My First Impressions Of Wynncraft.

Rosee · Apr 16, 2019

Hey! Didn't expect that many replies. Thanks guys! I love seeing these types of conversations.

RazorGuild said: ↑

Lower levels take much less time than higher levels, so 3-11 isn’t much xp at all. You’ll find that you’ll have to put in a lot more effort for each level. Especially when you hit the 50s. And the spawnrate isn’t that high for most places, there are aoe spells that can a clear a whole group of them, and many more ways to deal with them. For many players, reducing the spawnrate would hurt them, as they need mobs to grind levels. I don’t want to act all elitist and crap, but “get good” is the option here. Most players don’t struggle or are smart enough to run away if there are ton of normal mobs spawning. Combat I agree with you gets a bit old, however once you unlock more spells and access to a better variety of items, combat becomes fun.
Click to expand...

This. I definitely get the sentiment. It wasn't that I exactly had trouble with mobs persay, it was that they were getting tiring when doing things like resource farming. I just noticed that the mobs would come back maybe 10 or even 5 seconds at best, just repopulating the place. Given the amount of XP those mobs had, which was minimal at best, I can see the justification for the amount, though they did happen to just spawn only blocks away from me sometimes. This may have been my sentiment with my Wizard, where I had extremely poor RNG and was level 10 with a level 2 wand. Sure, the AA from the wizard is a piercing shot, but with the minimal damage I put out I may have gotten a little sick of it. With my archer, however, I actually found items that scaled well with my character and it started not worrying mobs once I was basically one-shotting them with a basic attack. Though I do feel with the mass amount of mobs in that area, quests can almost be ignored for the most part, which is kind of saddening. A lot of that may have come from my frustrations with my wizard.

Druser said: ↑

Now that I finally have a chance to read through this...

EB in lootchests, or E->EB on the go, would completely break the economy. That said, earlygame starter money has always seemed a little low to me. Past the first 15-20 levels you shouldn't have to worry much about not having enough money to identify gear, but it's really annoying if one of your first few drops is a mythic. That said, opening some high-tier lootchests is a great way to rapidly increase your money supply in the first few levels (spoilers T3/T4 lootchest locations map).

Emerald Trail does have rather high spawnrates. I've noticed in a lot of the new Youtube series on Wynncraft that people are having trouble using refineries and crafting stations because of mobs attacking, it's something I meant to bring up in the Feedback section on the forums. Mobs will ignore the player when gathering, but that's definitely not the case for crafting stations. Emerald Trail is basically the only spot where refineries and crafting stations are spread out like that, so it shouldn't be a problem after reaching Detlas (since once you do Tunnel Troul).

Damage scaling in Wynncraft is roughly exponential. so denting enemies of a higher level becomes harder toward the endgame (although in general players tend to have better relative gear in the endgame; few level 10 players have a bunch of synergized rares and legendaries). In general, mobs and bosses 10-15 levels above are beatable with extreme difficulty if you have good gear, and 20-25 levels up they basically become next to impossible. Depends heavily on the mob of course - Altar of Santification can be beaten at lower levels than most since the boss has a lot phases, therefore his health regen isn't much of a factor (provided you don't get oneshot by his attacks), but something like Aerie of the Recluse would be next to impossible to finish below level 85 because the boss has particular high health regen.

Note however that xp scales with level difference between the player and the mob killed. 10-15 levels difference makes a major dent, and 20 levels or so means you get a small fraction of the xp. Generally, grinding mobs within about 5-8 levels maximizes xp. In general (i.e. excluding the use of optimized grinding gear), grinding is very effective for the first 10-15 levels but drops off pretty quickly as quests become the main source of xp.
Click to expand...

Okay! This gives me a lot of insight, knowing the spawnrates and everything are intentional in all. And it's awesome to hear that this generally stops becoming an issue once you start venturing past this starting area. And thank you for mentioning the damage scaling, I thought that was something huge that I hadn't seen mentioned yet. It's nice to hear that the scaling becomes less lenient as the game goes on, I love a good challenge.

NicBOMB said: ↑

Make sure to disable radar on mini map mods or use a wynn specific mod like Wynntils which doesn't include the radar feature, as it is against the rules (gives players an unfair advantage). The wynncraft map online is intended to be the user's primary means of navigation before learning where everything is. You really don't need waypoints once you know the coordinate system and get a general layout of the map. The community makes maps of chest loot runs and nodes too.
Click to expand...

THANK YOU.
Paint me ignorant, I didn't realize that the radar feature was punishable. Shows what I know, right? Wonderful to know. I'll look into Wynntils, if it is a more rule-abiding method of adding some functionality to the game. After a while, the coords stopped showing above my health and things and I had found it realllly obnoxious having all my cpu usage and everything blocking my screen just to have the coords up there to know where I was going. Thanks for letting me know! I still am hoping mods like mo'bends gets updated, I think that'd make the world of Wynncraft feel all the more alive with creeping zombies and spiders with articulating legs. Exciting stuff!

Druser · Apr 16, 2019

Rosee said: ↑

This. I definitely get the sentiment. It wasn't that I exactly had trouble with mobs persay, it was that they were getting tiring when doing things like resource farming. I just noticed that the mobs would come back maybe 10 or even 5 seconds at best, just repopulating the place. Given the amount of XP those mobs had, which was minimal at best, I can see the justification for the amount, though they did happen to just spawn only blocks away from me sometimes. This may have been my sentiment with my Wizard, where I had extremely poor RNG and was level 10 with a level 2 wand. Sure, the AA from the wizard is a piercing shot, but with the minimal damage I put out I may have gotten a little sick of it. With my archer, however, I actually found items that scaled well with my character and it started not worrying mobs once I was basically one-shotting them with a basic attack. Though I do feel with the mass amount of mobs in that area, quests can almost be ignored for the most part, which is kind of saddening. A lot of that may have come from my frustrations with my wizard.
Click to expand...

Class differences, one of my favorite subjects. Archer and especially Mage are relatively hard to play in the earlygame, since Archer has no AoE until level 21 and Mage's basic attack tends to be the weakest of the four classes (Archer's is generally the strongest, since it's the only single-target basic attack). Both rapidly catch up once they get Bomb Arrow and Meteor respectively.

NicBOMB · Apr 16, 2019

Druser said: ↑

If done with no other changes, it would break the economy by making lootrunning ridiculously overpowered as a form of moneymaking unaffected by market prices. I already only take about 10-20% of the emeralds I find on lootruns, being able to take 100% and make around 1 LE per 15 minutes solely from emeralds would be massive.
Click to expand...

NicBOMB said: ↑

Make the emerald collection from chests automatic based on time unopened (longer unopened the more emeralds added) that way players can estimate how much loot they can expect in other loot chests on their loot run, allowing for exact control of emeralds from chests and adding convenient features for loot runners.
Click to expand...

I already accounted for that in saying they could exactly control the emeralds from chests. x emeralds for every 30 sec or minute unopened would be balanced because x could be any value. There could even be an emerald multiplier for tier of chest: # of emeralds = time*emerald_rate*tier

Log in or Sign up

My First Impressions Of Wynncraft.

Do you have the same issues that I have? Let me know!

Yeah!

No...

I don't have an opinion.

Rosee Travelled Adventurer

Druser ele defs don't matter HERO Featured Wynncraftian

NicBOMB Maker of Builds | Lurks on Forums | 1 Mythic Found CHAMPION