Runes of Magic US / AU

Not very informative to be honest.


What happened:

1) Veiled Crypt is still bugged (I might be wrong on this one since we didn't bother after it was so late). Even then, it's just been a handful of months since it's last "grand opening". About to get Lv97 in a month.

2) Hall of Chaos is still bugged.

3) Bone Peak is still bugged. Of which we'll get ONE month before a new level cap?

4) Arsenal

5) Last I checked Arcanium Arena was dead. Nice changes you implemented completely blowing off all the good suggestions by the community.


What needs to be done:

1) Lv97 coming too soon from when Lv95 HM was available. You can't keep up with one working instance per level cap since Lv82. You're going to open TWO? Lol.

2) Mirrorworld. Name and description seems like more instances. All we want is a working level cap instance when level cap is raised.



Everything else is good I guess.


Thanks for the effort. But sorry not sorry... they're basically lying on the instances.

- According to DE forums, veiled Crypt is "playable". So I guess that's good enough. Looks like an amazing instance from german videos (first 10 minute boss fight since like, KBN), thought a shame that only DE guilds would ever enjoy it.

- I assume that some solution was found for HoC, since germans now have HoC weapons.

- Agree with Magio about AA. The AA "fix" was a disgrace, showing a complete disregard to player feedback.

- Looking forward to mirrorworld. Really hoping it won't be a snore fest like farming dreamland.

- Reworked IS and wheel: *shiver and cross fingers*. Wheel of fortune with +20 jewels was just a terrible idea, and I hope they scrap that.

- I don't think having a sophisticated matching system for SW will make that much of a difference in US. The real problem with matching in US is that there just aren't enough guilds, so each guild has very few opponents that are on a similar enough strength that the siege would be interesting. Even the most sophisticated matching system won't be able to provide constant good matches because they just aren't many.

- Class balance: ??? We're getting increasingly more OP classes like W/S and also nothing done with the terrible classes. Mages in particular are increasingly rare now with more OP fotm melee classes recently and increasingly common melee oriented parties (like a dozen DE endgame guilds show screens of clear, and most of the time you see like... 1 mage in the entire party, b/c of debuff from M/Wl).

- Appreciate the plussing events that have been done, but I'd like to see more effort to alleviate the pain of plussing gear and grinding stats, which, with the cost of gearing, are the 3 main hurdles preventing prospective new players from getting invested in the game.

Good letter, but i hope for once that the words will mean something - not be more empty promises from gf. But here is my thoughts.

1) 97 Cap is coming too soon, there has been a lot of content updates recently, and it's only been germans clearing them, by the time the content comes i guess more guilds other then germans will be running, but there is not much time to be farming them, so players will end up running 97 instances with gear less then level 90.

2) Mirrorworld sounds cool, i remember reading a post on forum from saito that it was going to be released before, it was just boring for players so they were going to rework it, and it was aimed at less geared players i think it said, will try find the post and edit it in, be nice if players can do something with less gear that's still a challenge.

3) New shop sounds interesting, and i really hope it's going to be more aimed at the f2p community of rom, there is a lot of people throwing big money into the game, but without f2p there is also no game, ofc it requires the people putting money into the game, but if you have every f2p player leave the game because its too expensive rom ends a lot faster, should be a better balance between the people spending and the people who are playing for free. Everything should be possible without having to use the itemshop imo, more variety on sales, bring back token and ruby sales, and remove the stupid wheel of fortune completely and bring the +20 stones into the itemshop, Or at least bring them to the shop, and put the perfect stones into the wheel.

4) Siege updates sounds interesting indeed, new maps after all the years would be a nice touch, but first i would like to see the lag on EU servers completely fixed and the crashing tyvm Would hope there is going to be some damage nerf in siege also so that it becomes more skill over gear based.

5) Bone peak and HoC are both still broken, 6th boss Bone peak doesnt always start the event script, and the damage from 2nd boss HoC is playable, but the amount incoming almost "randomly" needs to be dealt with so that more can actually run it, currently it's a huge progress blocker.

6) Snowflake festival change was nice, but removing the snowman king for it was imo a bad idea, people who were hoping to get titles from them were left dissapointed when there was a new event, that was frankly "useless" for any title hunter.

7) Arcanium now is really a huge joke, 5 points for a loss is beyond stupid, especially if you fight for 30 minutes and get that, blue team is still broken and i would like to see this completely reworked.

8 ) Imo tempest requires some changes, i think the chests should be bound to party rather then everyone, too many low level leachers coming and taking chests and causing issues, dunno if it's an issue on US side,but on my server and others it's a real problem and has already caused huge dramas regarding it.

9) 2 instances at once is a good idea if they can both be working, for people who don't know it, the instances are set in a DS/ZS gear style, that you have to run both to get all the gear, half drops in one, the rest in the other. I just hope that they're both tested correctly and released working, would be terrible if you could only run 1 instance as the other was broken.

Overall - Good words from gameforge, and i really hope that it's not just words and that the promises are pulled through, it's a shame to see the game how it is atm where it seem's the only one caring about the players are the players themselves.

Looks promising maybe...

Only recently returned since Gameforge destroyed the AU server and Im surprised this game seems to be more expencive now than when I left. Really hoping for major rework to the item shop and get rid of the necessity to gamble to plus gear. Plussing has always been a gamble to up your gear but adding a Fortune wheel so I have to gamble to get the item I want and then gamble with that item as to improve my gear is a joke. Yes there will always be those that say its not needed but the instances are pushed by DE customers for dificulty and they spend up more than US or AU ever could.

Arcaiun Area.... That explains why everytime I'm on the Blue team (even if EVERYONE ELSE is AFK) I still lose? No idea why but seems lots just AFK (Especially on the Blue team) guess that explains why.

One a positive its great to log in and see people around again, MMO's arent the same with 20 people online server wide.

is it just me or is most of the problems they claim to have fixed, been fixed by runewaker.. and not GF?

IDK, after 6+ years of playing actions definitely speak louder than words.. so great they spent the time to make up a great letter patting themselves on the back, but people are still leaving, and people still havent come back.

But all i want is the same thing magio wants and most others.. DONT RELEASE 97 CAP UNTIL YOU KNOW FOR SURE THE INSTANCES THAT GO WITH IT ARE WORKING CORRECTLY!!!!!

but thanx

Thanks for summing up everything nicely. Would really prefer if you guys can keep up with the dead lines of the things to come.

Quoted from "ruisen2000"

- Class balance: ??? We're getting increasingly more OP classes like W/S and also nothing done with the terrible classes. Mages in particular are increasingly rare now with more OP fotm melee classes recently and increasingly common melee oriented parties (like a dozen DE endgame guilds show screens of clear, and most of the time you see like... 1 mage in the entire party, b/c of debuff from M/Wl).

^ THIS.

Every time I say that mages are nerfed (compared to melee) and they need improvement and all the melee's in the raid goes what the hell am I talking about, mages are perfectly fine and balanced and yet they do dps to a level where the end game melee's I know can solo dps instances like pomh. Even with all the possible buffs available I seriously doubt a mage will even be able to solo dps half of the bosses hp in pomh, which is a real let down considering m/w's have to update 2 complete sets of gear.


WTB 70% PASSIVE WEAPON DAMAGE BOOST FOR MAGES LIKE ALL MELEE'S GET. AND NOW THAT INT/MATK HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM EASY MODE AND CRAFTED GEAR THERE IS NO EXCUSE TO SAY THAT MAGES ARE CHEAPER TO PLAY HENCE THEY SHOULD DO LESS DPS.

OR

GIVE BLAZING BARRIER SKILL TO MAGES, THAT SKILL IS SUCH AN UTTER WASTE ON WL/M, SPECIALLY CONSIDERING THAT WL/M'S DONT EVEN USE THE TINY AMOUNT OF FIRE BASED SKILL THEY HAVE IN THEIR ARSENAL BECAUSE THOSE SKILLS ARE JUST JUNK.

"Conclusion: In 2016 we won't
only be concentrating on the game, but on you the players. We want to
work together with you more closely, communicate more openly, and make
our inner workings more transparent"


Believe it when we see it. Remember "the Pit"? Mr. all-talk-no-action. Been playing a few years now and always the same rhetoric. GF could at least have the decency to blush when they make statements like this. Hopefully I'm wrong (ya, I've said that before too). A word of advice GF, if you really do plan to do this, sooner would be better than later....just sayin...while you still have some players logging on....

As we are heading into summer, maybe we can get a more defined update on some of these things. And of course I gotta throw my 2 cents in

• New zone and instances are really nice, props to you guys for having a working, enjoyable instance for once.
• Mirrorworld is just another daily grind, that offers 'meh' rewards. A buff that has a 10min CD, and basically an infinite supply of BAS and Phoenix's. BAS are cool, this many phoenix are nice in instances, but now in siege, i feel like its just who has more lives now. idk
• New shop? worked hard on it? a huge failure to the majority. +20s are impossible, but imo, they are just phasing it out....one can only hope!
• SIEGE WAR out of BETA? is this still a thing....new maps? better rewards? no more lag and crashes? anything? nerf to k/m?! (i joke...or am I...)

And from the comments, any idea of class balances/changes? nerf to k/m >.> i joke ah ha ah <.<