Eliseth

If I wanted to never miss in BT, how much accuracy would I need? And if I wanted to cap parry or block against lvl 55 mobs, how much would I need?

For those who haven't realized, Wissp posted the exact same message on the Lineage II forum, the Blade & Soul forum, etc. They don't suddenly care about Aion. They literally just changed the game name and copy+pasted it.

There's nothing surprising about that. EU is new, people hyped it to unreasonable levels and everyone is still in the honeymoon phase. In a few months, it'll look very different. Especially since EU has the same manastone shortage as NA and stigmas seem to be even worse. Kromede's Trial doesn't even drop a guaranteed stigma on EU, I did 3 runs and got no stigma at all. I've also only heard bad things about Steel Rake and high level loot in general. Most people haven't reached any of this content yet and so the general vibe is still positive. That's not going to stay that way.

The EU loot table is all over the place. I know someone who got a graceful armor (lvl 45 fabled) drop from a lvl 22/23 worm in theobomos. I myself got lvl 37 earrings dropped in eltnen doing lvl 25 content. It very much feels like they just manually cranked up some numbers somewhere, rather than actually fixing loot. Which is also evident by the fact that manastones are still problematic. I'm lvl 32 now, and have gotten a grand total of 0 crit stones and 1 magic boost stone.

"Disabled the Chaos Arena" wtf... These patch notes really make it seem like the game will be radically different post patch. Kinda like the end of classic. Game will be something new now.

Remains to be seen. There are gear drops, yes, but I have yet to see a single manastone, or anything besides white/green gear really.

We've been over this. NA also communicated and got a changed drop rate initially.

Another one, I socket 6x enchantment stone with "success rate: 80". Expected outcome: 0, 1 or 2 fails, highest probability for 1 fail. Guess what happened? 4 fails. Chance for this to happen would be 1%. Now, I could just be really unlucky and hit that 1%. Except a "really unlucky" event happens literally every time I socket or enchant anything.

Yep. I've seen plenty of fail streaks that would be extremely unlikely if the probabilities were simply the rate that's listed. I can only conclude that they're not. For example, I've failed 6 in a row with success rate 80, and also 5 in a row multiple times including today. Magic boost 23 stones into a blue daevanion set, they went fail-success-fail-fail-fail-fail-fail. There's no way that this keeps happening if it were a flat 80% chance.

LOL

You seem confused about the fact that solving the bot caused inflation problem does not solve the botting problem. Whether kinah is made through vendor sales or through the broker, bots are still profitable, and therefore the server will still be full of bots, and the balance of kinah is still pulled towards botters and those who RMT buy kinah from them.

Making items sell for 1 kinah would do nothing to stop bots, unless the items are also untradeable and unextractable. As long as kinah can be made in some way, people will bot. Also, any sufficient anti bot measure will kill open world loot for normal players too. If bots can't make kinah, neither can we.

As far as I know, the timetable was like this: 1. Korea introduced nerfed drop rates (presumably to combat bots) 2. NA got nerfed drop rates 3. players complained, NC West staff negotiated a change with Korea 4. (not sure about the exact moment of this) NC West layoffs got rid of all the people on the Aion team that actually cared, including the ones that negotiated a change before 5. a patch (2.5?) came and introduced the drop issue that led to the decision to do a rollback 6. rollback undid the negotiated NA specific change and reverted to the nerfed world drops 7. since noone is left at NC West that gives a nyerk and NC Korea puts as little effort as possible into their Western servers, we are now stuck with it forever

What? There are exactly 2 kinah spammers on the elyos side, they've been the same 2 accounts for months. Blocking is easy and intuitive. Lol

Eh, are you unaware of the state of world loot, or what? You can't get a stigma there.