Reduce Emergency Rescue Tube to Lv. 50

liked it! or can add some hp to others tubes too

 

I like it. The Emergency Rescue Tube is one of those fun items, but just doesn't really have a place or use in the overall meta.

 

I don’t know… if you put it in general terms it sounds kinda weird:

Changing the game solely to facilitate doing something that in the first place is not really intended to be done and is yet possible by other means (using other hp equips or even putting AP into HP and then resetting back, which isn’t the end of the world).

 

Not to mention service already exists for these players both in terms of HB-muled non-AFK and AFK Zakum service

 

Although the earliest level to receive a zhelm is level 50, in my opinion, it’s by no mean the standard. Back when I played, I didn’t receive mine until level 70+ because: 1. I didn’t have the money at the time to purchase one. 2. I didn’t have the hp.
In the end, I don’t see too big of a difference at getting it at level 50 vs level 60. At best, it would be a difference of 10-20 mp over 10 levels if one’s concern is over hp washing.

 

I don't know how to explain it (communication is not my strength), so I will basically repeat myself in other terms in hopes it comes across differently. What you are suggesting is:

Changing "A" to do "B" more easily even if "B" is something that was not intended to be done in the first place; and, additionally, "B" can already be done as it is right now.

IMO, to do a change in the game, no matter if it is small or big (or if it has small or big repercussions), there should be a good reason for it. I am pretty sure that nobody reading this post is concerned about the impact that the suggested change will have on the game outside the benefit it would offer. But, given that is something that is not necessary as there are plenty other ways to get more HP, I deem it as not worth deviating more from the original design.

 

If enough changes like this are implemented, it starts to have repercussions in other parts of the game. There's a world in which enough items are changed for easily accessible HP for Zak at level 50, leading to a drop in AFK Zak service, which leads to a reduction in the number of people running Zak, which leads to an increase in Gen 20 price, which leads to less players playing Bishop, which leads to increased leech prices, and so on so forth.

Note that I'm not saying that specific chain will happen from this one small change, but it's just an example of how changes can have repercussions far beyond their direct effect. If something is changed because "why not?" as others have said, there's a good chance it has more negative effects than positive ones if there's not a specific issue it's addressing.

 

Honestly why not just raise the level of zak entry to 60 to accommodate the tube?

 

I agree with beegoratto, but just wanted to emphasize that even if the tube change would have guaranteed 0% repercussions, I would still be opposed to making changes if these are not necessary.

i have been thinking of why this is my stance regarding this aspect and interestingly I think it stems, of course making this game resemble less and less the game that I used to play back then BUT I think it mainly comes out of frustration. Let me explain with an example,

Back in 2015, my main source of income was summoning bahamut on my bishop every 2-3min while I was at work/studying. I made tons of meso and that was at a time that lucky charms were worth 10k/each and now that I came back from a long break I still had over 1k lucky charms lol. After the break I went back to do the same grind and after hours of doing it it felt like it wasn’t the same and it was not! At some point, the drop rate of summons got heavily nerfed, but how am I supposed to know that in beforehand? Well, you can’t since there isn’t a list summarising all changes that have been made. And if there was one, the list would be huge and most likely convoluted. This happened to me a lot of times with items, mechanics, quests and more, and it is frustrating. And even if it were minimal changes, like beginners not needing to have the respective shell to be thrown with the corresponding level of throw shell skill, heck I didn’t know about that and leveled about x10 characters without knowing/using it in its modern version… again, frustrating. Having to look at forum posts of year 20XX christmas or whatever patch to find specific changes is not making good use of my time. Therefore, I would just suggest not changing anything if it is not really necessary to avoid confusion and discrepancies with previous knowledge.

 

i didn’t even know this existed, which strengthens the point I tried to make. The same for Gigachad <3 Nightz trying to find the summons nerf and being hard to do so.

I Tried right now finding this skill changes list on my own as someone who is new to the server and indeed found it going from ML homepage -> Learn more -> link in the redirected link, so I guess it is quite easy to find and I should have found it when I came back from my break. I am very glad to hear that the list gets updated, it is very well done! Is there something similar for items/other stuff that is not skill changes?

However, the point still remains that the shorter such lists remain, the more convenient it is to catch up to the current “version” of the server and the probability of getting frustrating surprises is lower.