DoctahW
Wants a Whitesmith
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Why is there so much hostility/dislike towards Renewal?
I would honestly like to know why so many people on this forum detest the thought of Renewal. I've gone over the changes, and quite frankly, I like them for the most part.
After all, come Renewal, there's less of a dependence on cards, and more on the attack power of weapons for one. One of kRO's goals with Renewal was to reduce dependence on slot amount, and more on the weapon itself.
For example, in current RO, it's generally agreed that a Composite Bow[4] is much more desirable than a Luna Bow[2]. A level 2 (Or is it level 1? I forget.) weapon with 29 attack power that's relatively easy to obtain is capable of much more damage than a level 3 weapon with 100 attack power that is really only dropped by some of the more difficult to kill enemies just because you can fit more cards in the Composite?
I can see that they succeeded in removing dependence on card amount by separating the basic attack power given from your status, and the attack power of the weapon. So in Renewal, cards only affect weapon attack power, making a bloody-boned Luna Bow do more damage to demihumans than a 2xBloody 2xBoned Composite Bow due in part to higher weapon attack.
But enough rambling on that. I'd be fascinated in hearing why most of HeRO seems to truly dislike Renewal. All I ask is to attempt to keep civil. ...And if this is in the wrong forum, please do correct my mistake and move it if it does not fit here.
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10-04-2009, 02:10 PM |
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Naruhodo
Ace Attorney
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RE: Why is there so much hostility/dislike towards Renewal?
My problem with Renewal is that they're controlling what monsters you hunt by greatly decreasing the exp you get from monsters too high or too below your level:
Quote:Increased Weighting of Level Difference
- Players are rewarded for fighting monsters within their level range.
- If a player fights a monster up to 10 levels higher than them, they gain a 5% exp bonus per level.
- However, if the monster is over 10 levels above the player, the player will be unable to properly damage that monster.
- If a player is over 3 levels above a monster, the experience of that monster decreases by 50%. Each additional level difference reduces exp by 10%.
- The level weighting occurs after party share is taken into account.
In my ever so humble opinion, **** that xD
I want to be able to hunt/farm whatever the hell I want, not what Gravity arbitrarily thinks I "should" be hunting...
It's one of the reasons I like RO so much; they dont control what you "should be" doing as much as too many current modern MMOs do.
e.g. In WoW they make it literally impossible to kill anything 5+ levels above you, and you're *always* on that same escalator scale to get the next best loot, level, etc in the same zones till you level up and move to the next few places that everyone in your level goes to, etc.
So yeah, I DO NOT WANT renewal.
EDIT: LOL I must have posted this at the same time as Nara, and we never talked about this to each other before... great minds think alike and all that jazz I guess
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(This post was last modified: 10-04-2009, 02:46 PM by Naruhodo.)
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10-04-2009, 02:41 PM |
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Naruhodo
Ace Attorney
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RE: Why is there so much hostility/dislike towards Renewal?
I get what you're saying about some of the things they're balancing; some of the aspects of Renewal are definitely "good."
(Though it changes the game so much that even if they're good changes, it'll mess with everything we worked for up to that point so most people wont appreciate it anyway.)
But other parts of the Renewal, like the exp thing, are undoubtedly "bad."
Stupid Gravity
Edit: Hopefully maybe someday in the future eAthena will take the good Renewal changes from the bad and add them to their RO emu? And if not eAthena, then maybe other coders/heRO? We have the power!
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Naruhodo Ryuuichi, 99/70 Whitesmith
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Lawrence Moe Curls, Bard
Father Totoro, Priest
(This post was last modified: 10-04-2009, 03:25 PM by Naruhodo.)
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10-04-2009, 03:23 PM |
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