Boredom of Farming

[henna]

Hello soldiers of the kingdom!

The point of farming is to keep player interested while there is no pvp, but sometime I question the fact is it really like that, and think myself should I rather log off and do something more entertaining or go outdoors.

I have nothing bad to say about boss farming, except the fact that CTI still takes 2-3 hours to kill which for some people is pretty absurd amount of time for a single boss, but it can still be managed. The main problem I have with the game is farming normal monsters. Currently the only place that anyone would like to farm is D1 (unless you are in a need of lapises or lapisias), rec runes with additional fortune bags are just too tasty to leave behind. Unfortunetly the farming in D1 is really boring and repetitive, you basically only run from room to another using a single AoE skill.

Couple updates before, when the only way to get lvl 59 enhancement items was killing mobs in Caelum Sacra, that was the only time I had actually enjoyed farming. Monsters there was hard enough to keep me focused and playing with guild members just made it a lot more fun.

Therefor I'd like to suggest to add drops to places where decently geared people can also enjoy the farming, and make it so that you get the best income with a party of 3-7 players, to make it more social that joining a half dead pick up raid where most of the players are afk. OI's, CS's and CT's mobs are all good choices for farming areas, after their attack and HP are adjusted to match a group's attributes.

This doesn't mean there can't be any boring places to farm, since these places are really good farming areas for newer people.

thanks for reading.

[keoll]

Just my opinion:
Spreading out the places to get things would be great. Most private servers center solely on the higher end pvp aspect of the game and completely ignore every other part of the game. 1-15 pvp is non-existent here. Any of the old school players can tell you exactly how brutally fun that zone can be. Even with the 20-30 vendors, there's virtually nothing going on in the 20-30 zone either.

Most of the dungeons just aren't worth going into because of the way the drops have been distributed. Ruber Chaos, for example. Great that one can farm a cool mount but that only takes downing one or two mobs. all that drops in there are the mounts and you can't sell them off to any vendors for gold so it's not even worth sticking around. Killing Astaroth used to be a fun thing for guilds to do together. Asta drops nothing so not worth going.

Dispersing the drops to multiple places and possibly nudging players into different areas of the game could go a long way to making this a top server. Not everyone out there wants to do lvl 60 pvp all the time but there's no real incentive or ability to really amp up other sections right now.

[Dago]

Yes, we understand this, and will work towards an option to do something if feeling, not exactly like pvping, but still would like to do something in-game, however it is not the absolutely most pressing issue at the moment, and has been slightly postponed. Regarding the suggestions posted, I'll try reply to each separately.

1)the fact that CTI still takes 2-3 hours to kill which for some people is pretty absurd amount of time for a single boss
Yes, absolutely agreed, and i will look into some solution, which will make the boss more of a test for skills, not just blunt pressing of healing for 3 hours unless you have a raid of pagans that spam Nemesis and archers AFK'ing.

2)Unfortunetly the farming in D1 is really boring and repetitive
Yes, so far this particular zone was made mainly for farming purposes, and to get new people up to speed quickly. As server will grow and logically it will become camped/fought over, more such zones will be made. (Sky City is already like that)

3) Monsters there was hard enough to keep me focused and playing with guild members just made it a lot more fun.
I've not thought of this yet, but it might be very likely that in the future we will create grind zones for geared people to farm things.

4)1-15 pvp is non-existent here, Even with the 20-30 vendors, there's virtually nothing going on
Main issue is the playerbase here. However we've discussed an option to re-work 20-30 map heavily. This will be put up to forums for discussions and so on.

[[ADM]Kingdom]

Well, the drops right now are and were only for new people and Christmas purposes, D1 wont have the Fortune Bags droping like it is right now neither will drop as high as it drops stuff right now, every single drop will be changed since people already got enough far to be able to pvp, for 1-15 zone and 20-30 zone, drops were just added so people could do GRB, the main drops and zone settings are coming on january since i am working on new fortune bags for this 2 zones so people get interest on farming them, OI,CS,CTI they will all have tasty drops in there i bet you all will be there farming when there is no pvp.
For CTI that takes 2-3 hours killing, well, i don't think i will change it any more, since the point of it is because right now it literally drops the best and power full weapons you can get on this server, i already lowered 2 million Health to it only thing left to do to it is just waiting for a higher base of players. The Grinch will no longer exist on DD1 after January King Slayer wont be easy to kill since it will lead to a new map full of bosses.
For Astaroth, El Kid, And the 3 bosses we used to kill on Map 2 for a quest that was certainly a challenge on episode 4 will come to place with other few bosses, this is in future updates, we just haven't got the time to push all this updates, and we dont want to rush so we can make every thing work 100%