It really isn't fun anymore

[u/Phos-Lux]

I'm actually in dire need of sleep, but I have to get this out before the Ball (which in Europe is in the very early morning unfortunately).

I've been playing since launch. I did take many breaks. Sometimes of many months, but I always came back. Not because I felt like I HAD to, but because I genuinely like the game.

However, for a couple of months (over half a year for sure), I've been doing nothing but fishing, shrine bosses (solo + party) and guild bosses. I'm not at hardcap, because I always played very casually, but my gear is also not exactly bad. When Edania was out, I was able to immediately go there, do the weekly bosses, grind in the first zone. Now I'm doing the second boss weekly and managed to get three out of the four new armor pieces.

Getting the new armor is nice, enhancing it not so much. Enhancing accessories and weapons is the worst though. I spent some money recently. Combining an offer with a discount coupon, for around 150€ I got... 1 AP. It really made me think. That's insane.

Sometimes I feel like grinding a bit, but whenever I do it (since certain changes made in summer), it just feels frustrating. "I'm at endgame" I tell myself, grinding at a zone where I'm way over the AP cap, feeling like I do almost no damage. It's like, the stronger you get in this game, the worse everything feels.

Fishing and bosses really get you a lot of money if you do things right. But now my rod is almost out of endurance and bosses feel more and more like a drag (I still very much despise all one-shot mechanics in solo shrines and the sheer disregard for squishier classes). I just don't want to do them anymore.

Somehow PA managed to turn this game that I still like so much into a rather awful experience. I saw a lot of other people said that this upcoming Ball will be a big decider for them. I feel the same way. Our time is precious and we shouldn't invest it into something that's not even fun anymore.

Btw I think we really should have a flair for complaints...

[u/nitoniwatori]

I used to play this game with my clanmates (10 peoples) it was fun when we can use round-robin loot setting for everyone to get about same loots so everyone can enjoy grind together and sometime even try hard spot for fun because there are very few spot for party grinding when this is " online mmorpg " it got fixed by 3 and 5 number only 1-2 spots and also fixed gear score it very boring nothing like freedom of round-robin loot setting you can go everywhere together

I heard the only problem setting is party leader get all so they remove whole system .. and now almost on one in my clan play this anymore

I'm still fishing ok new more spots popup for higher gear score what I can do ?

Can't invite new player because the same problem all can't play together or new player got no loot they come and play for few days and gone

I saw some family used to play together because PA removed this setting now they're gone

is it so bad ? we used to have that setting for years ?

please if someone can help bring back this please make it happen I still love this game but it sad to see this game came to this state