Angels&Demons

Giving the bow a chance still of autocasting while the user is attacking wouldn't really make anything better. Let's face it, people who don't really know how to use clowns/gypsies would still go ctrl+click on someone. And with 195 attack speed, even 1% chance is good enough a gamble to just ctrl+click. Remember how many people died from coma off an LK halberd? Same scenario will happen here, and worse is they don't have to spam. Just ctrl+click unlike spamming spiral pierce. Again, my suggestion would be 5% of auto casting tarot WHEN being attacked, +10% HP, and increase bow type damage by 20%. (this way those people who ctrl+click won't complain THAT MUCH)

Hi, I don't know if this has been suggested before, but I suggest that the MVP card requirement for being elite and making the elite boxes be removed. It's hard enough for new players to farm the cards needed. But often times new players asks help from other players to help them kill an MVP. An even with the forsaken wanderer set, it doesn't really help them on that regards. Adding to that is that most old players now are using the Valkyrie Weapons, which makes questing for the elite boxes just for the new players.

Even with a 5% chance of being cast, I still say no to it. I don't mind retaining the 30% chance, but make it so that it's only auto-cast when you're being attacked. Put HP and SP + 10% and 20% additional damage by bow type weapons should be able to compensate for the 30% of auto-cast when you're attacking. In this manner, when a clown / gypsy with a soaring bird is attacked, they'd be able to last longer and do damage with double strafe. With high dexterity and improve concentration, they'd still be able to do a good deal of damage, while auto-casting tarot by 5% when they're being attacked. This would then prevent the current clown / gypsies from going full reductions, ctrl + left click on someone, and wait for coma to strike. (This is what "defense" in WoE now actually is) That's the truth of it.

Totally agree on this. Since most, if not all, old players have already all the gearse and mvp cards they need. So basically, those who are hunting MVPs are the new players. Lowering the HP of MVPs would certainly help retain a lot more new players than the high HPs would. And as mentioned before, even for the old players, it's just a matter of taking less asuras and time to kill an MVP.

Personally, I do think 30% change of casting tarot is too high. I doubt there is anyone here who hasn't died from coma off a tarot from a clown bow during WoE. And on that perspective, I suggest that the bow actually cast tarot when BEING attacked instead of WHEN ATTACKING. Add it with 10% hp and sp and 20% more damage from bow damage.

I don't really see why not make the thanatos drop rate at normal 1%. Every hour there are 5 thanatos spawned at 1% drop rate. This has been going on for about a week and a half now, or more precisely 12 days. So, assuming that the patch is implemented at midnight, that would be 24 (hours a day) x 5 (thanatos spawned) x 12 (days running) = 1440 thanatos spawned, and with only 1 person actually getting the card. 1440 thanatos is like summoning it in thana_boss for 120 days (assuming that you summon it every 2 hours and don't sleep). So if we set aside statistics for a while and assume that one will get a card after killing 1440 thanatos, it means that a person would have to kill thanatos consecutively for 12,000 (Multiplied by 100 since the actual drop is 0.01%) days in order to get 1 card. I do get that people actually hunt thana, but it's because they can't do anything else to get it and frankly speaking, they've got nothing else better to do on the server. You either get rich by laddering [Dominated by low ping people (near the server)], get drops from WoE (Dominated by big guilds and 2% drop chance + other members) or by farming yggs / speeds / FCPs (lots of existing competitors). So basically, we're left with donating, which not a lot of people are actually willing to do. All I'm saying is that, 0.01% isn't really all that appealing. And it's not actually encouraging for new people to stay in the server if they know that getting a thana is as far-fetched as finding a gold bar on the street. If this thanatos event is actually to 'test' if the drop chance of thanatos would be imbalanced at 1%, I guess this answers the question. Only 1 of the 1440 thana spawned dropped a card. (Although I am only basing my argument on the fact that Nines only mentioned only 1 got it. We wouldn't really know.

I have a question though, when is this annihilation event held? I'm usually online more than 12 hours and I've never participated in this event. Is it like 4PM ~ 10PM server time? If so, isn't this a bit unfair to make black emp only available via Annihilation certs? Most Asians would be asleep during that time, and no offense, only those addicts with no lives would be the ones to be able to participate there. So generally, the annihilation prizes would only be available to Westerners. I'm not bashing on the updates or anything, I'm just curious.

Is it just me or are the shrink and enlarge candies not working?! It would be awesome if it did.

Does anyone know how to find essence of fire? I tried googling it, it's available though a quest, but that quest isn't available in fRO. So I'm all out of ideas.

The quest doesn't work. After you get the items and talk to the NPC "Odin", it says you don't have them although I do have them. Weird..

Nice update! Although that black emp is gonna be super hard to obtain. :D

766!!! :)

I agree, it should be Asian WoE and not Philippine WoE because basically it just sounds too selfish and a bit "hurtful" to other Asians. If I can suggest a time, I would say it to be 8:00 am server time, which would be 8:00 pm here. Since Asia is basically separated by 0 ~ 3 hours time difference, I believe most, if not all Asians will be able to participate in Asian WoE. Although having a day for this Woe will be a problem because either side will have to woe twice in one day. Woe for Easterners are Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, and for the Westerners are Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. So I guess a poll to decide on which day would be appropriate. As for the drops, I think releasing a new color would be "inappropriate" and would be "unfair" to the Westerners since most won't be able to participate if the time is inverse to what their used to, either because of work or school. So, basically the Easterners will have an advantage on selling new color emps for a higher price than those readily available. Although releasing black emp would be really AWESOME! Hahaha. :D

I can connect now again. But I guess after a few weeks or days it's gonna Fail to Connect again.. Always happens. IDK why.. >.<

I've read the entire thread and most of the suggestions are excellent suggestions, but are mostly short termed. Personally, I think the underlying problem as to maintaining the new players is how to get donation coupons. Based on what I see today, new players only have a few things to choose from to make donation coupons: hunting yggs, hunting speeds, making FCPs. There has been a suggestion about the forsaken dungeon, but let's face it, people mob forsaken dungeon trying to make donation coupons themselves, and let's face it, without kiels, the new people would just get KS'ed by those with kiels (old members) Old and new people also farm speed potions to sell as well, which basically means that the newcomers will have a lot of competition on their hands. Which then leaves us to making FCPs, which is a lucrative market, but it is very hard to farm and are rarely used unless a person is against a stalker or is participating in WoE.. Unlike EDPs. So what I'm suggesting is to remove the EDP tix from the castle boxes. To be effective, the GMs would have to reduce all the EDP tickets currently ingame to 10% of the amount. For example, if I have a total of 300 EDP tix, an update will decrease this number to 10% making me only have 30 EDP tix. In due time, all of the EDP tix will be gone, and new comers will have another option on how to make donation coupons. This is necessary since there are a lot of EDP tix in the server right now, therefore, those who have them could easily sell them at a high price when all the EDP tix are gone. Again, this is just a suggestion, and I really think that new players can certainly use farming EDP tix as a way to help them get on their feet and not really get "dominated" by the old players.

Didn't see that other topic. My bad. Oh well. Lol! Hackers paradise. :D

Well, I've known a lot of Asians who quit the server since they can't attend most of the WoEs. I'm just saying, since there are a lot of Asian gamers, it would be good to tap into that market. Yes, the server is American, and there are a lot of international players in the game too, not just Americans. You guys want more players in the server, but you don't want to cater to Asians, which in my opinion, dominates the server. If you could probably appeal to the current Asian players, they just MIGHT invite their friends over to play the server.

Well, we had this in pRO before. Wherein when you open your storage, it asks for a 4-8 digit combination to successfully open your storage. And since there has been numerous hack cases, and most of them go unsolved, this is a possible solution to avoid hack cases. Just put your things in storage, even though the person got through your account, there's still the storage password. I've been hacked before and no one knew my username and password and it was unsolved. So this is just another hindrance against hackers I guess. Maybe, just maybe, it'll help lessen the hack cases in the server.

Yeah, but right now I'm still lagging, even chats come out 2~5 seconds after I pressed enter. Lol! IDK what the problem is, this only happened like 2 weeks ago. >.<

Hmm, I don't know why, but fRO became very laggy for me this week. It was never this laggy before. I tried to check the ping, and on average it's at 250ms. But when I play the game, it's very laggy. During WoE I couldn't even switch gear. I stand there idly for 5 seconds, then just die sometimes. I wonder if there ever has been a problem like this. It isn't my internet, I browse and download videos just fine. I tried to play another RO server, and it's not lag. I tried playing dota and it's not lag. Can anyone help? :o

Lets all bash on the Asians then. Seems to me that no one really wants to suggest anything but rather just disagree. :jerry:

We shouldn't say Philippine WoE, but rather Asian WoE, since there isn't much time difference in Asia. There are quite a few Asians playing in the server, and them being able to only participate in only 2 WoE / week (assuming that they're willing to sacrifice sleep and wake up at 8am during a SUNDAY) gives them a handicap to get drops from the guild leaders. There are quite a few European players in the server, and they're been given an equal chance to participate in WoE. So why not Asians? If a new woe day is really out of the question, why not just adjust US WoE to cater to Asians as well? Instead of 8pm server time, why not make it at 11pm or 12am server time? I mean, most American players are still up during those times. So delaying WoE for a few more hours wouldn't really hurt. And a later U.S. WoE can encourage more Asians to play the server.

Help anyone?

I already uninstalled, reinstalled, downloaded and copy pasted the thing posted in the support to solve this failed to connect issue, and yet I still fail to connect. I have to try connecting for 50~100 times before I can actually connect. This is really starting to get pretty annoying.