First, let me say I'm firmly agree cash players should get advantages. Heck they are spending real money on this game so they should get advantages, but the game also needs to keep the f2p players as well to give the cash players people to beat up on. But the f2p players need a carrot to keep from quitting. Wings are a just too much of an advantage. Sure people will say it's "only" 2% here and 120 there, but lets take two imaginary characters and look at the impact. Lets say they both have:
10K ptak
8k pdef
6k mdef
30k hp
Now lets see what wings do to this scenario.
10,320 ptak to 10k
8,280 pdef to 8k
31720 hp to 30k
Ignoring any other bonuses the wings player will have a base damage of 1160 (10,320-8000)/2.
The non wings player will do a base of 860 (10,000-8280)/2
Is that insignificant like people pretend it is? Same stats otherwise the non wings player is doing about 26% less damage. Or to take it to conclusion the non wings player will be dead in 25.86 hits, while it would take him 36.88 hits to kill the wings player.
So lets stop pretending wings arent a HUGE advantage that really kills competition between cashers and F2P players. I would suggest either cutting the benefits in half, still a very considerable advantage OR giving f2p players the ability to get wings that are 50-60% as good from vouchers.
This goes beyond free market and "paying" for what you want to keeping the game even remotely competitive, and honestly if you can look at those number and argue it is still competitive you are either deliberately obtuse or really stupid. Your choice.
10K ptak
8k pdef
6k mdef
30k hp
Now lets see what wings do to this scenario.
10,320 ptak to 10k
8,280 pdef to 8k
31720 hp to 30k
Ignoring any other bonuses the wings player will have a base damage of 1160 (10,320-8000)/2.
The non wings player will do a base of 860 (10,000-8280)/2
Is that insignificant like people pretend it is? Same stats otherwise the non wings player is doing about 26% less damage. Or to take it to conclusion the non wings player will be dead in 25.86 hits, while it would take him 36.88 hits to kill the wings player.
So lets stop pretending wings arent a HUGE advantage that really kills competition between cashers and F2P players. I would suggest either cutting the benefits in half, still a very considerable advantage OR giving f2p players the ability to get wings that are 50-60% as good from vouchers.
This goes beyond free market and "paying" for what you want to keeping the game even remotely competitive, and honestly if you can look at those number and argue it is still competitive you are either deliberately obtuse or really stupid. Your choice.
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