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Re: Endgame Bashing

You guys should definitely add more mobs with blackout and grapple if you make more areas. Such fun and interesting mechanics.

Bulrok

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Re: Promotions, Chocolates, Fireworks, and the 200 grind.

Wow I've never been @'d harder in my life. Also, if I had a level for every person who has said they're bashing to 200 in the last couple of weeks, I probably would have passed Rhyot by now.

And fwiw:

Shaped into a small triangle, this chocolate has the faint hint of a strawberry aroma.
It has 19 weeks of usefulness left.
It will decay regardless of where it's stored.
It is strangely weightless.
[HINT]: You can find out more about this item by using LOOKUP STRAWBERRY CHOCOLATE.

H:6738 M:6956 B:100% [csdb eb]probe 336999
Shaped into a small triangle, this chocolate has the faint hint of a strawberry aroma.
It has 23 weeks of usefulness left.
It will decay regardless of where it's stored.
It is strangely weightless.
[HINT]: You can find out more about this item by using LOOKUP STRAWBERRY CHOCOLATE.
H:6738 M:6956 B:100% [csdb eb]chocolate combine 301258 with 336999 for caramel

You use Combine Chocolate.
Taking both a strawberry chocolate and a strawberry chocolate you decide these flavours just don't interest you at all;
and after mashing them together, you create a caramel chocolate instead. Yum!
Balance Used: 2.79 seconds

Molded into a square, this chocolate has been filled with deliciously sticky caramel.
It has 30 weeks of usefulness left.
It will decay regardless of where it's stored.
It is strangely weightless.
[HINT]: You can find out more about this item by using LOOKUP CARAMEL CHOCOLATE.

Probably won't feel very good turning 2 caramels with 1 month left on them into 1 caramel with 30 months left, but it's better than having 2 caramels with 1 month left becoming 0 caramels.

Idk if instancing everything is a reasonable solution. I could see a knife-like artifact for the omegawhales that will instance any hunting area you want, or something. But having every 90+ area have some instanced version everyone bashes seems like a step to pulling everyone out of the game a bit too much. You may as well just give everyone a permanent globe of energy that recharges every 30 mins or something.

However, my understanding is that more bashing areas have been desired for a while. Right now, even without everyone on chocolates, if there are 2-3 efficient/whale bashers running around, the areas are always bashed out. Building more areas over time helps, but is a slow and resource consuming process, probably.

My suggestion would be to make something like the battlefield mechanic (the one that makes an area have aura if there's excess pk, idk what it's called), but applied to hunting areas and bashing.

Basically, when an area is bashed out repeatedly, some ylem eruption occurs that creates an instanced version of that area. Some fracture appears that you can enter, and you bash out the ylem version of the area, like how Majors work sort of. Exactly what causes the instance fractures could vary a little, some combination of number of people who have ran through the area, how fast the mobs are dying, how soon they die after repop, whatever. Maybe make it all a percent chance in some way. And maybe put some CD on it, like 4 hours. This way people don't just game the system to get instances whenever/wherever they want.

And after writing all that out I realize it's just a roundabout way to instance every area, but just have those instances not always be accessible, so honestly yeah sure w/e instance all the areas idk gl.