Recent posts by Wredniak on Kongregate

Topic: Wartune / [Activity] Wartune Hall of Fame

I believe there are 3 players on the r2game servers with BR over 60k, I doubt there is anyone here on Kong who has a chance at this.

I don’t like events like this as they rather discriminate newer servers. I hope there will be chance to get those wings later with more reasonable requirements.

Topic: Wartune / Talent System Discussion

Originally posted by KnowingEyes:

Originally posted by Wredniak:

BTW do anyone knows if:
a) Seal works in arena (on ai controlled opponents)
b) in crypt
c) in MP dungeons (bosses)

a) Seal works in arena just fine – though apparently your AI won’t use it to defend itself in duels. Yay.
b) No… at least not the stun part of the skill.
c) No, see b).

thank you ^^

Topic: Wartune / Talent System Discussion

BTW do anyone knows if:
a) Seal works in arena (on ai controlled opponents)
b) in crypt
c) in MP dungeons (bosses)

Topic: Wartune / [Info] Bugs

So i did triggered the mage’s focus after at least 60 lightnings and when i mouse over the icon (cool icon btw) it showed me it’s 30% rage reduction not 50% as described in the talent screen. I don’t know how much rage was actually used as at the same time castinator popped up. Clearly one of 2 descriptions is wrong.

Topic: Wartune / Talent System Discussion

So i did triggered the mage’s focus after at least 60 lightnings and when i mouse over the icon (cool icon btw) it showed me it’s 30% rage reduction not 50% as described in the talent screen. I don’t know how much rage was actually used as at the same time castinator popped up. Clearly one of 2 descriptions is wrong.

Topic: Wartune / [Guide] All About Mounts

Originally posted by KnowingEyes:

Originally posted by ju3tb0red:

why isn’t this stickied knowingeyes? it is very useful to plan for in long term.

It is – indirectly… in the guides sticky. If I sticky everything that is useful, the amount of clutter would be unreal.

And even if it was sicked 80% of wartune population still would be unable to find it… so what the point?

As for a guide it is really great one ^^

Topic: Wartune / Talent System Discussion

Originally posted by wizzy:

Other than damage reduction for mages (it seems pathetic anyway when compared to goddess blessing which is not much less pathetic), I can’t see how the other passive talents (I assume they are all passive since only Seal appears in the talent hotkey spot and it can’t seem to be changed) really help.

For example, I won’t even want to add e.g. Survival. If I can afford to use Seal to power up my single-heal restoration and suffer the cooldown increase, I might as well wait a little to use group-heal blessed light. Survival may be useful under some circumstances but I don’t foresee it as being something essential enough to tip the balance.

The rage reduction ones have low probability of occurring and they don’t make me jump around in excitement. Again, they might help like castinator but I don’t think they are important enough to rush to get them. Damnation may be useful for those mages who use this skill. Otherwise… the rest of the talents don’t even involve skills generally used by mages.

Of course, some of these talents may become more useful as you spend massive exp to lvl them. But for now, at first look and preliminary testing, only Seal per se is something worthwhile, particularly for pvp if you have a higher Seal lvl than your opponent (I managed to worm my way to #6 in duels). So if we compare with other classes, mages are indeed very shortchanged as a class by this talent system.

I have read that knights will become overpowered (not sure how true) because of talents and archers seem to be having a lot of complaints. So let’s see… before this patch, archers were way too fast and overpowered. Now after this patch, knights get the cake. I am not complaining here but it would be nice for a patch in the near future to give mages a boost. After all, we have to keep tweaking till we reach that elusive balance.

I use restoration quite often both in dungeons and id pvp against other mages, for me 5 second on cooldown is not a problem but 9k heal on average becomes 11k which usually is enough to buy one more turn to kill enemy.

Focus seems to be nice especially for dungeons mostly but it is 3rd thing that gives us chance for reduced rage, and rage is what limits mages.

Barrier is better than goddess blessing imo. It gives you roughly 2lvls of Godess blessing astral which quickly becomes rather expensive.

Momentum seems rather pointless, 1% is to little to bother with that and with rage issues you won’t be able to cast it quicker anyway.

Redemption seems a nice skills but overall not worth the cost.

Misfortune is very good if you use damnation.

Rest of talents is useless as mage delphic is sad thing.

As for seal vs passives it depends what you aim for. Seal will be better most of the time in pvp but during pve passives will be better.

Topic: Wartune / [Coming Soon] Talents

Originally posted by Death1698:

Tough choice below 55 ainit? Level talents as far as you can or get 55 then do talents and be way behind or try and do both and creep along at a snails pace?

I guess milestones are 55 for pvp set, 58 for arena clearing bonus, 60 for new rings and 65 for new dungeon that has summoner in it. You need to balance it somehow too as 3 turn stun is a big deal. I probably wouldn’t touch talents before lvl55.

Topic: Wartune / Updated "SPOILERS" for upcoming patches

Originally posted by Death1698:

So pretty much we’ll get it when they get around to translating fixing bugs and doing other stuff?

Timeline probably means the optimal time between releasing new content so people buy old one but are not yet bored with it so they get maximum cash possible. Pretty understandable marketing strategy.

Topic: Wartune / When wings will be added to arena and cata shops?

Originally posted by Death1698:

Does anyone argue about this against you? No. We say we’d like some kind of free wings same as theres free mounts. Let me guess you’ve bought wings and want to keep the greater edge having to buy them gives you? This is an assumption yes if it is incorrect my apologies.

Of course I bought wings, are you saying you want my balens to go to waste? I’m not against a wings, I’m against against wings that give you same boost as mine for free. You gotta understand other side too. How would you feel if you paid for something and then 3 weeks later everyone could get same item for free? I for one would feel like a fool and at least little angry. Or are you saying it is ok I lose the advantage I payed for just because you feel you should get them for free?

TL;DR
Wings yes. Same stats no as this is not fair for paying players same way (or even more unfair) as no wings is not fair for free players.

Topic: Wartune / When wings will be added to arena and cata shops?

Originally posted by molokot:

completly free wings that are worse can or can not be added at level 45 or 50 that doasnt matter. But good wings in shops HAS TO BE ADDED and that SHOULD HAPPEN SOOn for the sake of game balance. Dont worry about anybody leaving the game for such a reason. Balen wings still will be bought in large quantieties by new players. And balen advantages are huge in all areas . Not allowing free players to compete is much worse for game than making few guys a bit more happy with exclusive wings.

regarding your previous post, you can have multiple mounts but only one wings, so having same wings here and there would discourage all but hardcore cashiers, and they hit everything faster so they probably wouldn’t even need to spend balens then but achieve amount needed in few days.

Topic: Wartune / [Activity] Wartune January Events!

Originally posted by gruntarswe:

You guys seems to be miscalcing something…for example, 10th-17th = 8 days, even without hitting the quest before quest reset, so you can do each up to 9 times, except the cross server arena and bg

… well then you get more boxes ^^ no more attempts from me then ;)

Topic: Wartune / r2games version of support

Originally posted by thortag:

@WREDNAIK, my issue was far worse, lost full set of arena 35 gear, full set of crypt 20 rings, crypt 40 rings, and first recharge trinkets, wings, mounts, most of my gems. taken 4 days so far to do what i could to catch up and still running around with no weapon since you never find the one for your class. they are just stalling me out as they do with everyone else, because r2games does not want to do anything for it’s players, they just want the players to fund them for providing no service, just a game that has events that are only for payers.

I agree 100%. I just said that I also had bad experience with them. And if they can’t be even bothered to click few times and send me some gold then look how much work you demand of them! you are heartless… My guess is you didn’t provided them with one piece of information that is crucial for them and their policy seems to be “not ask for what is missing but stall”. I sometimes even wonder if they can actually speak english instead of copy pasting replies. But that will turn quickly into rage/flame thread if we continue. I hope you will get positive resolution.

Topic: Wartune / Wartune Activities for 01/10/2013

Originally posted by thortag:

yeah but the mysterious resource is only a cash obtainable item, making it so this event is actually for cashers, and level 40’s can’t even obtain a pristine box, since they are up against level 50s with the talent system now intact, we won’t have a shot at winning in there, so best we can obtain is the refined ore boxes, and that if we are lucky, so good job making a crap event.

doing all activities should give at least 2 pristine boxes. Even if you don’t get 3 kills in a week you still should get at least one pristine box.

Topic: Wartune / [Activity] Wartune January Events!

Originally posted by Lifeisacarride:

Originally posted by KnowingEyes:

Rule the Battleground!

Duration:
1/13 0:00 – 1/20 23:59

Goal:
Kill players in the battleground x 3

Description:
Show your enemies who’s boss of the battleground! Defeat any three players in the battleground and you will receive Unrefined Ore Box x1. This quest may be completed once per day.

Rewards:

• Unrefined Ore Box x 1

This hardly seems fair, in 40-60 BG, the opposite team doesn’t always have someone you can kill (or if they do, they hide in spawn or are targeted incessantly like the rest of us low levels and hard to get to.)

Yes, Dryad buff helps, but you can face an entire opposing team that is too powerful to out-Dryad before they hit 5k points, due in part to respawn timers.

I think this supposedly “non-cash” event does not favor level 40’s who don’t cash, and that the kills needed to complete each day should be lowered.

Example; yesterday there was only one person I could kill, even though I had a 80% dryad buff (facing level 59+ isn’t amusing), and they were hiding behind their teams guardians, hooray for being hunted down like cattle for easy honor.

I think 3 is doable, for example some of my guildies when on low health choose to die to their own mates over random enemy ^^

Topic: Wartune / When wings will be added to arena and cata shops?

Originally posted by molokot:

They definietly should be there. In catacombs after clearing level 90 for something like 3k crypt tokens. And in arena after 2nd crusader rank for 10-15k insignias. And not crappy ones. Same as those for balens.

if they did what you ask they would be screwing themselves in a long run. Why would anyone spend balens then if you could get the same thing couple week later for free?

Topic: Wartune / [Activity] Wartune January Events!

I also wonder how they Mystery shop resets will count, will they check if we clicked the button and payed 45 balens or will the free one every 4h count…
I’m not overly optimistic here and considering it is last even giving mysterious resource i will probably stick to alchemy.

Topic: Wartune / [Activity] Wartune January Events!

Originally posted by KnowingEyes:

Remember, the price of the alchemy increases by 10 for every use (reset by day of course). If you know his already, great – but since some calculations are being thrown around, newer players (or players who have not Balen’ed) might not take this into consideration.

Do you know if the quest resets daily? Or can we complete it in 5 days using alchemy once a day?

Topic: Wartune / [Activity] Wartune January Events!

Originally posted by EM1NEM:

Good idea about the alchemy, but I must point out I remember the last alchemy quest refreshed every day not allowing the build up of purchases over X days. I wonder if this quest will be the same?

Interesting, I didn’t check out last one, maybe they fixed that to prevent exactly that kind of “saving” ^^" do you know if refreshing market increases cost of next refreshment?

Topic: Wartune / [Activity] Wartune January Events!

Originally posted by mts024:

still wrong grr gotta stop myself here ugh too big a hurry ok lets try again 28 unrefined for a total of 28-84 refined ore for a total of 7-21 pristine ore for a total of 1-5 boxes which still equals a tone of gold and daru

Thanks to Bev0 post my total is:
38 Unrefined Boxes
9-28 Refined Boxes
2-21Pristine Boxes

Topic: Wartune / [Activity] Wartune January Events!

If i count right you can get:

• 8 Unrefined Boxes from MP dungeons (assuming you do it twice on 10th – before and after the 0500 quest reset)
• 7 Unrefined Boxes from BG Kills
• 7 Unrefined Boxes from CS Arena
• 8 Unrefined Boxes from Plundering (assuming you do it twice on 29th – before and after the 0500 quest reset)
  so 30 Unrefined boxes total which gives us 30-90 Refined Ores which you can turn into 7-22 Refined Boxes
  This 7-22 Refined Boxes gives you a chance for 7 – 66 Pristine ores which you can turn into 1-16 Pristine Boxes.

For King’s bounty you will need 40 whips and that will give you 8 Mysterious Resources (assuming you do it twice on 21st – before and after the 0500 quest reset) missing 2 you need to get using either alchemy or mystery shops.
Cheapest way would be probably doing one alchemy per day for 50 balens. That will make minimum cost of King’s bounty 500 balens. (Mystery shop is 450 assuming the reset cost doesn’t increase with every use but alchemy at least gives you gold or daru).

My only doubt is where you find Unrefined Ore, if the quest description is right then you have no way of getting it for: “Exchange 4 Unrefined Ore for Unrefined Ore Box” option, on the other hand if quest description is wrong and you get Ores not boxes then exchange is right and you can only get 7 Unrefined Ore Boxes.

EDIT: I missed login quest ^^" that gives 26 ores = 6 extra boxes, so if you log every day this is extra 6-18 Refined Ores which turns isto 1-4 extra Refined boxes (2-12 Pristine Ores) so total would be:
36 Unrefined Boxes
9-27 Refined Boxes
2-20Pristine Boxes

Topic: Wartune / [Activity] Wartune January Events!

Open to randomly recieve means you have a chance for that or you get one of those every time?

Topic: Wartune / [Announcement] 01/09/2013 Wartune Server Maintenance

Originally posted by gruntarswe:

Well, if times are set, i just want to know what they are doing about gb…cause canceling the whole week just cause of a maint would be…not fun :/

Well if you read the GB faq states that if both guilds have same amount of points winning guild is the one with higher BR (no one shows up = both guild 0 points). My guess they will just let it be resolved that way.

Topic: Wartune / r2games version of support

Wow, I do hope you will get positive resolution of this. So far i tried support 5-6 times, after that i decided to stop bothering, i think i lost around 2m gold so far to the offline crypt blitz issue not to mention other smaller things, I don’t know what data they need to help us, for me they really don’t care. My experience so far is: got small bug ignore, got big one: quit. And that is just sad for support.

Topic: Wartune / [Announcement] 01/09/2013 Wartune Server Maintenance

Originally posted by gruntarswe:

Indeed…would suggest you move it to the usual timeslot which is a few hours later

Indeed it’s better to make europe miss first boss ;) No way to make everyone happy.