Thursday, November 15, 2007

Imbalanced

Hey what's up guys?

Look check this out, LUG and Gravity are thinking whether they should implement a Gym Pass. This Gym Pass gives a character an additional 200 weight capacity limit for PHP 50.00 and it can be used for a maximum of 10 times, thus giving a character an additional 2000 weight capacity limit for PHP 500.00. More about the Gym Pass here.

I believe that this Gym Pass shouldn't be implemented here in pRO for one simple reason. If its implementation pushes through, the process of build planning for non-STR-based characters (Archer Class, Mage Class), will be much more easier and much more boring. This is because they no longer need to spread thin their stat points just to be able to place stat points into STR for additional weight capacity limit.

The planning and creation of a build of a character is considered as piloting skill. Skill because for a player to be able to allocate and spread out stat points evenly and efficiently into DEX for a decent cast time or ATK (non-STR-based) or HIT, VIT for decent HP and DEF, INT for MATK, it requires understanding and PVP experience - and the Gym Pass will kill this so called build-making skill.

Add to that the fact that 10 pieces of Gym Pass will yield 2000 additional weight capacity limit which translates to more or less 66 STR which is equal to about 330++ stat points. It would be like selling stat points for PHP.

This Gym Pass shouldn't be implemented because it's close to being a Stat Reset NPC in a way and it will ruin the gameplay design of pRO and will render the game more imbalanced than it already is.

Please, let's all make the LU! pRO staff realize what this Gym Pass will do to our servers by posting your comments here. Thank you!

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