Suggested Changes to Improve the New Patch (Akash invasion + Ipnysh Artifact levels):
With the new patch coming in, the new zone (Ipnya Ridge) and new event (Akash Invasion), comes the struggles of figuring out ways to improve what is probably one of the worst events/system introduced into this game. I can speak for the majority of the player base of Archerage, nobody enjoys working through this progression or doing this event. On live, a majority of the player base ended up quitting because of it. From even before the patch was released, players asked for it not to be implemented. WITH THAT ALL OF THAT BEING SAID, THERE ARE WAYS TO IMPROVE THE SYSTEM IF YOU ARE GOING TO KEEP IT IN THE GAME.
Ipnysh Artifact Progression:
There are a few different ideas that have been thrown around with how to make it easier to upgrade your Akash stuff. I'll list off some ideas here.
- Change the amount of blue infusions needed to make Demi-God Essence to 50 from 100
- Make a custom recipe for Demi-God Essence using Exalted Hiram Infusion (20-30 Exalted Hiram infusions = 1 Demi-God Essence)
With these changes, it will help the time gate of Akash progression. On live it took people YEARS to fully finish their Akash levels and it made it to where if you were to take a break from the game, you would never be able to catch up to the people that continued to play the game through that time. So it made people not want to return to play the game if they had quit. Making it easier to complete is a huge QoL for the community as a whole. As is, only the top GS players with Crit Weapons can efficiently farm for blue infusions in EHM (Amaitan Meadows). Healers and CC mages (Tanks) almost can't do it at all. So making it more accessible to everyone will be a good change
Akash Invasion:
I've been leading Invasion on west and let me tell you this, EVERYONE dislikes the event as is. Only the players that have played on live (or if you had friends to tell you) know exactly what to do to get ahead of things to get Scrying Eyes, Void Compasses, and Arcane Spheres. Every new player/players that have only played on Private Server is just lost, confused, and frustrated with the initial part of the event. As for the mob part of the event itself, consider increasing the amount of points given for killing the mobs. At how things are currently, only one time slot is winning Akash Invasion (9:30 Est) so only the people that can make it at that time can get the rewards for winning. We only win because we have 200 people on west and 100 people on east show up at that time. Even with that many people, we are cutting it close every time on getting the win. Listed below will be some ideas to make Akash invasion just better as a whole.
- Make Scrying Eyes, Void Compasses, and Arcane Spheres Respawn (Either make it respawn over and over non stop or do it 2x before mobs spawn at 31 minutes of peace remain, 26 minutes remaining, or at whatever time you see fit)
- Increase the points from killing Elite Mobs from 180 to 250
These changes seem small but it would greatly increase the QoL of the event/system itself and would help the player base as a whole enjoy it more. The event was something that was unwanted but you can change it to make it a better event. A more enjoyable sytem.
