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I do admit that there are a lot of things wrong with the mod, but it's also great for what it is.

The main reason I quit was because I never looted a legendary from Ragnarok. I mean, I was literally no lifing this game so hard, I was at every event you could think of, staying up until like 4 Am just to play with WS and tricksters, pulling all nighters to play with Americans, sleeping during the day to come to AU events, you name it, I was there sooooooo much. As soon as 7.0 (i think it was 7.0) hit, you look in the legendary section, for a good 2 weeks 90% of legendary drops from Odin were from my kills. To see people who do literally nothing in the server and rarely contribute or anything and just plain have the IQ of a 5 year old loot an Odin legendary is just ridiculous IMO. I hate the fact that people do nothing in servers, don't get kicked because "oh but they're trying, they're a commando throwing spears while the shield wall is breaking and they're getting in the archers way, contributing very well" and then just loot some legendary and probably get scammed for it,

Perfect example: I was in a run, some dude looted a tower shield, he was the most useless player had literally no kills, didn't contribute at all, shot 2 arrows a wave and just AFK'd, got scammed the day after by imarc. I know this is once instance, but it's not the first.

Now unfortunately this game also somewhat requires "Scamming" although I would rather call it good deals, to actually become wealthy. I remember when I first joined, if you had striped armour, a grinder helmet and like a strange great sword you were Jesus. If you had trans and a flamberge you were god. Fact is it only took like 2 or 3 weeks to get striped etc, but now to actually be competent in a run, you NEED items well over the worth of 5 million. Resurrection tomes, Barrels, Stone Mauls etc, new players cant access this for a VERY long time unless they either:

A) Loot a LOT of green mats
B) Get lucky and loot a good legendary, not a wormbane
C) Trade their asses off all day and all night

Problem with C is that you actually need wealth to begin with.

So yeah, cut a long story short the loot system is the main reason I've basically quit and I only come on when I feel like it to hang out with a few mates or something. On the note of kiting, yeah I can't even play on AU servers any more, the past like 20 times i've actually come on to play it's been at 3AM on a European server because you can't kite any-more. Man oh man would I love to just go into an AU server and kite a bit, not for loot or legendaries, just for something to do with good ping.

Cavalry is a joke, but that's another topic and honestly cavalry is in my opinion, irrelevant to this mod and is a waste of time. It was made for community fun and should be kept that way.

So all in all, I personally will not come back to this game and play religiously as I used to, until the loot system gets fixed, or the material cost issue gets fixed, or kiting comes back.

This mod is so unnattractive for new players it is unreal. You have to spend SO MUCHHHH TIMEEEE levelling up. Honestly it's just so much, especially with the amount of unsuccessful runs going on now-days, I mean, if you are a new player and you die on wave 17, thats like 10k XP gone. You only get 20k xp per normal run and that's IF you're actually alive throughout the entire thing! It takes so long to level, the reward is tiny, the gear jump from Normal-Hard is rediculous, I mean how can you even expect a team of level 32's to do hard mode? They cant lol. You need to rely on the higher up players to carry you, but there aren't that many anymore.

A suggestion to perhaps "fix" the hard mode issue was nerf higher players and bolster lower players, stat wise, when you join a hard server. If a team of Ragnarok veterans join a hard server to carry three people it's a walk in the park, you have barrels, tomes, hero classes, shields that don't crack, the best weapons in the game, you name it, you could AFK it (not literally). Grab a team of level 39's that just hit 39 and some 32's, it's hard, they actually have to think. I believe to make the mod more appealing from what i've been reading (people want a challenge, hence kiting), is simply make Ragnarok level 52 and you must be a tier 4 support class, make hard mode level 32-39, if higher up players want to join simply bolster their level down and adjust the gear they can carry, for example you have the cavalry tab, and the normal tab. Have a hard mode tab with a level cap of 39 so you cant bring tomes and barrels and your stats will be nerfed. This will bring a challenge, so of course the bots will have to be nerfed, but with this new nerf of the bots and OP players not being able to come into the server and carry, there will be a balance and it will actually be do-able for new players.

People will now complain and say "But now we have no cades", well the bots will be nerfed significantly to suit the stats/weapons of level 32-39 players and don't know if this has happened yet, but it's been said a million bloody times, just make SHC's accessible to the same tier as heavy barricades. They're the same thing. One is tall, one is not. You can still upgrade to a wall cade and a barrel at level 52.

The game is too hard for new players if they are not carried. Also add a mode for like level 45-51 which is the same as hard mode, bots are a bit stronger, our stats are higher, but more xp drops.

Dunno but yeah, rant over.

PS: Not slamming anything, just stating my honest opinion after playing this mod for many many years. I still think the mod is brilliant to have fun and chill around, it's great for what it is!