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Happy Thanksgiving to our friends down south, from Canada!

I wanted to make a suggestion to help with balance. I suggested it mixed in with another subject, but this thread is specifically about Apostle transformations. There is a massive imbalance now as Elyos have gotten over 500 Apostles since the Agents first came out to get crit dmg up and now crit defense with one of the rare 4 apostles. Asmo have gotten 2 agents in all these months I think. That was the only time we had equal numbers and was at like 6AM. So that's the problem. The second problem that has caused massive imbalance (other is paragon gear). Open to suggestions, but you have to make the Apostles now available to Asmo in some form and that is NOT Agent or Ardath. Selling them won't work. There is a deficit of 500+ Apostles since February when 8.1 came out. If you don't make that up, at least partially, there will not be good pvp or sieges or anything. The game is broken that way. Even our best and most hardcore PVPers just leave when the impossible to PVP Elyos show up. @EMpulseyou should see siege now - aside from some questionable decisions by shallnotbenamed Elyos take all the forts and its a miracle if Asmo take one - also Elyos DPS is insane on Agent, Ardath, Siege, Gates etc. An event won't fix this - you have to sacrifice and make them obtainable - make money on other stuff. Otherwise people will soon stop going to siege and just PVE or something? Or quit. It isn't good for the community - much infighting etc..

Do we have to re-run it to qualify for this week? Thanks.

Hello - we are starving for prime runes (at least Asmo side). -Lumiel/Yustiel I suspect we have to wait until 2024. -Zikel/Nezekan impossible to buy and only a few have a set. -Tiamat/Ereshkigal once in awhile there's one for sale. -Marchutan/Kaisinel usually theres one or two up for sale. At least a sale? I don't know anyone who wants to do Lumiel without there being runes (aside from the skin or planning ahead).

Suggesting bringing back this event to support paragon progress. Participation was good too. This flooded the market with paragon items so people could get them up to 8/9. Then have a sale again after that for paragon stones/blessed stones and such. Right now only a small number of people (4-6 people regularly) can get on the paragon items from Timeless Terrace Kaldor. Everyone else from world bosses mainly. Anyway this event would help some asmo catch up or at least get a piece or two. The 3 pieces on the right side (Shoulders, Gloves, Shoes) are huge upgrades, while the head, body, legs less so. At least give Asmo a fighting chance in PVP.

1) Bring back at least Dredgion for now, any of them. Server too imbalanced for EC/KBF/ID unfortunately, but if they address the balance issue they should bring at least dredgion back - we had that as our only one for years. Dredgion 3 times a day like in the beginning 3pm, 11pm, 3am or something. In the beginning that's how it was and people didn't want to miss it - put Luna in there maybe? idk. 2) Reduce AP cost of -everything- by 50% 3) Sell the Renown AP items again that can then be sold to Lugbug

Well it is unfair to people who run it every day to get the legendary contract and sell it, they would only get 1-1.4b for something worth probably double. Also after the bannings I read the ToS because I never have and it strictly states automation is illegal.

Scripters were banned it seems. Check with a GM before using 3rd party stuffs. Some people will encourage others to use things that will get them banned so just be careful especially if longtime player.

Hm I wonder if legit players who log in manually to do alts were innocent collateral damage of their intention to ban people using scripts and automated 3rd party tools that I won't mention to essentially "bot" the event? NC should be able to tell the difference. I hope they can revisit this. There are people, unfortunately, who hack/abuse events which then gets innocent people or people working hard caught in the net.

They have no policy on multiple accounts I'm told and like you said we can even log 2 in with the client at the same time. Not sure on IP ban.

That was a sale mostly. We need the paragon items now. Blessed are meant for 5 6 and 10+. Rest should be using many paragon items with regular stones. We don't have enough paragon items and our market is terrible compared to Elyos side. We need an event to give paragon -items-. Hope that clarifies.

On new Ultimate Transformation event and server balance issues + PVP (reposted from general forum) The thing is for Asmo - there is no reason to spend for this. Elyos already too geared where it won't make much difference if you can't even get them down 30% with 300% crit. The reason is balance, because our market is terrible we don't have access to paragon...very few players have armor, most of us have nothing, and some are now getting weapons lately at least. Then there is very rarely an opportunity for Asmo to compete with Elyos for Agent (one time when Team Beauty is asleep and Team BCM & Winry on). Two times as far as I know in months and months...such that so many Elyos who we've never heard of can crit you for 70k (and the old powerful ones are just world bosses now). There needs to be some sort of balance adjustment...Elyos want pvp all the time and even the best Asmo can't really give it to them and leave. I'm sure Elyos will try this because they compete with each other for DPS in PVE and want to 1 shot us instead of 2 shots! Suggestions: -Hold a paragon "Event" like Tia eye in Jan 2021 or the one after that many +4 pieces were obtainable by farming hard. -Add a buff to the agent much like altars and forts during siege. -Offer another way to obtain the rare 4 Apostles that are being given to Elyos essentially free because of lack of numbers/success at first and now not even attempts because Asmo are overwhelmed with #s -and- gear (Yustiel, Triniel, Lumiel, Vaizel). Make money on a couple new ones and the new Ultimates instead?

Suggestions: -Hold a paragon "Event" like Tia eye in Jan 2021 or the one after that many +4 pieces were obtainable by farming hard. -Add a buff to the agent much like altars and forts during siege. -Offer another way to obtain the rare 4 Apostles that are being given to Elyos essentially free because of lack of numbers/success at first and now not even attempts because Asmo are overwhelmed with #s -and- gear (Yustiel, Triniel, Lumiel, Vaizel). Make money on a couple new ones and the new Ultimates instead?

The thing is for Asmo - there is no reason to spend for this. Elyos already too geared where it won't make much difference if you can't even get them down 30% with 300% crit. The reason is balance, because our market is terrible we don't have access to paragon...very few players have armor, most of us have nothing, and some are now getting weapons lately at least. Then there is very rarely an opportunity for Asmo to compete with Elyos for Agent (one time when Team Beauty is asleep and Team BCM & Winry on). Two times as far as I know in months and months...such that so many Elyos who we've never heard of can crit you for 70k (and the old powerful ones are just world bosses now). There needs to be some sort of balance adjustment...Elyos want pvp all the time and even the best Asmo can't really give it to them and leave. I'm sure Elyos will try this because they compete with each other for DPS in PVE and want to 1 shot us instead of 2 shots!

Hello @Loki! Be careful because people are mass botting Shattered Abyssal Splinter - some up to 100 accounts a day. Just make it fair that's all. Could always add the materials box to every 5 levels of daeva pass - 9 Luna mats bags per month - or something like that. Or make score high that people can't send 100 in and destroy market for legitimate players. Thanks!

It will be back, but I'm not sure when. I submitted a ticket on this and they said as much.

It would be amazing if they could make a box selectable. Some people are 4/6 or 3/6, and 5/6...they could spend a lot of BCM and end up with no progress. Just a thought, thanks!

I'm happy - it was right thing to do and impressed by how fast they did. I'm guessing we have @EMpulseto thank!

EXP Boost Begins November 2 – November 16 Might stack!... Nice to see the fix for holy waters too. Thank you.

Hey, this from maintenance: [Empyrean Lord's Holy Water Distribution] The date range for qualifying for a reward has been extended to include the entire duration of Season 2. Old: 9/21~10/19 New: 5/4~10/19 This will now affect all players who have achieved a certain level within Season 2.

This is so unfair - people who recently levelled holy water on last days because everyone was dumping it super cheap - so they could get 20 oath tablets. Now, for that they receive 50 and rest of us nothing (on main character)? @EMpulse The reward is for the wrong people!

You might need to ask for a senior GM. It sounds like they don't understand how bad this affects us. It would have been better not giving us anything than giving us 10 or whatnot on some alt that we got 1 from a quest and don't even play but for events. We were expecting 50 on our main characters since we thought we were filling the Relic until may 2023 or march 2023 (05/03 or 03/05 I forget). It feels like a slap in the face - to get 10 untradeable holy water that we can't even make use of...

I'd have to vote no on luna because people will just abuse it with bots and cause server issues (constant crashes back then - twice a week sometimes). Some other way to get luna mats yes, but not so cumbersome that you have to go on 12 alts and do daily either. It's actually nice having people on mains and being on main most of the time. I would suggest add it to the daeva pass every 5 levels or something.

@EMpulseThe distribution is VERY unfair! Most of us got 10 holy water on an alt we never use that probably got 1 water from a quest or something! The compensation was supposed to be because we were to have our collection until 03/05 or 05/03 - can't remember which, wasn't it? It is completely useless - even more so as there isn't anything to do on alts in this game anymore (which is a good change). Can you please have them review this distribution? Everyone is very angry.

In the early days 2008-2011ish there was the original dredgion (super fun no shields) - anyway it ran 3 times a day in EST 3:00 PM, 11:00 PM, 3:00 AM so it accommodated people on other schedules. Would be nice if they brought that back and elyos can bully us in gravity or at our base for 45mins. But seriously they could schedule stuff like that and would be good for the community. Right now agent is like 6-8am and 9pm or something and a lot of people cant make siege time etc..