v.128: Year of the Snake Update Highlights

People are impatient for no reason. The "Hyper Skill" chain should have been starting this month, but it possibly got delayed by one month. I don't understand why people started thinking we should have been getting them last month, or even December.

Except that it's not "no reason". Once again Nexon is choosing to maintain the imbalance between the Heros + new classes and the older classes. This is not acceptable to me or anyone else who has been shafted time and time again by staggered revamps. We watch some select classes become vastly more powerful while we fall farther and farther behind. This time it's almost worse. Ever since Tempest with the surprise release of Hypers with Kaiser, Explorer hypers have been danging just out of reach. We've seen them in KMS and it's absolutely everything we've been asking for for months! Only now it's being pushed back farther and farther for new content we're simply not equipped to enjoy like Root Abyss and Magnus because it wasn't designed with pre-Hyper classes in mind.

I have always hated the staggered revision process of classes because it inevitably leaves any class not recently revised severely underpowered.

If you play one of the new classes, you probably don't get it. I've been preparing for BM hypers for literally months. I have a stock pile of 100k NX just waiting to cube when I finally get a secondary weapon. I will finally be on par with Mercedes. My mobbing damage will quadruple and I'll be able to solo v2 Empress instructors. My bossing damage will double and I'll be damn near hitting damage cap before split damage and will far exceed it with Terms and Conditions which will open Normal Mode Magnus to me.

While Root Abyss is fantastic content and under any other situation I would be happily enjoying it, it doesn't compare with Hypers for Explorers and Resistance because by giving it to us out of order, we aren't capable of fully participating. This patch, which seems a rehash of old content mixed with maybe 2 new events, is nearly pointless and not at all a motivation for me to play except 10minutes a day at RLH for totems and to get the last 10 lvls on my MM. Big whoopiedie do.

This rant is not entirely directed at you and mostly consists of me venting a great deal of frustration.

What Verrkol said. They could easily address this imbalance and they aren't. Nexon would rather give us events and other crap without providing many classes with the update they desperately need. I don't understand why I must instead have these random events that merely get me to waste time. Where is the content that I have so eagerly and patiently waited for? Why must Kaiser and the OP legends recieve their bonus while I sit around aimlessly hoping for the update we (explorers) deserve?

I get it that it may be "annoying" that I keep bringing this up, but when you are missing the patch that gives you adequate mobbing and other much-needed stats, it's a big deal.

Complaining about no Hypers isn't going to change their development schedule.

Complaining about no Hypers isn't going to change their development schedule.

But keeping quiet about dissatisfaction is always better, right?

But keeping quiet about dissatisfaction is always better, right?

You've been noisy since the Hypers were first released (i.e. Kaiser).

There has been no silence.

You've been noisy since the Hypers were first released (i.e. Kaiser).

There has been no silence.

If it makes the class you actually enjoy less pomegranatety, why should he be quiet about it? It's just optimism.

If it makes the class you actually enjoy less pomegranatety, why should he be quiet about it? It's just optimism.

It's not optimism when Girasol already confirmed Hypers won't be coming next week. It's just incessant whining continuing on from Root Abyss patch, which continued from Angelic Buster, which continued from Kaiser.

If you hate waiting so hard, take a break from the game and play something else.

Man, I am loving the fact that a GM stepped in to stop all the MWGing. People need to stop 'WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT DEMAND WANT DEMAND DEMAND' so much. Hell, a part from Heroes and Novans it hasn't even been 6 months since the hyper skills got all released and it is always around 6 month wait before we get content from KMS (Root Abyss doesn't count) so people need to learn to wait.



Anyway. Is RLHS any good for lower level characters? Like 120 and under?

Man, I am loving the fact that a GM stepped in to stop all the MWGing. People need to stop 'WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT DEMAND WANT DEMAND DEMAND' so much. Hell, a part from Heroes and Novans it hasn't even been 6 months since the hyper skills got all released and it is always around 6 month wait before we get content from KMS (Root Abyss doesn't count) so people need to learn to wait.



Anyway. Is RLHS any good for lower level characters? Like 120 and under?

You are better off getting to 120-130 doing aliens/LHC than going to RLH. If you plan on spending Nexon Cash on it for lower levels, then it isn't worth it.

I don't personally care about explorer hypers, or ANY content for that matter. I just want nexon to fix all of these god damn hacks that are absolutely running this game ragged. I seriously don't think people understand how much that stack hack is breaking the market, and dojo, and bossing, and training in general.

You are better off getting to 120-130 doing aliens/LHC than going to RLH. If you plan on spending Nexon Cash on it for lower levels, then it isn't worth it.

If you can't find a party or an Aliens map though (and you want totems), then it's a viable option. EXP scales after all, which is why it's so great for higher levels.

Not that Guild Quest was useless, but I remember this thread. http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=59012

Well, rarely. The majority of useless maps are still in the game (Ninja Castle, Ani Raid, Old Golden Temple, Master Monster Portals, etc)

Now if only he'd make a statement on Kanna. :v

If you can't find a party or an Aliens map though (and you want totems), then it's a viable option. EXP scales after all, which is why it's so great for higher levels.

I do agree it's viable, but I believe it's not worth the time/meso/cash to spend on low levels. I am not aware of the state of other worlds aliens maps, but in GAZED it's quite easy to find one.

Seraphim might as well pq or grind in any other map and it would be also a viable option.

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As for our february patch, this is decent. Might get triple 200s if RLH has the same exp as before. Looking foward to some hint of when GMS plans on giving us Hypers.

Just please don't tell me they are delayed because of work on JETT.

I don't personally care about explorer hypers, or ANY content for that matter. I just want nexon to fix all of these god damn hacks that are absolutely running this game ragged. I seriously don't think people understand how much that stack hack is breaking the market, and dojo, and bossing, and training in general.

Haven't been on GMS in a good while, what's the stack hack?

Now if only he'd make a statement on Kanna. :v

The GMs mentioned that's there's been no official say about Kanna or Hayato back at the Reddit AMAA months ago.

Just please don't tell me they are delayed because of work on JETT.

I wouldn't be surprised, to be honest.

Does Dragon Warrior have Hypers set up yet or is Jett going to get them first?

And yeah, it's definitely not worth spending NX on a lower level character solely if you want the EXP. I was talking more about getting the totems faster.

O YEAH! waited forever to make another DB for ze lulz, only problem is what char to delete ;s
I got 18 chars and it all useful b/c its link skill or character card char and 2nd/3rd/ main/side char

Just please don't tell me they are delayed because of work on JETT.

It's looking like it, why else are they delaying us? If anything, I bet they're gonna go "Cygnus" on her, because come secondary weapons, Jett will be far more obsolete than she already is.

Wow. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I LITERALLY JUST SPENT MY LAST $30 ON PROTECTION SCROLL PACKAGES, AND NOW I SEE RED LEAF HIGH IS OUT

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

God, I loved RLH last year... Made those last 10 levels a cake walk on my Hero.

At what level is it worth buying RLH keys for EXP? 170? Or is that too early?