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I believe there was a statistic in KR that stated that more than 60% of the player population plays human (especially in end-game content). Why would you alienate your main player base?
Well good for you, because the new director is ready to do just that. He has buffed elves to be best in class archers (which in respect actually makes them highest DPS users), and soon will buff giants more because 10% melee damage wasn't enough to make them any better in the meta than they were previously (well, except GFS is still OP). First thing he says is he'll closely monitor and balance races as needed but so far it looks to be benefiting any race but human - goodness gracious. That's just great. And he did all this by listening to the feedback of Koreans (who can blame him, KR is the home country of the game).
Do understand that any suggestion is made moot if it's beyond the scope of implementation (I think most people here have already accepted that). As an example, a race change could be too hard to implement... Say you do get your idea pitched to a Korean dev who knows what he's dealing with, and somehow it's a viable change with little effort... It still has to make it passed the multiple devs including the director. I think we already know we're just making echoes here but... I wish we focused on efforts that would be easier to implement, especially in our localization of the game.
Are we trying to dawdle around and consider possible what-ifs? We're divided on those fronts because they haven't been implemented and we can't predict all the effects of any change that hasn't already been. Even if we reach a general consensus, it's not likely any sort of action will be taken (this game comes from South KR). I like a lot of the suggestions... but I realize what I'm reading so far composes of mostly wishful thinking. (We can't even avoid nerfs that have nothing to do with us, like VHM nerf and Saga 2 EP 6 nerf)
We've already skipped over an auction house, a ninja revamp, a VIP/housing/banking revamp, 20k ducat mysterious reforges (I'm sure people from other regions can add to the list easily)... and we have little to no discussion when it comes to these changes that are ALREADY present in the original country of origin (KR). Our 'exclusive' adventurer seal shop was taken and improvised into KR. Mission point was almost an exclusive, until it was recently done in KR. Seriously? Can we at least agree that catching up should be a priority instead of being divided on ideas that are likely to never see the light of day?
Maybe I'm out of touch with the community. Maybe I haven't joined in enough discussions to know the reasoning behind this. But I want to at least pose this question: Do you think your suggestions will last as more than an afterthought? (If this sounds condescending, I apologize in advance, I don't want to rub people off the wrong way but I had to eventually say something)
By the way, I'm not sure people understand what happened with FH. The skill received its first rendition of buffs at 200% damage and was deemed to not have any appeal in test servers. It was then buffed even further, until attractive enough for use, But it was obvious enough that it was appealing to the larger part of the player base (the humans). The new director is moving in favor of the other races but it isn't without its own backlash. I think race balancing is a complicated issue, and any suggestions we make won't have any impact. KR will decide this moving forward, as is the same with other servers. Only they have the resources to dedicate to such a huge task and thus' it is only fair that their player base (which is at least 10 times larger than ours and much more stable) gets priority in their voicing of opinions on the state of the game.
/rant
I'm still interested in what people want to say... but it'd be nice if we don't have fresh new ideas thrown into the wind every few hours, and instead focused on efforts that could make an impact. Unless I'm in the wrong forum for that.
