WTF IMC bring back the old hunting grounds.
I’ve been here for an hour and not even a single piece of equip dropped. I remember getting a boatload of equips in the same amount of time before the patch. It definitely wasn’t as bad as now.
And here I was thinking of getting some decent armors for my archer so I could actually progress in my quests.
Wtf is with this shitty change. Fire whoever is responsible for all these crap.
They’re buffing the drop rates in Korea today.
We’ll get them later.
Later wow… guess I can’t get to r8 before reset event is over. I’m still stuck with cafrisun armor and mobs hit a ■■■■ ton now. Why did IMC even change it in the first place…
err… try to craft a royal guard armor set, it is very farmable. I can get to R8 without equipping hunting ground equipment ever.
Cafrisun armor is lv 40 armor, no wonder you got hit a lot.
“Why can’t I go straight from level 15 armor to the second or third best level 220+ armor set?”
@myself yea which is why I decided to get something else. Cafrisun worked great up till about 240ish though. I don’t really need plate, it’s the magic mobs that are hitting hard.
@SlyGoat 170 set. I don’t see what your point is or how it’s relevant.
then get cloth? …any armor should be good for normal stuff nowadays since they have both pdef and mdef
My point is get some white 170 armor. Or hell, get a Roxona set, that’s pretty good armor and easy to farm.
Then you probably need better accessories.
Aaaaaaaannnnd the wiiiiinneeeer of the day iiiiis :
Q. I like Hunting Grounds, but the cube drop rates are too low.
A. Item drop rates in Hunting Grounds are based on the same principles as those of other fields, so we haven’t felt like it was particularly difficult to obtain specific items in them. That said, we realize that the appeal of Hunting Grounds is largely due to unidentified items, so we won’t shy away from continuing to improve on them whenever we deem it necessary.
What the fing f* ?
Guys, you should return to school and learn there’s a phase called “Testing” between “Development” and “Release”.
Yeah yeah ok there’s only one developer and he can’t do it all, so maybe why you don’t juste analyze numbers ? You can even get a trainee to read them.
After the “There’re more drop after the dpk rework for 315 items” aren’t you even a bit ashamed to declare something like that about HG ?
We actually have a party of 5 people leveling from 0 since last week. We focused on dungeon mainly at first. Not really a problem to clean them all, even without stuff, with a adequate party.
We throw all our gold in Cube’s reroll, I was a bit lucky and got some random item, maybe equipped 1 or 2 in 15 reroll. The rest on the team wasn’t that lucky, too bad they can’t equipped their 500k gold worth of talt.
But yeah whatever, we have a support and a healer and everything can be done with 2 cleric, you just need a weapon and you can roll your face on everything, other equipment is purely accomodating or for soloing.
At level ~220 we decided to go check hunting grounds yesterday, to level mainly but to get some stuff too, so dps can play alone if they want.
And so the big joke begun :
HG 230 : We were here from 220 to 240, good exp, but not even one cube has drop. But yeah we weren’t alone of course, because everybody wanting a Phada farm Maiden in here for Crystal, so maybe we just missed the cube to somebody in another channel (or maybe we didn’t find the mob who “has” the cube, cf other thread). Whatever, not alarming, we changed to HG 240 just below.
HG 240 : We were here from 240 to 260, good exp too, mobs a bit harder, but in party with healer… just a formality. We were alone, no other people in our chan or others. We don’t count how many mobs we killed in total but you can guess it wasn’t not negligeable to get 20 levels. Of course, as planned, we don’t saw even one cube.
So now we are level 260, with equipment level ~15~40, what do you expect us to do with Hunting Ground exactly ? Farm there till the end of days ?
Even if we managed get ONE cube by staying here 10 more level, it’s ONE cube for ONE person for a party of FIVE people. So ONE person got ONE random item for farming 30 levels ? What’s the FUCKIN’ POINT ? It’s LEVELING ITEMS, they are obsolete soon as you level up a bit and get to next dungeon or HG… LOL
Do you really think “it wasn’t particularly difficult to obtain specific items” ? Are you totally out of your mind ? Are you talking about an other game, or in another universe ?**
What’s the purpose of HG for you ?
Before 320 it seems they are just used to farm components faster than outdoor. Nice design guyz.
I’m not complaining about equipment, and actually the HG 320 seems balanced, but because it’s a step before final endgame gear, so yeah it’s worth farming it a bit even if it takes long time (or you can farm with 5 people and don’t get even one cube in 3 hours in a row, but it’s not the same discussion, go check thread “DPK IS A FU**** JOKE” for that one).
When you got that trainee and learned him how to read, go check if HG’s stuff people have are coming from BEFORE dpk cube or after this new system.
Maybe you will think twice before telling proudly such dumb answers.
“we haven’t felt like it was particularly difficult to obtain specific items in them”
I still can’t believe it… have to quote it again 
Maybe it’s time to stop April’s fool… june is coming.
But maybe it’s just the first step before next week event “NEW BOX : HG random cube’s for 100 TP only !!! Don’t worry it’s not pay to win it’s available in game !!!”
At least there will be a logic in all that. I will even prefer it to a pile of “Random WTF”.
nah …the box wont be out in gacha nor tp
but the do have some other interesting stuff tho
…for example …attributes box from gacha that gives 10k points …
maybe?
They nerfed drop in HG too? Still got three chars with its storage full of HG crappy gear from all locations, unidentified, later will do another give away of that ■■■■, if somebody wants it.
Are they seriously buffing the rates from the current dpk eventually?
I always seen HG like dungeon for farm equipment and exp.
A good place to farm if you don’t want to do quest.
Before the cubes and low drop I went to HG everyday farm items and satisfied I log out.
Now I found them useless: I farm money and buy items from Market.
Why they changed it without a reason? If they want more player online, this isn’t the right path!
This is frustrating and player wants only to logout after few time since they’re farming.
Dear IMC, do you want player online? Give us a good reason to be online!
A good reason could be a good drop!
How?
I can understand that is really hard to get a good equip with 2/3 slots, it’s a good challenge, BUT I have the right chance to drop it, shouldn’t be INSANE!
Not every over 20000 cubes and MAYBE I will drop something!
I farmed everyday in HG, I was full -> go to city -> Identify -> sell items that I was not interested -> go back to HG and farm again.
I was online everyday for all day long! Was really funny! I wanted to play again and again the game and I was thinking:“WOAH I’m farming equip for my X character! Nice! Tomorrow I will farm again other items!”.
This is a battle that I want to fight, and I will fight until they finally fix this insane drop rate and cubes!
This is NOT Tree of Cubes!
HG are amazing!
Yesterday night I farmed 320 for an hour and a half and I dropped an amazing cube!
And yeah, the design is so amazing that my amazing cleric, who before the update used an amazing 5hammer with lvl6 red gems (now completely useless, but we would say “slightly less than amazing”), got an AMAZING leather pants!
From now on, I’ll just use those pants instead on my poor amazing cata club, which I farmed during the event to see some damage but I cannot change since the amazing drop rate killed the market.
Amazing!
3hrs farming, not a single cube. lvl 230 HG.
The drop rate system from the HG is really bad now. I have discussed this over this week with some of my friends. This is not good for the new players neither for those who wants to change their old equipments for some new ones.
If there is no one online its almost impossible to get even a single blue cube without lose most of your time. I hope that IMC realize how bad this system is right now and change it in the future.
DPK for some materials is acceptable (not that I agree with it), but change the drop for those low level HG equipments was one of the most idiot ideas I have seen here in a while.
Dpk not shared? Oh well no more battle bracelet then.
The game is suffering from many issues in my opinion, and every time they want to do an eyebrow makeup, they blind the eye instead. The original idea of this game had been nice (and still is its strength point) but the implementation is suffering from many bad decisions and weak management. Everytime they introduce one good thing, at the same time they introduce several other destructive ideas to the game. As I think now, having practonium weapons and ET gear are not an option anymore (after these changes), they seem to be a must, you have them or you are pretty useless in the game.
(It is a weapon and equipment based game now, classes, builds, party combinations, all of them almost lost their meaning).
That is one of the main problems I see in ToS. Normal equips, white grade, should drop easily and directly from monsters, with no need to craft them.
[Edit] There is white equipment buyable from npcs, I know that, but buying them should not be mandatory.