What went wrong with AO/its community?

as a TF2 player i have to agree steam is some whole other level of toxic

you made my cat sad
stop arguing, it won’t fix anything
:crying_cat_face:

your cat doesnt look sad, just pissed

he always does but he had a sad meow

Beautiful car without homophobia

I agree with most of of this post but I gotta hard disagree here. Brewing is SUPER important for so many features. Waterbreathing, stat resets, revealing, invisibility, warding (for the dark sea), SO MANY QoL features. These go a long way to making the game better and more interesting to play.

I am a huge fan of cooking, it’s a large part of the PvE experience for me. I just have a weird brain that adores mixing and matching ingredients in games, and AO’s cooking is actually one of the most fun systems for that which I’ve seen.

Look at how much fun I've had

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The best insanity pie!!!
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One smoothie worth 16x your stomach’s maximum capacity
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Best status effects on a smoothie
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Longest lasting status effects on a smoothie
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(I was never actively trying to reach 200k EXP, this is just a testament to how much I’ve used this feature.)
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Okay maybe I have a bit of a problem, but the point is, these features are a huge part of how I enjoy the game, no matter how unnecessary you think they are. Kind of ironic for a post largely about the importance of PvErs being able to play the game how they want uninterrupted, while at the same time dissing my own personalized PvE experience :sob:

I would be more willing to agree with you on jewelcrafting, as I find it very tedious and such a luck-based slog. But the unique effects on the jewels can be fun to play around with and allow for customizing unique stats that couldn’t be found on regular armor, like water breathing and energy regen.

Deckhands… Okay yeah, they’re unnecessary, but when you get them maxxed it makes sailing so much more fun. I like them too much to regret them being added.

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let me UPGRADE THEM WITH GALLEONS IF IM BELOW THE REQUIRED JEWEL LEVEL

THIS IS JUST EXTRA MINMAXXING VETEX

101% agree
i’m the alchemist class >:D
surprisingly cheap if you just open 10k chests in 100 hours

You can only wonder how different the game can be if brewing wasn’t a thing

2-3 weeks ago I got chased 3 people in a row so I stopped playing on my plasma conjuerer file to keep my galleons safe. But even then I still got attacked. Never thought I could relate to this so much😭

Okay yeah I agree that brewing is important but I felt like if it was just jewelcrafting and cooking it’d be incomplete. One of my OCs would be a lot more boring without it, too.

I mean, we went a few months with zero brewing, a few more with only waterbreathing, then finally got the mostly completed feature, and then the dark sea added the last missing ingredients. So actually we have a pretty good idea.

the community is fine anyone who thinks it is bad is probably just weird

Bro skittles made a whole post which basically said vetex was a dictator for banning toxic people (fridgeuchiha) :rofl::rofl::rofl:

here we go again