First of all here are some hints on how you get the ultimate gear.
There are multiple Stonesplates distributed in the whole instance which you have to find in order to get access to the NPC wehre you can "craft" your ultimate equipment.
After collecting all stonesplates you will have access to a NPC were you can exchange one core of each instance (DL, Tikal, Inferno, Gorge and last but not least RoFL) for an Almighty Core. Keep in mind that the exchange is only available once per day!
We can tell by experience that if you only use one Almighty Core, in exchange for an ultimate piece, the process can fail and you will lose all your resources. By that we assume that you will need atleast 15x Almighty Cores in order to have a 100% success rate
We gathered a lot of different opinions about that whole grind and we think that the amount of time you have to spent into farming all these resources in order to get one COMPLETE ultimate equipment is just too energy-sapping because you have to keep in mind that you will need to run each instance over and over in order to collect the resources. We did some math and if we assume that you need atleast 15x Almighty Cores in exchange for an ultimate piece you will have to run 195x each instance again. So 195x DL, 195x Tikal, 195x Inferno, 195x Gorge and 195x RoFL which is a total of 975 runs. So to summ it all up will need a total of 195 days grinding every instance in order to get the ultimate equipment^
We know that PlayerNet planed that instance to bypass a long period of time so we dont get bored too fast but there is a problem with new coming players. New players might get scared once they find out how much time you have to spent into the game in order to reach the "high end" niveau.
Therethrough a lot of people with think about it twice before starting on Chronicles of Arcadia and there is a risk that the old loyal players might lose interest and quit playing. This system might not fit for the future. Overall it is a great concept but there are some adjustments to make in order for it to work in the furture and make it attratcive for old and new players
After a lot of discussions with other players and guilds especially with Sâcrêd with came to one conclusion.
Our Suggestion is that:
If we are right with our presumption that you need 15x Almighty Cores for a single ultimate piece it should be lowered to 10x Almighty Cores for a 100% chance to exchange the item. Therefore people who are willing to spent the time farming these resources might get attracted by the fact of building a second gear besides that the marked could benefit aswell because a lot of stats and lower equip pieces will be around.
Also all cores should be unbound. Almighty Core excluded! If the cores are unbound new players could farm these and sell them so it would boost the economy of the server and would bring a little balance between high end player and new comers since high end players most likely are too lazy to farm these themselves. For example high end player will donate to the server in order to get diamonds and buy the cores and new comers would donate in order to buy the new items. This could be an endless curculation and players aswell as the server benefits.
Its important to make the exchange for a Almighty Core IP-Related so the system can not be abused and player can only exchange once per day as usual.^
This post is directed to PlayerNet itself but feel free give us your feedback or other suggestions. Our all goal should be to make the server run as long to have a good game experience so share your own opinion.