i love when i finally find hecate essence then right before i can interact with it i get hit with zeus’s red lightning equivalent of calvus’s “500! 500! 500!”
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you say this as if i’m not one myself 
nobody is requiring you to do all this searching on one sitting, on my first time trying to find hecate essence, i spent only ~3 hours, had no luck, spent another 2 or so a week later and managed to get lucky
and not to bring ones own day to day life into the equation, but as someone who definitely does more than most, be it curricular, extracurricular or supercurricular, if you want something done and want to make time for it, you need to learn to find the time for something, you’re going to have to juggle doing multiple things in your life for the rest of it, so timekeeping is a really important skill to learn, especially if you’re at the stage where it’s only now starting to become important (albeit, if you’re giving up double digit hours in one sitting for ao you need to learn what taking a break and trying another day is)
love you too nuc 
if i have to say this about a video game there is a problem. it should not be required of me to have to allocate time out of my day to play it, they should just be things i do for fun. like wth
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I do agree that hecate is a lil more tedious than it is being difficult… Now, I wws lucky enough to find an hecate in 45 minutes! But fighting style users change so easily… I understand magic is apart of oneself but I feel like a magic changing supercloud with a 5% percent is just pushing it a little yknow?
In other words I hope maybe someday hecate is more fixed! A lotta people play the game for fun and get bored of magics! Changing that magic shouldnt be easy but its not very engaging as of CURRENTT! Hope vetex realizes this in the futures
Oh yeah and arcanium weapons are likely to be full release,
I presume they are going to take a while, wonder if it’s just new weapons, or you can arcaniumify existing weapons
I think most of the minibosses and side bosses shouldn’t take too long to make, cept for their magics and drops
King Caesar has Apocalypse Bringer inheritance, so that magic is probably going to be made
And leviathan has storm and lunar magic, plus she has a constant storm around her or somethin
Ormolu is uh… Idk? A spooky monster or something
Dusk already modeled according to JTN, I assume she just needs her spirit weapon and all the rites
Islands take forever (Sameria gave vetex depression) but it seems like one already got built in like 2 days, and there are a ton of builders so hopefully skyhall and the rest of the update shouldn’t be too bad
No idea how many total tho
Animals 
At least we got people already modeling them
Enemy towers seem like WoM bandit camps except tower
No idea how long, but drops are written as pretty unique so might take a while
having the ability to read is a blessing yk
One hundred twenty seventh
I’m honestly gonna go out of my way to name every animal possible when the update releases
yuor mom is a model and an animal xddd shes freaky lollololool 
Id expdct drama but im surprised theres no drama in here yet
Keep cooking!!!
In my eyes, this mostly boils down to a lack of transparency and discussion regarding vetex’s vision of AO as its director/designer.
We essentially are a bunch of play&bug testers trying to provide feedback so that this early access title culls down its flaw, but it feels like we aren’t listened across a wide variety of subjects.
As for issues regarding the balance of AO, it irks me a bit that it isn’t vetex that’s taking his time to think about it since it’s entirely dependent on how he wants the combat to feel like, but if he willfully delegated this to another entity, then it’s kind of silly that he doesn’t listen to it.
We essentially are in the situation that “feels like a dictatorship” according to this video
I actually did split up my Hecate searches, into 3 hour sessions over 4 days
It’s just insane that I have to sit down in a game to spend that long without any real rewards, especially since if I actually looted the islands I would have spent way longer and probably have died more.
I’ve considered discussing how bad of a timesink this is but since you’ve already shown you disagree with my opinion I feel no need to attempt to persuade you
No offense but do you have a job? Mind telling me where I should fit this 10 hour grind into my 60 hour week?
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Yes ok so I can put it off and split it up but at some point I’ll have to get it done, I dont have 10 hours to waste on this shit in a week (keep in mind that I am a human and have other things I have to do out just my 60 hours spent on work and school)
64arc needs to keep in mind that it takes like 40 minutes to get to the far reaches at least so it’s more efficient to take 3 hours than 1 hour cause then you spend 140 minutes actually in the far reaches as opposed to 20
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is this an ao rant or hecate essence / balancing rant
i would say both of those are in arcane odyssey
It baffles the mind that there are unironic hecate defenders, I’d wonder if vetex ever played his own game.
balancing? in arcane odyssey???