Quote Originally Posted by sunnyangel View Post
Actually a week before trinity I made a lvl 1 put my lvl 1 bedrons twin auras and lvl 1 glacial dagger on and went to work in ahkma and I managed to make a full party so ahkma is not exactly dead for new players.

Aside from that I mean rohan has just been a slippery slope of bad mistakes that started from the beginning of the game. I know somebody who was around back then like me is gonna be like omg 2008-2009 was the best time ever in rohan! but in reality the game was still expensive then (lol $6.2 for a lvl 7 and you needed 5-12 of them) or 7 bucks for a 30 day costume and lets not get in to the cost of forging a weapon which was MORE than it costed to flat out buy an epic mace. I am sure if you ask old man mark he would tell you how much it costed to make a zhen in the 4-5 month area before epics were released. **** I made 23k rps off 2 weapon parts (a 15% range leo xbow and a 14% melee mace) and yeah for a farmer like me that time was great because 1 good drop was enough to cover a whole month of IM but everyone seems to forget that all rps are created through money and somebody is paying those absurd prices we had on the EM in $$.

PVP was never balanced it was just masked by the fact that everybody had 10-21k health and any DPS could break through that.

As far as GMs "knowing what they are doing" I would say they are just lazy I mean the GMs post redryder were really lazy and not in touch with what the community wanted. And every GM got progressively and progressively greedier in their promos until here we are and playwith dont know what is left to offer these "whales" maybe we need another talisman until you have 119 talismans so just 1 inventory slot hahaha.
You don't really need that many level 7s. Agi Dhans need MR, DB, Silence, and Boost and Avoid can be left at level 6. Str Dhans need PC and MR. DB can be left at level 1. An extra 10% Strength can be matched by taking your +5 weapon to +8. Just get PP and DPP to 6. That extra damage you get from going from level 6 to 7 will hardly ever make the difference between a kill and your target escaping.

With a Str Guard you don't need any level 7's at all. Just get RM, CS, CS, Roha's, SS, and a few other things to 6. Damage-wise, you'd be missing 8% Str, 10% Weapon Attack, and 5% More Melee Attack. The extra 1% from OS is negligible. You'd have to be attacking something like a boss for it to make any real difference.

If you completely ignored IM back then, you'd be missing +30 all stats from costume, +40 all from Gold Trophy, and +20 from General Talisman. That's +90 All stats. This absolutely makes a difference, but look at all the stuff you can get within the actual game. There's the +20 All stat talisman from Kasa, the +15 All stat talisman from R5 talismans (Piece of ____), dual-stat weaponry, Eyepatches and Earrings in-game that are better than the ones on the IM, and reinforcement. The key is to get the permanent stuff in-game. It makes the difference between people with IM equipment and people without it, less decisive on who wins in PvP/PvE.

Of course, what I said above doesn't matter at all in 2015. The difference between people with a big budget and those who didn't became bigger and bigger over time. I remember when I still played on my Psy Healer. I was 4x and this Agi Dhan was going around rpking. That's usual, he was critting 900s+400 without Almighty, what was unusual was the fact that I could root him. Normally, he would have to be at least high 5x or 6x to deal that much damage, but no...... he was using 4x Spirit of Sloth. They were accs exclusive to the IM that gave +40 Str, +40 Vit, and +150 Melee Attack each. He had an Armene's Dagger, but because of the Melee Attack and Strength on those rings, he easily did 150+70 through my Pluion, while still critting like an Agi Dhan. You may think I'm exaggerating, but watch what these IM accs can do.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4IX3LP0tDc

At 43 seconds you can clearly see the 4x Spirit of Sloth.

... and don't forget this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqC1itkkbjo