I have specifically refrained from posting on here until now as it normally descends into flaming, but this patch has just killed all of your hard work imo.
adding game changing items to game shop when a simple fix is available for both issues...is just plain stupid.
1. adding a potion that prevents cursing, when there is already a ready made solution to people leaving guild during a war is retarded beyond measure. it is very simple to make it so that you cannot leave guild during a guildwar, this was the case on mir 3 and solved this problem without real money. this potion has only been added for one simple reason, which is to prevent two players who spend alot of money and are on friendly terms with the dev team from cursing their luck 7 weapons. this change is a joke and has just made this game pointless for anyone who actually works for their kit instead of exploiting. its bad enough that a blind eye seems to be turned to these and others, but actually changing the game to suit them and only them is about as corrupt and stupid as it comes.
2. the wizards pets should last for longer anyway. the time and effort it takes to tame them and level them. wiz pets should last for 3 hours when tamed. by making it a cash shop perk only you have made so that an elite few who are willing to pay who now have a massive adv. you have made it pay to win. any wizard willing to spend the money can now camp higher exp places with levelled pets almost indefinately. this is not only a joke it is game breaking.
This server has/had the potential to be the best private server around it really did. but from the very start you seem to have been out to sabotage your own work. starting with ignoring the beta testers to the point that the game was almost recognizable when it went live. to the ridiculous attempts at balancing spells. you buffed nerfed then re-buffed heavensword for instance and its almost exactly as it was before you began the tweaking-Pointless. then you nerfed staticshot into the ground only to re buff it so that it is sluggish but actually does more damage than it used to.
When you add that to the total micro management of both leveling and drops prior to this patch. it becomes a calamity of errors and misjudgment which is bordering on incompetence. drops have been altered on the fly. certain bosses got buffed to prevent certain people killing them. then drops have been altered and boss reduced again. the nerf to staticshot was a direct result of archers leveling faster than you intended them to.
When this server was in closed beta there was alot of talk about the cash shop and the content in it. the dev team specifically said that there would be nothing game changing in it saying that it would only be aesthetic stuff like the mounts etc. you have made yourselves liars, by not only adding exp pots which give an unfair advantage, but also adding a non curse potion and a pot that increases pet duration has made it so the mouthy few who are willing to waste money have an advantage that other players do not. you have killed this server for over 300 players already who have all quit in the last 6 weeks because of this bullshit micromanagement the stealth nerfs and buffs and the total lack of a backbone from the dev team with regards to cheating. not even gonna begin with the gold selling as that is beyond stupid on a server which you have tried to goldsink heavier than any other server ive played you allow the selling of gold. total and utter stupidity.
So much potential wasted because the dev team have no spine. im certainly not gonna invest any more time let alone money unless these issues are adressed.
