TL;DR:
After playing around 19 days on the server, I feel like we desperately need a progression / better system for Costume Enchant Stones. Either something we can grind on, just like grinding Full Penetration Shadow Gears, or turning in like 30 ~ 100x Stones for 1 Costume Stone of choice. This is cause there are builds that could really benefit from having certain stone early in the game. For example -0,5sec FCT Costume Stone for Windhawk's Crescive Bolt build.
Current Status:
Lv260 Windhawk - Episode 17.2 Sage's Legacy -> still didn't do story to Ep.18 kekw
+10 Thanatos Bow-AD
+10 Thanatos Shooter Helmet-LT (Acute1,Shooter1)
Victorious Wing Ears
Blood Sucker
+11 Auto Armor A (Power/Power/Acdr)
+11 Auto Engine Wing B (Crit/Crit/Fast)
+11 Auto Leg A (FCT/Firing Shot/Overpower)
Brilliant Light Acc Combo
Almost 3 weeks playing on the server. I gotta drop my praise first for the team, cause my beginner's experience has been a good one, starting from 0 to now, I recognized how smooth it was to start in this server. It's nice to actually play the game, and not stuck thinking "What should I resell today, so I can finally afford gears and farm xyz". It's my first time playing 4th Job, so I definitely lack knowledge about higher tier Dungeons / Instances / Gearing in general.
But let's go to the point (this will be Ranger/Windhawk's Perspective), what I noticed during my leveling / farming up, my transitition from Ranger to Windhawk was quite rough. Legit I only used Sharp Shooting the WHOLE way to level 240 ish, rarely using Crescive Bolt (CB), when CB is known to be one of Windhawk's strongest skill. In fact, after 15+ Days of going into Edda (Bioresearch Laboratory), yesterday, the day I bought my full Automatic Set, was the first day that I could actually clear the instance. This is cause I could kill the boss with CB fast enough.
- Crescive Bolt need 1sec FCT
-0,8sec Fixed Casting Time (FCT) from +11 Auto Leg A
-0,2sec FCT from Brilliant Light Accessory Combo
That requires quite a lot of investment in this server. 30m for the Cube (+11 Upgrade), 23m worth of Varmeal Ticket, and another 10 ~ 30m for the Modules, 60m+ in total only for 1 single gear +11 Auto Leg A (FCT, Overpower, Firing Shot).
This is mainly cause Grace Set is too good in terms of damage, but at the same time FORCING to have it worn as a combo and the lack of FCT would make Windhawk's experience terrible. Mainly cause they would have to Sharpshooting all the way to the high tier Dungeons (200+). Not only cause of the HP of the monsters, but also not being able to play Crescive Bolt, without investing that millions of zeny cause of the FCT.
I couldn't play CB at all, despite knowing that the damage of the skill seemed to be higher than Sharp Shooting. I noticed I could actually get Cast Stone (Garment) for the 0.5sec FCT. But I've been trying to get this Stone for 2 weeks (?) and I genuinely do not believe I would ever get the stone from this box, and buying from players while most of us are also looking for this stone doesn't seem viable. The -0.5sec or even the -0.3sec FCT version would've helped smoothens out the SS > CB change, even now I still feel like I'm really being gatekept and having to make +11 Thanatos Shooter Helmet-LT to get the 0.2sec FCT to finally able to cover the missing crits for the CB build (by dropping the brilliant light accessory for Crit related accessories).
But all these FCT problem, would've been fixed if I were to have the Cast Stone (Garment). but I have to admit, I never do the Ep.18 contents till now. So I'm not sure if doing the story to Ep.18 would've helped me there (Gray Wolf Gears) for the missing FCT, and if it's farmable with +9 Grace Set Sharp Shooting Ranger.
I know the MuhRO Team would definitely have a better idea for the pity system than me just a random player. Just my own opinion, I think turning in 30 ~ 50 stones, for 1x Stone of choice would be perfect.
30 Stones = 30 * 0.5h = 15h of active playtime
50 Stones = 50 * 0.5h = 25h of active playtime
100 Stones = 100 * 0.5h = 50h of active playtime
Another method would be progression based, where there's certain stuffs to farm to eventually get it. We just need a better pity system for the player to finally being able to get the rare costume stones they need.
Thanks for reading the ultra long post 😅
Edit1 Day20 in the server : I just got my Cast Stone (Garment)
