The one thing I cant get past in ToS is the absurd rng that they apply to everything. I have np working for my gear, I am extremely ocd and will not use gear if its not BiS but the current system is beyond broken.
Yesterday marked the 8th straight time that ive lost over 7million silver on anvils on 1 weapon in the span of 2 minutes rl time. I can not even get weapons to +10 anymore, let alone 15-20, meanwhile some other guy gets to go 6 to 15 with no fails on a daily basis. Furthermore I see the transcendence system is rng now too, so instead of losing 7mil silver a day on anvil fails I will get to lose an entire week of saluus covenant progress everytime I fail ranking up my transcendence.
MMOs are built on gear grinds, again, I have np with this, but this nonsense Russian roulette system with triple penalties on everything has to go. Anvil fails should result in the loss of your silver and an item potential, NOT the previous 2 AND an additional anvil level. No-one wants to play a game when your “that” guy that fails 5 straight times on 5 to 6 (88% success rate) nearly every time you touch an anvil, enough is enough already.
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atleast you dont lose your items. You did not experience yet the ragnarok upgrading life huh?? imagine a + 9 ghost armor disspears in an instant whilte upgrading it to + 10…that items is lost forever. at least here. you still have it. lol…
If you did not play RO. that ghost armor is equivalent to having a + 20 max petamion …
So stop the complain and deal with your bad luck haha
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Was it your Maga bow?
GEAR LOTTERY! IT’S THE HARD TRUTH.
The best I have is a +9 Ice Rod with full potential. Didn’t upgrade it all at once, only when I had the silver. I’m paranoid that I think it works better that way. But yeah…I only upgrade my weapon because I’m too silver poor to do armor as well, +0 armor forever…I need my attributes lol.
I don’t mind the upgrade as much as I mind the dungeon cube drops. World boss drops are already monopolized by a group of ****, so tough luck getting the really sweet niche recipes and gears. The rest of us non-elitist need something to fall back to and are banking on those dungeon cube drops.
The rng in this game really is bs. Dungeon cube lottery.
So stingy for drops. It’s not like those 120 gears (or any gears) are going to last forever so GIMME THE DANG THING so I can move on with my character’s life (lol). Just keep putting out gears progressively better than the previous level rank, then the majority of us wouldn’t be spamming past dungeons for a recipe drops.
I don’t see any reason for a L220 char to be still needing to go back repeatedly to previous dungeons to get stuff he missed.
Someone calculated the cost of rolling perfect enchants for the headgear costumes and basically, you’re better off spending your money on the winning the lottery than aim for perfect enchants. … +3 movement speed x 3 head gears would be pretty godly, don’t you think? --> how IMC really makes their money, the enchanting of their TP costumes =_=
No gear grind? What about Lolopanther gear from Earth Tower tokens and that new set from floors 21-40 Earth Tower?
A change to the drop system or boss cube items likely won’t happen till a verson2 that looks to improve the quality of life for players and/or attempts to work in player suggestions.
Kudos to you OP for at least upgrading your gear at all. With the new “Character Info” displaying the reality of people’s gear(s), all of my suspicions were confirmed. A good majority of people above Lv220 are wearing +0 everything, not even +3 [armor/accessory] or +5 [weapon]. Then they die and they die so fast at high level content or worse, they deal ■■■■-tier DPS that even my Chaplain out-damages them (I was told Chaplain should fall off hard at Lv280, guess not).
Then people cry about “Blue Spion Archer” (or higher mobs) dealing too much damage. Bitch please, get +3 Superior Royal Guard Armor & Pants, buy Lv16/17 Aspersion from Pardoner then laugh at all the 1 damage you’ll see versus physical attacks (even w/o shield). Magic-dealing mobs are the real issue here.
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Goodluck with your upgrades OP, I hope to see more people at least try to get their gear in order, even little by little.
I like the “improve quality of life for players” idea.
Would’ve made a really great gaming motto for IMC…
Ehh. I’ve seen worse games.
Tos is pretty tame tbh.
Nah the latest heartbreak was a Light Gorithos, I was 1 of the 1st people on Klai to have one crafted, was in crystal missions right after maintenance farming the vuube flags for phydecium, had the other mats ready from translated ktos pages the night before.
I had spent 400k/650k/1mil just to add the 3 sockets and had it anviled to +9 with a total of 4 lost potential (3 sockets 1 fail) and I was really optimistic thinking that my +10 drought was almost over, I had 9.5mil on the market ready to retrieve aswell so I thought I was covered.
Before I knew it my +9 light gorithos was now +8 and I had lost 7 million silver and was down to 1 potential, can you gold anvil stuff, ofc, but theres no point on high end items when they are that low, if by some miracle I got it back to 12 any fail after that would drop me back down to 10 costing me anywhere from 4 to 7 million PER fail, sigh.
aww I’m sorry to hear that. I’m thinking about investing in Maga bow and try to +10 
but idk if it’s worth it. RNG is stupid.
Nothing beats re-rolling Marnox/Rexipher/Mirtis cubes (500k each roll) and getting f*cking talts. But yeah, i heard upgrading gears has a trick with anvils, not sure how it works though.
Here’s my totally not-secret secret: Stick to +5 weapon and +3 armors/shield/neck/bracelets and max your attributes first. Worry about over-upping equipments later.
Maybe you can go +8 to +9 but don’t invest too much time and energy into that. You’ll just be disappointed considering talks about people being able to +15-up things without losing potential (or just 1 or 2), etc. through possible exploits or maybe just incredible luck.
Never did much refinement in this game, awakened every item once and got em to +4/+5, spend all the rest of my money on attribs. Feel great.
Imo, it’s same for most f2p mmo. Eg. Granado I had to burn money for rolling stats and get weapons from purchasing tp event treasure hunt.
IMC earns money from the wallet warriors who can afford to pay for rng.
I’m glad I’ve stop that and only bought 2 founders so far.
hey OP, wanna know a secret!!!
don’t bother with enhancing your weapons.
at rank 8, the damage that they give is SO minimal compared to just choosing a strong Rank 8 class and upgrading your skills that have like 10k base damage up and getting their attribute really high that enhancing weapons is NOT worth anything anymore. Enhancing your weapon at rank 8 just gives a SUPER small boost in damage (like 100-200 damage) that is not even noticeable
like, at rank 8, you literally can wear a level 15 weapon and do a shitton of damage because all rank 8 skills have a hugeee base damage number.
sadly no, the old rumor was if you anviled other lv1 gear until you got 2 fails that the nxt anvil attempt of any item was 100% success but it wasn’t true, just a rumor that caught fire on reddit and here, 99% of the +25 weapons we have are from the channel crashing exploit, the upgrader would just have a druid friend crash the ch if they failed an attempt and not crash if success over and over
my attributes are all quite high though, they should always come first, they increase your dmg more then enhancement but I’m not going to roll around in +5 gear lol too much of a min/maxer for all that craziness