@ Finity I'm pretty sure that if Nexon could extend the Premium/VIP, they would have in order to avoid all the issues resulting from it. Also, Nexon NA (our branch) doesn't handle any of the actual programming with the game, that's the Korean branch. Unfortunately, we will highly unlikely hear back about anything until at least Monday as Nexon NA has to request a fix from Nexon Korea and that's hoping they got the request out Thursday night.
Best thing you can do is to take screenshots of the combo card's boosts so you can hopefully get them reissued once the issue is resolved or get your revival cards (whichever solution they go with).
If anyone had a guild go down too, submit a ticket.
In the meantime, everyone just remain calm and wait for news from Nexon. Personally, I'd much rather they take their time fixing something and make sure it's fixed.
I'm not asking for extension of free VIP/Premium. Nowhere in my post I asked for free VIP/Premium.
I think it's hinted somewhere in forums that free trial somehow broke it.
I know NA branch doesn't handle programming part of this game and that is why I don't expect bugs/glitches to be fixed in time. Still, it doesn't require programming fix to hand out revival cards.
Nothings done in time anymore. Things are said that they'll get it done "soon" yet it took about 10 months to update VIP(I bought 7 months of it), paid name changes are said soon but still not yet, people will +tags can't even join guilds still, if you login to a different channel during dungeon you can't re-enter anymore, bugs and glitches from last year are still lingering around, I report bugs in tickets that "will be investigated" but never get replied further thus never getting fixed.
I know they cannot process anything (that requires programming) fast enough, that's why I rather ask for temporary fix that can be done with clerical effort.
They can take as much time as they need fixing it, but at least provide revival cards for those who are affected by it, so they can use it meanwhile waiting for a fix.
+I asked around friends in-game about this issue, and some people who are affected by it didn't even realize that their combo cards are deactivated due to glitch. Only posting this issue in Discord chat really helps, does it?
You asked for a temporary fix for the issues, one of that would be extending the trial of the Premium/VIP if they were able, so my bad for assuming that was part of what you were hoping to have done. Sure, they might be able to do the Combo Card Recovery Coupon to fix the card issue, but another thing is whether they CAN, as in if they have the approval to do so. If they don't have that, then no dice; their hands are tied.
We don't even know what the issue even involves in its entirety. We know the Premium/VIP update had issues and had to be taken down. It could be more extensive than we even know. So a temporary fix might not be feasible either. I know it's annoying, but just keep a log of your issues and screencaps if possible. That's all that can be done at the moment.
Wait, if you log-in to a different channel while in a dungeon, you can't go back into it? That makes sense as the dungeon that you were previously was in was in another channel. I would think that was a glitch in itself if it let you do that.
@ Finity I'm pretty sure that if Nexon could extend the Premium/VIP, they would have in order to avoid all the issues resulting from it. Also, Nexon NA (our branch) doesn't handle any of the actual programming with the game, that's the Korean branch. Unfortunately, we will highly unlikely hear back about anything until at least Monday as Nexon NA has to request a fix from Nexon Korea and that's hoping they got the request out Thursday night.
Best thing you can do is to take screenshots of the combo card's boosts so you can hopefully get them reissued once the issue is resolved or get your revival cards (whichever solution they go with).
If anyone had a guild go down too, submit a ticket.
In the meantime, everyone just remain calm and wait for news from Nexon. Personally, I'd much rather they take their time fixing something and make sure it's fixed.
Most of this is also correct except the part about matk being diminishing return, 300 to 400 for example with fireball adds 1200 to it's base damage, 800 to 900 also adds 1200, before fire mastery or any other multipliers like combo cards of course, matk adds flat min/max but each spell has a different coefficient so some benefit less than others, like icebolt for example will only get 40 max from that same 100 matk.I also doubt that spirit weapon update really fixed magic, magic still has it's own problems that are neglected. Most of monsters in end-game content has high magic defense and protection. Intermediate magic is notorious for drawing aggro and scattering monsters. Magic is crippled with its damage calculation as well, going from 800 to 900 magic attack will gain less than going from 300 to 400 magic attack.(The higher you get, the less you'll gain!) Magic enchants give pathetically low magic attack compared to max damage enchants, etc.
Elf mag spam is the best dps in the game, but archery is broken in NA due to aim rate being tied to latency and mabinogi using in order encrypted TCP packets to communicate with the server, 90% on KR is 90% but 90% on NA is only 90% if you're in Oregon (California before servers were moved to amazon cloud), the further you are the more desynced your client aim meter and the server side aim meter become due to the repeated latency add from TCP acknowledgements. In KR you're generally going to have 1~3ms of latency to the server, so little to no desync occurs and you'll see any korean elf gameplay video archery will hit much more than the vast majority of NA player's because of that. Personally after 7 years of playing an elf trying to use archery with 48~68ms of latency, I find archery to be completely unusable. A large part of why I play a giant now.Aren't elves supposed to be stupidly OP in Korea? Perhaps the giant update was to give them more parity there.
Also props to Maia for being one of the only people to understand you can play on other characters of other races instead of crying for nerfs on the forum every update.
I could go on and on but honestly for everyone that thinks X race is "op" play it or Y race "is trash" don't play it, leveling up is trivialized by blaanid beginner quests + baltane missions, training skills is trivialized by talent level bonus skill exp, ap training, training seals, and constant training events/training potion handouts from events so there's 0 excuse not to play another character, I shelved my 25k total elf with basically every skill r1/cap to play giant and my giant's already 27k with everything r1/cap besides magic craft, act 9, and rest in less than a third of the time it took to get my elf there due to the HEAVY casualization of the game that TRIVIALIZES character progression in comparison to how it use to be. Yes I know you can get 40k+ and all skills in less than a year but I'm a casual deal with it.