistent. They will be added up and multiplied with the total amount of absolute damage. We will comment this on the patch notes, for sure!

I do not have a time-stamp answer for the other question, though. Sorry about that!!

Because... Insert your BP joke of choice.
No, really, some release dates are clearer than others. This was the Monda-ish type of release. But it finally arrived!

Sir, you do not need to be rude to state your point. Sometimes there are problems we cannot foresee, not even the programmers, but I think we manage to react quite quickly to those.

Hello mister,

I see your point here and I will refer this to the narrative and level designers.
However, understand that it's a pretty minor issue...

Hey there mister Excalibur,

how do you know is an abuse? Do you have proofs about it? Can you reproduce it? I raised the issue within the team and we rather believe this is a graphical/lag issue and nothing too exploit-y about it. Please send a complete report to support if you have more information about this and they will escalate it to us. Thanks a bunch!!

Hello there!!

Players will be able to upgrade the new Untouchable Set once rel159 arrives to Dracania- the parts you will be able to buy by the NPC are Tier 1 and the set can be upgraded up to tier 3. Unfortunately there will be no crafting for the old Ammon set nor for the weapons of the end of time (the end is near...). And the rings will be "upgradable" once - all the unique rings that each boss drops.

Agreed 100%.

Hello there mister,

we already have commented more than once that we are not contemplating adding a gem-share feature, or any kind of item exchange between characters type of feature, for that matter. The same goes for the introduction of social trade, a healing archetype or a squirrel mount. Not happening, no.

Although I do agree that some discussion points were kind of arriving nowhere (they also die organically though) and would have fitted better in other corners... I kinda welcome some back and forth debates. Some points pertained to a very narrow personal vision, me thinks, but other visions were equally constructive and interesting. Anyway, I surely read every single of your posts so I try not to skip any important questions. Hijack is a rather funny word for the person who has the power to delete posts at will, just saying.

Hello there silverseas,

snow essences will still be there, yes. Happy hogging!

Hey there mister,

I would personally ask you to please respect the good people in these boards who are trying to offer an interesting argument for your other side of the coin. No need to call them names - this actually diminishes your point and makes dialogue all the more annoying. Even if this is the "Ask the CMs" thread, and indeed I am answering questions, we also allow a certain type of discussion. At least I do.

As for your main question: we do not have immediate, concrete and conclusive plans to make Dragonknights tankier. A huge batch of balances were applied with Rel157 and we are still monitoring. The DKs are much more healed and viable right now.

Interesting question! The art team and our monster specialist are always thinking in tweaking and enhancing the battle experiences of the mobs/bosses when it comes to staging, general feeling and of course AI. I can tell you that we have in the backlog a design to increment the intelligence of the brainless ranged mobs... BUT this remains in the backlog, meaning that it will take time to actually see it live. Sorry!

Getting a proper answer from the CMs is actually easier to maintain a sexual encounter with Jenna Jameson.
Do not through the towel just yet, Traki. The world has seen the impossible come true!

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And this will be all for today. I will certainly come around tomorrow and try to kill the rest of the questions.

Cheerios!!

 

Ok then, could you PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE make sure there are some snow men also in dungeons, not only in wilderness areas?
As the Lor'Tac dungeons have respawning mobs anyway, it should be a piece of cake to have snowmen respawning there at the same rate.
What about e.g. Fjalnir's cradle of frost - that would be VERY fitting, wouldn't it? (while I doubt a bit if they wouldn't melt in rather tropical stillwater bay...)

While Lor'tac is only available to high-level players, the possibility to farm snow essences in those dungeons for THEM might also alleviate the situation (which has been criticized for at least 2-3 consecutive years now!!!) in the lowlevel wilderness areas as well, where highlevel players with crazy runspeed steal the snow essences from all lowlevel chars in "their" maps.

Alternatively, simply just create snow men in normal dungeons and make them non-respawning?

Please, please, pleaaaaaaaaaase...
Trying to farm snow essences around 4am in the morning (because then chances are best not to encounter too many competitors) is not exactly what I understand by enjoying a game.

P.S. I think you actually owe us a favour after that almost incredible communication failure of parallel world fragments NOT being exchanged into the new currency... I am really disappointed by how that has been handled... tiny bonus codes for everyone, per account, without any regard to what we had on stock on how many chars... A shame! And please don't say it technically wasn't possible - last year BP already managed to exchange some items from our inventories (CoT) into a game currency (andermant)! And even if, you should have known and communicated this before.
So, it would be nice if you could not only think of pretty bonus codes for your advent calendar, but first of all make the midwinter event enjoyable by actually impementing some player feedback!

 

Hello

I'm an ordinary fool so forgive me, that lives in Dracania since fall 2011

IMHO the written language is not to blame. The company always preferred to keep distances, it's only recently that is getting a little more talkative to the customers. However little is better than nothing.

This layered structure alone proves it.

There are companies out there that have IRC and dedicated bug-tracking system to address all kind of problems in the shortest time.

Balance, nothing to balance as long as it's p2w

Mondayishy, nobody would blame for a delayed-but-good release than buggy early bird, perhaps there are bugs still longing since 2012 ...

and there bugs everywhere which is normal, even in the forum;


footnotes:
user Lolailo in the test-server doesn't seem to exist
privacy-mode, oky girl prefer nicknames, but Haruki is male-only name that means child of spring

 

Thank you for answers. I will wait on #2, but would like a clarification on #1, if possible, please. Perhaps I was unclear.

'Added up and multiplied with the total amount of absolute damage'.

It is the way it works today already. Not sure about tooltips but I do not really care about them. What I care about, and I hope I'm not alone as there was a long thread on the matter is that the 'damage bonus' was a part of the 'absolute damage' before r155. Now it is not, as now it is % based. That causes the major effectiveness loss.

So question 1. Could you please clarify on this one. Are you saying you will revisit what is the part of the absolute damage before the essences are applied or you plan to leave everything as is today, and adjust the tooltips accordingly? Hopefully it is the first one, otherwise essences power will be extremely low like it is now. Thank you

And question or request #2. Could you please revisit the decision of non-reseting boss maps, and M2 (Q6). It makes not a lot of sense, just forces players to spend additional time to run through the maps to enter the boss again. That creates no benefit to players and I believe no benefits to BP, as player satisfaction should be something of your interest. If there are any abuse-related reasons, I think they have nothing to do with Khalys, Mortis or even M2 (Q6). Why should we go back to city after each Khalys kill? It is a long way to get there. Not even saying the general mob farming setup is different from the Boss fight. And on M2, I believe if you want players to stop quick Knight runs, you better offer them something else, something better (like you do with the better drops in PW already) instead of just prohibiting what was there forever.

Thank you for understanding and answers. Cheers.

 

Proper ... like not wrapped up political answer ... but slammed right into the face ... whether someone likes it or not.

I won't ... i don't feel comfortable standing naked in the forums

 

If the dev's had read any of the previous feedback concerning this event, they would have learned that X number of snowmen on X number of maps vs number of players is an EPIC fail in concept.

You simply force the stronger players to **** off the rest of the players by hoarding the spots where the snowmen spawn.

Maybe the solution is too easy so the dev's weren't able to figure it out. Put snowmen in the dungeons and you'll eliminate 100% of the problem and save yourself from reading all the negative feedback over and over again each and every time this event comes around.

I realize that DSO doesn't want to make the players too happy, so you could lower the snowmen drops by say 33% in dungeons to make up for everyone being able to get them. This way we can still be somewhat unhappy.

 

A Misery Index! Of course, it's so simple now, like a negative sentiment index for players.
If there is not enough complaining, there is not enough pain. Quick, patch something!

 

Farm snowmans and compete with my friends? Thanks but I will pass.

 

I have 3 very basic questions.

1. Why are there still white gear drops? They serve absolutely no purpose, especially during events.

2. Why is it a good thing that we are no longer able to run the good maps / boss maps over and over again for gops? Given that lvl 50 gear requires so many millions of gops to upgrade, forcing us to grind even more seems like a petty move.

3. Why is it that the vast majority of uniques are far worse than legendary gear? It seems to defeat the purpose of being "unique", especially given how randomly rare they drop. Please do not think that I am suggesting that you "nerf" legendary items, but rather I am suggesting that you raise the values of the seldom seen uniques or better yet, create something worth farming for.

 

eror code 23 cant logen in fix this problems pls.

 

Please try every character on your account.

If one of them never sent the server a logoff then it will say your still on until you try to log that character on.

 

They already said it is for coin they keep them there. This was before r155 twitch.

 

I will NOT dedicate precious minutes of MY LIFE to help all of you in doing YOUR WORK, or what YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO.
All your teams get a SALARY to do this.

And I HATE when you reply "this is a graphical bug" when i CLEARLY invited you to COLLECT AROUND THE OFFICIAL FORUMS every clue to prove that this is a REAL issue, not a graphical one. I'm sure that you are enough wise to understand that if i have to inflict something like 100k damage to an enemy BEFORE seeing the barlife starting to decrease from 100%, it's sufficient to proceed with a serious investigation.
Even you didn't read carefully, or either you have no interests in what you read.

You and dev team consider this not enough? NONE OF MY BUSINESS, i intend to help COMMUNITY giving suggestion in forum.
If you have the ability to catch this suggestion, good.
If you have no interests or don't want to understand some basic concepts, i can't help you in any manner and no one is able to do it.

Maybe devs are measured on a basis of your internal solved-ticket-system number? Failing method, hoping this is not the case.

 

All of my experiences and testing of this issue lines up with what Haruki said. You are claiming something that can not be reproduced under controlled circumstances. Therefor, the burden of proof is now on you. I agree that they need to fix the graphical bug, but unless you can prove that it is more than a graphical bug, it isn't likely to be a priority. If this issue is as common as you claim, then you should have no problem recording a video of it to shut us all up and prove how stupid we all are and how we should bow to your infinite knowledge an experience regarding bugs.

 

R155 was supposed to remove the highest priced white items because players only sell them. "You will no longer find normal (white) jewelry items – instead you will find more coin drops". So saying that they keep white items because people sell them makes no sense when they wanted to remove the ones that people pick up to sell.

Here is another statement about white items made by DSO:
"Update: Apart from in the parallel worlds, you'll find no normal (white) belts, weapon adornments, rings and amulets since they don't really provide any type of values and are only good for selling."

Most of the white gear doesn't sell for enough coin to be worth picking up. Removing them and adding more coin drops or better yet, add more green/blue items would benefit the players. Maybe that is the real problem, it would benefit the players too much.

I just find it odd that somehow the parallel worlds thrive with no white gear drops, but the rest of the game (including events) need them.

 

You are not a pvp player, so it's normal that you can't understand this. The real problem is that neither Haruki neither one of the drakensang team has never tried PVP, and that's why they don't have a clue. I found a video of what I usually see during some fights: