Noblity Powerup?

[Fruityla]

WARNING. GIANT WALL OF TEXT.

That's like saying "oh man, I can't believe I slotted my alice card in a buckler. Now there's stone bucklers and valk shields out! I want a card remover so I can put that card into a better shield now." New gears will always continually raise the bar, and it's up to the players whether they want to keep up with strongest items or not. The new mid gears still don't offer some of the things that nobility does, which is why nobility still holds its ground, whether ranked or not.

Yet they've updated the Heroic Helms because there were newer gears out powering them and they wanted to make them worth going after again. Hmm. Plus, it's failing to complete with older gears in cases. Not just newer.

Dumping hundreds of millions and losing my bonus and being forced to dump MORE is nothing like the shield thing at all. At least I don't run the risk of losing my Alice Buckler to someone else.

And uh, where do you see people trying to rank these days at all? That's holding ground to you? Hell, I don't think there's that many bothering to get nobility at all. That sounds like the zeny sink just failed epically to me. The fact there's a crapload of inactive people on there, who have been for ages, says that people don't bother with it anymore.

It's because it's not worth it and we know it. And again, Why bother with Nobility, which is intended to be a zeny sink, at all when I can get the same or better in non-sinking ways without the risks nobility has. This is why I'm saying it needs an update, to make it worth our while again.

I say either change the gems or the system. Honestly? I prefer the later. I guess I should have suggested that instead of to change the gems then huh? But I was trying to hold off on that for my own reasons and instead try to work with the current system.

Now to address something I actually agree with (to an extent)

Even so, why would anyone attempt for ranked nobility then? The current reason is the ability to pick off two of the bonuses, instead of just one. How would you balance it out such that the current (and future) ranked nobles aren't shafted entirely? Three stats? Being able to stack up the stats for a pseudo vesper card in mid?

By adding in your form of ranker, not only are you effectively screwing over the reason to get ranked nobility, but you're also deterring anyone from attempting the top ranks, which would probably hurt more than it would help overall.

That was the hard part. Finding a way to "power up" the unranked and still make it worth ranking. For ranking specifically, there was also trying to justify hundreds of millions being spent on it. The DEF and MDEF was supposed to achieve that, but whether or not it succeeds...I dunno.

Either way what I posted was intended to be a very lose example.

And you totally went through my thought process for the examples with the three stats and allowing stacking XD