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Wolvers probably do a damage type that your armor currently doesn't protect you against. Try evaluating your armor and protecting yourself better against wolvers.

Looks like my Vile Striker is now actually worth it. It's also the only four star item I have left. :P I'm gonna try it out next run. :)

Okay I've tested my Vile Striker. Damage got better on that one, especially on the combo. Combos seem to have improved damage on all weapons (or regular strikes just got nerfed).

I noticed that the deeper you go, the more SK has turned into a grindfest now. Monsters need endless hits to fall. Especially when you run into a group of them, swords are just not a viable option and guns are excruciatingly slow. To the point where it's really not fun.

The vitapods... the number of drops on those needs to be seriously adjusted. And is it just me or do we also receive less health replenishment now that the old vitapods have been taken out? We're walking around with 20 or so health potential, but are near dead most of the time.

Some monsters, like gremlins, but also spookats on higher levels, are now just not doable anymore. Shields don't work, they break really quickly now. Swords don't work, your combos either miss or get interrupted with really hard strikes. Guns don't work, or are just a very slow grind.

Some things do need to change.

I've noticed that the elemental bombs have been reduced to 2* from 4*. That's better in line with their actual effectiveness (and makes the crafting costs less insultingly not-worth-it), but...

Are there any high-level bombs left? The blast bomb and crystal bomb appear the same as before, but those were decidedly also-rans compared to other weapons choices. Rather than creating better bombs, their 4* brethren appear to have just been downgraded, leaving a gap in the third class of weapons.

Also, my swiftstrike buckler still seems to show protection against all damage types. Not sure if this was intentional.

I understand you're trying to update the game. I spent a lot of time in Emberlight arcade today, and the farthest me and my friend got was the first crossroads of the dark serpent. Instead of making everything you already have 100x harder, (beside haven which is 1hit kill all still) Maybe you should focus on making more towns that get harder slowly at a time, considering the rate of 3-5* drops in anything other than emberlight is just simply impossible, perhaps you should also increase the drops as the towns continue to go.

Here's my advice, should you want it:

Don't limit this game to (now) 2 maps which are even playable, perhaps make 2 more towns, give each of the towns a * difficulty higher than the earlier.

ALSO without energy, there is 0 point in playing this game, maybe make an area (not in the arcade) outside of the towns that you can kill things at that town's level to get mats/armor, and have the arcade as a challenge to get to the next town (and remove the elevator going back down to harder maps).

Add in the items it takes to make the higher level items, ex: Sealed Sword, Antigua... Because with the new difficulty upgrade, we NEED our newer, better, more powerful items and armor.

Its irresponsible to think that this update is good and should stay, and I think you guys could have done a lot better work, looking at earlier things you put in the game. PLEASE turn this around, and then keep up the good work I know you guys have in you.

(Btw, if this difficulty upgrade was just a scheme for people to buy more energy, you're sadly mistaken. People will quit before they spend the money they don't have on a game thats too difficult to get to the end-game of.)

where mostly gun users, with the sword being a secondary.
before, my khorovod lvl 4 was causing 100 in the second hit, now it causes almost 200 in the first...and the guns, that a lot of people said that were too overpowered, and i was used to cause 20 in the third ricochet of my alchemer (that was nerfed to 0 ricochet T.T), now causes 20 at its single hit, but have a huge chance of adding a status to the target life...and now the fire status shows how much damage it is causing (almost 60 when i played last time, against a zombie).

I'm not complaining at all with the teaks, and i know that they wanted to balance the game...but with my bad conection, it is almost impossible to melee in small areas, or to melee at all, while now ranged isn't an option also (at small areas the ricochet was my first weapon, followed by the fire status)...well, i would appreciate if the alchemer had at least 1 ricochet, if it will not go too much against the rebalancing of the devs.

Think of this as a new game.

Yes, you're used to soloing runs through emberlight to the core. That was an old game.

Now we've got a new game, that will keep you entertained longer. You've got all new weapons, some of which have the same names as older weapons. You've got new armors, and a few erorrs (sic :-) in the translation. (Example: Jelly shield still requires a brute core, but none of the other jelly armor stuff does).

So stop complaining that you now work in zone 2 instead of zone 3.
Stop complaining that your weapons do zone 2 damage instead of zone 3 damage

Zone three is supposed to be raid content. Giant groups that make it part of the way before being wiped.
The core is supposed to be "No one knows what's there yet -- no one has made it there and returned".

The monsters down there are supposed to be killer. Remember, this is what the gremlins down there fled because they were not safe. (*)

(*): Ok, technically, they fled other gremlins as outcasts. Still ... :-)

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Energy: Buy It! Crowns! Cheap!

Going from Haven to Moorcroft is ridiculously easy. Balance that with a more difficult run from Emberlight to the Core.

I think it's better this way. I had little to no motivation to do a run from Haven to Moorcroft (except for the crowns - I wasn't going to pay 1k crowns from Haven to Moorcroft). Also, the depths feel shorter in tier 1 - it feels much less like grinding. I'm happy about that. :3

I do miss my alchemer bouncing off minerals, though... ^^; Do the MKII Alchemer bullets ricochet off the environment? I hope they do! ^^

I thought they wanted people to return to Haven more often?

Our goal is that players have to head back to Haven regularly. It should be the players' place of residence, in a sense. Subtowns, like Moorcroft and Emberlight, should be more like places that you pass through and restock in. - Cory

They way it is right now, though, they've segregated the game community even further by giving set tiers (and by proxy, subtowns) a purpose.
If you have a co-ordinated group or a guild, there's still no reason to leave Emberlight.

It doesn't make any sense to me, they could have just as easily made the levels spawn monsters based on the star level of your gear so Haven to Moorcroft would be only slightly less difficult than lower tiers, but still offer similar rewards and challenges as an Emberlight to Core run.
The balance patch didn't actually do any of the things they set out to do, it just made players think they needed something that they didn't.
For whatever reason.

Im guessing that the centricity on Haven will have to do with The East Side!!!!
Maybe
A market would be cool, just sayin(*hint*hint*)

My friend told me to check because I missed the 2nd update
And Im back.......for now >.>
And you guys deleted my post!

There's an MKIII if I'm correct. Can buy them at the Haven guns merchant?

but this never happened with me before the update. Also, before the update, i was able to load something at the back, and still not rubberband.