Recently this has come to my attention that late game items are a pain in the ass to obtain at a godly or high quality level. The main reason for this thread is due to the fact that I spent almost 8 hours farming Cornians on my Corsair only to obtain 1 concerto with below average stats. Another 4 hours spent killing Nest Golems with my DK unable to get any at all. This problem of late game weapons or level 100 weapons being hard to obtain at a decent stat isn't just afflicting Corsairs but other classes as well. Archers and Thieves are easily able to obtain their end game weapons (Cravens, Nisrocks, Nescheres etc.) through farming mobs, why is it that other classes have to suffer. For Dark Knights they are only able to obtain a decent Sky Ski or (fishing pole for those that use them) through gach, same goes for hero's and ST swords because farming black crow isn't a great option, im suggesting that gach only endgame items are obtainable through drops or able to be crafted the same way dragon weapons are. Elemental wands are fairly easy to obtain from gach as well, there should be certain places where these drop such as ToT or Leafre or also able to craft. As for Corsairs finding a concerto is hard enough but finding a perfect or even near perfect is almost impossible if you arent a mage spamming one button for hours, them choosing the unpopular mobs they actually drop from is unlikely im suggesting that they raise the drop rates or add a new mob for them to drop from. Dragon Weapons: Crafting them is pretty straightforward you gather the stuff you need and with it and some mesos you can craft a dragon weapon for all the classes, sound simple enough... But no because you need Dragon Scales & Spirits the droprate of these has decreased in the new source by a significant amount, I could farm at almost any mob that drops them for an hour on my sair in old source and get a decent amount of these usually around 5 of each, now I have asked mages who farm skeles and they are telling me they are only getting a couple with hours spent grinding these maps. As for Purple sleeves can we make these craftable like green sleeves? Leafre: Overall Leafre is a pretty piss poor place for many to train except mages and people who snipe at lower levels. Not only that but the drop rates in Leafre compared to everywhere else is horrendous, you could spend hours looking for a certain equip and come up short for everything weapons, armors, and etc. items. Im suggesting that Leafre drop rates be raised or adjusted for certain areas. Basically Im suggesting many of the weapons including Khanjar's that are hard to come by can be dropped or crafted with the ones that do make them drop a bit easier to find. Maybe when new source is a bit more ironed out we could add a new npc where we can craft these late game weapons so that more etc. items like ores are useful. Although many people will probably see the cons with this because there items will feel devalued in a way I feel like this is something that should be considered.
Claymores, Stonetooth, Concerto, King Cent, Dragon Revolvers, Dragon Slash Claws, etc etc can all be obtained through gacha. If you want corsair equips, gach at Nautilus. If you want warrior equips, gach at perion. It's pretty simple. Also, some/most(?) other classes have the option of creating their optimal end game weapons (aside from sky ski and stonetooth) - Night Lords can only craft green sleeves which give Dex not Luk. The only way to obtain a purple sleeve is through gach or horntail. This gives gacha more value, and makes people want to keep coming back in hopes of that perfect sleeve, or perfect ski. All dragon items have a chance of dropping from horntail actually. So do other weapons. Khanjars are easy to come by - dragon khanjars come from Showa gach. Regular Khanjars are from Kerning gach I believe. Most of the time I NPC Dragon Khanjars because there's not enough shadowers for there to be much of a demand for average ones. End game weapons are meant to be rare and difficult to come by, that's why they're end game. That's why a clean perfect item can range from a few hundred mil to a few bil or more depending on the item. In specific, Concertos can be farmed from Dark Cornians and Newts. King Cents can only be found by Skeles and Dark Wyverns if you want to talk Leafre mobs only. There's other examples for other weapons but it would take forever to list them all. I highly disagree with making anything easier, as it's already easy enough as is. There's a handful of perfect purple sleeves out there, same for green sleeves. I've seen just as many, if not more, perfected stonetooth swords. They come from NLC gacha.
Yeah I know where these items come from I never stated I didn't, its the fact that many lvl 100 weapons excluding thief/archer weapons are hard as hell to find. I stated I know where concertos are found, I tried farming them for over 12 hours only able to obtain 1, meanwhile there are plenty of cravens around. I don't feel it's necessary for many of these weapons to be gach exclusives, especially when green sleeve is craftable why not purple? The fact that I have to farm for 12 hours to obtain one weapon, or someone has to gach at a specific place in hopes of getting a decent weapon on a gamble is in my eyes insane. I shouldn't have to rely on mages to mass farm items so that i can spend money when I should be able to find my own and not spend 12 hours grinding mobs that don't benefit me except for the weapon itself. Not just that but as I stated about crafting, dragon scales/spirits shouldn't be so hard to find, i like the way the crafting is but I feel like the server could benefit if people were able to craft more late game weapons. Its not like you craft one and boom you have a perfect weapon its still a gamble just not as a big one as gach is. Im not saying everyone needs a perfect weapon, Its that there should be different ways for people to obtain their weapons they need during the late game. Things don't have to be easier they should just be different and more diverse, making it equal across the board for each class to fairly obtain decent weapons.
I would agree that the drop rate for concertos, King cents and spirits / scales could definitely be increased some. I spent a while at skeles on my mage before petris were buffed and I only managed Maybe 20 scales / spirits each. A while at newts and I have like 3 concertos. But imo I like that some of the best optimal weapons are hard to find and hard to make.it gives value to the hard work put in to finding it. It still takes a while to find a perfect craven but when someone does they tend to 30 it. It isn't the optimal end game weapon for NLs.
I've been at newts for quite a bit since new source launched & can say that it's around 1 concerto dropped per hour & would also would say it's just about the same for king cents at skeles. I'm not too hot with the balancing of drops but I can say that it seems that enough of both concertos & king cents were coming into the game with only 11 channels, I doubt that making them easier to obtain while almost doubling the amount of channels to which they are farmed would be a good idea.
Leafre is still piss poor though. Mob increase and teleporter portals would be much appreciated in pretty much all of the maps. Id love to train at dark/ green cornians xD.
