After seven hours trying to unlock the Elementalism magic school the only thing I found is a few poorly implemented npcs with next to no lore and a lot of disappointment.
3 options with 10 paragraphs in total is all I got from them, such is the quality of the content that they always give you two options for you to stop talking to them.
The resource scarcity this time around is unbelievable, not only in order to unlock the magic school but also in order to get reagents to cast the spells down the line, as it did happen with necromancy the current resource abiability on the WHOLE SERVER cannot keep pace with a few dozen people, much less the ten thousand players currently playing the game on a daily basis.
Bear in mind that this is not an ultra secret esoteric magic school such as dragon magic, but one of the most accessible ones, in fact one of the main pillars of the Tindremic empire civilization. Not only the NPC doesn't explain how to interact at all with any of the systems to acquire the magic school they don't even tell you where to find the resources they are desperately in need for such as salt with piss on it...
Every single item these vendors want should have a lore page at the very least with their basic lore on them, pointing you to to the right places on where to find these pickables and how to combine or process them if need be. These people have libraries full of books, have been researching this stuff for hundreds of years and they cannot event tell me where should I go to get the rocks they are looking for.
So instead of finding a master and gaining their favor through tasks and achievements, instead of plundering knowledge from dungeons full of dangerous magical enemies, i get to pick a bunch of shit from the ground few and far in between, roaming aimlessly through the map hoping that the place Im going towards has something in the ground nobody has pick in the last half hour, because since they are pickables if someone has been there before me there is not a single indicator or feedback you can pick stuff from there.
Every single patch feels more rushed than the last, the resource scarcity its gonna gatekeep the content for weeks if not months, people will need to farm for days what should have been hours instead for then to get gatekeep an extra time by pickable reagents, because unless you set your gameplay sessions around locations next to them and contest them against the rest of the server, you are gonna take hours of your life so you can get enough reagents so you can cast a few fireballs at a bandit camp and get a tenth of the cost value back once you loot the npcs.
I also disagree with the price increase of reagents we had on this patch, with the new prices you are leaving home with 8-10g worth or reagents just by picking the minimal amount required for a small session, for that amount of gold is much more cost effective in every single way to leave with a steel weapon instead, you will have a much more pleasant gameplay on every single way. so unless you are running on a group as the support and need be on healing duty I don't recommend to anyone to farm with ecumenical spells anymore.
Stop disrespecting our playtime, I am lucky enough to have had the time to play for thousands of hours in the last year so I have a nice hoard already and i will be able to brute force everything within a couple of days, but if the content that gets implemented its always like this the game will never grow, and honestly i really want more than 8-10k subs and 2k concurrent players, the game has a dangerously low population already.
I also hope that once you finish elementalism you polish all the other magic schools before even thinking of implementing a new one.
TLDR: waste 5-7 hours randomly walking through the map until you find a pickable spawn and then camp it so other players cannot see the stuff there, then waste days getting and leveling all the stuff, then realize its a sinking money pit and pick a footie again. Unless you are like me and have been farming for a year and have nothing else to sink your money into.
3 options with 10 paragraphs in total is all I got from them, such is the quality of the content that they always give you two options for you to stop talking to them.
The resource scarcity this time around is unbelievable, not only in order to unlock the magic school but also in order to get reagents to cast the spells down the line, as it did happen with necromancy the current resource abiability on the WHOLE SERVER cannot keep pace with a few dozen people, much less the ten thousand players currently playing the game on a daily basis.
Bear in mind that this is not an ultra secret esoteric magic school such as dragon magic, but one of the most accessible ones, in fact one of the main pillars of the Tindremic empire civilization. Not only the NPC doesn't explain how to interact at all with any of the systems to acquire the magic school they don't even tell you where to find the resources they are desperately in need for such as salt with piss on it...
Every single item these vendors want should have a lore page at the very least with their basic lore on them, pointing you to to the right places on where to find these pickables and how to combine or process them if need be. These people have libraries full of books, have been researching this stuff for hundreds of years and they cannot event tell me where should I go to get the rocks they are looking for.
So instead of finding a master and gaining their favor through tasks and achievements, instead of plundering knowledge from dungeons full of dangerous magical enemies, i get to pick a bunch of shit from the ground few and far in between, roaming aimlessly through the map hoping that the place Im going towards has something in the ground nobody has pick in the last half hour, because since they are pickables if someone has been there before me there is not a single indicator or feedback you can pick stuff from there.
Every single patch feels more rushed than the last, the resource scarcity its gonna gatekeep the content for weeks if not months, people will need to farm for days what should have been hours instead for then to get gatekeep an extra time by pickable reagents, because unless you set your gameplay sessions around locations next to them and contest them against the rest of the server, you are gonna take hours of your life so you can get enough reagents so you can cast a few fireballs at a bandit camp and get a tenth of the cost value back once you loot the npcs.
I also disagree with the price increase of reagents we had on this patch, with the new prices you are leaving home with 8-10g worth or reagents just by picking the minimal amount required for a small session, for that amount of gold is much more cost effective in every single way to leave with a steel weapon instead, you will have a much more pleasant gameplay on every single way. so unless you are running on a group as the support and need be on healing duty I don't recommend to anyone to farm with ecumenical spells anymore.
Stop disrespecting our playtime, I am lucky enough to have had the time to play for thousands of hours in the last year so I have a nice hoard already and i will be able to brute force everything within a couple of days, but if the content that gets implemented its always like this the game will never grow, and honestly i really want more than 8-10k subs and 2k concurrent players, the game has a dangerously low population already.
I also hope that once you finish elementalism you polish all the other magic schools before even thinking of implementing a new one.
TLDR: waste 5-7 hours randomly walking through the map until you find a pickable spawn and then camp it so other players cannot see the stuff there, then waste days getting and leveling all the stuff, then realize its a sinking money pit and pick a footie again. Unless you are like me and have been farming for a year and have nothing else to sink your money into.
