What would you change?

[WarriorSeven]

I'll assume "bug and feature backlog" fixes, FAR TOO MANY to mention here, will be separate ongoing concerns to be addressed separately as mentioned by John Welch | CEO in his Announcment New Beginnings for Eternium.

So here's my top three "changes":

1. Time for a rebalancing (NO nerfing please). Improvement(s) in Warrior, especially, would be appreciated by many. This will help level the playing field among the classes for more competitive Leaderboards.

2. Examine Glory currency conversion into somthing else (preferably gems). Glory just sits there and accumulates after it's totally used as an initial recipe resource to create certain new gears for the first time (important for the more experienced players that have gone through all of this).

3. Eliminate GORNATHAN, who is quite useless selling gear at exorbitant prices. Move LIANA to his place in Home Town and give her something else to do after she sells all the game recipes, namely, to also sell GORNATHAN's "Weapons & Armor" (at cheaper prices). Give her a new title as "Recipes, Weapons, & Armor Trader". Move any tasks or quests GORNATHAN had during gameplay over to LIANA.

Thanks for the opportunity to provide input, and good luck!

These are my purely selfish requests, I have many more than these but my top 3 are:-

1. Fix the glow effect on Mage staff.
Broken in the update of January 2020. The issue is that the part of the glow effect that should be attached to the top of the staff became detached and floats some distance away. When running around this causes an extremely distracting ball of light to bounce about like a ball in front of your character. It's so annoying I don't use glow effects on my Mage except the Fire effect where the problem is less obvious. Reason for it being my number one choice? Glow effects are purchased with cosmetic points, certain special effects could only be obtained by paying real currency back then. Paid for content that got broken and bug reports from Beta and Live deemed too low a priority to be scheduled a fix. It's the reason I stopped purchasing Season Passes or Monthly Gems to support the game. Fix this and you will have someone ready to support the game one more.

2. Enemy movement speed needs a rework.
Up until version 1.5.18 all enemies moved at the same speed. This was changed so some moved faster (a lot faster) and some crawl embarrassingly slowly, all the more painful when the elite monster is named 'Fast whatever' and barely manages to limp along. The changes were made to make the game harder. Alas it did not achieve this aim, it made it more annoying. High end Trials require shopping around for maps with an optimal assortment of enemies. This change merely made many more maps fall into the abandon category. I don't believe reverting to 1.5.18 speeds is the answer though, power creep since then would make it too easy. I'd like to see enemy speeds re-balanced. The slowest enemies need a significant movement speed boost, and the fastest need slowing down a little. A fast charger paired with an accelerator mob - impossible to react and avoid!

3. Stormcaller Regalia rework.
This is a good set of Mage armour and has potential to compete with the ELR meta, however even with the last attempt at addressing some of the issues around performance, this set still suffers from causing catastrophic lag. Optimising how it's attacks operate, removing the clouds of messages that can appear, and improving it's single target capabilities would make this set an excellent alternative to ELR.

That's all for now, thank you for asking

[Mechworks]

More stuff with set items to play with would be nice, perhaps some mixed set bonuses? And obviously just more sets in general.

Some additional variaty for Trial maps would be nice too, especially in terms of enemy selection; swamps crawling with Murtlocks, Levania type environments with attendant Levans, mechanicals in ruined cities, Azrack on every Elban map so we have a little ruddy warning, adding in other bosses to the rota (Gorlak, for example, or the Xenodon Giant) just stuff to add a little more variaty to the experience.

Not having recipes for items you can't even use cluttering up the gold rota would also be nice, but that's more a new player thing; at least some control over color (even just being able toinvert the things would be great) so it's easier to avoid looking colorblind, uh.

More Gemstones maybe? For the other effects that don't actually have them. Some way of getting better jewelry more reliably ala the Crafting skills, uh. Maybe some events that award cosmetic stuff?

I mean other than just "Act V has Ragadam at the end so we get to punch him in the face" and "more dungeons/content in general," which I think everyone already agrees on at least in principle.


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Oh right!

For the love of doG, companion equipment. Currently the Companions are pretty consistently way, way worse than you are even accounting for their lower level most of the time, but I've noticed that, say, the Warrior type basically has no real way to actually keep hostile attention even with their special abilities, for example, simply because their damage output is so low compared to the player that they can't keep the AI's attention.

[Travis | Support Mgr.]

Can I assume that these are prioritized?

[adolf_2003]

Personally, I like the current setup just without bugs & glitches. Ex. Fixing armory Bugs

The following are my personal preference
1. Additional maps & Bosses
2. Ragadam should exist
3. Additional hero classes
4. Multiple Dungeons for levelling
5. Additional useful items

I don't expect too much, just fix everything. Its very frustrating when those bugs & glitches happen during max trial push.

Btw Sir, thanks for asking our opinion.

[Arawn]

1 - Revert the alacrity nerf and eliminate the global cooldown. I want to use my abilities, not just basic attacks. Using abilities makes the game fun to play. Why on earth restrict that

2 - Make drops useful. Presently, drops are only good for salvaging. 1/2 the stats are useless. Make some percentage of drops actually usable, even desirable

3 - Provide a viable way to farm gems. No solution has been provided ever since the ad boxes were discontinued. Please provide a way to farm the in-game currency



Edit:

Adding to this post after competing on the LB for the first time in several years. Pushing trials with the current AR/Alacrity settings makes what Jose Sarmento pointed out in his post blatantly obvious. 3000 AR and 7 HPS is still not enough to make the game playable. Procs go to complete waste because abilities are still on cooldown. I'm baffled as to why this wasn't immediately corrected. This game has been broken since 1.5.22

[Travis | Support Mgr.]

If you could change THREE things about Eternium, what would they be and why?

Let's please keep this thread clean, so the feedback is easy to process. Use the "comment" feature whenever possible to keep side conversations in line.