Wom (uncapped) doesn’t have the player interactions that made the first game really good.
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Honestly, sensing isn’t that big of a feature I imagine, Vetex could easily add it in full release. Could enable him to make new stuff based around sensing too.
If we take what we know about what vertex wants for the essence, it’s current lore, and current issues, we could get an easy compromise:
TLDR - Make essence larger and have an audio Que. The spawning on it is fine, and the distance is for its worth, alongside future updates and higher levels making it easier to do as time progresses. This change just makes it easier to notice, and have a higher likelihood of being usable encase of bad generation.
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It’s meant for later in the game, it’s just released now, in the future it’ll become easier.
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It needs to be rare, it’s something to help avoid rapid switching and encourage players to use the “main” aspect of the game.
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It’s too inconsistent with it’s spawning.
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It’s hard to notice.
We can solve all of these quite easily:
It’s spawn chance stays the same, nothing about the islands change. They’re for later in the game, and back-tracking the code will be annoying for Vetex in the future. Nothing about the journey or exploration is a bad thing, it’ll also get easier in the future.
Instead: the essence gets some mild Vfx tweaks; this thing is incredibly hard to notice because of all the purple tint in the dark seas. The essence is very small, can spawn anywhere, and doesn’t give any sign of its presence even when nearby.
I’m not going to say make it spawn in a set location, or have it be so visible that you can tell the second you see an Island.
Instead, I think increasing its size and interaction box to about 2-3 times larger should prevent most of the spawning inside walls, floors, and trees. It could also do with a slight vfx change to make it stand out more from the purple tint present in the far reaches.
Finally, an audio que like how siren islands have could notify a player when their in its radius. Nothing too large, but enough to where a person who wanders in about the radius of sandfall Island can tell something special is close.
Naturally, the dark seas generation will be worked on over time, and since we’re not meant to go out that far, some issues will arise with the generation. Regardless, that’s not reason for Vetex to over-soften the hunt for it. All the essence really needs is to be more noticeable for islands are most commonly large in the I3 Dark sea. The lore and gameplay are both important for every part of AO, and these small fixes make a decent enough convergence between both, as it changes nothing about the essence except its visibility.
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I know vetex has some big plans for it though
Good to know
Bro fell for the bait 
2 exclamation marks means sarcasm if you didn’t know
we could help ao player interactions if we both A. removed the renown system and replaced it with aa’s reputation system and B. readded player names over heads
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I think renown and stuff should be less competitive and more accessible to pve players without as much of an emphasis on the leaderboard. Especially for ingame factions like the navy and assassins.
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I managed to get 300k+ renown by just doing npc bounties prior to the nimbus update.
…Unfortunately that meant every AS metal mage wanted my ass, and as a pve player I couldn’t really do much
I was on my 4th search for Hecate essence, got hit by 2 consecutive purple lightnings while running from atlanteans, then acid rain and died
There can be player renown and PVE renown. PVE renown is it’s own thing that earns you rewards/interactions in-game from it, and doesn’t decrease when a player hunts you down. PVP renown is the competitive one that’s also somewhat earned from PVE content (PVP is the main source of it though).
arcane odyssey mfers when nobody agrees with them
its just bait guys!!!
own up to being a dumbass ffs
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My real opinion is that I could not give a single shit about Hecate essence cuz I’m never gonna use it anyway
arcane mfers try to make a funny joke challenge (impossible)
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his “joke” pretty much summed up to “heh, that sounds like autism!” which is… not something you should say 
mention of tone indicators mockingly makes it even worse
or maybe we’re just missing the level 4 bait
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Does he know
it’s christmas y’all stop jacking each other off for one day
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