State of the Game Part 2: Endgame Content

Savvy

#1 already in effect
#2 no
#3 no

yami

Even veterans once were a newbie and they didn't complain as much as this, they just grind and now soloing D1 and D2 like a king they are.

The game is an MMO and should be cooperative by nature. Interacting with players should be pushed, but not restricted to it to reach endgame content. If I were a new player and I found out that majority of the players don't do endgame content because of reasons such as 'there's not enough people to form a party,' I would be heavily demoralized.

Hard disagree. If you were a newbie, you grind your way up till you ARE self-sufficient and that's just how RO is.

This server is probably the most lenient RO private server that respects your time in the market and there are still posts like this is craaaazy.

It's been some weeks since the release of Depths 2 and barely anyone is farming it.

Btw, nice bait post. ~~You got me good, anon~~.

CongaLyne

#1 already exists
#2 no, that would just make already very easy to acquire gear even easier to acquire
#3 no, that would just make already very easy to acquire gear even easier to acquire

I think the problem is the design of Depths, previously for content like OGH, COGH, FOGH, SaF, etc, you can just enter if your level's high enough and leech on support characters until you have good enough gear to run it properly yourself.

Those places gave enough zeny & gear ingredients to be good to run as an endgame player while still having low enough requirements that newbies could join.
By having D1 not provide nearly as much zeny as d2 does but also gating D2 behind D1, it creates a vacuum where all the geared players want to farm D2 since it provides zeny while leaving little incentive for D-

It's been some weeks since the release of Depths 2 and barely anyone is farming it.

You got me lmao

[deleted]

Whenever people say there is little to no party at all it boils down to this

zarkhaev

Do you even run Depth 1/2 at all lmao, if you run then you would know that you'd very likely meet other people/parties in those places.

I agree with your point that this is MMO and should be cooperative by nature, however, just like, go make some friends and join a guild or two, people WILL help new players.

LAC

The state of the game is absolute dogwater I agree, but it's not because of lack of endgame content farmers.
RO stopped being a MMO a very long time ago because of poor decisions by gravity.

MadMonkey

Anon reaching 2000 in Depths 1 is no easy task for a beginner

Just a personnal nitpick but if you still consider yourself a beginner come Biosphere, you're either pretending or should put the game aside.

Also, if you're not geared for Depth1, then you aren't nearly ready for Depth2 anyway.

Anon The game is an MMO and should be cooperative by nature

This, I agree with.
And I'm often critical of the state of the game teamplay-wise.
However,

LAC it's not because of lack of endgame content farmers.
RO stopped being a MMO a very long time ago because of poor decisions by gravity

This is a truer explanation for it.
Big numbers enabling/chasing is what killed teamplay (multiclienting probably doesn't help either).

Meatbaals

newbies want to skip straight to depths 1 and 2. TSK TSK TSK.

HschtCK

Tbh no one is running depth II bcs it’s so inefficient once you have your 1.5k reputation.

I can easily 2shot them with my dk and get maybe 10-20 runes/h

But I can do several oghcm runs and 1-2 oghh runs which gives me ~ 40-60 runes/h

netheril_

Now i feel bad for trying to write a reasonable post on your part1. You just want to force your weird opinions and seemingly bad experience you are having with the game. Try playing something else, or some other (maybe highly customized) server if you don't like this one.

dabu13

I always shout for parties for depth and have no issue finding members. Let's be real, the problem is people don't want to make parties for endgame content, they just want to join them. There are certain times when it takes a while to find enough players, but at those times there are usually just less people online in general.

Also, even if you dont have the best gear or meta class (like me), if you make the party, you can easily do the content / make the gear while not even being that helpful xD (I know coz I always died and didn't add much dps) but people didn't mind the parties and always asked when I was making them again!

Final thing, most people that can solo, also join parties if theyre offered (at least in depth 2). I do think almost everything is soloable, but i think people enjoy party play, but again, most just dont want to shout for it.

kaiakaito

Moving it to rejected.