So, list the new building structures that we are getting in the base game without required Battle Pass or BLB participation.
Because as I’ve seen it, BLB was getting new Sandstone stuff, the Stormglass stuff, so where’s the free new building sets?
From all I’ve seen, we got some necessary stations associated with sorcery and that’s pretty much it. Only that which was actually necessary or functional, and nothing else because it’s all in the BP or BLB.
That’s why I’m saying it’s not optional. Just like in the next Age, they will give us a few free “functional” items, because otherwise there would be accusations of P2W. And then any other building sets will be BLB, with the cheapest bits they can devise thrown into the BP. (ie, the recolor torches, the wall paints, etc)
Most of the Battle Passes I’m seeing, they offer a free one with some rewards and the paid one offers much more in the way of rewards.
Genshin’s free BP offers the following:
- 855,000 Character EXP (Adventurer’s Experience & Hero’s Wit)
- 960,000 Weapon EXP (Mysitc Enhancement Ore)
- 720,000 Mora
- 5 Fragile Resin
- 5 Acquaint Fate (Standard Summons on Gacha)
Vs paying $10 to get this:
- 3,375,000 Character EXP (Adventurer’s Experience & Hero’s Wit)
- 3,840,000 Weapon EXP (Mystic Enhancement Ore)
- 2,880,000 Mora
- 10 Fragile Resin
- 5 Acquaint Fate (Standard Summons on Gacha)
- 4 Intertwined Fate (Limited Summons on Gacha)
- 9 boxes with skill up material (rare in game, worth a lot of time and resin, especially the lvl 45 and lvl 50 ones that contain 4 star material)
- 680 Primogems
- One 4 star Weapon of your choice from the following:
A pretty substantial difference…for $10. There is also a $20 one that gives you +10 levels on top of that, and their battle pass runs up to level 50. So 20% of the BP is completed for that higher cost. (Should also note, those weapons? A few of them are some of the strongest in the game, for the effects they offer. Stronger even than the 5-star ones.)
The biggest difference, that I can see, is that Conan’s Battle Pass is almost entirely locked behind the paywall. Nearly every other one I’ve seen, they have free stuff at every single level. Not a lot of it, but you still get free stuff for it.
You then have the option of the paid battle pass, which unlocks even more content.
In realistic terms, the stuff we get in the BP now seems mostly like it belongs in a free BP. Since it relies heavily on recolor assets and simple things. And then we should have a 1200 CC version that augments this BP with more rewards at every level.
This video shows off the Naraka BP, which has over 100 levels in it, and all the rewards you can obtain.
But balance changes aren’t necessary. They are a convenience.
The game is playable without the balance changes. You just have to play it in certain ways.
Examples from arguments people like to give.
“Thralls are too powerful. I’m not the hero of the game.”
The game was playable. Thralls were optional to use, so balance was only QoL, it wasn’t necessary to make the game playable. There were options to not use thralls, not give them high tier equipment, not min-max them, etc. But the game was perfectly playable without any balance or changes.
If you want to make the argument that they were in PvP, well the game was still playable. Being unhappy without how the game is playable doesn’t mean it’s not playable.
The same can be said about most other stuff in the same vein. The game is still playable. You don’t like that a weapon is too powerful? Learn how to counter it, or deal with it. So even balance adjustments are usually never more than “optional”, because all they are doing is making QoL changes to convenience players.
But no matter what it is, the game is playable…so even balance adjustments are still optional. The main difference is that more players aren’t happy with how the game is playable, and so stuff like that isn’t deemed optional, because more people are vocal and care about it. And so other stuff is handwaved off as “optional”. Because the mob’s voice carries more weight.
Yep. And seemingly that’s how it’s gonna be from now on. No options at all to get even normal cats in the game, with this just being an extra option for sorcerers? I guess. Tbh, I really hate the look of the hairless cat. :3
But it’s no different than landscaping. They add bushes and trees, not related to sorcery at all except for that one, and it’s gated in Age of Sorcery’s BP, instead of just being part of the base game.
We should have gotten landscaping features free for the base game, and sorcery-related landscaping features as part of the BP and BLB.
So anyone is free to decorate their homes with trees and bushes, and those who want more then get something like trees carved over with symbols or decorated with sorcery-related objects.
