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Whale event: A suggestion for the future

Greetings from Orsha server, first of all i want to say that this its not a complain but a small thing that could have make this event more friendly for low level players/support builds/low spec players.

With that out of the way i have to say that this event has very good rewards and thats awesome and also, its nice to have people from the server cooperate to do something good for everyone. In the other hand i think low level players and low spec players have a very hard time on this event, and thats very unfortunate, to be honest even players with good computers seem to struggle from time to time, so here it is a little suggestion for the future:

  • Introduce totems on areas around the map,away from the whale(or boss) that when destroyed “the whale” gets its def/mdef reduced or takes damage. Totems take 1 damage from all skills/basic attacks and regenrate over time, players that damage/destroy a totem get the whale buff when its killed even if not near the whale, however in order to get the buff they have to constanly attack/destroy totems, thats to prevent leeching.

EX: There are a total of 5 totems around the map so bascially if all of them get destroyed the whale def/mdef will get reduced by 50% making it easier to kill, even with small amounts of people. Do take in mind that the totems regenrate so players would need to keep destroying them in order to keep that debuff up.

I think full suport builds, new players and low spec players would rather help doing this than being usless/getttng DCD without any hope to get rewards.

Reasoning from this: Players that cant be near the whale due to crashes or lag, CANT do this event and its totally unfair IMO, On the other hand new players/low level players/chars wich are the ones that actually need the buff cant do enough damage to the whale so why not let them cooprate in a different way? let the high level players with HIGH damage do the damage while you lower the defense frorm the boss to make things quicker…

Well the basic idea its there, it could be mini bosses too, waves or mobs or basically anything. The point is that its a shame that some people have to skip such a good event for totally unfair reasons, specially when there are too many ways to let them be part of it without having to leech near the whale hoping to not get DCD.

That being said i would like to know if anyone else have any suggetstion for this kind of events in the future. As a personal experiencie i had to skip this event due to crashes and currenlty a friend its helping me to get the buff using my account…(sigh), getting 12enchant scroll per day its game chaning IMO, too bad not all the low spec players are as lucky as me to have someone that can help them.

That being said i know the whale event its not lasting enough to even think about doing such changes, however i think this should be considered for future events, they re-use events a lot, so if in the future we get a huge server kill boss event, well here is this suggestion.

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I like the basis of your idea. It would be cool if there was something else newbies/lagging players/people-who-don’t-want-to-stay-in-1-spot, could do to help.

If the event was designed so that that whale died fastest when players are slightly organised and cooperating (i.e. ~10% of the people are hunting totems and 90% are attacking the whale), but by no means required any cooperation to complete the event (so if players are uncooperative and all want to attack the whale - it will still die), I think that would be ideal.

I think having totems randomly spawn around the map, like you suggested, is a good way of implementing that kind of cooperation.

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I cannot stress anymore seen players from the small population we have crashing everytime they wanna participate on this event. Can you guys just imagine if there were more players around?, this only tells me how little effort was put into optimizing this event.

And just to add a last thing, the population its low enough and then a huge part of them cant participate on a regular event?, well that’s not a good impresion for your playerbase. Little changes like this suggestion could have made this event way more friendly for all your playerbase., trust me, i been there with a support char that i needed to level up, and it was not fun at all.

You guys from the staff should check this out.
@STAFF_Yuri @STAFF_Amy @STAFF_Ines @STAFF_Ethan @STAFF_Letitia

Small things like this show love and caring for your playerbase, and even just a small tweak could make future events like this way more enjoyable, even for players that dont have problems with crashing.

Maybe its too late for the current whale event, but at least keep it in mind for future events.

Dont you guys realize this whale event is a test bed for the future world boss as well as collecting data for mass player events/effects on overall server health aka Stress test.