I’ve been wanting to do this post for quite long time. I want to highlight that i like the potential of the game, i think it could be a great game but nowadays it isn’t so great because of some sort of problems, both in game design and playability .
I want to do a constructive criticism so i will point out the main problems i find in the game, that are overall annoying and time consuming, and I will try to bring some ideas that i think may fix them. (They don’t follow an importance order, i have numered them to separate the different topics).
1.Chat: The chat in this game is simply awful, there are very few customizable options to show what you want read in the chat. I want to underline obove all the two main problems i have found.
-System messages: There is NO way to make this messages not to appear. They show in every type of chat (general chat, whisper chat, windowed whisper chat,…), it is simply annoying, it always make you having to scroll all the way up if you want to read what people have written. Make it disappear or put an option to disable it please.
-Whisper chat: I like the option to make a whisper window chat. It helps to follow conversations. But, in the same way that u can configurate the chat to show general, party, guild and shout chats at the same time, why is whisper not implemented in this options? Why i have to go to whisper channel option, click on the multiple chat conversation tabs i have, one for every person who has whispered me, to follow only that conversation, missing all the other chats? Why i cant have party, whisper and maybe guild chat channels at the same time as i am able to do almost in every mmo game?
When you are looking the list of people wich u have had a whisper conversation, some times the are more chats than it has to be because it duplicates the chats if u whisper them by putting the first letter in capital or not: “/w Picarus” or “/w picarus” will create 2 different whisper chats for the same person. Also, there is a bug that you can whisper your self i don’t know exactly how… In general it is a mess.
-Others: Please, add some chat options and fixes:
-Not having to press enter 2 times to close the writing window/bar when u want to write something (one to send a message and another time to close the writing bar). It make write annoying (because it not allow you to do skills or move) and slows the game.
-Make that when u change maps/dungeon not to reset to default chat (normal). It’s annoying having to be changing it to party chat every time when i am doing instances.
-Make and option to copy paste the last sentence written, pressing the up arrow key for example. When u have written a very long sentence and the game decide that u have written “ass” (for instance) inside a word, but it dont tell u where have commited that terrible mistake, having to write over and over again the same phrase is disgusting.
2.Dungeons and Instancing:
-Waiting quues: The main problem here is the terrible amount of time that make people lose. You have to spend time going to the instance location, wasting time in the eternal loading screens between maps, then u have to go to the location on the map where is the instance and then quue,… maybe for forever (i have been 2 hours or more in a quue) and stay there DOING NOTHING.
My solution would be making, in the same window as “/indun”, an option to join the instance’s quues wherever u are and putting the quue in the background letting people do whatever they want meanwhile they are waiting to enter the instance.
Ok, you can think “yes, but then you wouldn’t spend money in teleportation to the location where is the entrance of the instance” “the game would lose one of their money sinks” you are right, but it would be easily fixed if it charge you an equivalent fee of the teleportation cost each time you enter a dungeon by this system( if u are not in the entrance of the dungeon or at the same map). I think this system is more convinient and less annoying that the actual one.
3.Targeting: No matter if you play with keyboard, mouse or joypad, targeting in this game is simply awful:
**-Minions:**The minions and pets are always in the way bothering, miss cliking, miss targeting, taking heals or buffs slots,… When I’m partying with a sorcerer why i have to see the summoned minion enormous health bar on top of the screen instead of the health bar (and buff/debuff list) of the monster I’m attacking? The worst is when I’m fighting a boss and i tend to mix up both health bars,…
Solution: make an option to NOT selecting or sharing buffs/heals by any means with none of the minions and when you’re trying to targeting/selecting a monster that is behind a minion make the selection ignore it and select the first monster behind it…
-Targeting improvement: I usually play with joypad, i find it great and confortable but it lacks of a good targeting system and is difficult to move between targets.
In the same way placing skills áreas like “fire pillar” is difficult because, if there are a lot of monsters and active skills, you usually dont see the targeting circle… i think you should make it more visible, maybe by changing the color to red and making it always visible (i mean, due to skills and monster layers it tends to fade out and some times u can’t see it properly).
4.Party health bar and buffs: There has to be an option to show the party members buffs/debuffs (i used to see them but not anymore) i cant find that option. Also, when a party has “daino”, when the buff count exceed a number of buffs it doesnt show more of them so u can’t know if a buff is active or not if it is behind that point.
5.TP shop: I think you should give acces to it wherever we are, after all is a money shop it has to be convinient, and having to spend time going to a city is not.
6.Auction House:
-The hair accesory tab, should be sub-divided in the three hair slots that exist (hair costume 1, 2 and 3).
-I think gems and monster gems should be tradeable and selleable, after all monster gems are very difficult to get and i am sure theywould sell very well. May be do it a token benefit.
7.Zoom: I find that the actual zoom is not enough, above all for archers due to the long range they may have but also for the rest of clases due to the fixed camera inclination and the HUD on the bottom of the screen that reduce the practical targeteable and visible zone in that zone (you cant target trough the chat or the skills bar with the mouse).
8. Buff duration: Some buffs duration are terribly upseting, some buffsyou can have them active all the time because of the duration is longer than the coldown… but then, why they only last for a few seconds? Has it any sense? It is simply annoying having to be spamming all the time the same buff. As a priest i find that i have no time to do damage because of the duration of buffs. When i have finished buffing myself some buffs are already ending because most of them last for 30-50 sec, so i have usually 10-20 seconds to do some damage before having to rebuff myself xD.
9. World map (“N” key): I dont understand why it cause me so much lag,…you should optimize it, navigate on it is frustating.
10.Collection: U should do an option to show only the collections where u have an ítem to put in, i find obnoxious having to to look for, scrolling up and down, if i have a collection ítem in my inventory that i haven’t put in a collection.
Moreover, you should take in consideration items that are in bank when filling the collections and maybe right clicking over the collection yellowed items (so you know you have it somewhere) to automaticly put it in without having to find it out in the inventory.
11. Joypad key customization: It would be great to have the option to costumize the keys of your joypad in game like a keyboard.
12.Inventory and Bank: You should allow us to move and arrange ítems as we want and save that order to the next time you look your inventory or visit your bank. The inventory and bank dont follow any particular order and it’s a mess.
-There are items that I don’t understand why are in material section when they are clearly consumable ítems, like “firewood”, “chest keys”,…
-There is some ítems that i don’t understand why they don’t stack, like not-modified -gems of the same type and level or not-modified-monster-cards.
That’s all by the moment, I’m sure there is more but I think this are the most annoying things that has this game at the moment. Give me your opinion and maybe share it to some GM if you agree.
Finally, Thanks If u have achive to read all this, I congratulate you because of the length and all the mistakes I’m sure i have done writing it (I did my best, I am not an english native speaker ;D).
