Q&A Development Team Letter

I am a mage and i cant understand why gems of life gives more life to tank and ranger while i have to pay the same amount of anders.Whats the point to pay the same price,for the same gem that gives to me less life?

 

Hello, I've made this QUESTION to speak for everyone in the Balor PvP server, as noone is making any complains about the inactivity, unpopularity and LOW player base.
So, if you play in Balor PvP you've made the worst decision ever. Why?
Because:
-There is little/no PvP (EVEN WHEN THERE ARE NO EVENTS - DONT GIVE ME THAT EXCUSE)

-WE CANT PLAY PVP IN THIS SERVER AS THERE MAX 40 PEOPLE LVL 55 - MAX!

-WE ALWAYS FIGHT AGAINST THE SAME PEOPLE

-THERE IS NO PVP IF YOU ARE NOT LVL 55

-NO PLAYERS/GROUPS TO FARM

-NOT EVEN 5 STRONG ACTIVE GUILDS

HOW CAN WE PLAY THE GAME IF THE PLAYER BASE IS SO LOW?!​

CAN ANYONE WHO WORKS IN THIS COMPANY DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS NEVER-ENDING PROBLEM?​

 

My best guess is this is the way they decided to balance dks for endgame farming and pvp in the era of 1 hit kill pvp.

 

Best solution is a Servermerge of Balor, Agathon, Werian and Tegan !
i think that gives the most happieness to the majority of players.

ps..am playing aswell on Balor server since Jan. 2012 and i know very well the bad situation there.

 

Tanks for answering, DSO Production Team!

Some people mention bots, which are supposed to be a legit feature in Dragon Rise, and still illegal in DSO. I had no idea what sort of bots people use, so I looked up some videos. I hope it will never be present as an official feature in DSO. This is an action hack'n'slash RPG, not one of those stupid browser games where you do some clicking every day and let the game do the thing for you automatically.

Perhaps DSO is getting too boring for people to actually play it, so they use bots. It may be a good idea to consider ways to make the game less grindy, so the motivation to use bots simply disappears. This season's Ghost Festival feels a bit less grindy than last year, so I think you are taking first steps in the right direction.

Actually, you might simply just include precautions on all maps that prevent auto farm bots from actually working. Something like a random action that the player has to do before entering the map or before being able to kill monsters, something that the bot can't predict so it can't just mimic the real player...

Anyway, right now people demand that bot users are banned, and it's a perfectly fair demand. I'm sure you have ways how to detect them. Well, if not, then you should consider making a community driven report system either in game or in the forum, so you know which players to check.

 

While I agree with you that this Ghost festival is less grindy then last year, it opens up another area of this game that needs attention.
I'll put it simply, Draken cores. Most of us who are on level 55 that want true farm gear, need a couple of different sets that are only upgradeable to higher tiers via draken cores. So most players use Belicose set in different variations, but always stay true to have minimum 3x items from that set. These days, all the rage is the Witcher set, that also uses draken cores for the upgrading to the higher tiers. So "enders" have for PVE farm, at least 6 items that are upgradeable to higher tiers only by using draken cores, which fall only during events on bosses.

Considering we had seen tier xyz gear on the test server (tier 9 was it?), one has to assume that if he or she had a perfect set (Belicose or Witcher) on tier 5, will want to upgrade it one day in the future to higher tier. Example, 6 tier 5 items (Belicose and WItcher), would have to be upgraded for the price of 6x400 draken cores to tier 6, and the next tier and the next tier.

So if you release tier 6 tomorrow for example, some of us will have to farm 2400 draken cores on events to upgrade the tier level.After that tier 7 for 2700 cores, tier 8 3000 cores. By now you should get the point. This feels out of this world grindy.

One can argue that why use those sets, but the point is players shouldn't be punished by the selection of the gear, and that is only happening because the events that give draken cores, don't happen everyday, or if they do come more often, getting to boss is not so simple as a parallel world Q1-9 run.

Can something be done about this in the future, like lowering the amount of draken cores needed for the upgrade, or making draken cores drop in higher amounts then the parallel world's boss since the events are more complex then the Q's?

I do not want for this game to become so grindlike for some of us that have good builds on level 55, it would take away all the fun.

 

So basically you're saying that while something has become less grindy, it's still grindy in another way. In case of the Ghost Festival, you can finish it faster than last year = less grind, but you still need to keep doing it despite having finished it, because of the draken cores = still lot of grind.
Well, yeah, but DSO team can always say you don't need to grind Gwenfara in the first place, because you have plenty of other bosses to kill to get draken cores. I mean, it's still grind, right, so I'm not with them on this. I'm just saying what the possible answer coming from the DSO team might be.

To have myself to serve as an example, I haven't used a single core (draken core or any other core) since I reached level 55, which was back in March. Why? Well, despite playing intensively, although with some prolonged pauses, I haven't managed to collect enough cores for any kind of core crafting. What I mean is, the core drop is just super small and obviously only the biggest farming no-lifers can afford core crafting. And I am quite a no-lifer, only not a big farmer... apparently. Simply put: yes, cores should drop in larger quantities.

But back to the Ghost Festival example. Let's say you are not so interested in collecting draken cores. Then you can finish pretty fast without even having to play higher than painful, and you can celebrate your loot. Yes, it's a grind on map 1, but not as crazy as before. Anyway, if you check DSO Facebook, you can see a community challenge there! Wow. Well, but then you realize that while you finished the event pretty fast, you still need to play it to contribute to the challenge, because every point from every player counts, and everyone likes bonus rewards, right? So basically the whole thing seems like you get a bit less grindy event that in fact pushes you to the grind play using other means, be it draken cores, or community challenges, or whatever.

With all that said, it's still a fact, and I appreaciate it, that this particular event is less of a farm, considering purely the event progress bar. I take it as a positive move and I hope it represents a more global reform of how the game works. Of course we can count on the devs compensating the loss on fast event progression somewhere else, because obviously if people finish events faster, they don't have the need to spend money on buffs and whatnot. So now it may be hard to get cores, and once that gets easier, well then somethig else will get harder to obtain, and the cycle goes on and on.

 

The right mouse button doesn't work properly at PVP , for SW. This has been problem for several months and reported many times. It stuck often, only at arena. # SAD

 

The standard for measuring grind in an event is the amount of drops of event advancement and the time it takes to complete the progress bar

You can still farm draken cores, yeah, it's going to be grindy having to farm them, but there are also events every months, at least 2 a month, you can get your fair share of cores

 

change the realm system to (ladder / none ladder)
and put all ladder players separate from none ladder doing this will make a new realm for players to start..
this will create a balanced PVP in ladder.. and will balance the game because everyone is level1 again newbs will play here

none ladder would be left alone and every year all Ladder players are moved to None ladder (if your ladder toon is to good to let go)
he can remain in none ladder

all this change would need is
new server partitioned away from the population on none ladder
create new Hero Select at main menu (allowing 8 toons not 4)

Effect would be priceless computation to reach 55 in ladder and be ranked on a leader board for pvp/pve - removal of twinks and 1hit kill fights - ALOT of money would be pumped for players to get a footup on this new ladder system
testing of balance items under new setup of stats... basically a better game for new players and old frustrated none ladder players

because everyone loves bashing monsters at level 1 with your friends

 

No ... thanx

 

I will add something from me i will provide it as questions/ideas

1. Auto-Loot Option - When you grind its really annoying to lose time to pickup items espacially if you pick up f.e only pink/leg/uniq items during materi runs. Please will you implement an option to pick up only selected items f.e. make a window called "Loot Settings" And options like "Loot All" and next to this option Loot : green/blue/pink/leg/uniq only this you can leave gems as autoloot because everybody picks up a gem

2. Highlight Interactive Items like Normal Ampfhoras, Barrels etc etc. And you can do it by adding it to CTRL highlight Option. Now you will be able to Go trhough map hold CTRL and check if smth there or if you already used it f.e if amphora is not highlighted you already used it>

3. Combinig Gems - Implement an option Called "COMBINE ALL" you know how much fun it is to stand 15-20 mins in front of Gem marchant to combine 99 stacks of each type of gem ? And pls dont tell me that the solutions is to combine them after each Map.

4. Selling - Can you pls implement SELL ALL option that works like SORT button. You can sort 1 page so make it possible to sell The whole page at once its not fun to click on every item

5. Again Selling - Why Marchants have only 2 pages of sold loot ? How many times i made a mistake and sold smth that i needed and had to buy everything back only to get 1 item ? Can you make it posssible to sort through every sold item ?

6. Transfer Cores - Can/Will you implement a type of core that makes it possible to transfer enchantments from one unique to another but the same type ? F.e Transfer enchantments from belt from berach to karabossa belt ? Or weapon from herold to weapon from berach. Why this option would be nice ? Except the way that crafting works now there are few players who have items with old stats. F.e I have a belt that has 64% critical dmg on it but its in berachs belt and i cant do nothing with it because my endgame set will involve karabossa belt and in my opinnion the best set up (PVE) is 4x dmg on this item weapon and belt with critical dmg. Now i wont be able to achive maximum capabilities of my char because theres no option to transfer those enchantments.

7.Tremor/Shock button - Will you make it possible to turn of sceen tremors when bosses use certain skills. F.e its not fun to fight Herold with DK( dk not tank with 834573284576345 def and no dmg and uses 1 skill ) when after every meteor the screen shakes. Not mentioning the problem with cursor but this i will adress in next the point

8. Change the look of cursor. Can you pls implement the option the change the look of cursor event smth as simple as change of color would do. I love the moment when fighting a boss the screen shakes all the time and i lost the sight of cursor and as an effect my char i running blind ....

9. Rubber Effect - fix problem with running pass mobs when theres cleary room to pass them but suddenly you get back.

Thats all from me
Best Regards

 

That would be broken as hell. Someone would only have to build one "perfect" item and then rotate it around and around to whatever they plan on using next. When higher levels come (years down the road), old/strong players would be using the same enchantments they built years ago. On top of shafting newer players, it destroys the incentive for older players to keep farming and it ends up costing BP money down the road.

 

Not at all, the same could be said about augment cores and, insted, the high price kept them in place.
I would strikly prefer a system to "extract" the legend from the unique (so you can chose to use it for further crafts or to move it on another unique) because it would give you an extra cost that will keep this passage in check even further but still, some way to re-use our crafted legis should be implemented soon or later.

This refers to the poor pathfinding in the game which definatly doesn't correctly handles collisions with moving objects )and with static ones either).

I would like more the option "collect all nearby loots" hotkey which we see in basically any other H&S RPG.

"Sell all" could be problematic but the "identify all" will find the light soon or later.

All the others seem very reasonable requests; expect to be ignored.

 

Ye i know but had to try im devastated that i wont be able to use that belt and have to transfer 4x dmg At least i tried

Maybe in the future critical dmg will be applied to belts again and the problem will be solved

 

Do you plan anything with rune Moonstone? I have a lot of them. Can we combine them anytime? For example 3x Moonstone -> bigger Moonstone with 2% increased critical hit rate.

 

That’s a very good solution to this, but of course no one will respond in our complains. They read it and ignore it as usual

 

Hi all the staff, I have some questions, can you give our costumes a unique bonus? For example immune to fire, immune to poison, immune to petrification, 10% more gold, etc.? Not for PvP.
Why do other classes have a skill that can pierce all enemies and war no?

 

I wonder why you forgot the Bloodstones, i invested my time, my money, and now they just are not any more useful, is that your idea of effort /reward ?

 

Actually BP adressed this! The bloodstones were supposed to be transmuted into (I think it was tier 5 or 6) Amathysts via a script, but either the script didnt work or it did not take into account that we as players was using gemcontainers at the time... either way... I have those bloodstones also!