Changes to WoE

[mahawirasd]

i applaud you for your thoroughly thought-out topic.

from the last thread i read about customized castle drops, i must say that the GMs do try their best to make WOE more rewarding for castle holders to coax more ppl to participate. I personally think that what they did is spot on.

Nevertheless, I share your sentiments regarding castle cycling for dungeon access and boxes, but i must admit that making god items any more accessible than it already is would really be a risk even i as a casual player fear because god items do somewhat break the game.

if our main concern is the same thing; namely new guilds, here's my suggestion: open more non-trans castles rather than trans castles. I don't know if non trans castles drop god components, i would prefer they didn't. Keep the customized eco formula because imho they are already rewarding enough.
We could also do the guild dun access modification so that startup guilds participate in non trans woe and learn the castle layouts as well as maximize the utilization of the dungeons. The trans castle holders could still access all the guild dungeons while the non trans would only access their respective dungeons.

Why more non-trans?
1. because your analysis is spot on regarding WOE needing more variety
2. because non-trans is a good "sand box" for trans WOE later on
3. because most ppl complain about mvp cards and those cards more often than not are slotted into trans gears which means that newcomers need not fear non trans woe inequality as much as trans woe.
4. because newcomers or startup guilds would probably be ready to get into non-trans WOE 3 times faster than the time it takes to level and gear up for trans WOE
5. so that people actually enjoy non trans a bit more rather than just nameless to 99 like so many ppl do... (refer to the other thread about how many trans there are yet only a minority WOEs)

and in the end of the day, if my proposed "test" works out for non-trans then you could copy it to trans WOE when there are more guilds "ready" for a larger trans woe. If it doesn't, then even if there was any harm done to the server's economy, the effects are more control-able due to the reduced eco formula and limited guild dun access. Again i would like to iterate that personally i feel that HeRO is not ready for god items and so if you want to open up more castles please try it out in a lesser extent for non trans before trying it out on trans woe...


-w-