Remove the knockback attacks in Rieves

[Kojo]

Cross your fingers that they will update this by the weekend. Seems like they are quite fast with adjustment - so hopefully all those pet enmity issue and mages getting more hate than usual will be fixed in a week or so at the very latest.

I soloed a bit with jug pets just to see how bad it was and I learned two things; 1. The hate issue IS bad. 2. My BST's accuracy IS bad.

I hope they add new jug pets, like a Chapulli or Twythrem.

[Luvbunny]

Are you wearing accuracy gears? Is your axe skill capped and fully merited? Do you use accuracy food? SoA mobs are brutal for people who speed level their jobs in Abyssea. You won't be able to survive for long if you have skills around 150-275s. Those mobs will resist your ninjutsu or enfeeble fairly easy. They also strip your shadows very fast and render evasion gear somewhat moot. On a bright note, Defense is a big factor now - you get high defense, those mobs will hit you in the low 20-50s.

[Alhanelem]

>position yourself so you don't get knocked back but still get hit by AOE attacks
>position yourself so you get hit by AOE attacks but don't get knocked back

BALANCE

The problem is even if you position yourself for the mob you're fighting, other nearby mobs being fought by other people can still knock you back. Also if you're trying to get up, yes you can time it to be after a TP move, but again, you can't always predict how every single monster is going to act.

Knockback attacks and miniscule battle zones should not be paired up together.

Also being banned from rieves for 10 minutes for leaving the battle zone for 5 seconds is bullshiat too. Yes you can ditch the restriction by zoning but that still wastes time.

[Sfchakan]

I think the range, once under status, should be increased. There's no room for mages to safely involve themselves and there's no room to recover if KO'd.

[Kojo]

Are you wearing accuracy gears? Is your axe skill capped and fully merited? Do you use accuracy food? SoA mobs are brutal for people who speed level their jobs in Abyssea. You won't be able to survive for long if you have skills around 150-275s. Those mobs will resist your ninjutsu or enfeeble fairly easy. They also strip your shadows very fast and render evasion gear somewhat moot. On a bright note, Defense is a big factor now - you get high defense, those mobs will hit you in the low 20-50s.

Pearl except head and legs, no not capped, BST is a utility job for me, so I didn't merit axes.

[Mirage]

A thread by Alhanelem I can agree with? Well, color me surprised!

[Duzell]

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Also being banned from rieves for 10 minutes for leaving the battle zone for 5 seconds is bullshiat too. Yes you can ditch the restriction by zoning but that still wastes time.

Don't mention we can do that, they'll "fix it".

[saevel]

So yeah ... all you people who ran around trumpeting how SoA would magically create a "new endgame" and radically alter everything we do.

Yeah it's broke as sh!t just like I said it would be. It'll take them three to six months to get it remotely correct, then another two years to finish it. Or did everyone miss WoTG.

[Luvbunny]

So yeah ... all you people who ran around trumpeting how SoA would magically create a "new endgame" and radically alter everything we do.Yeah it's broke as sh!t just like I said it would be. It'll take them three to six months to get it remotely correct, then another two years to finish it. Or did everyone miss WoTG.

I dunno man, I get tons of heat here in the forum for being critical and pointing out what is wrong with SoA and the fact we are paying for playing a beta version. The good thing is they are pretty quick with adjusting, so maybe it will be playable and fun in a month or two at least? At the end it is up to entire player base though, they abandoned WoTG rather fast and no progress is being made in that areas. Lots of BCNM are inaccessible in WoTG due to no one doing beastmen lair. And you can't really progress in SoA without the entire faction quests being taken and advanced.

[Alhanelem]

So yeah ... all you people who ran around trumpeting how SoA would magically create a "new endgame" and radically alter everything we do.

Yeah it's broke as sh!t just like I said it would be. It'll take them three to six months to get it remotely correct, then another two years to finish it. Or did everyone miss WoTG.

I wouldn't really call rieves "endgame." I think we've got some time to wait, never said we wouldn't.

You don't release all your content at once or people will grow bored too fast.