[NEW] ZeroN 9D - The Ultimate 9D Server

[™Sin™]

Originally Posted by xtJamie

In the converse the issue ultimately lies with the amount of exp gained and the items available. Most servers provide players with gear that far exceed any items earned even past end game. Why would anyone do dungeons if they're given highly refined weapons and heavy def sets. The exp gained just means if it's that high, it's quicker to skip most dungeons, hit cap and either forget about the lower dungeons or not need the drops from the dungeons because at a high level, the gear is rubbish.

If you pump players with exp events, boss events and item events why would anyone bother with dungeon gear?


PA isn't providing players with a day to cap and items that are better than end gear so dungeons for gear will be incredibly important. Having gear from CoF and VoH will make you look like a badass and that's how it ultimately should be. I blame server owners for making content redundant and players for getting upset because there is nothing left to do.

No comment, i doubt anyone could argue with ur logic.
I remember the good old Acclaim days where farming and grinding was not easy at all. And damage was not high and you actually had to keep an eye out on ur HP / MP all the time. These days its just stand in one place and click every few seconds ...

[Tengerecki]

Originally Posted by bog18dy

around 1 week.
More or less depanding on what help we get from the community.
We want the following:
-all RTDs completed
-all dungeons completed
-all quests checked (aka RTD karma abuse quest, KG abuse quest, NN/HZ pill abuse quest) to make sure there are no more quests that can be abused.
-all gifts checked
-all skills checked
-overall bug testing

We'll probably give a small something for people who contributed during testing. Everbody will get a small gift regardless of their contribution anyways.

P.S. The 1st day we'll probably leave the exp to 1x to see if the people seem satisfied with our curve. Then we'll increase the rates to like 10x (for new curve obviously) for testing purposes.

[bog18dy]

Like I said, players who contribute will be rewarded.
No, we don't ask 1 player to do it for all six clans. 6 users would finish it in relatively low time given the fact that we'll provide courier passes.
Rewards will be handed in phase 1, will be made public and will be proportional with the contribution, bug reporters, we didn't forget you ! You will get small gifts too.

[Tengerecki]

Originally Posted by bog18dy

Like I said, players who contribute will be rewarded.
No, we don't ask 1 player to do it for all six clans. 6 users would finish it in relatively low time given the fact that we'll provide courier passes.

Reveal the reward now and depending on what it is, I'll do all RTD's. Because I won't do RTD's for a stack of cowpats.

[bog18dy]

Originally Posted by Tengerecki

I won't do RTD's for a stack of cowpats.

You ruined all the fun... :P
Ok, making rewards public before going live.

I've got goosebumps... Can't wait to launch PA, haven't been this excited since Play9D. Actually, nope I'm even more excited, because this is not a commercial server like play9d was.

[bog18dy]

Originally Posted by xtJamie

Because gear and levels were hard to come by and nobody had anything close to 2k def during Acclaim. Mobs hit through you hard and without full party exp bonuses, grinding hurt! Think back, the highest players weren't even cap def or damage half of the time and players were actually using all items in game. I remember players organising raids just to get relics.

Farming was hard and it was built that way. If you saw a player above CS, holy ****! If you saw a weapon with +9 omg! These days servers have made that experience so boring and seeing a capped player with a +17 weapon, capped def, deco and banners... Meh!

I can't wait to see a server going back to the core principles of 9dragons. Where levelling and rewards through work means something. I miss the server becoming crowded just because of a x2 lucky rooster and how much people worked together for warda's exp collection events.

While what you mentioned is true, and as much as we would like to give back the importance of CoF for new commers, we can't afford to set exp to 1x acclaim as a matter of fact not even 5x would do it. I'd say the new curve did a good job. People will explore cof for basic items, then they'll continue their path to hitting lv cap while getting gear from other dungs.

Anyways, doing some more changes:
-removed anti-PK buff.

[ferQy]

you're on the right way guys! I really missed everything from the old content.

[heyrawj6]

Originally Posted by adek1994

We actually improved the stats for basic version of the epithets, so for this moment we won't implement any "upgrade" for them, but your suggestion is nice and we probably use that idea in future. Thanks!

Originally Posted by bog18dy

Yep we upgraded all dungeon epis.
Last 2 are very rewarding but very hard to get.
Beast Tower gives A BIT better stats than GCM because it's harder.
We have emphasised the YYBS system and we're adding resistances patches right now.
We're removing CC3 def clothes also.

Adek, it's nice you reconsider community suggestion
Bodgdy, can't wait to play it..

by the way, do dungeon cloth got boost on it and have 4 pockets?(not asking about stats )
aside from that,do you guys make special weapon drop for each dungeon,(just suggest)

[bog18dy]

Originally Posted by heyrawj6

Adek, it's nice you reconsider community suggestion
Bodgdy, can't wait to play it..

by the way, do dungeon cloth got boost on it and have 4 pockets?(not asking about stats )
aside from that,do you guys make special weapon drop for each dungeon,(just suggest)

*bogdy
We will update stats for items that drop from dungs already aka FD,SM,GB,CS sets.

[Alchemy.]

When are you going to release that windows 7 tutorial for USB ?

[bog18dy]

Originally Posted by Alchemy.

When are you going to release that windows 7 tutorial for USB ?

This is about all we can do sadly... The guy @ video makes things pretty simple in my opinion.

[gabi29]

Originally Posted by bog18dy

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Also, without def clothes, people will want healers and hybs for their buffs and healings. We expect the healers to be the must searched for class for dungeons and parties during events.
[....]

FINALLY!!! Healers get the LOVE they desperately need and deserve.
Phew....i'm getting all...

 Spoiler

....Thank you.

Joke aside tho'; It gladdens me to see people so dedicated.Judging by what i read so far there is a really high chance 9dragons will become enjoyable once again....i even dare say it might become what 9dragons should have been all along.

I do have one question regarding healers and their future.I can understand healers being needed during phase 1; no op items,no def sets or at least none that would make solo-play viable along with no op items. But what happens to healers when phases 2&3 go live?I mean healers are needed when there's nothing to replace them with. leech orn's/pills/ginseng will make heal redundant.+50000-to-all-stats-deco will make buffs useless.Who needs healers when all you need is a warrior with +9000 ref weapon,a stack of ginseng and a couple of banners who can solo everything while all you have to do is sit back and enjoy the free ride.

It could be nothing...it could be that you guys already have plans on how to avoid such things but it is something i worry about and with the role healers played in recent 9dragons history can you blame me?

[bog18dy]

Originally Posted by gabi29

FINALLY!!! Healers get the LOVE they desperately need and deserve.
Phew....i'm getting all...

 Spoiler

....Thank you.

Joke aside tho'; It gladdens me to see people so dedicated.Judging by what i read so far there is a really high chance 9dragons will become enjoyable once again....i even dare say it might become what 9dragons should have been all along.

I do have one question regarding healers and their future.I can understand healers being needed during phase 1; no op items,no def sets or at least none that would make solo-play viable along with no op items. But what happens to healers when phases 2&3 go live?I mean healers are needed when there's nothing to replace them with. leech orn's/pills/ginseng will make heal redundant.+50000-to-all-stats-deco will make buffs useless.Who needs healers when all you need is a warrior with +9000 ref weapon,a stack of ginseng and a couple of banners who can solo everything while all you have to do is sit back and enjoy the free ride.

It could be nothing...it could be that you guys already have plans on how to avoid such things but it is something i worry about and with the role healers played in recent 9dragons history can you blame me?

We have driven a bit away from what we initially planned. We planned to just release existing content on and on until we reach our limit, BUUUUT things changed. It's safe to say that phase 2 and phase 3 will have careful content implementation, not rentless official content copy-paste, we will try to keep things challenging and we'll avoid things like HP leech, hp/ve pills, KGs, etc.

By careful content implementation I mean we will probably change the face of 9D as you know it by then. During 1st phase, we will continue developing on current maps (up to LD) and introduce more needed resources to satisfy the community.

We (mostly me, since I was missing some important balance knowledge) have gained a lot of experience and understanding of how 9D works during this project. Josped, was probably the most right (along with other people who said it in the past, but didn't really develop the idea) the content which was forcefully pushed on officials DOES NOT fit the current stats system, it simply doesn't.

@pills and fun stuff,we will have holiday events too, however we will wipe all the resources and items after.

P.S. I drifted a bit away from the topic, sorry. So, yeah, healers will remain relevant, our main concern after we establish balance, is to maintain it.
~PA Bogdy

EDIT: Since we thought that yin/soul are avoided due to healer ys res buffs, we changed the buff so that each clan has 2 different attributes and we also lowered the res given (c10= 10 res, and for e.g. WT has yin/yang res buff, HD has yang/body, etc)

[kwiato666]

Allright guys, so what have you left to do before we can enjoy test phase ??

[bog18dy]

Originally Posted by kwiato666

Allright guys, so what have you left to do before we can enjoy test phase ??

We are doing security adjustments at the moment.