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So been playing this for the past few days non stop, pretty cool game. Should have given it a chance earlier probably, although I don't see myself playing it longterm(but then again last time I picked up DFO to "check out the new classes" after playing it a little bit before, I ended up playing it for almost a full year and actually ended one of the better geared Fmech on the western servers so... yeah).
Biggest issue so far is it's very rough getting into new classes, I tend to be an altholic but the way the combat works in this makes it rough to learn new classes. They frontload most of the skills right away so you're flooded with stuff, and you have to learn the key inputs to use them which makes it a lot harder to remember to use all your skills and stuff. Hotbar mmos you see the button not dimmed, you press the button. You can display cooldowns here too but you have to actually figure out what the command is for the button anyway(and the icons are kinda sucky and small so that doesn't help). They have a tool to make it easier, the skill guide, only that for some god only knows reason, it only displays some of the skills, and can't be edited. That shit would be perfect to learn the skill inputs, but nope. They could also probably gain a bit from delaying skills a bit and spreading them more, you get like 80% of your basic class skills by 20-25, then you only get 2-3more after that it seems like(until you hit 56 then it gets all fucky again).
Anyway started with Guardian, not was I expected early on when I was researching classes, but gotta admit that sideboob+underboob armor caught my eye. That said got kinda bored at like 45 and decided to check out the other few chars I made(probably gonna have to buy some char slots though cause I'm already out). Settled down on Mystic, I played Kungfu Master in BnS and like Monk in XIV and while I didn't play FFighter much I liked Fstriker and Fnen in DFO so made sense, and that class feels really good, the big BOOM BOOM sounds and the cool moves are great. It's kinda at the bottom of the power charts from what I've seen(although it was recently buffed a bit) but it feels amazing to play so eh for now gonna stick with it for now. Did end up using potions already, unlike Guardian where I don't think I've seen my health dip below 90%(and near instantly healed back up) besides fall damage. Took me an afternoon to do the same thing I did in like 2 full days on Guardian anyway, spamming that R key while questing sure speeds the fuck up of the lvling process.
Game is pretty fun otherwise, story is pretty terrible and surprisingly still has a bunch of typos but I like the crossroad system, on this 2nd char the story was very different leading to Calpheon(I haven't finished the arc I think, not too sure) even if some areas were overlapped. Music is pretty ok, some are actually nice, it's no FF but it sure sounded better than the last run I did in wow.
So far haven't really felt the need to spend any money, hell I looked up Mystic's costumes and most of them are kinda meh, surprised there's only so few too I remember BnS had like more 1month into the game. I guess cause they make them for each class instead of doing generic ones(well a few are generic but a lot are class specific). I got a bunch of free "sub" time thing and got a bunch of other stuff too so it's going alright, reminds me of DFO where they're really spamming events so you don't feel too pressured to buy shit, but at the same time get hooked so you end up spending anyway.
Not a big fan of the "afk forever" thing though, some korean games had better systems where you could just do that shit offline. Like if I'm gonna fish every night I'd much rather just press a button and have it fish then turn off my shit than have my PC running all night, but not doing feels like a loss(at least during current event since my fishing skill is so low it's worthless otherwise, but then again if you want to lvl it you need to let it run).
Biggest issue so far is it's very rough getting into new classes, I tend to be an altholic but the way the combat works in this makes it rough to learn new classes. They frontload most of the skills right away so you're flooded with stuff, and you have to learn the key inputs to use them which makes it a lot harder to remember to use all your skills and stuff. Hotbar mmos you see the button not dimmed, you press the button. You can display cooldowns here too but you have to actually figure out what the command is for the button anyway(and the icons are kinda sucky and small so that doesn't help). They have a tool to make it easier, the skill guide, only that for some god only knows reason, it only displays some of the skills, and can't be edited. That shit would be perfect to learn the skill inputs, but nope. They could also probably gain a bit from delaying skills a bit and spreading them more, you get like 80% of your basic class skills by 20-25, then you only get 2-3more after that it seems like(until you hit 56 then it gets all fucky again).
Anyway started with Guardian, not was I expected early on when I was researching classes, but gotta admit that sideboob+underboob armor caught my eye. That said got kinda bored at like 45 and decided to check out the other few chars I made(probably gonna have to buy some char slots though cause I'm already out). Settled down on Mystic, I played Kungfu Master in BnS and like Monk in XIV and while I didn't play FFighter much I liked Fstriker and Fnen in DFO so made sense, and that class feels really good, the big BOOM BOOM sounds and the cool moves are great. It's kinda at the bottom of the power charts from what I've seen(although it was recently buffed a bit) but it feels amazing to play so eh for now gonna stick with it for now. Did end up using potions already, unlike Guardian where I don't think I've seen my health dip below 90%(and near instantly healed back up) besides fall damage. Took me an afternoon to do the same thing I did in like 2 full days on Guardian anyway, spamming that R key while questing sure speeds the fuck up of the lvling process.
Game is pretty fun otherwise, story is pretty terrible and surprisingly still has a bunch of typos but I like the crossroad system, on this 2nd char the story was very different leading to Calpheon(I haven't finished the arc I think, not too sure) even if some areas were overlapped. Music is pretty ok, some are actually nice, it's no FF but it sure sounded better than the last run I did in wow.
So far haven't really felt the need to spend any money, hell I looked up Mystic's costumes and most of them are kinda meh, surprised there's only so few too I remember BnS had like more 1month into the game. I guess cause they make them for each class instead of doing generic ones(well a few are generic but a lot are class specific). I got a bunch of free "sub" time thing and got a bunch of other stuff too so it's going alright, reminds me of DFO where they're really spamming events so you don't feel too pressured to buy shit, but at the same time get hooked so you end up spending anyway.
Not a big fan of the "afk forever" thing though, some korean games had better systems where you could just do that shit offline. Like if I'm gonna fish every night I'd much rather just press a button and have it fish then turn off my shit than have my PC running all night, but not doing feels like a loss(at least during current event since my fishing skill is so low it's worthless otherwise, but then again if you want to lvl it you need to let it run).
