I'm sorry, but this has to be the most poorly written suggestion I've ever read. Not only did you not state what could be done to make the game better, you didn't even explain any problems. You're basically just swearing about the game. "I think we should have Saiyans" would have been a better suggestion.

1) The boosts are my main point. They're a joke. Laughable. Nothing. Nonexistent. Why a 50% boost? What the fuck does that even do for a player? Jack shit. And about the newbies getting the 100% boosts the high levels don't (It cuts off at about level 30ish, I think.), just no. Why would you even do this..

OK, let's be as constructive as possible and answer this question: What does a 50% boost do for a player? It increases drop rates by 50%. Compared to no boost, this roughly translates to killing 1.5x the amount of mobs in a given time. Let's say someone farmed enough to obtain 10 magatama as drops. If they did so under a 50% boost, they would have obtained an average of 15 magatama instead. Seems substantial to me. I can't tell if you have complaints about anything else regarding boosts.

2) The equipment is most certainly my second point. Sure, the equipment is good... But it's hard as hell to get if you don't do offers, get help, or pay. What's the point of telling someone that they need to get this, when they can't actually do it? Most, if not all of the new players rely on a carry.

What equipment is good, what equipment is hard to get, what could be done to make it easier to get, and why does it need to be made easier to get? You claim that most new players rely on a carry. How do you know that's true and why does it matter if some people play that way?

3) The partners are just... Why? It's obvious that you pay to get extra partner Scrolls; But WHY must you make someone pay to get one to begin with...? Pointless.

So you want all partners to have their first summoning scroll easily obtainable, and require OC for more scrolls? That's a reasonable suggestion, I guess. CS has already done exactly that with Hiraga Gennai and Izuna. The newest partner, Sasaki Koujirou, is also easily obtainable via a short quest although that quest seems to be event-only and you can't pay for more scrolls.

4) Drop rates are still terrible. In fact, I think they're worse.

What has been done to make drop rates worse?

5) EXP rates are just sad now. (Oh, wait, they've always been sad.)

OK, this one makes the least sense to me. When the game was first released, EXP rates were far behind JP and it took hours and hours of grinding just to get to level 20 or 30. But now, you can make a new character and get to level 100 in a day just by doing event dungeons available from the start in Onigashima. Leveling is so fast that players are generally rocketed far beyond the level of their current story dungeon. It is impossible to farm for friendship items or same-level weapons effectively without utilizing Nothingness Magatama, and the result is that new players are often spit out at level 100 with terrible level 50 weapons and no access to the game features required to make proper ones. Personally, I think that pre-100 EXP needs to be toned back down.
But based on what you've said, I don't know if you want EXP rates higher or lower and saying that they have always been the same forms a stark contradiction.

Wibberish wrote:I'm sorry, but this has to be the most poorly written suggestion I've ever read. Not only did you not state what could be done to make the game better, you didn't even explain any problems. You're basically just swearing about the game. "I think we should have Saiyans" would have been a better suggestion.

1) The boosts are my main point. They're a joke. Laughable. Nothing. Nonexistent. Why a 50% boost? What the fuck does that even do for a player? Jack shit. And about the newbies getting the 100% boosts the high levels don't (It cuts off at about level 30ish, I think.), just no. Why would you even do this..

OK, let's be as constructive as possible and answer this question: What does a 50% boost do for a player? It increases drop rates by 50%. Compared to no boost, this roughly translates to killing 1.5x the amount of mobs in a given time. Let's say someone farmed enough to obtain 10 magatama as drops. If they did so under a 50% boost, they would have obtained an average of 15 magatama instead. Seems substantial to me. I can't tell if you have complaints about anything else regarding boosts.

2) The equipment is most certainly my second point. Sure, the equipment is good... But it's hard as hell to get if you don't do offers, get help, or pay. What's the point of telling someone that they need to get this, when they can't actually do it? Most, if not all of the new players rely on a carry.

What equipment is good, what equipment is hard to get, what could be done to make it easier to get, and why does it need to be made easier to get? You claim that most new players rely on a carry. How do you know that's true and why does it matter if some people play that way?

3) The partners are just... Why? It's obvious that you pay to get extra partner Scrolls; But WHY must you make someone pay to get one to begin with...? Pointless.

So you want all partners to have their first summoning scroll easily obtainable, and require OC for more scrolls? That's a reasonable suggestion, I guess. CS has already done exactly that with Hiraga Gennai and Izuna. The newest partner, Sasaki Koujirou, is also easily obtainable via a short quest although that quest seems to be event-only and you can't pay for more scrolls.

4) Drop rates are still terrible. In fact, I think they're worse.

What has been done to make drop rates worse?

5) EXP rates are just sad now. (Oh, wait, they've always been sad.)

OK, this one makes the least sense to me. When the game was first released, EXP rates were far behind JP and it took hours and hours of grinding just to get to level 20 or 30. But now, you can make a new character and get to level 100 in a day just by doing event dungeons available from the start in Onigashima. Leveling is so fast that players are generally rocketed far beyond the level of their current story dungeon. It is impossible to farm for friendship items or same-level weapons effectively without utilizing Nothingness Magatama, and the result is that new players are often spit out at level 100 with terrible level 50 weapons and no access to the game features required to make proper ones. Personally, I think that pre-100 EXP needs to be toned back down.
But based on what you've said, I don't know if you want EXP rates higher or lower and saying that they have always been the same forms a stark contradiction.

I have to agree with Wibberish those aren't helpful suggestions but rather issues to Onigiri which has always been & will be a depressing & oppressing game coming from a SJW gaming company we loathe you so much CyberStep! They even blocked me from their social media *negative comments* proving how much wrong they are which I no longer pay a broken game from now on. Hopefully I'll get to the point of making a Youtube video off of Onigiri just to feel the anguish this game shows how much we can't handle this absurd game that continues to regress in the wrong direction. I have a feeling they'll block me off here too on the forums just because I want to throw in my 2 cents on the street. :/

Actually, Onigiri has recently made crafting new weapons EASIER than ever before, and that's not a joke. The requirements to craft the Satan line weapons has decreased dramatically. In fact, I'm just one step away from getting End of Days CROSS, just needing to level up to 107.

There's some good updates they've done over time too, which you can find here; viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9291

But yeah, there's still a lot of issues that desperately need addressing before Onigiri can be called a good MMO.

Like Deceiver said, you only need 4 Satan weapons to make a cross now. Many weapon and magatama recipes have had their required items toned down to a ridiculous extent.

As for grinding, my opinion seems to be in the vast minority, but I'll give it anyway: There is no point leveling up, especially 115+, if you don't have any equips ready that require the level or chakra. Also, soloing 5-man hell Nue without leechers can give 500 million experience per hour on a 300% boost if you can finish it within 10 minutes. (5-man hell Hikigane Cave should give a little more.) With good gear including a +100 veteran weapon, it is possible for a level 113 to clear Nue that fast. That is 1 hour to get from 113 to 114, or 4 hours with absolutely no boost. Getting from 115 to 116 requires less than twice that time. And if you can't clear Nue effectively by yourself, then there is no point leveling past 115--it will be far more productive to work on your weapons and maga until you can. That's just my two cents.

I will admit, though: getting from 105 to 113 and getting a veteran weapon by yourself is a lot of work, to the point of near impracticality. I did it myself, but I relied mostly on having two +15%atk partner accessories, which are ridiculously unbalanced and require luck to obtain. Honestly, I had made a Nova long before I got my veteran weapon, just by going into Infernal Hell solo every day and running in circles using Ice Blossom and Gargoyle Glacial Lance with a Hyoutengou. But making a Nova before level 110 obviously didn't get me anywhere.

Basically, my opinion is that once you have a +100 level 113 or 115 weapon and decent maga, you can solo most things comfortably. However, I agree that getting to that point needs to be made easier, though I'm not sure exactly what could be done to accomplish that.

Since we're complaining about game inadequacies and I'm telling other people to be more constructive, I'll explain some of my issues as well. Boosts and equipment aren't primary concerns of mine, but I certainly have complaints.

The first two points have already been touched on, but I'll restate them.

1) The massive experience gains before level 100 give new players no time to learn about or utilize game features.

2) From level 105 to 113, or the start of Oushuu through Taneshima or so, the difficulty curve is too steep.

Now, personally, the biggest complaint I have is about partner accessories. Specifically, the ones with % attack bonuses. They are overpowered and unbalanced to a game-breaking degree. To explain why I think that, let me first give my rough understanding of the damage formula. It is possible that I am wrong.

The player's attack stat forms their base damage, compared to the enemy's defense stat. Even before other damage modifiers are taken into account, increasing Attack by 10% will generally increase damage by more than 10%.

This damage is then multiplied by skill force, critical force, and element. Those 3 stats can be combined multiplicatively to form a damage modifier used to estimate damage. From my observations, an average player in standard gear would usually have a modifier between 5 and 15, although highly specialized element builds could have a modifier of more than 20.

Example: Let's say a player is using 3 of the level 105 magatama such as Raretsu Magatama and one other skill force magatama. Let's also say that they are using a level 115 ice Gargoyle weapon, that they stay below 50% HP when they want lots of damage, and that they use a skill that is 70% Ice 30% Slice such as Freezing Ice Blade. If the Gargoyle weapon is +20 and Freezing Ice Blade is Rank V, we are already looking at 340% skill force before the 4th magatama comes in. So let's just say they have 350% skill force. Minimum Critical Force is 170, and Raretsu Magatama each give +10 critical force, so they have 200 critical force. Now, let's take ornaments into account and say they have 30 slice element and 60 critical after ornamenting all of their magatama with Fated Contractor.

350% skill force, 200 critical force, 60 critical, 60 ice, 30 slice.

With 350% skill force, their damage is multiplied by 4.5. If they crit, their damage is then multiplied by 2, but they only crit 60% of the time, and they still deal 1x damage when they don't crit, so their average damage is multiplied by (1+0.6*1) = 1.6. Now, they have 60 Ice element and 30 Slice element, so if they are using a standard Ice/Slice skill, their damage is again multiplied by (0.7*1.6+0.3*1.3) = 1.51.

4.5 * 1.6 * 1.51 = 10.872. Their damage is multiplied by more than 10. So, back to Attack. If my understanding is correct, then the already important stat has its benefits inflated by a multiple of 10. (On the contrary, adding 15% more skill force to 350 would result in a damage increase of less than 4% in the previous example. That is why I haven't mentioned the skill force accessories.)

So that's why Attack makes a big difference. But why am I specifically complaining about % attack?

% attack is very rare. Outside of being available in small amounts from uncommon magatama, you get 10% of it if your weapon is +100.

This is how it works: your attack stat is multiplied by 1.1 after your weapon and affinity is entirely taken into account. So if the person in the previous example somehow managed to achieve 30k attack before % attack was taken into account (they would need perfect smelting bonuses and 6k axe affinity), it would be multiplied by 1.1x for 33k. If they had 30% attack from partner accessories, their % attack would total to 40%, and their attack stat would be multiplied by 1.4 rather than 1.1.

If they equipped 2 Oda accessories, it would instead be multiplied by 1.5 for a total of 45k attack, on top of giving 20 critical and as much Cooldown Cut as two fused Raretsus.

12,000 attack, 20 critical, 20 cooldown reduction. In many cases, I'm sure this could more than double a player's damage output.

And what's worse, this feature can't even be described as pay to win. It's more luck-based than anything. I spent 1,500 OC attempting to obtain Oda to no avail, yet an alternate character of mine got TWO accessories for the price of 40 login bonus OC (via the bonus premium gacha ticket obtained with the first one). I'm sure the same thing repeated across the server, with many players spending more OC than me to no success and many players getting two accessories with hardly any OC spent.

So basically, a player can double in power if they get lucky. You may as well randomize the level cap upon character creation. It's ridiculous, and it's not something a MMO should have.

That is my biggest complaint, and the only one I actively stress over. I also have some complaints about mounts, but I've written a big enough wall of text for now.

Wibberish wrote: I also have some complaints about mounts, but I've written a big enough wall of text for now.

Lol let me do that for you. i have lvl 100 ifrit (with 3 scrolls) and its powerful like hell, which is really unbalancing. Thank god they actually add types of youkai so the damage is nerfed *phew* . Theres still room for brute force though