Will you be trying out the new raid, boss rematches, or farming for the updated gold key boss gear and lore spells? I’m very curious to hear how much this update appeals to the “average” player compared to people who primarily PVP or do advanced content. It can be a hard balancing act to please everyone. EDIT: Just heard from the KI live developer stream that they are looking to add more rewards to boss rematches (standard and challenge) in the near future, so maybe that will make them more appealing to the wider player base.
Honestly they should just create a raid group finder, idk what mechanic they would need to add to make up for the resources needed for a normal raid key, but needing a guild is tough.
I feel like even with a group finder like team up for raids you’ll end up with issues since raiders tend to be really picky about the stats and builds of the players they raid with (understandably since raids have been historically REALLY hard if you don’t have a perfect group). I could see a lot of people getting toxic about other people’s stats, but hey, maybe more difficulty levels for raids could be added so even casual players can do them.
Or Aquila…. I honestly loved those walking world dungeons. I feel like KI is only reserving those experiences for raids or gauntlets instead of having it as regular content. It’s kinda disappointing how much effort is put into a raid or gauntlet and half the player base never sees them!!!
Definitely due for one... waterworks at 60, darkmoor 100, catacombs 130, definitely need a new set for 180 thats farmed from a similar area, and at least something comparable to raid gear
I'm just happy there making archmastery not based on other players, it's gonna feel so nice to ship of fools without some level 100 taking up the death pips.
@@wheninrome5917 They've added tons of gimmicks for boss fights that require you to not follow the meta, I could 100% see them doing this for a boss or two. Hopefully they don't do it for bigger or harder bosses, I don't want difficulty to equal taking away fun toys
@@wheninrome5917 Yeah I predicted this also and we were right. Helping a friend in Novus, my 170 wizards were unable to use their 170 spells because I don't use anything giving additional archmastery rating, making the changes worthless. Color me surprised lol. If I can't hit first round they serve no use as I'll 7 pip the next round. Ship of fools/ rat spin need to return to 4 regular pip spells
Man I wish there was an option for solo players to do be able to do like a solo version of the raid , I play only on weekends and every guild I have joined I get kicked out because of the times I play and I can’t create my own because I need like 15 friends and I simply do not have that many friends
I feel this. Whether or not this new raid is easier than previous ones, the barriers to entry for guilds and the time and resources needed to do the raid just don’t leave much room or opportunity for the average player who can’t spend 24/7 grinding on an MMO. Sorry to hear you haven’t found a group that works for you!
yeh it’s so absurdly inaccessible that i’ve given up on trying, which i’m ok with, but genuinely would love to engage with high level content so it’s still a bummer man. the biggest shame is that a big update like this ends up having nothing exciting in it and it’s just demotivating. I don’t get it, feels kinda neglectful. maybe im just a shitter lol
@@Zaepha I am the same. I have a small friend group that plays and I do NOT want to get involved with the greater wizard community seeing how toxic people can get in just beastmoon (the main thing I play in the game). I would be ecstatic to make a guild for myself and my 3 friends who play the game. Two of them are very casual players, one of my friends plays a few days a week, while I am the most active. I would not care about their inactivity, but doing some guild stuff when we can actually all log in would be so much fun!
@@Daddix0 The archmastery update alone is huge, so I'll have to give this a pass for casual player even on the pve side of things. That was beyond annoying.
Once again you've nailed my exact feelings on the current state of W101. Thank you for being the voice for the majority of long time players! Please continue to crank out intelligent high quality content. No one is doing what you do IMO.
I'm not going to lie, the recent wizard implementation strikes me as a good idea in concept but I have a bad feeling it might backfire. I will say though, that if Recent Wizards allows you to see a person's profile, there is a very good chance the number of reports will go up, as I can see people using this to hunt down players they fought with in BM matches to report them. With that said, I do think it's a nice idea and I'm so glad you talked about it and all the other new features. Your videos are always super helpful, so thank you for saving me time and brainpower.
Oh, yikes, I didn’t even consider the potential downsides to recent wizards! You’re right. I could see people using it for toxicity instead 😬 let’s hope the devs find ways to discourage that type of abuse.
@@Zaepha I had a player who was intentionally throwing in a beastmoon match because they didn't get storm elf and started being sexist. After the match was over, they kept spamming friend invites to me, so the first part of my next beastmoon match was SUPER annoying. I think they sent me over 50 friend and party invites just sitting there and spamming me for a good 10 minutes. I do NOT want a repeat of that experience.
I am of the mind that polaris raid being easier is good. Crying Sky is a nightmare because EVERY fight requires tight strategies. It is much easier now, but expecting 12 people to pull up a google slides sheet seems a little silly. It seems like the attempt with this update is to bring "casual" players and "hardcore" players closer. I think alot of "casual" players want to be more "hardcore" but dont have time. I do hope they succeed because I think that gap is to far. The problem now is that (aoe change as the example) they make changes to spells that dont just affect pvp meta but also these challenges. Multiple Challenge Mode Fights AND raids are heavily affected by not only aoe ban but tc bans (sun serpent). it often feels when pvp changes are implemented challenges are "oh well, they will figure it out" not realizing that, while sure we will, it certainly doesn't help players who feel disconnected.
If the devs keep the raid as is with the attempt to make the barrier to entry a bit easier for the more average player, then that would definitely be a positive step forward. I do hear from a lot of people though that just joining a guild and the farming involved (and advanced content spell rules) in a raid are still aspects that they struggle with or don’t enjoy. Hopefully the devs can continue to make tweaks so we reach a better middle ground for everyone! I don’t think we’re quite there yet.
It's also why KI needs to keep raids & pvp spell audit changes separate! One type of spell allowed for raids & another type allowed for PvP so that each area doesn't screw over the other area when KI is screwing around with spell's damage & mechanics.
Thanks for making a detailed video covering this update! We used to get this sort of PvE content from Blaze LifeHammer back in the day but glad to see other wiztubers pick up the mantle more or less by providing the community with these helpful overview vids! I just wish you would've shown the actual BM forms in the test realm kiosk for those players who are interested in BM to see their entire spell library rather than just the pictures in the test realm update notes. Thanks Zaepha & yeah, this update caters too much to the PvP community when its the PvE community that mostly keeps this game alive. KI needs to do better managing time & resources spent on more widely accessible & enjoyable content.
Thanks for these update reviews, as someone whose only gotta back recently after being burnt out on the grind for 150 gear, its nice to see whats coming up!
Also would you ever consider making a catch up sort of guide for returning players as myself? I know it's not in your content wheelhouse but I figured I'd ask anyways 👀
This might be the first raid I might actually try. It looks intresting and while the gear isn’t best for pve it looks way more accessible than the last two. The arch mastery change is amazing and bringing back tournies has me excited. It was the only pvp combat mechanic I liked.
If it makes you feel any better, flax on test realm is VERY easy to find. You just have to go to Nightside and look around a bit. Once you find the flax, another one spawns five seconds later and repeat. Nightside is a very small area so its really easy to find and collect enough flax for whatever you need.
I know there's a lot of complaints about KI only pushing updates for PvPers/Raiders but they can't push a new world every quarter like they can push new end game metas and changes. You have to understand that and accept that end game content will be priority while a world is being worked on else we won't get anything.
Fair review thanks Zaepha. What type of content would more average and casual players like to see? We had thought the standard matches would appeal to this group but would love to hear more on this subject!
Hey, thanks for commenting here! I do think that making some advanced content more accessible to average players like adding the standard mode to the boss rematches and making the Polaris raid easier than previous raids is definitely a good step forward. I think the issue is that it doesn’t remove enough of the barriers to entry. For boss rematches: I’ve heard previously from my viewers that for the old boss rematches (so challenge only) that they either struggle with the advanced content spell rules, can’t find a group to do them with, or just aren’t interested in the grind for the rewards offered, both in grinding reagents to craft the rematches, and in the actual farming grind for spellements or the skyfarer reskinned gear. More players might be willing to try them now that the standard mode is available and they’re not stuck with advanced content rules, but I don’t think the current rewards are enough of a draw to many new people participating and they will still struggle to find a group to do them. The reagent harvesting buff is a great addition though! For the raid: again, definitely think it’s great to have an easier raid after the crying sky raid! I think the crying sky raid’s difficulty turned away a chunk of existing raiders and definitely made the average player believe that raids and guilds just weren’t built for them. I do think you will see a return of old raiders from the first raid for the polaris raid and some more casual players may be willing to give it a shot now that the difficulty is scaled down, which is great. However, I think the underlying mechanics of raids and guilds themselves may still create too big of a barrier to entry for more average players. I hear from my viewers that they don’t understand or like advanced content rules, they don’t want to farm for spellements to swap between PVE and PVP/advanced content spells, they don’t have the time to do the longer raids (though maybe the new 1.5 hour raid keys will help here!), or they’ve joined guilds and tried to raid but have gotten kicked repeatedly for not having perfect stats/gear, their spells upgraded, or they’re not available enough to raid as often as the guild would like so their spot in the guild is “wasted”. There’s definitely some resentment between hardcore players and the average to casual player that just don’t have the time to pour into these activities or just straight up aren’t interested in this type of content. People really like their regular, standard PVE wiz content so you’ll need to give them something really good to draw them into other types of activities even if its advanced content “light”. For content "average" PVE would like to see I know the Forbidden Library gauntlet (drops, puzzle and boss design, etc.) was very well received, as an example! Sorry for the wall of text! I really appreciate the devs’ thoughts on this and that you’re trying to find ways to bring different player groups together. Hopefully with some more tweaks we can find a nice middle ground that appeals to the most people!
Sorry for the long reply lol. I do love this game, but I some small quality of life aspects really grind on you after a while. My 2 biggest complaints ended up being quality of life fixes for Pets and the Beastmoon Event as that's what I almost exclusively play wiz for. As a casual player, who just puts a lot of time in (2,000 hours in the last year and started playing February 2023, but I've not bothered to level past Khrysallis) I got a few recommendations lol. I'm one of the few people who actually reads all of the story and lore, so I have been playing and replaying the lower worlds to learn all the secrets of that world before progressing. The number one needed improvement before this update was archmastery and I'm so, so happy it's been addressed in this update. That was frustrating when doing things like assisting at the kiosk for the spiral showcase and not being able to use your lore spells because a random high level wizard joined. Beastmoon Fixes 1) Fire Drake's long-as-sin fifth pip animation for Beastmoon. There is no reason that it is a longer animation than the original in a timed event. I can understand taking the extra time for a second attack animation to detonate the over time, but not on EACH. INDIVIDUAL. ENEMY. Remove a starting pip from Storm Elf and raise its base health. It's very unbalanced in pvp. If storm elf goes first, it can chain nerve shock with bluster blast and can solo a rat or fairy form alone with the opponent not being able to land a single hit. On the flip side, storm elf's health is very low and will get targeted first because of its raw power. REMOVE GROUP QUE FOR BEASTMOON PVP. The fact that would can have a group of solo teammates against an organized guild in discord coms is infuriating. You also get a much more healthy variety of forms used in pvp when everyone is solo. Doing away with the ability to join as a group is so, so important. What's the point of using a variety of forms if you are facing the same set groups of players over and over again who all have maxed forms? Even being able to communicate with your teammates through voice chat is such a massive advantage because you can plan and move at the same time. Group que for beastmoon pvp has GOT to go or enable a separate mode for group versus group. Pets Introduce the ability to sort pet snacks in your backpack by school. Use the same format as the reagents or spell cards. If I am on my fire wizard using a fire pet, I want to know what fire snacks I have, not myth. Another good change would be to add more quests or information in the Pet Pavilion for beginner players about pet talents. When I first started out, I didn't understand how pets worked and didn't bother to use them much for a long time. I basically just kept my starter pet equipped. After you do the initial pet quests, the "play as your pet" feature is also redundant. Pets can be such an important aspect of improving your character over the long haul, so a better introduction to how they work would be wonderful. Something like Diego the Duelmaster showing you power pips, school damage boosts, and the like. The pet derby games are basically dead. Allow for players to compete to refill a portion of their energy based on their standings in a derby race similar to the mini games refilling mana. For people actively trying to level their pets, farm, fish, etc. There's a lot of things that take energy, but few ways to replenish aside from waiting around or straight up buying it. Adding a small energy refill, say 20 energy for the winner, would allow for a much stronger reason to actually play the derby. Other Hilda Brewer should be in every world like Elosie and Zeke, why does the player need to go all the way back to a laggy, crowded wizard city every time they need potion refills? Beginner players might not know you can change servers and there's so many people that congregate in the commons to talk. That is fine, but it's annoying to have the game lag when all you want is more potions. If not Hilda, at least another npc that can sell the potions, again to avoid the crowded laggy commons if you don't know about changing realms. Combine Monstrology with Polymorphs. Add a new layer to Monstrology where the player can turn it into a polymorph tc. Instead of expel the monster, with enough animus, you can BECOME the monster. This would be such a fun change. It would be so funny for someone to just polymorph into Malistaire the Undying at Unicorn Way just to attack a Lost Soul. It would be fun to have a "copy cat" or "two can play" badge where you defeat 100 unique monsters as that monster. So, you have that monster's stats, you just have to be the more skilled. It just feels like both Monstrology and Polymorphs are a little neglected at the moment by the main player base, but could be a very powerful or silly combination based on how you enjoy the game. Crafting permanent mounts from temporary mounts. Whenever you get a lot of 7 day or 30 day mount drops, it would be nice to add a "core" that's a rare gold key boss drop or available in the crown shop to convert the temporary mounts into a permanent version. Either the players have to grind for the chance at the drop or KI makes money from people buying the core. What's good about this is that KI can make money off of something that players are getting for free. For example, one of my characters is a death character. On this character I am only like level 31 even though I've had the character for a while. On this character, I have a swiftshadow wings and a bat wings, each that I have gotten from the daily assignments. So, make an item that's like 2000 crowns that I could use to trade in, say 3 copies of the 7 day swiftshadow wings or 2 of the 15 day (as they only come in the 1 day, 7 day, 15 day and permanent) with the new item for a permanent mount. This permanent mount is obtainable for FREE by fishing in Darkmoor Manor. KI makes money on player who want to keep the mount, players don't feel like the temporary mount drops are going to waste because they COULD make them into a permanent mount variety, and it save player inventory space. Everyone wins. This could be done with a new mount crafting station or a new section to the equipment crafting station. When you craft a jewel, let it show up in chat what jewel you crafted so you can hover over it and see the stats more easily instead of playing a guessing game should your jewel pouch already have a few jewels in it. Lastly, more castles themed after the later worlds. I would love to be able to craft or purchase and Azteca or Khrysallis themed house. The later worlds are very overlooked when it comes to the castle options. So many amazing castles are now retired that were available with the purchase of a gift card. Why not bring the castles back? It's a collectors and decorator's dream come true. They're amazing! If not bringing these retired castles back, introduce a new variety for later worlds.
I love that this game is still going. I haven't played since Karamelle and I absolutely loved that world but life just has been way too busy for me to commit to the game again. I'm actually considering returning just to explore the new worlds after Karamelle.
I actually disagree with the "appealing to 1%" argument when talking about either the new raid or key bosses. I think, if they see any content about it, more casual players will feel more inclined to do the new raid given how much easier it is (3 hours after release --> victory) and to farm the key bosses for pieces like the wand. If I remember correctly the new raid's robe is a small upgrade to the nullity robe, but the nullity robe which has a presumably much more difficult grind than the new raid is a huge upgrade compared to regularly obtainable gear (high offense). At least I hope people will recognize that
Yes, it would be an upgrade to anyone w/o the Nullity or Reaver robe or even Aeon robe. I’m willing to farm Polaris raid since I don’t have Nullity robes on most of my wizards. Will still farm DS raid for that reason also.
It's definitely annoying that all of the best gear in the game is locked behind raids, however that makes the most sense. What value would raids have at all if not to give players better gear than those who chose not to raid? I think those who cared enough to raid nullity are going to continue raiding in cabal. I personally was one of those raiders for a while, until after over 100 attempts and barely 60 wins of nullity, I still have not gotten the storm robe. The drop rates are simply too low for most people. I think the cabal raid being easier is a great thing, as well as the implementation of the 1.5hr raid keys, because it allows people who don't spend 12+ hrs a day on a children's card game to still keep up with those who do to some degree.
Not everyone has access to a raid let alone a guild able to raid. the 99% can't just log on Saturday and play like say Darkmoor or the end of Novus. You need 12 players all with the best stats, know everything on a voice call with 3 hours with no breaks for any reason
Honestly I hope that they at the very least make the gear better if they plan on making the raid harder bc if they make the raid CS 2.0 there's basically no point to farm it since the gear isn't really that good.
Yeah, I can’t tell if they’re trying to make the raid easier for wider appeal or if it’s just gonna get majorly buffed when the update goes live. The gear may already not be worth the grind for some people. I’ll be interested to see what changes the devs make, if any.
wizard101 kinda backing it self in a corner with the level cap rising and with the gear that follows, it used to be the " end game" gear was a big step in stats, now it just feels like im getting just crumbs that are slightly better. i feel like they need an overhaul on it and just nerf the gear and the bosses for "lower levels" ( i mean mmo is all about end game stuff, right?) and every time a new world comes out your current gear becomes kind of worthless giving you a bigger reason to farm, not just for an extra 1% or 2 in damage, because i find it odd that a lvl 70 ring has better stats then a lvl 150. ( kinda like what WoW did when the lvl got too high)
Level cap or not every x months there new best gear, usually crowns or behind Raids etc They want you grinding or paying for the new gear. Level has nothing to do with it. In 18 months whether the level max is 180 or 170 in that world, you will have better gear, they want this to happen every world and with packs maybe twice yearly
As a PVE player: This update is very small imo. The only thing I am happy about is that archmastery is fixed. I am happy that tournaments are coming back since I used to participate in them when I was young but PVP has changed so much over the years, I don't feel comfortable with coming back lol.
Personally, I find this raid incredibly boring. The gear drops are pretty horrendous and it being a marginal upgrade from nullity makes it not worth it for those who regularly raid. However, this does benefit the rest of the players who have never raided or have not gotten raid gear. For me, I'm sticking with crying sky raid for its busted drops and the 9 million spellements you get per boss defeat. After 1-2 runs I personally will never touch this new raid again but I'm glad to see that new players will finally be able to get into raiding (well once they get into guilds). also W Zaepha take on 1:00
I’m really hoping the easier difficulty IS intended to make the raid more accessible to more average players, but I’m a bit nervous it may get buffed when it goes live. But, you’re right, maybe it’ll appeal to people who never raided before at all and can now get essentially a nullity upgrade.
@@ZaephaI’m actually all for a buff tbh. Some QoL updates to it or even just adding more things to do during each run is perfect enough, I wouldn’t like them to just go 0 - 100 cuz the 1% find it too easy . From what I’ve done in test realm, 4 people being sent to the middle and then only a handful of the 8 outsiders are actually supporting the vg team, while others could theoretically just fuck around, honestly doesn’t do it. At least in crying sky, everyone is working towards something so I really like the teamwork aspect. If they do make it exceptionally harder than last time whatever do it I would just hope they match the gear quality to it’s difficulty
It’s definitely a balancing act. I hear what you’re saying about the outside group not really having as much of a role. I’ll be interested to see what the devs have to say.
Happy about the Archmastery change, but it should only YOUR Archmastery level that determines if you get a school pip. Not your enemies, not your teammates. Who wants to bet against KI changing a lot of bosses to give them Archmastery level 9000? The entire "school pip" thing is, and always has been, so incredibly stupid and unnecessary. "Hey guys, let's fix a problem that doesn't exist!"
Not a huge fan of the new gear aesthetic lol, the wand looks great but the rest looks unusable. Also the robe appears to be a reskin from the center piece of the Chitin Crawler mount.
lvl 100 exalted rematch gear in some cases were better then malistaire set, I wonder if some of the 170 rematch stuff will be good side grades to reaver
I like to view myself as a hardcore player but I also still enjoy all of the activities in wizard101 and get frustrated just like the casuals when it's always about the pvp especially with the extremely precarious state of pvp. Bringing back the wings was a good move but i highly doubt they'll be enough to entice someone who doesn't enjoy pvp. Right now pvp is far too different from PvE and it isn't just the strategies or massive stat gaps. The spell writing system as is forces people to definitively choose between pve and pvp which is so incredibly dumb. I feel that the spells should upgrade both paths simultaneously now that there's only 2 and one is pvp and one isn't and they just automatically swap between the pvp and pve versions depending on the environment sort of like how rana frogs can change their genders. Also this is kind of a nitpicky thing but it's been well over an entire year since they've brought back the polarian shipwreck or pyramid of lost horizons bundle houses for throw back Thursday and likewise we haven't received a new free world inspired house since the zafaria's jungle house boat. We do have the avalon castle plot and flying ship but considering the unbelievably normal walaru house or the lack of even one novus house premium only or otherwise I really think it's lazy on behalf of the developers to not continue the pattern of doing some level of free housing option for each world as well as a bundle version or even crafting.
Im probably not going to be playing this update much, KI still gets my membership, tho. That's the only way I have hope of more solo-able or group content/dungeons.
You know what I'd like KI to do: Push 3 major updates per year- Sounds bad but hear me out. Their first updates in the summer can be giving hardcare endgame players something to do, such as a new raid. Their second giving something PvE players something to do, maybe a housing gauntlet or something akin to the Four dungeons. And their third update given at the end of the year being another world to explore. I dunno, am I asking too much here? Not every update can be a winner to be fair.
There needs to be a PVE equivalent to raid gear, crowns shop items and raids are fine but time schedules make raids really rough and as an ice main seeing as the current state of ice isn’t the best I need all the stats I can get
Do you think at some point you can make a video talking about Guilds for Wiz 2024? I've always been interested in them but never knew what they actually entail besides Raids since thats about the only Guild content out there (to my knowledge). Its just a feature that I wanna know more about yet since its launch I feel like theres been no talk about them, so I just don't know where to start.
I just really think this update didn’t address most of their player base. Kinda disappointed. It also feels like this summer update was way less than normal.
I think the devs are trying to get make the raid and stuff like boss rematches a bit more appealing to the average player by making them easier, but it’s not enough to win over the majority of the player base. Thus the whole update misses the mark a bit, at least for most PVE players.
i like the new fire spell only bc i like cute things Also im confused about the gears in the rematches. are the gears with good stats for just for show?
The new gear is not for pvpers. It is for pve’ers. You need resist in pvp (unless youre a storm) so dont throw that part of the update on “hardcore” players. The raid is also super casual friendly. Only 4/12 actually need good gear to run it. Only the coordination is an issue, but its SUPER easy to find recruiting guilds on discord
L update all the things they fixed were problems from like 2-3 years ago im not celebrating slow progress & like Zaepha said most of these things are for pvp players and hardcore whales btw we STILL have a pve DAMAGE CAP 💀💀💀
Pve players In every game always gotta hate on the PvP players lmaooo just crying bc we got an update and they didn’t as if PvP players get favored in updates, grow up your like 30+ crying
honstly everything in your vide is 100% correct, the new update IS catered towards the small % of players who care about min/maxing nobody casual wants to go through the effort of making a raid (and getting all the resources to upgrade it) or finding an already upgraded raid just to do a 2 hour dungeon for a CHANCE of loot that's only better in certain situations, at least the nulity gear was a decent chunk better then aeon gear but this is just eh. the QOL updates do make it a bit better but overall this update was definitely catered towards *that* type of player and that kinda sucks, yeah fixing archmastary that's had an issue for over 2 years at this point was good, or adding an emote wheel but none of this makes players want to return or continue for little effort. that's just my thoughts, I think you agree but idk how people can sit here and pretend like these raid updates aren't for a certain % of content creator/streamer with a giant audience and not for casual players. banger video though zaepha 🫶
Will you be trying out the new raid, boss rematches, or farming for the updated gold key boss gear and lore spells? I’m very curious to hear how much this update appeals to the “average” player compared to people who primarily PVP or do advanced content. It can be a hard balancing act to please everyone.
EDIT: Just heard from the KI live developer stream that they are looking to add more rewards to boss rematches (standard and challenge) in the near future, so maybe that will make them more appealing to the wider player base.
Honestly they should just create a raid group finder, idk what mechanic they would need to add to make up for the resources needed for a normal raid key, but needing a guild is tough.
I feel like even with a group finder like team up for raids you’ll end up with issues since raiders tend to be really picky about the stats and builds of the players they raid with (understandably since raids have been historically REALLY hard if you don’t have a perfect group). I could see a lot of people getting toxic about other people’s stats, but hey, maybe more difficulty levels for raids could be added so even casual players can do them.
I just want another darkmoor for lvl 170 😭
Or Aquila…. I honestly loved those walking world dungeons. I feel like KI is only reserving those experiences for raids or gauntlets instead of having it as regular content. It’s kinda disappointing how much effort is put into a raid or gauntlet and half the player base never sees them!!!
Definitely due for one... waterworks at 60, darkmoor 100, catacombs 130, definitely need a new set for 180 thats farmed from a similar area, and at least something comparable to raid gear
I'm just happy there making archmastery not based on other players, it's gonna feel so nice to ship of fools without some level 100 taking up the death pips.
Probably my personal favorite part of this update tbh so glad it’s fixed!
I have $2 on the table, betting that they give a bunch of boss mobs a super high Archmastery level.
@@wheninrome5917 They've added tons of gimmicks for boss fights that require you to not follow the meta, I could 100% see them doing this for a boss or two. Hopefully they don't do it for bigger or harder bosses, I don't want difficulty to equal taking away fun toys
@@wheninrome5917 Yeah I predicted this also and we were right. Helping a friend in Novus, my 170 wizards were unable to use their 170 spells because I don't use anything giving additional archmastery rating, making the changes worthless. Color me surprised lol. If I can't hit first round they serve no use as I'll 7 pip the next round. Ship of fools/ rat spin need to return to 4 regular pip spells
Man I wish there was an option for solo players to do be able to do like a solo version of the raid , I play only on weekends and every guild I have joined I get kicked out because of the times I play and I can’t create my own because I need like 15 friends and I simply do not have that many friends
I feel this. Whether or not this new raid is easier than previous ones, the barriers to entry for guilds and the time and resources needed to do the raid just don’t leave much room or opportunity for the average player who can’t spend 24/7 grinding on an MMO. Sorry to hear you haven’t found a group that works for you!
yeh it’s so absurdly inaccessible that i’ve given up on trying, which i’m ok with, but genuinely would love to engage with high level content so it’s still a bummer man. the biggest shame is that a big update like this ends up having nothing exciting in it and it’s just demotivating. I don’t get it, feels kinda neglectful. maybe im just a shitter lol
@@Zaepha I am the same. I have a small friend group that plays and I do NOT want to get involved with the greater wizard community seeing how toxic people can get in just beastmoon (the main thing I play in the game). I would be ecstatic to make a guild for myself and my 3 friends who play the game. Two of them are very casual players, one of my friends plays a few days a week, while I am the most active. I would not care about their inactivity, but doing some guild stuff when we can actually all log in would be so much fun!
@@Daddix0 The archmastery update alone is huge, so I'll have to give this a pass for casual player even on the pve side of things. That was beyond annoying.
@@newdaydiscoveries1828 Not so much as mobs & bosses can stop you from gaining a first round pip. Another big fat L for KI
Once again you've nailed my exact feelings on the current state of W101. Thank you for being the voice for the majority of long time players! Please continue to crank out intelligent high quality content. No one is doing what you do IMO.
I wish the new gear also had version with symbols of each school
I'm not going to lie, the recent wizard implementation strikes me as a good idea in concept but I have a bad feeling it might backfire. I will say though, that if Recent Wizards allows you to see a person's profile, there is a very good chance the number of reports will go up, as I can see people using this to hunt down players they fought with in BM matches to report them. With that said, I do think it's a nice idea and I'm so glad you talked about it and all the other new features. Your videos are always super helpful, so thank you for saving me time and brainpower.
Oh, yikes, I didn’t even consider the potential downsides to recent wizards! You’re right. I could see people using it for toxicity instead 😬 let’s hope the devs find ways to discourage that type of abuse.
@@Zaepha I had a player who was intentionally throwing in a beastmoon match because they didn't get storm elf and started being sexist. After the match was over, they kept spamming friend invites to me, so the first part of my next beastmoon match was SUPER annoying. I think they sent me over 50 friend and party invites just sitting there and spamming me for a good 10 minutes. I do NOT want a repeat of that experience.
That’s so annoying! Definitely a potential downside to the new update 😢
Was worried about this, too. Reports are going to go up because ppl are petty and vindictive
I am of the mind that polaris raid being easier is good. Crying Sky is a nightmare because EVERY fight requires tight strategies. It is much easier now, but expecting 12 people to pull up a google slides sheet seems a little silly. It seems like the attempt with this update is to bring "casual" players and "hardcore" players closer. I think alot of "casual" players want to be more "hardcore" but dont have time. I do hope they succeed because I think that gap is to far. The problem now is that (aoe change as the example) they make changes to spells that dont just affect pvp meta but also these challenges. Multiple Challenge Mode Fights AND raids are heavily affected by not only aoe ban but tc bans (sun serpent). it often feels when pvp changes are implemented challenges are "oh well, they will figure it out" not realizing that, while sure we will, it certainly doesn't help players who feel disconnected.
If the devs keep the raid as is with the attempt to make the barrier to entry a bit easier for the more average player, then that would definitely be a positive step forward. I do hear from a lot of people though that just joining a guild and the farming involved (and advanced content spell rules) in a raid are still aspects that they struggle with or don’t enjoy. Hopefully the devs can continue to make tweaks so we reach a better middle ground for everyone! I don’t think we’re quite there yet.
It's also why KI needs to keep raids & pvp spell audit changes separate! One type of spell allowed for raids & another type allowed for PvP so that each area doesn't screw over the other area when KI is screwing around with spell's damage & mechanics.
Thanks for making a detailed video covering this update! We used to get this sort of PvE content from Blaze LifeHammer back in the day but glad to see other wiztubers pick up the mantle more or less by providing the community with these helpful overview vids! I just wish you would've shown the actual BM forms in the test realm kiosk for those players who are interested in BM to see their entire spell library rather than just the pictures in the test realm update notes. Thanks Zaepha & yeah, this update caters too much to the PvP community when its the PvE community that mostly keeps this game alive. KI needs to do better managing time & resources spent on more widely accessible & enjoyable content.
Fair point on the Beastmoon forms - I’ll try to get actual footage of each form next time! Appreciate the comment!
Thanks for these update reviews, as someone whose only gotta back recently after being burnt out on the grind for 150 gear, its nice to see whats coming up!
Also would you ever consider making a catch up sort of guide for returning players as myself? I know it's not in your content wheelhouse but I figured I'd ask anyways 👀
I can definitely add it to my list of ideas!
This might be the first raid I might actually try. It looks intresting and while the gear isn’t best for pve it looks way more accessible than the last two. The arch mastery change is amazing and bringing back tournies has me excited. It was the only pvp combat mechanic I liked.
Im sure you can imagine my despair (mild annoyance) when i sold all the flax i had an hour before i was told that test was open
Not the flax!! 😱
If it makes you feel any better, flax on test realm is VERY easy to find. You just have to go to Nightside and look around a bit. Once you find the flax, another one spawns five seconds later and repeat. Nightside is a very small area so its really easy to find and collect enough flax for whatever you need.
I know there's a lot of complaints about KI only pushing updates for PvPers/Raiders but they can't push a new world every quarter like they can push new end game metas and changes. You have to understand that and accept that end game content will be priority while a world is being worked on else we won't get anything.
Sir badger is the bestest boy
He really is 🥹
Fair review thanks Zaepha. What type of content would more average and casual players like to see? We had thought the standard matches would appeal to this group but would love to hear more on this subject!
Hey, thanks for commenting here! I do think that making some advanced content more accessible to average players like adding the standard mode to the boss rematches and making the Polaris raid easier than previous raids is definitely a good step forward. I think the issue is that it doesn’t remove enough of the barriers to entry.
For boss rematches: I’ve heard previously from my viewers that for the old boss rematches (so challenge only) that they either struggle with the advanced content spell rules, can’t find a group to do them with, or just aren’t interested in the grind for the rewards offered, both in grinding reagents to craft the rematches, and in the actual farming grind for spellements or the skyfarer reskinned gear. More players might be willing to try them now that the standard mode is available and they’re not stuck with advanced content rules, but I don’t think the current rewards are enough of a draw to many new people participating and they will still struggle to find a group to do them. The reagent harvesting buff is a great addition though!
For the raid: again, definitely think it’s great to have an easier raid after the crying sky raid! I think the crying sky raid’s difficulty turned away a chunk of existing raiders and definitely made the average player believe that raids and guilds just weren’t built for them. I do think you will see a return of old raiders from the first raid for the polaris raid and some more casual players may be willing to give it a shot now that the difficulty is scaled down, which is great.
However, I think the underlying mechanics of raids and guilds themselves may still create too big of a barrier to entry for more average players. I hear from my viewers that they don’t understand or like advanced content rules, they don’t want to farm for spellements to swap between PVE and PVP/advanced content spells, they don’t have the time to do the longer raids (though maybe the new 1.5 hour raid keys will help here!), or they’ve joined guilds and tried to raid but have gotten kicked repeatedly for not having perfect stats/gear, their spells upgraded, or they’re not available enough to raid as often as the guild would like so their spot in the guild is “wasted”.
There’s definitely some resentment between hardcore players and the average to casual player that just don’t have the time to pour into these activities or just straight up aren’t interested in this type of content. People really like their regular, standard PVE wiz content so you’ll need to give them something really good to draw them into other types of activities even if its advanced content “light”. For content "average" PVE would like to see I know the Forbidden Library gauntlet (drops, puzzle and boss design, etc.) was very well received, as an example! Sorry for the wall of text! I really appreciate the devs’ thoughts on this and that you’re trying to find ways to bring different player groups together. Hopefully with some more tweaks we can find a nice middle ground that appeals to the most people!
Sorry for the long reply lol. I do love this game, but I some small quality of life aspects really grind on you after a while. My 2 biggest complaints ended up being quality of life fixes for Pets and the Beastmoon Event as that's what I almost exclusively play wiz for.
As a casual player, who just puts a lot of time in (2,000 hours in the last year and started playing February 2023, but I've not bothered to level past Khrysallis) I got a few recommendations lol. I'm one of the few people who actually reads all of the story and lore, so I have been playing and replaying the lower worlds to learn all the secrets of that world before progressing.
The number one needed improvement before this update was archmastery and I'm so, so happy it's been addressed in this update. That was frustrating when doing things like assisting at the kiosk for the spiral showcase and not being able to use your lore spells because a random high level wizard joined.
Beastmoon Fixes
1) Fire Drake's long-as-sin fifth pip animation for Beastmoon. There is no reason that it is a longer animation than the original in a timed event. I can understand taking the extra time for a second attack animation to detonate the over time, but not on EACH. INDIVIDUAL. ENEMY.
Remove a starting pip from Storm Elf and raise its base health. It's very unbalanced in pvp. If storm elf goes first, it can chain nerve shock with bluster blast and can solo a rat or fairy form alone with the opponent not being able to land a single hit. On the flip side, storm elf's health is very low and will get targeted first because of its raw power.
REMOVE GROUP QUE FOR BEASTMOON PVP. The fact that would can have a group of solo teammates against an organized guild in discord coms is infuriating. You also get a much more healthy variety of forms used in pvp when everyone is solo. Doing away with the ability to join as a group is so, so important. What's the point of using a variety of forms if you are facing the same set groups of players over and over again who all have maxed forms? Even being able to communicate with your teammates through voice chat is such a massive advantage because you can plan and move at the same time. Group que for beastmoon pvp has GOT to go or enable a separate mode for group versus group.
Pets
Introduce the ability to sort pet snacks in your backpack by school. Use the same format as the reagents or spell cards. If I am on my fire wizard using a fire pet, I want to know what fire snacks I have, not myth.
Another good change would be to add more quests or information in the Pet Pavilion for beginner players about pet talents. When I first started out, I didn't understand how pets worked and didn't bother to use them much for a long time. I basically just kept my starter pet equipped. After you do the initial pet quests, the "play as your pet" feature is also redundant. Pets can be such an important aspect of improving your character over the long haul, so a better introduction to how they work would be wonderful. Something like Diego the Duelmaster showing you power pips, school damage boosts, and the like.
The pet derby games are basically dead. Allow for players to compete to refill a portion of their energy based on their standings in a derby race similar to the mini games refilling mana. For people actively trying to level their pets, farm, fish, etc. There's a lot of things that take energy, but few ways to replenish aside from waiting around or straight up buying it. Adding a small energy refill, say 20 energy for the winner, would allow for a much stronger reason to actually play the derby.
Other
Hilda Brewer should be in every world like Elosie and Zeke, why does the player need to go all the way back to a laggy, crowded wizard city every time they need potion refills? Beginner players might not know you can change servers and there's so many people that congregate in the commons to talk. That is fine, but it's annoying to have the game lag when all you want is more potions. If not Hilda, at least another npc that can sell the potions, again to avoid the crowded laggy commons if you don't know about changing realms.
Combine Monstrology with Polymorphs. Add a new layer to Monstrology where the player can turn it into a polymorph tc. Instead of expel the monster, with enough animus, you can BECOME the monster. This would be such a fun change. It would be so funny for someone to just polymorph into Malistaire the Undying at Unicorn Way just to attack a Lost Soul. It would be fun to have a "copy cat" or "two can play" badge where you defeat 100 unique monsters as that monster. So, you have that monster's stats, you just have to be the more skilled. It just feels like both Monstrology and Polymorphs are a little neglected at the moment by the main player base, but could be a very powerful or silly combination based on how you enjoy the game.
Crafting permanent mounts from temporary mounts. Whenever you get a lot of 7 day or 30 day mount drops, it would be nice to add a "core" that's a rare gold key boss drop or available in the crown shop to convert the temporary mounts into a permanent version. Either the players have to grind for the chance at the drop or KI makes money from people buying the core. What's good about this is that KI can make money off of something that players are getting for free. For example, one of my characters is a death character. On this character I am only like level 31 even though I've had the character for a while. On this character, I have a swiftshadow wings and a bat wings, each that I have gotten from the daily assignments. So, make an item that's like 2000 crowns that I could use to trade in, say 3 copies of the 7 day swiftshadow wings or 2 of the 15 day (as they only come in the 1 day, 7 day, 15 day and permanent) with the new item for a permanent mount. This permanent mount is obtainable for FREE by fishing in Darkmoor Manor. KI makes money on player who want to keep the mount, players don't feel like the temporary mount drops are going to waste because they COULD make them into a permanent mount variety, and it save player inventory space. Everyone wins. This could be done with a new mount crafting station or a new section to the equipment crafting station.
When you craft a jewel, let it show up in chat what jewel you crafted so you can hover over it and see the stats more easily instead of playing a guessing game should your jewel pouch already have a few jewels in it.
Lastly, more castles themed after the later worlds. I would love to be able to craft or purchase and Azteca or Khrysallis themed house. The later worlds are very overlooked when it comes to the castle options. So many amazing castles are now retired that were available with the purchase of a gift card. Why not bring the castles back? It's a collectors and decorator's dream come true. They're amazing! If not bringing these retired castles back, introduce a new variety for later worlds.
i really hope that they let you buy the pvp fishing gear with tourney tokens, it sucks alot not having access to free energy gear at all
My favorite update will be free to play wiz, when is that dropping 😭
Or console support
I do a lot of random team up, there is no way I want people who are not my friends stalking or messaging me, this is awful.
I love that this game is still going. I haven't played since Karamelle and I absolutely loved that world but life just has been way too busy for me to commit to the game again. I'm actually considering returning just to explore the new worlds after Karamelle.
when will they add raids for non max level wizards? like a level 50 raid for 1st arc, level 100 for arc 2 and so on
A dungeon like darkmoor and a boss like the storm titan would be amazing like maybe an ice titan
Emote wheel and victory-dance inventory are the most hype part of the update tbh
ugh thank god for the archmastery. my death literally only has ship of fools and headless horseman so if someone joins im useless
Sadly mobs and bosses can prevent your school pip now...YAY go KI...
As a PvE only player, I'm 100% going to run boss rematches with a friend for a good challenge. Glad they are going to add more rewards soon.
I actually disagree with the "appealing to 1%" argument when talking about either the new raid or key bosses. I think, if they see any content about it, more casual players will feel more inclined to do the new raid given how much easier it is (3 hours after release --> victory) and to farm the key bosses for pieces like the wand. If I remember correctly the new raid's robe is a small upgrade to the nullity robe, but the nullity robe which has a presumably much more difficult grind than the new raid is a huge upgrade compared to regularly obtainable gear (high offense). At least I hope people will recognize that
Yes, it would be an upgrade to anyone w/o the Nullity or Reaver robe or even Aeon robe. I’m willing to farm Polaris raid since I don’t have Nullity robes on most of my wizards. Will still farm DS raid for that reason also.
It's 100% for the 1% there nothing much for the 99% of ordinary max wizards.
It's definitely annoying that all of the best gear in the game is locked behind raids, however that makes the most sense. What value would raids have at all if not to give players better gear than those who chose not to raid? I think those who cared enough to raid nullity are going to continue raiding in cabal.
I personally was one of those raiders for a while, until after over 100 attempts and barely 60 wins of nullity, I still have not gotten the storm robe. The drop rates are simply too low for most people. I think the cabal raid being easier is a great thing, as well as the implementation of the 1.5hr raid keys, because it allows people who don't spend 12+ hrs a day on a children's card game to still keep up with those who do to some degree.
Not everyone has access to a raid let alone a guild able to raid. the 99% can't just log on Saturday and play like say Darkmoor or the end of Novus. You need 12 players all with the best stats, know everything on a voice call with 3 hours with no breaks for any reason
Honestly I hope that they at the very least make the gear better if they plan on making the raid harder bc if they make the raid CS 2.0 there's basically no point to farm it since the gear isn't really that good.
Yeah, I can’t tell if they’re trying to make the raid easier for wider appeal or if it’s just gonna get majorly buffed when the update goes live. The gear may already not be worth the grind for some people. I’ll be interested to see what changes the devs make, if any.
wizard101 kinda backing it self in a corner with the level cap rising and with the gear that follows, it used to be the " end game" gear was a big step in stats, now it just feels like im getting just crumbs that are slightly better. i feel like they need an overhaul on it and just nerf the gear and the bosses for "lower levels" ( i mean mmo is all about end game stuff, right?) and every time a new world comes out your current gear becomes kind of worthless giving you a bigger reason to farm, not just for an extra 1% or 2 in damage, because i find it odd that a lvl 70 ring has better stats then a lvl 150. ( kinda like what WoW did when the lvl got too high)
Level cap or not every x months there new best gear, usually crowns or behind Raids etc They want you grinding or paying for the new gear. Level has nothing to do with it. In 18 months whether the level max is 180 or 170 in that world, you will have better gear, they want this to happen every world and with packs maybe twice yearly
Raids have always only been for the 1%
As a PVE player: This update is very small imo. The only thing I am happy about is that archmastery is fixed. I am happy that tournaments are coming back since I used to participate in them when I was young but PVP has changed so much over the years, I don't feel comfortable with coming back lol.
Wait and see on Archmastery.
Yeah, no raids for me, thanks
More stuff no one asked for 😍 thanks, KI. You’re doing what you do.
Personally, I find this raid incredibly boring. The gear drops are pretty horrendous and it being a marginal upgrade from nullity makes it not worth it for those who regularly raid. However, this does benefit the rest of the players who have never raided or have not gotten raid gear. For me, I'm sticking with crying sky raid for its busted drops and the 9 million spellements you get per boss defeat. After 1-2 runs I personally will never touch this new raid again but I'm glad to see that new players will finally be able to get into raiding (well once they get into guilds).
also W Zaepha take on 1:00
I’m really hoping the easier difficulty IS intended to make the raid more accessible to more average players, but I’m a bit nervous it may get buffed when it goes live. But, you’re right, maybe it’ll appeal to people who never raided before at all and can now get essentially a nullity upgrade.
@@ZaephaI’m actually all for a buff tbh. Some QoL updates to it or even just adding more things to do during each run is perfect enough, I wouldn’t like them to just go 0 - 100 cuz the 1% find it too easy . From what I’ve done in test realm, 4 people being sent to the middle and then only a handful of the 8 outsiders are actually supporting the vg team, while others could theoretically just fuck around, honestly doesn’t do it. At least in crying sky, everyone is working towards something so I really like the teamwork aspect. If they do make it exceptionally harder than last time whatever do it I would just hope they match the gear quality to it’s difficulty
It’s definitely a balancing act. I hear what you’re saying about the outside group not really having as much of a role. I’ll be interested to see what the devs have to say.
Cam confirmed it’s going to increase in difficulty. By HOW MUCH is up to speculation until it drops in live
Yeah that “how much” is going to be key 😬
Happy about the Archmastery change, but it should only YOUR Archmastery level that determines if you get a school pip. Not your enemies, not your teammates. Who wants to bet against KI changing a lot of bosses to give them Archmastery level 9000? The entire "school pip" thing is, and always has been, so incredibly stupid and unnecessary. "Hey guys, let's fix a problem that doesn't exist!"
It’s kinda annoying ki casually adding new spellements to old bosses some people already farmed and maxed.
There is some potential to it. I imagine this raid gear in toxic green or hot pink.
Not a huge fan of the new gear aesthetic lol, the wand looks great but the rest looks unusable. Also the robe appears to be a reskin from the center piece of the Chitin Crawler mount.
So happy about the archmastery changes!
i still want to do the CSR solely for the aesthetics of the gear, other than that i wish theyd make it easier to get into pvp
lvl 100 exalted rematch gear in some cases were better then malistaire set, I wonder if some of the 170 rematch stuff will be good side grades to reaver
I like to view myself as a hardcore player but I also still enjoy all of the activities in wizard101 and get frustrated just like the casuals when it's always about the pvp especially with the extremely precarious state of pvp. Bringing back the wings was a good move but i highly doubt they'll be enough to entice someone who doesn't enjoy pvp. Right now pvp is far too different from PvE and it isn't just the strategies or massive stat gaps. The spell writing system as is forces people to definitively choose between pve and pvp which is so incredibly dumb. I feel that the spells should upgrade both paths simultaneously now that there's only 2 and one is pvp and one isn't and they just automatically swap between the pvp and pve versions depending on the environment sort of like how rana frogs can change their genders. Also this is kind of a nitpicky thing but it's been well over an entire year since they've brought back the polarian shipwreck or pyramid of lost horizons bundle houses for throw back Thursday and likewise we haven't received a new free world inspired house since the zafaria's jungle house boat. We do have the avalon castle plot and flying ship but considering the unbelievably normal walaru house or the lack of even one novus house premium only or otherwise I really think it's lazy on behalf of the developers to not continue the pattern of doing some level of free housing option for each world as well as a bundle version or even crafting.
Im probably not going to be playing this update much, KI still gets my membership, tho. That's the only way I have hope of more solo-able or group content/dungeons.
You know what I'd like KI to do:
Push 3 major updates per year- Sounds bad but hear me out.
Their first updates in the summer can be giving hardcare endgame players something to do, such as a new raid.
Their second giving something PvE players something to do, maybe a housing gauntlet or something akin to the Four dungeons.
And their third update given at the end of the year being another world to explore.
I dunno, am I asking too much here? Not every update can be a winner to be fair.
damn i know people stitch but that new raid gear is ugly. Not sure how they went from aeon gear to that.
Sheesh, as if Death needed anymore buffs with new lore spells to play around with. Haha!
There needs to be a PVE equivalent to raid gear, crowns shop items and raids are fine but time schedules make raids really rough and as an ice main seeing as the current state of ice isn’t the best I need all the stats I can get
Tbh
Ice just needs a dmg buff in general with its gear but knowing ki, the frost giant buff is the last thing we will ever get
Do you think at some point you can make a video talking about Guilds for Wiz 2024? I've always been interested in them but never knew what they actually entail besides Raids since thats about the only Guild content out there (to my knowledge). Its just a feature that I wanna know more about yet since its launch I feel like theres been no talk about them, so I just don't know where to start.
I just really think this update didn’t address most of their player base. Kinda disappointed. It also feels like this summer update was way less than normal.
I think the devs are trying to get make the raid and stuff like boss rematches a bit more appealing to the average player by making them easier, but it’s not enough to win over the majority of the player base. Thus the whole update misses the mark a bit, at least for most PVE players.
Fire school mentioned
Azteca skip elixir? Need it
Did notice there was new world elixirs, but when I got back on test realm, they were gone if I’m not mistaken, so idk what was going on was that
They were removed from test realm temporarily to fix some issue with them, I believe. They should be back in test next week!
Ok, ty for letting me know
when will we get raids tailored to lower level wizards? ;-; i prayge
I wonder how long it takes for the europe servers to get there haha
should i come back to wiz? how is the player community?
Wat is that mount u have in video
should of make more new spells atleast give us 10 school each spells every year
i like the new fire spell only bc i like cute things
Also im confused about the gears in the rematches. are the gears with good stats for just for show?
This new raid gear looks like the ultrakill bot to me lol
Hey where will have new world ? New levels any info?
Unfortunately the devs have said we won’t get a new world and level cap till toward the end of 2025. So it’s a bit of a wait.
Do we know when these changes will go live? :)
Should be in the next few weeks, but there’s no exact schedule.
What wand is that PLEASERE
It’s the loch and keyblade wand. I have a video on how to get it :)
The new gear is not for pvpers. It is for pve’ers. You need resist in pvp (unless youre a storm) so dont throw that part of the update on “hardcore” players. The raid is also super casual friendly. Only 4/12 actually need good gear to run it. Only the coordination is an issue, but its SUPER easy to find recruiting guilds on discord
Great video ❤❤
Thank you! Appreciate it!
ah, so social kioske still has no rewards should you decide to help them. pass on that.
Do you play overwatch Zaepha?
I used to - haven’t played in a while 😄
when does this update come out
Probably in a couple of weeks. There’s not a clear schedule but that’s how it’s worked historically.
W vid
Are you a mercy main
I used to main Reaper and DVa 😉 haven’t played in a while though
new update same old wiz it seems, catering to whales and streamers
L update all the things they fixed were problems from like 2-3 years ago im not celebrating slow progress & like Zaepha said most of these things are for pvp players and hardcore whales btw we STILL have a pve DAMAGE CAP 💀💀💀
Pve players In every game always gotta hate on the PvP players lmaooo just crying bc we got an update and they didn’t as if PvP players get favored in updates, grow up your like 30+ crying
Awful takes tbh
honstly everything in your vide is 100% correct, the new update IS catered towards the small % of players who care about min/maxing
nobody casual wants to go through the effort of making a raid (and getting all the resources to upgrade it) or finding an already upgraded raid just to do a 2 hour dungeon for a CHANCE of loot that's only better in certain situations, at least the nulity gear was a decent chunk better then aeon gear but this is just eh.
the QOL updates do make it a bit better but overall this update was definitely catered towards *that* type of player and that kinda sucks, yeah fixing archmastary that's had an issue for over 2 years at this point was good, or adding an emote wheel but none of this makes players want to return or continue for little effort.
that's just my thoughts, I think you agree but idk how people can sit here and pretend like these raid updates aren't for a certain % of content creator/streamer with a giant audience and not for casual players.
banger video though zaepha 🫶