The Shattered Grove [Patch 12.1.0.1000]

Hi,

ini is cool. mobs and bosses in design are cool (except that you can't pull many mobs of specific types at once -> one shot)

But sadly the ini is giving no rewards to ppl, because the ppl don't want to play hide and seek with a needle in a 10000000 square kilometre world.

Running instances without getting any chance of upgrading your gear is totally demotivating and it's more a type for the asian market and not european gameplay style.

I suggest to give any reasonable hints how to build new red/yellow gear or more ppl will quit because of demotivating again and again after every patch

Hey!

Instance feels really good. Boss events are nice to play, trash patrols are also not only blasting as we were used to it from other instances. It's really fun when the bosses take 3-5 minutes to defeat and not just 10 seconds.

Ground colors take some time getting used to and cause performance issues. This doesn't seem to be just happening to me, but to all players. Maybe you can take a deeper look into it for improving it. I also recognized ping issues what's related to the zone itself while other zones were totally fine. Maybe also a point to check.

About building/upgrading gear: Lutine wrote actually all above there, but thanks for immediate response and hopefully we can patch soon.

Overall great work on the Grove, thanks for the content.

Byte

if patch comes tomorrow, could you take a look at anti-afk system, because right now the skills that affected by this system always cancelling like Rune Overload, Holy Light Domain.

And also 1st boss:

When he start casting slam the void zone shows like frontal aoe damage, but actually it hits around the boss with 150 radius

Hey Byte,

is it possible that mobs in grove has higher physical crit resistance than magical crit resistance? While testing with characters having around 35.000 Potency/Lethality, the tooltip with effectiveness in char frame shows for potency 96% and for lethality only 86%. We only picked some monsters at the start for the comparison, so maybe you distributed crit resistance values fairly to all monsters all over the instance and it would be fine then. If not, what is the reason that mdps can have almost full potential of their arcane amplification bonus and pdps only 85%?

Looking forward to your explanation

Is it intended, that in the NULL mode the mobs, after you kill them, spawn again random in the group, are not hittable/aggroable, kill 1 person and then despawn?

Seems a bit weird

Is it intended that in the new dungeons there are no experience points, no talent points, and also no experience/kill counter for relationships?

Hey,

just a question about the new 4-stat roll-system for the weapons. Would you mind to add an item for like 50 pnc or so where I can select directly the 4 corruption stats which I want to have? In addition this rolls should be max. rolls. I just ask, because I am not a fan of playing lottery with corruption crystalls or the new pnc roll items.

I'd like to avoid playing around with rng, so instead pay a high price immediately but knowing what I get for it.

Looking forward to your answer

pay to win...money money money !

There are some things that should be review indeed imo.

1st thing : the way to roll stats. spending 15k diams then buying PNC and praying for 3 good stats is a bit too much P2W ("Added karma system to corruption shufflers, after certain amount of uses, your next roll will have greatly increased chance of being special pool stats & max roll") --> What are those special pool stats ?? There should be other way (F2P friendly) to roll stats after buying items to unlock number of stats possibilty.

2nd thing : there are 3 new items to roll stats while locking 1st / 2nd or 3rd one only but what if you get 2 good stats and only want to reroll one ? There should be items that roll all stats AND items that lock stat when you get one you were looking for.

3rd thing : the amount of arcadia coins needed to build the new stuff. 100k to unlock grandmaster lvls on alchemy and blacksmithing , then 75k + 100k to buy new recipes then 75k per red item and 100k per gold item. That sounds really really to much regarding the amount of coins the ini is droping (7.7k if you get the random amount at max value everytime). We have to build 8 armor pieces and weapons that means 100+ runs to get new red stuff and I don't even want to count for gold stuff. You have to also keep it mind that coins are needed also to craft food / ammunitions for scout / rogues etc.

4th thing : the performance issue causing low fps (especially in the snowy area leading to 2nd boss) but Ryzek already mentionned it above.

Overall the ini is really cool looking, bosses have nice mechanics. I'm looking forward for next expansion.

Hi,

regarding the patch notes: "Reduced dynamic attributes of Orkham weapons to expected which were unexpectedly modified by Infuser stones, which were meant to be only usable on The Shattered Grove weapons. Cost of stones will be refunded."

it was not handled profressional. instead of giving back the ppl the old weapons AND diamonds (Cost of stones refund -> means diamonds for all ppl) you decided to force ppl now to crap weapons and gave them back the infusion stones.... really really not professional.

you released stones that were for "adding 3rd and 4th corruption stat on a weapon".... I mean... if you don't want it for orkham weapons.... testing on your side failed totally? nobody... I mean NOBODY had a new weapon when you released the stones... so ppl use it on old weapons... it's like 1+1=2

Greetings

I've been robbed. I'm making a responsible statement.

https://gyazo.com/7a37eb3efba2b5e232a6973be0638346
You only returned 4 pieces of stones for the 4th stat (ID 1249338). No one returned the damaged extractors (ID 1250531) or the stones for the third stat (ID 1249337). I demand the return of the diamonds and give back my weapon.

Go-go guys, do it something or Im going to be a deputy.

I suggest that corruption cores and corruption crystals should be obtainable in Shattered Grove since they are needed to roll items.

Hi, good that you reduced AC needed for grandmaster quests and will give back extra AC players spent but what about other suggestions I posted above ? Is it possible to get any toughts from devs side ? Why is there such a high amount of AC required when there is already a new ini plan in few months ? Why the new ini is that P2W ?

Also one more thing I forget : the new purple stats droprate. We've cleared the ini a significant amount of times and so far we've dropped only 2 orange items on last boss. One had 6 yellow (useless) stats and one had 5 yellow + 1 (useless) new purple stat. Orkham have 3 guarantee stats per run so imo last boss from the new ini should have a guarantee orange item with at least 2-3 purple stats on it otherwise ppl won't craft new gear soon.

And you can't even extract the stats from the blueprint item

Quote from Byte

Quote from xLutinex

And you can't even extract the stats from the blueprint item

This is intended, you are supposed to upgrade blueprint to yellow item first to extract stats

and does it works in the current patch state of the game?

any hints the players will get how to do that?