Rant About Gavel (opinion)

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There is profanity ahead so if you don't want to see any swear words I advise you click away and move on. A lot of these things have been exaggerated to make a point, DO NOT QUOTE ME ON WHAT I SAY.
You have been warned.





So around 3 weeks ago gavel came out, the year long wait is over right? Wynncraft is now 50x better right? Bullshit. I felt like they just a piece a crap that doesn't relate at all to the old Wynn. Like wtf is with fall damage, I've gotten so used to falling and not taking damage for around 2 YEARS. Yea and then suddenly it does like 5000 health every time I fall. I mean sure fall damage should be a thing but fall off like 10 blocks should take away around 400 health. Shit, every time I venture out and die, half the time it was only to fall damage. Sure it adds a sense of security, but there should be a limit on how much you lose. I get it if you fall off like 100 blocks, you should take like half your health, but nooooooooooooooo it has to kill you. Sometimes in quest when you get teleported into the air to get teleported again to reach your destination, I take fall damage while doing that. Sure if there's no lag the teleportation would come of with no fall damage, but it Wynncraft, there is surely lag. Yea and lag is another thing, like saying "fixed lag" does not make the server less laggy. I saw some lag changes in the first few weeks on coming out, damn right now it's "less laggy" but is still laggy as hell. I don't blame wynn for it since having such a big expansion can do some things to the server, but still you should at least warn us beforehand. I haven't been able to ride a horse efficiently for the last year. It would always be choppy. And my internet is not that shit, I get like 50ms to the server and still get the same lag.

Armor, oh don't even get me started. I lost my pair of stalags when gavel came out. I'm sure a lot of other people lost some items during the transfer. They warned us "Get a clear inventory" after the fucking update was already taking place. Like wtf no one has the chance to login a off server. When they log in like 40 million people are on the server and your legendary armor just falls on the ground wtf is that. At least give us like a warning one day before or even just hours. The armor dropping is the least bit of my complains. The armor system has changed. I get that you want to change it up so that everything is more detailed and has more uses but hell the old endgame armor has no USE. It's like the same as armor 20 levels under from the old wynn. As a level 75 level 40s hit me with 300-500 damage out of my 5000... WTF why should a mob, 30 levels under me do so much damage to me. Oh and the "elements" THEY DO JACK SHIT. I mean if you wanted a more complex system make it actually USEFUL. The elements are just there for show. The changes they do are so small I can see it smaller than me dick bro honestly, what were they thinking. The armor bonus too, ARRGGG the "Bonus" do sooo much less than what they used to. I do like no damage with the endgame weapon.

THE WEAPONS, OMFG THEY ARE SOO SHIT. Yea um so I used to one shot with my weapon level 60-70s. Well uh yea, now I have to hit them 3-5 times before they're dead, and sometimes, get this, level 40s can actually take more than 2 hits. WOAH WTF. The sarcasm is real. But the level forty's in gavel territory are so much scarier than all the other mobs in wynn. Heck they could probably defeat bob with one hit. All jokes aside the weapons are shit. The elements don't really change the damage that much and the spell... to be honest I don't see a problem with it except no mana steal or health steal. But I can over look that since it makes the game a lot harder than it used to be and I think it makes me more cautious when fighting. I actually use potions a lot now and that is one of the things that I really like.

I could go on for hours upon hours just explaining all the shit that is in gavel, but I can say without a doubt that the wait was not worth it. With a minor tweaks and fixes I can see gavel to be a much more enjoyable server but I really can't stand fall damage holy shit, I died like 30 times to fall damage. I see that now, not many people are on, but maybe that's because I'm typing this at 9 PST. I felt like I just wrote a satisfying essay that relieves my stress. Thank you for reading if you did.

 

...I'm almost 100% sure that they said that about a week in advance to clear those 4 slots in your inv...

 

1) "I felt like they just a piece a crap that doesn't relate at all to the old Wynn. Like wtf is with fall damage" old wynn had fall damage, that's why we had the blue powder. If you don't want to scratch your knees don't jump off fucking cliffs. Now, unless you are an assassin there is a way for each class to evade fall damage. Now look at me, a level 84 mage, I jump off cliffs, take 6k damage and shake it off.

2) there was a warning about clearing the inventory slots about a week and a half before the update.
The old end game is great, it's a strong set of armor that gives you a lot of health, yea level 40 mobs can tickle you, but why the fuck did you let them reach you? Incinerate everything around you.

3) you're complaining about elements? They are great! Now you need to plan and gear out accordingly, its no longer a matter of "it has the highest damage" I am running around with three wands just to counter each mob, I love it. My pre gavel meteor did 3k damage, my after gavel meteor does 1.5k, but when I use fucking elements I can easily pass 6k damage per element.
About one hitting mobs around your level
A) why the fuck should you one hit mobs your level it doesn't make sense.
B) your build probably sucks

 

I disagree with quite a lot of things in your post, but there's one thing that annoys me most.
How can you say that because of the fall damage and the extra dificulty, that honestly, I like it, Gavel is not worth it? Do you know how many hours have been the builders, the GM, and all the Wynncraft Team preparing Gavel? Tons, TONS, of hours. And you are just screwing all the update for only 2 minor changes.
Finally, don't say that "this was too much for me", because I have lost MY FIRST chestnut horse, i have lost items too and I had to repeat some quests with the problems of the last week, and I didn't start complaining that everything is shit. Because is not.

 

Preach

 

Totally agree with you. Nice arguments.

 

Oh please help, I can't feel my self-justification button!

This 'rant' as you call it is just an uneducated rambling about your first experience of something. Our wonderful Moderator @IgbarVonSquid™ (just saying, flame war inbound) posted back in October about our community's maturity level, and that of Minecraft as a whole.

Most of the Minecraft community is younger (8-12) while Wynn has a more mature community on the whole. We have some outliers in age and maturity, but on the whole, we are pretty even at around 'pretty damn mature for Minecraft'.

Your rambling represents a lack of maturity as you are unable to accept this change, which has brought a large amount of positive things to Wynncraft. Our community is flourishing again, we have new forum members daily, and I haven't made a super detailed post explaining a build in a month.

This inability to accept change as you have demonstrated has clouded your vision in regards to the benefits of Gavel. You shouldn't be taking excessive amounts of fall damage either. Unless you're running negative health regen and are like level 10, fall damage shouldn't kill you that often. You are simply exaggerating. Nothing wrong wrong with that, but please make it clear.

The weapons being shit is you being shit at elements. Same stands for your element argument. Monsters have resistance to certain elements, and some weapons have attack to certain elements.

TLDR: I'm a horrible person

 

And honestly, let's not forget that they are literally making everything that goes into Wynncraft (aside from Minecraft aspects) FROM SCRATCH. The amount of work done by the team alone makes it worth it.
and @Yuno F Gasai , no one could have stated or countered those any better, I wish I could give you a like for each statement.