Ryzom

I have to say I like the changes. I'm not bothered about the melee really as it makes sense what they've doe. Also I think the other changes are on the right track. In general I think they're doing good.

Except one thing. Harvesting.

I have lvl110 in harvest. Worked long and hard to get to that lvl. I don't use anything fancy when I forage. Speed and Rate 1 (gentle), Quality, and desert specialisation. I've added in specific mat specialisation into this also. Yet I still can't forage a QL50 mat.

I died 3 times trying to forage out in Dyron. I think i succeeded about 3 times. and only once did I actually get a QL120 mat.

I don't mind a bit of danger. I'm fine with that. But something is wrong when I can't even get a QL50 mat at Cerakos gate.

Just my 2 cents.

well i hate the patch - i have been enjoying foraging and soloing the odd mob for about 1k at a time - foraging for about 2k a time - now i dont mind the xp being halved on both to stop me levelling to fast - but you have basically made it impossible to kill anything solo for more than 200xp or foraging anything at any kind of tempo - i appreciate you want people to hunt and forage in groups - but sometimes people like to get home from work chill out and do thier own thing - you have let the people who power level and play over 10 hours a day ruin it for the people who play 2 or 3 hours a night and less - we were making nice progress and it kept us interested when thier was no content - now its a serious level grind which you promised it wouldn't be, plus it has no content. I want to like this game but i'm now finding it hard to justify staying.

OK, I dont like the patch for a number of reasons, but chiefly :

1. The ratio of difficulty on a breed of critters. A Vig Kiozar, i can kill with a couple of hits, a Str. Kiozar about 4/5 hits, I can even take one of each on together. I think the next member of the Kiozar in difficulty is a Mean Kiozar, they can take me out in about 3 hits, I have 1200 HP and Self Heal. That is some ratio of damage from one breed from low to high difficulty.

2. I could take at least 2 Mean Kiozar on together prior to the patch, Now one can kill me in a couple of hits, That is some change in the difficulty level.

3. You can get killed so easily, I killed a Scary Goari and a Strong Kipee one after the other, then just as i killed the Mean Kipee, the Scary Goari respawns beside me! Dead as a doornail am I.

4. Getting killed so easily racks up the Death Penalty, working off 100K DP isn't easy or enjoyable (not that it was before, but it was acceptable).

5. Getting attacked and killed by critters that give no XP....that gets old quick!

6. I had to run away from a Prime Izam and a Baying Goari, It was bloody embaressing

On a positive note the Lightning effect on Goaris looks cool, well worth the patch's negative aspects [/sarcasam off]

Jury is out on my staying, I'm lucky to be in a good guild, I have excellent armour and weapons. I think it's going to be pretty harsh on newcomers to the game. My advice is try to join a guild from the start and let them take you on a few hunts to level up rather than try a solo run....

Edit: I got the kipee wrong

I agree toadas
now im not a harvester so i wont comment i shall leave that to others, some things i like and as such i wont list them all here what is quicker is to list things that have basically made it very boring atm for me and thats hunting with magic (actually melee is similar) no dodge, spells fail incantation even when i use concentrate 5 (thats another 65 points u have to add to the cost of the spell to cast it o_0 lmao) so u cant use ur top spell and bomb and concentration because there are not enough stanza's (at my lvl before anyone shouts me down (im lvl 83 off mage) used to kill strong kipees and get about 1k for them but now lmao i sooo nearly got killed by a scampering yubo ffs and i have 1200hp and 800 self heal thats 2000hp it took off me before it died and no i got no xp for it, went to fight a vigilant kizoar (3 shots max to kill one before ) now it takes 5 hits BUT... it also only takes the kizoar 5 hits to kill me and thats with my self heal and yes they killed me so now i have 33k dp to get rid of BUT guess what ? i cant find anything to kill to get rid of my dp.
Well thats about it i waited ages for this game and love it but my faith is being very rapidly eroded away and even with a group of people we were dying like flies killing strong kipees, so my assesment soo far on mage fighting _ personally i shall stop, i am now a FULL TIME HEALER and i have no choice if i want to be a mage because i cant find anything to kill that i get xp for.

BTW failed incantations are higher with concentration than without atm for me, any ideas why?

Well im tired and now im bored stiff and ive only played for 6 hrs and i still have 27k dp to rid myself of (yes from my first death 3 hrs ago) i dont know what to do or think so i shall sleep on it, but as a final thought..................... u kicked the **** out of the fun part of the game and no i dont want to team every time i play.

Rest seems fine though but a shame no content as such was added (not that i can do missions anyway now)


Gloves are not nice but thats because ive never ever heard of magic gloves except in childrens books, every other magic user uses a wand or a staff so who was the bright spark who thought of gloves (feel like i have each of my hands up a yubo's butt when i wear them )They do have some enchanting properties but im not overwhelmed by them.

This is a land of free speech ( UK) and so if u dont like what ive written dont bother to argue the toss with me as we all have our own view points and this is mine from where i sit with my skills and my character , u may well not agree and thats ur choice.


To Nevrax i love the game but ..........(will i pay to play next month ? only 28 days to go till u find out)


PS i personally thought that if players were killing mobs too fast and therfore lvling too fast all they had to do was increase the weaker, exploited mobs hp , things like double the kizoars health and things like that. U guys went WAAAY over the top . e.g. Varinx were about right for the mob they were but ocynx were too easy perhaps add 80% to their health instead of double damage (remember if they live twice as long they hit twice as much and take twice as long to kill, quite obvious really, so who missed that? )

please please bring back the fun for those who like to play solo i really dont want to play WoW or EQ2 i want to play Ryzom.

I was a harvester and a fighter. they are both broken/seriously umbalanced right now. I am giving a few days to fix that. then I will cancel the account and go play the open beta of world of warcraft.