Link Skills

Your suggestion is way different because they would be tradable and usable by anyone. Linked skills would only work for people who maxed the skill on a character.

 

The process is different - but end result is the same. People put in effort (in mesos or grind time) to have the ability to have the buffs without mules. If anything, mine would be a safer approach as it is possible to limit these pots by handling them out only during events, which allows a near-absolute revert if self-buff is deemed too overpowered.

 

you got my point!

 

Multi-clienting was never supposed to be in the game anyway, so I think the people who care so much about being efficient in a game and wanna go through the hassle should just be glad it’s even possible at all.

 

I also really like the spirit of this change, and agree that it should be limited to just one link skill per idle character on the account.

I would take it a step further and take away the player choice of skill to link, and make it so that leveling up a character would unlock a singular, designated link skill for each class.

The link skills for each class would be as follows:

Hero: Rage
Paladin: Threaten (I know technically not a party buff, but it does provide a benefit to the party)
Dark Knight: Hyper Body
Hermit: Meso Up
Bandit: Haste
Buccaneer: Speed Infusion
Corsair: Hypnotize? I guess? Not many party support skills in this kit.
Archmage F/P: Meditation
Archmage I/L: Meditation
Bishop: Holy Symbol
Bowmaster: Sharp Eyes
Marksman: Sharp Eyes

As per the original suggestion, these link skills would only be self-buffs (I guess with the exception of threaten for paladins and hypnotize for corsairs, as other players would be able to take advantage of the debuffs placed on monsters) and would not work in PQ or expedition settings.

I would also add the restriction that in order to unlock a link skill for use on other characters, the idle character must be level 150. This way, people can't just leech something like a spearman to level 40 and get maxed hb on every other character on that account. They would actually need to master the class to unlock the link skill.

I believe a change like this would neither harm nor negate the effort of multi-clienters who have already leveled up a mule character for the suggested link skill of that character, and would only help to close the gap between the multi-clienting and single-clienting playstyles. Multi-clienting would obviously still hold the advantage of being able to leech your own character via other accounts, but as others have said, if they want to put in the extra effort to run multiple clients simultaneously, there should be some added reward.

This system may also incentivize people to create other characters they normally would never play, which may provide a popularity boost to classes that are currently lower in popularity.

 

I think muling should be harder.

 

It is weird that you acknowledged the staff's effort to keep multi-client from being too powerful, and in the next moment you suggest an even more powerful method than multi-client.

And also don't you think the hassle of having to multi-client multiple buffs a good balance to multi-client? Like you said, needing to rebuff every 3 min or so. This is a good way to make sure everybody doesn't get stacked with all kinds of buffs.

If the Link Skill you mentioned gets implemented, it will cause too much of an imbalance. It means that every single class will have rage. Cider, attack pots will become useless. Just use rage, saves meso and item slots. Don't tell me that you will specifically on a rage mule for yourself, and then go fm every 3 min to buff yourself?

Also, haste on every class is actually very op. Like a warrior having haste every moment every where you go without the needing another client just makes it too easy. At this point, might as well give all class flash jump skill.

Btw, you are meant to play the classes without all the party skills you mentioned. If you want the buffs, you need to party with others, or multi-client to "simulate" another class to play with you. What I am trying to say is that this is the core gameplay, party up with "others". What you suggested is not just a simple QOL improvement, but an entire gameplay change.

Let's not even mention how much time is needed to implement this, especially with a v0.62 client, for a supposed QOL change.

 

I can't say I agree here. There's nothing nostalgic about Link Skills.

 

True, wtf is the point of mounts if everybody has perma-Haste?

 

linked skills multimaging

 

You may feel that way, but not everyone would agree. I, and many others, would argue that multiclienting gives the game far more depth and makes it much more fun. Optimizing single client gameplay is great, and I myself have put a vast amount of effort into it over the years, but after a certain point there is only so much you can do on a single client. Being able to operate multiple clients opens up many new possibilities and raises the mechanical ceiling, both in terms of farming and bossing.

 

My main issue is player interaction. Multiclienting already removes a lot of it, and this suggestion just makes it easier when I think it should be harder. I don't hate multi-attacking in expeds as much as people might think, but buff mules really have to go if this server wants to keep the social aspect alive with dwindling player counts.

 

all of my dks used about 2m nx on ap resets and 1b on leech. when there’s a will there’s a way & balancing needs to be approached with potential future abuses in mind

 

Agree, and say more, multi client is good for causal player too..
imagine take more time finding a squad cause is missing a job than do the content?
if mutliclient is bad, is a bad necessary

 

Imagine cwkpqing without multiclient lmao