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What's stopping you? If you want, you can get a head start on one of the other books. Red and I were planning to get a few of them TLed. Just ask him which one's next on the docket.

I... didn't even know there were more lol.

My slugginesh is what's stopping me though, I'm like the slowest guy evar - also, exams, gah.

Should contact him and see though, thanks for the heads-up derpy!

in short HV sucks

I want to complain.

5 7 Arena Clear Bonus! [Fine Redwood Staff of Focus]

Why isn't it Ethereal?! Is this some kind of sick joke? >_<

Looks like no one is doing Crysfets any more. Except maybe for one crazy dude (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

This post has been edited by Ichy: Feb 3 2012, 17:05

Before this patch it was easy to do Crysfest . that why Tenboro increases monster HP . So people automatically stop playing crystfest

You think? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

He could simply boost monster's HP only in Crysfest, or even remove this battle mode from the game altogether if that was his intention.

I still have no idea why Tenb boosted monster's health. I really, really want to know! (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)

The crazy thing is: I start to like this hp buff! It at least brings back some challenges.
The two problems I insist...and you know that already, I've said that so many times (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

But you could get the same kind of challenge by rising the difficulty level in the older patch, too. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

If increased challenges is what Tenb intent to do and the current method is the how he do it, then it's a terrible way to archive this goal. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

The current game give no sense (or the illusion) of improvement as you character gain more level since the monster have additional boost which negates the usual small stats bonus the character gain when level up. So if you don't want to increase the amount of time need to clear arenas, you ended up playing the same difficulty instead of 'climbing' the difficulty level as your character become more powerful.

The current way would be appropriate if people are complains something like 'IWBTH are too easy' or 'IWBTH give too much exp, reduced it, please!' (I'm not making this up, people actually used to say this when IWBTH was first implemented! (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif) ) ... This wasn't the case for quite sometime now. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

This post has been edited by buktore: Feb 3 2012, 19:30

The current game give no sense (or the illusion) of improvement as you character gain more level since the monster have additional boost which negates the usual small stats bonus the character gain when level up. So if you don't want to increase the amount of time need to clear arenas, you ended up playing the same difficulty instead of 'climbing' the difficulty level as your character become more powerful.

Yea there was already monster level cap and PL cap scaling with the player's level, why add an HP scale? Normal mode is now hard more for anyone over level 200 in terms of difficulty.

Decreasing players' leveling speed CAN be a reason.

Remember, there's no level cap in HV, and weapons scale with your level.
That can be a problem to limit players' potential.

I don't like this change, but IF there's a reason, I won't object.

(IMO HP scale counters the effect of upgrading your equipments.)

This post has been edited by varst: Feb 3 2012, 20:13

And I think we high levels where actually too weak. Even before HP Buff.
Back then when EDB Bug balanced the game it was much better (for mages). When you got a good piece of equipment you got notable stronger and could climb to a higher difficulty setting. Now no matter what you do you still suck.

Also i think leveling was made too easy. Custom Mobs should have never increased our EXP. And if it should have only worked for your monsters!
Why not get rid of this and go back to Pre Custom EXP gains and also normal monster HPs. It would make combat much faster without easy modo level ups.

This post has been edited by Ichy: Feb 3 2012, 20:26

Looks like no one is doing Crysfets any more. Except maybe for one crazy dude (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Does the 'one crazy dude' give you all his crystals? Because, he doesn't have any monsters, yet everyone knows he's still playing. Trying to play on permanent Great stamina even, if you can believe that.

Before this patch it was easy to do Crysfest . that why Tenboro increases monster HP . So people automatically stop playing crystfest

Crysfest was supposed to be easy, and should be made so again. Monsters already require obscene amounts of crystals to level them beyond ~PL600, and the only way to reliably obtain so many is to play yourself. It is very unsatisfying and unfulfilling to have a multiplier introduced and then not be able to make use of it because the monster were made 3x stronger on the only grind-worth difficulty.



People keep demanding to know why monster HP was increased so dramatically on lower difficulties, yet there is no answer. The only reasonable solution I can come up with (other than typical Tenboro dickishness) is that it pertains to a future release that he doesn't want to discuss yet. If you consider the change in context with things he's said in the past about the future of the monster lab, it's possible that he is just actively testing new features and (most) monsters will go back to normal when it's implemented. More or less.

If things go as I suspect, there will be a lot of writhing in the near future by people that spent tons of chaos tokens creating an army of monsters and just complaining in general by those that have very few to begin with (but still upgrade monsters.)

Decreasing players' leveling speed CAN be a reason.

It can be. But another reasons seems more likely IMO; like making people poorer for teh lulz (I can't think of any other reason why he would do this...), for example.

Decreasing exp gain would be much more effective if Tenb just cut the amount of exp gain. Like what Ichy said:

Why not get rid of this and go back to Pre Custom EXP gains and also normal monster HPs. It would make combat much faster without easy modo level ups.

EDIT::

(IMO HP scale counters the effect of upgrading your equipments.)

Such countermeasure are not necessary or is it a good thing to do at the moment. People aren't exactly that powerful anymore and the difficulty level setting still have plenty of room to scale for more powerful gear that's the result of the forge.

.....

When you got a good piece of equipment you got notable stronger and could climb to a higher difficulty setting.

Disclaimer: Mage only! (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

This post has been edited by buktore: Feb 3 2012, 21:05

Looks like no one is doing Crysfets any more. Except maybe for one crazy dude (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Just crazy? You're missing a few adjectives, with paranoid being one of them. Once he's done (unlikely) collecting crystals, you can pretty much say goodbye to Liseolotte's #1 spot on the PL chart.

Just crazy? You're missing a few adjectives, with paranoid being one of them.

Ditto.

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Also,

Be careful what you complain about because you might not like the fix...

I feel you grant requests and fixes in this manner:
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Just crazy? You're missing a few adjectives, with paranoid being one of them. Once he's done (unlikely) collecting crystals, you can pretty much say goodbye to Liseolotte's #1 spot on the PL chart.

Pfft... You don't need to turn everything into a cockfight, guys... (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

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Wrong finger. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

To get the most out of Crysfets you need the crystal perks (1750 hath) That is still something not a lot of people have done. And to do them fast and to go deep you need to be a strong mage.

We have gone from near endless grindfest rounds on Hard using tier 1 element spells to now where you can clear normal casting 1 tier 3-4 spell. OMG its Normal now, If I want to take the time to cast 2-3 spells a round I'll play o a harder setting. I play on normal-hard so I can finish what I'm doing as fast as I can then move on to something else.

We have Spelunker so we can do the same item more often in a day & IW were changed so we can do more of them in a day. But we get fucked with the amount of stamina it costs, the time it takes with higher monsters HP on normal and shorter rounds. Some may like fewer rounds but I would rather play the where the # of rounds = the level of the item. More rounds = better drops, and the way it use to be I could clear 350-400 rounds on BT in my Exquisite Mace caster 1 tier one spell and then a tier 3. Just caster 1 tier 3 didn't kill everything all the time. Is that too easy? NO, it took good gear, high level and the mana costs are high.

One of my biggest problems with most of the changes is after you get a high level, you have max Magic proficiency, max spell damage, use to have +spell damage per AP spent (not element resistance) and good gear. Then on top of all that you cast a spell that costs 90 mana per shot and you cant fucking kill shit on normal.

And about exp. At one time you had to do something to level up, now if you just look at the monsters you get a million exp. Who needs high level AL or Stars or Exp Hath peaks or play 5000 rounds a day when all you need to do is make an IWBTH game on great stamina.

Oh and Auras use to great. Getting an aura point every 10 levels or one with each level of gold stars. The damage was nice but now with all auras at level 5 it still sucks.

Maybe after spending 10 million credits on materials or years to get your monsters to bring you stuff, you can then upgrade a few things (if you can find something worth it) After all that, will you be able to kill shit as fast as we use to? I don't think so.

Just crazy? You're missing a few adjectives, with paranoid being one of them. Once he's done (unlikely) collecting crystals, you can pretty much say goodbye to Liseolotte's #1 spot on the PL chart.

If he should manage to pull this off with HV as it is now:
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Good Job he defeated me (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

If he should manage to pull this off with HV as it is now:
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Good Job he defeated me (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Not difficult considering he already has maybe 90% of the required crystals prior to this patch. I don't know the exact numbers since he thinks that just by telling me, Ichy, his arch nemesis would somehow be able to mentally extract that information from me, so I'm being kept in the dark. I'm pretty sure he has millions of crystals and is close to reaching his goal whatever that may be. This patch is only a hindrance at best considering he's already farmed a fuckton before it. I better stop here before he accuses me of saying anything else that is considered 'confidential.'