ok.
substats made useless or something idk didnt read more than two lines
rip gem consistency
the last stronghold of numbers i could count on
sunken armor that such a pain to get got nerfed as well
armor piercing is a thing and defense no longer increases ur regen, so u gain nothing from a defense buff and lose on substats, i swear they want a glass cannon meta or a power/defense meta
My future plans for ao going down the drain:
This is Vetex’s Odyssey according to Metapoly, and the recently pinned message in general only affirms this:
I don’t agree with this change either. Attack Speed and specially Agility are getting disemboweled next update, but this is too much.
Yeah, balance team is doing these changes thinking on the long-term, as with how the current stats shouldn’t be possible at Bronze Sea progression, and how logarithmic stats have higher efficiency at higher levels, but at the given moment it’s only arising conflict (siromaru vs Cranky).
I love this change
(no sarcasm)
Exotic gems are almost useless now 
… and i mostly used SW boots only for the increased atk spd
Sunken warrior was straight up an upgrade of Ceneryx. And jewel crafting is such a grindy, garbage system. Plus, we’re already dealing with stat imbalance and ridiculous abilities.
Unironcally, I don’t mind these at all.
TRUE dont get me wrong it sucks to have rare items be useless and get outclassed but any less incentive to do long dragged out grind is a good thing for the majority of the playerbase who dont have the time to grind
also youre the first person ive seen who understands how bad gem crafting is, the extra stat customization is cool but having to level it makes it pretty much impossible to make new files and builds without having to swap to your main to set up their armor
i agree with the gem crafting
this
It would be better if we could just have the maxed out gem stats at the cost of an additional lower-tier gem or ingredient. Like seriously, jewels are stupid weak at lower jewelcrafting levels, and basically a second set of armor when they’re maxed out.
i cannot find this message where was it posted
edit: the image is pinned in balancecord general. the actual message from vetex is probably hidden in some level locked or hidden vetcord channel
Balance team when the level cap raises by 11 levels (they are gonna nerf all substats by 50% so we don’t actually get any stronger)
That’s the basic of MMORPGs, more effort equals more power. Aside from that, full sunken armor doesn’t instantly win you any fights
-69 size and plus 74 hp. well, at least i don’t have it as bad as the agility builds.
I’d say that the jewel changes is just glorified substat efficiency nerf. I’ll ask around the balancecord if they’re planning on lowering agility requirement for tp dashes/leap
Nvm I did some calculations myself and it only requires like 28% of total build efficiency ( currently it’s 27.16% on sunken armour)
However, the allocation for other substats aside from agility will drop down to only 14% compared to the current ~24%. 70 bonus atk speed is kinda a lot, I’d take them over 23 power any day
gg gank lost