@Oiliver: I know, I finished in the top ten several times. The problem is that, at level 36, the only weapon a wizard can buy for gold, the Carambola staff, is seriously flawed/bugged, causing much less damage in PvP and many of the gauntlets than it should. So now I'm not playing any more, just biding my time until I have accumulated enough rubies to get myself a hopefully decent weapon (this is a game I would never spend money on, because the devs don't give a hoot!).
I asked a simple question about accessing the in-game achievements and, instead of receiving an answer, got voted down massively by a bunch of ******. This is so typical for Kongregate...
By "readjusting" the ice spike, the only thing that made it possible for wizards to survive for a little while in PvP without being torn to shreds right away by a bunch of instantly healing brutes, the devs managed to make it even harder now for a wizard under level 37 (when it will hopefully be possible to buy a wand that is NOT as bugged and completely useless as the carambola staff which they never bothered to fix) to compete at all.
Just lost two of my hard-earned rubies because I accidentally clicked on a half-grown CABBAGE. Will you PLEASE implement some kind of "are you sure?" dialog? This actually set me back another five days... :-(
The PvP league still hasn't been fixed since the crash. I have 4827 points at the moment and should be in 6th place, but I'm still listed as "Rank 0". The season ends in four days. So far, the devs haven't fixed, addressed, or even acknowledged this issue. Bad show. Also, the carambola staff still does not work properly - again, not even a comment from the devs. This is a game for which you expect people to pay actual money?
Nightmare Fields makes me wonder once again... are the developers even aware of the fact that games are supposed to be something you can ENJOY? A large part of playing Cloudstone appears to be hard work and utter frustration... I've been almost ready to quit for a while now. What will they think of next to send me over the edge, like so many other players before me?
I currently have 2052 points in PvP, so I should be in 6th place. But after the crash, my rank is still at "0". I understand this happened to everyone who was playing in the league when the crash occurred. The current season will end in a few days. So what are the developers going to do about this? So far, they seem to be pretending the problem doesn't even exist. It would be nice to finally see it addressed - preferably in time to get our proper ranking back for this season... which is worth 15 rubies, after all.
Hm... what's going on with PvP? I just won several fights, my vigor was used up, but I got no points, there appears to be a new league and I remain at "Rank 0", no matter what I do. This is no fun. Did anyone say compensation package?
That's it, folks. Looks like those islands floating in the sky finally realized that what they were doing was physically impossible, and so they all came crashing down and shattered somewhere in the Mongolian desert. Farewell, you goofy little orange ducky, it's been good to know you... :-(
The Carambola Staff - which cost 100,000 gold in the shop - is still not working right in PvP and elsewhere. This is a very annoying bug and a real setback to wizards (and the reason you don't see wizards use a level 32 weapon in PvP; most of them are stuck with something that does only 71 damage per second). So why would some idiots rate down, and thereby hide, comments that include bug reports?
Actually, the Carambola Staff appears to be flawed in some levels, and not in others. On Grotto Isles, for example, it's OK in Valley of Spiders, but not in Shoreline (while other wands aren't affected).
Bug Report: does anyone else have a problem with the Carambola Staff? The damage it does should be significantly greater (69-82) than it actually is (51-61!!!); in fact, it does no more damage than the one-handed Forlorn Fern Wand (41-52) - I just ran a series of tests. Ever since I started using it, I've been losing a lot of PvP battles, because it's two-handed and I cannot carry a shield with it. This thing cost me 100,000 gold in the shop! This bug definitely needs to be fixed ASAP, because now level 32 wizards have nothing that can stand up against level 32 warrioirs and monks. Set this right (should be an easy fix), or at least give us our money back!!!
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