As nervous as I am about the upcoming updates, I have a really pressing question that's probably been asked a hundred times over:
Where's ANY new endgame content?
OOO has been very active buffing up the first act of the game, refining it with new missions, NPCs, and the like. They've also been busy giving the players new tools to approach the rest of the game with. Dash n' Bash, the upcoming Battle Sprites, and now the entire restructuring of the Energy system. It all looks really interesting.
But where's the new playable content? There's been nothing to really dive into with all these new tools, nothing to really push the limits of the Knights' new abilities, and nothing really to do once Vana's been stomped all over. There's Shadow Lairs, but a lot of players don't deem them worth the effort since they don't offer much in exchange for the huge price of admission. It's pretty much been the same content for a while, just we have new tools to tear it up with.
What's a Vanguard supposed to do these days to keep themselves engaged in this game? Play Lockdown all day? Danger Missions every now and then? Play Fashion Knights?
Can OOO start to focus on the endgame now that they've practically dabbled with every other part of the game? If all these new players that OOO hopes to rope in realize that there is honestly not much to look forward to aside from play dress up at endgame, they won't stick around. It's been too long since the endgame has even been touched that I wouldn't blame them for not wanting to stay.
Every other MMO I've played has given equal attention to the endgame as the rest of it, so why can't OOO do the same to SK?
nick said that after the update there will be a challenge for the masters of battle spriting. also, you can now try to farm vana on elite, and after that elite mote will be changed adding something else (nick said it).