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Closed Dan tests are unbalanced and unfair
Never before has it looked more like an update wasn't even tested before release then with this one. Some of the tests for lack-luster skills like windmill and magnum shot are nearly impossible to complete while others for extremely useful skills like Crisis are so easy its absurd. If they weren't stupid RP missions, it wouldn't be a problem because if you couldn't pass a test you could just come back when you get stronger, but that's not the case. Windmill and Magnum shot particularly are impossible to complete short of getting extremely lucky with crits and enemy placement. The enemies have WAY too much hp to be able to reasonably hit the required goal with the skills and stats you are given for the test under any conditions short of an extreme case of freak chance. I can't imagine how people without top notch internet connections must feel, since them being near impossible as it is means any lag at all will result in a guaranteed fail, and on top of that because they decided it would be funny to make us get SS rank, its possible to "pass" but still fail, resulting in an entire day being wasted. These tests are so unbelievably unbalanced that I am thoroughly convinced that most or all of them weren't even tested at all past absolute bare bones functionality. Case in point, Smash. Every test has a special bonus you can get by doing a specific thing. Shooting Rush, for example, wants you to stand in a specific spot to refresh the skills cooldown. Windmill and Smash share the same bonus as they are both melee skills, which is refreshing their cooldown when a set number of enemies has been killed. The problem, as anyone who has ever used smash before will tell you, is that smash doesn't even have a cooldown. It does, but the cooldown for it is totally pointless and unnecessary as it is is shorter then the duration of the animation for the skill and you can't load another smash in the middle of the animation for an ongoing smash. This means that even if you happen to get a cooldown reset for smash when you are right next to another target, you can't use smash again on that target until the cooldown that was just pointlessly reset would have finished anyways. The bonus for smash is completely, 100% useless in every conceivable way, so unlike every single other danable skill, smash has no bonus at all because they didn't bother to even so much as think for more then 5 whole seconds about how smash works before arbitrarily throwing together these half-assed dan tests. I would wager the only ones that they even bothered to balance at all are the skills that previously had no dan tests at all, the ones they had to make from scratch like Crisis, which is why all those ones are reasonable and tests for everything that was already danable were left mostly alone and are now nearly impossible because of it.
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For me, it seems balanced and fair enough.
I've already seen others successfully Dan their way through Smash, but I think I'll do it myself today now as well just to see if I have any problems (I was originally aiming to first go for Fireball and Thunder next).
By the way, if you already have Smash at Dan 1 - which it sounds like you might - then you need to realize that later ranks take more than one success In order to unlock the graduation ceremony. As such your thoughts that they stole from you an SS might actually be the game functioning correctly, since later Dan ranks need more than one successful testing (unlike Dan 1).
But yea I do agree that Rng gimmicks like needing crit is stupid on the dev's part.
That and unexplained point values are what annoy me most. Certain monsters in some tests are worth a lot of points attacking or killing but the game gives no effort to explain this to you in the text explanation. You have to fail (or pass the test with a grade that won't affect your rank, wasting a day) to figure out how to maximize my point gains.
At least when you passed a test back in the old Dan system you got guaranteed progress to your Dan rank and when you failed someone else in your group got progress to their's. If you pass in this system without getting S/SS in the Dan 2/3 tests you're basically wasting an exam day entirely and no one gets any good from it.
Exactly, there are requirements for lower ranks, but since their filled as well when you get the highest rank needed, theres not even a reason for them to be there. Getting a lower requirement doesnt help you at all when you just have to retrigger that requirement an extra time anyways to get the one above it. They need to just either let us use our own god damn weapons or lower the monster hp so archers and melee without flawless ping even stand a ghost of a chance at getting these done.
Or just remove the bs where you can "pass" without actually making any progress at all, wasting an entire day.
Its only been said like 100 times on the forum since this update came out.
That works for most skills, but if you don't know what your bonus score will be on damage based exams that becomes difficult and almost wasteful.
Have you been missing the entire point here? For many people, its not about "getting good", its about having unavoidably shitty ping making some of them completely impossible, regardless of how good you are or how amazing your luck is with the rng bs. If its nearly impossible without lag as it is and there's no way to make it easier by getting stronger since its a stupid RP mission, people with higher ping, like every single EU Mabi player since they merged EU Mabi into NA, will be effectively denied access to the content.
Look, this is your handicap and you have to deal with it. Try a new strategy. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean it can't be done. By all means, give your account to someone else to try it. There is always a way and sometimes it's unavoidable that you're gonna have to do it these ways.
I have under 1mb speed for internet and play this game just fine. I feel bad for everyone that isn't in north america but it can't be helped.
This game is catered to us in North America over everyone else.
Pray tell, do you have any other valuable suggestions to give the 'handicapped' that won't involve us putting our accounts' securities in direct jeopardy? I'm all ears cause water cannon is curb stomping me to a point where I'm not even attempting it.