I recently came back to this game after trying it out back when it released. When the game released I initially quit because upon reaching Rank 3 on Archer I was forced to delete one of my other classes in order to get a pet. A pet I didn’t even really like the look of, I just needed it for my abilities. When I came back I had 5 character slots and a green penguin thanks to an event, I remade my Cleric and continued but then I remembered at rank 7 my archer would again need another pet, I thought maybe I could use Hunter skills with the Hawk and so I’d still only need 1 pet, so just leave the penguin in the egg. unfortunately this is not the case so for the second time in my Tree of Savior life I had to delete my Cleric. So here is my feedback.
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Character slots cost 33 TP and are entirely untradable. This is horrible in many ways, first off as a Free to Play player you can’t expand character slots, and the game doesn’t even give you the 6 you need for 1 of every class + pet arch type. However it’s also bad for both the paying players and the company making the game. By making character slots a selfish thing every player has a limit to the maximum amount they will ever purchase, I don’t want to say “No player will ever purchase more than 6” because some people like to try out different builds and have cosmetic pet changes but the overall amount of character slots purchased is much lower than it could be. Lastly like I said it hurts paying players, it means that players can’t buy character slots to sell to other players, really hurts the game when the money making options are so bad even for the people using real money in the game.
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This brings us to the second issue, the Trade Restrictions, and oh god is it ever awful. I’ve played many many games worse than Tree of Savior overall but never have I ever played a game with a worse trading/market system then Tree of Savior. To start, you can’t trade money, which means if you want to buy something you need gold bars/talt. As if that wasn’t bad enough, trading is disabled for a long time when you first create your account, so no helping new players, it’s not that bad I guess but I wanted to give a friend a spear at around level 170 or so and I couldn’t. To make matters worse we seem to be taxed twice, whenever you use the market you have to pay to put an item in, on top of that when the item is bought you seem to not get the full price they paid. You get taxed twice and it doesn’t even seem to go to anything, normally a game that taxes you in game, the funds that you lose end up going towards something, this just feels like it’s there to hurt the player. “Hmm What does everyone hate in real life that we can add to the game to make it feel just as bad” the answer is tax, too much tax. Pointless even, unlike in real life.
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Speaking of tax, lets talk Buying TP. TP is untradable, that’s fine some games have tradable cash shop currency, some games don’t, Tree of Savior doesn’t even let you trade normal currency so not surprising TP is account locked. I really wanna make a Cleric, got an awesome seeming build all planned and so I went to the Cash shop my hope was that maybe I could watch some ads somewhere for Steam Cash (I’m new to steam) and use that to get minimum amount of TP. Now I’ve seen Steam cards in stores, there is $10, $20 $50 and stuff like that, however the minimum amount of TP you can buy as an NA player costs $11.57 Canadian if I recall correctly. Which means even if I wanted to spend real money on this game, I would have to spend at minimum $20 on a steam card, and as I said I don’t use Steam for anything but ToS so that’s $8+ down the drain.I understand that currency issues are more of a real world fault than ToS developers but ToS should adapt and allow you to spend either small amounts like say $3 or at the very least match the prices of the Steam Cash cards. I will never ever in my life spend real money on ToS, I want a Cleric bad but the scummy way character slots are handled and the cash shop pricing which wastes so much money just ruins any chances of my ever being willing to invest in this game.
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Alright so enough cash talk, how about Falconers I mean the class requires at minimum 2 character slots so it’s gotta be amazing right? No Falconer doesn’t even feel as strong as other classes that take 1 pet, but it’s not that they suck that bugs me so much, it’s that Falcons don’t even need to be pets in the first place. I have a penguin, that makes some sense for the character slot thing because it can be put on multiple characters, it equips multiple pieces of gear and it fights alongside anyone using it. The Hawk on the other hand, can only equip an armor piece, and I doubt anyone would ever focus it in PvP, and I’ve never seen mine get injured in PvP so it’s armor is useless, but on top of that it doesn’t attack without the Falconer using a skill and is only usable by the Falconer. I have a Sorcerer/Necromancer, it has the Grimoire and the Necronomicon. Why can’t the Hawk just be like that? It doesn’t even have to use the card system, it could still use a gear system, it could function entirely like it does now but not cost us 400k + a character slot, for what has got to be the most useless of all the summons/pets I’ve used. I mean aside from circling the Falconer moves are decent but it’s tedious to have to call it back every time it leaves and all of this really doesn’t feel worth it. Compare it to the Wizard who summons everything, uses 1 Ice Bolt and the army swarms a person, or even a Hunter who uses the buff, and then just presses Rush Dog every 5 seconds. I just feel Falconer should be changed, either the pet should be comparable to the other pets or it should just be like the Grimoire/Necronomicon.
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I don’t wanna go on for too much longer, this is already a wall of text so last thing for today Chests for one, chests aren’t very plentiful, neither are keys for that matter, Idk if keys are limited, if they are only gained from quests and once you get them all once that character can never get any new keys or if they actually have a chance to drop from monsters like they should, but I’ve looked at lists online about what kind of chests there are and there just isn’t that many. If you had 100 of every key and all the warp spots activated I think you could unlock every chest in this game in under 4 hours. However having a feature like this be so lacking isn’t that bad on it’s own, I mean I’m not gonna complain about every system I believe has potential to be so much more than it is, However chests are different because there is a class that has an ability all about unlocking chests, it’s bad enough that Unlock Chest still requires you to have a key but even if you have all the level 1 keys in the world, you still only get a chances to use it and aside from Cat/Bunny ears not much of it is all that appealing, but to make matters worse I don’t even think Rank 5 of Unlock serves a purpose (That or rank 1 doesn’t) as far as I know there is no such thing as a rank 6 chest. Meaning that if you have a level 1 key and lvl 4 Unlock chest then you can open any chest level 5 or lower (Assuming I understand this correctly) I personally would have made this skill not require a key, keys would be tradable, found off monster drops as rare drops and there would be a lot more chests, ones that reset every so often and require different level keys. Meaning there would be a reason to actually be Corsair circle 1 outside of just Grab and Pull and the attribute for cash.So much waste potential, and kind of a cruel trap, Of course I already knew that going into it so for me to call it a trap is kind of silly, but other players who don’t read up on this stuff could be going Corsair specifically for this ability and it is honestly a trap ability.
I’ll make another one of these another time but this is just some of the big stuff that’s been on my mind since I came to this game. No games are made for the purposes of player enjoyment, every single one of them is made by businesses that just want cash, but ToS doesn’t feel like either, it doesn’t feel like it’s made for the player to enjoy and it doesn’t feel like the developers care about cash. It just feels like someone was bored and wanted to create a medium in which they could be cruel to others. (Of course I’m sure that’s not the reality, just how it feels)
