Corrupted Key Guardians Don't Make Sense

PerfectlyColored · Sep 24, 2016

Yeah, whenever the developers of wynncraft do something controversial like this, there is usually a reason.

Jared2183 · Sep 24, 2016

Agreed this is annoying

Aradia Megido · Sep 25, 2016

It's a fantasy game. It doesn't have to make sense.

kioph · Sep 25, 2016

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SO
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Your SO plays wynncraft? You lucky ass you

whoisthis? · Sep 25, 2016

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So when I was working on dungeons, even though I wasn't certain about everything just yet, I knew something for sure: Dungeons need to complement the gameplay, and not replace it. If we were to make it so the guardians only spawn in one specific area, we'd be punishing the player for exploring instead of camping that one spot. As for corrupted keys, the first idea was to make it require Runes + Normal key, but we quickly realised that we'd be forcing level 70s to grind in level 10 areas.

And funny story, I got the guardian idea from watching my SO play Wynncraft. For some odd reasons, she spent all of her time in the sheep pen in front of Detlas, waiting for the pink sheep to spawn and killing it for its wool. I realised that it's much more fun to hunt one specific relatively rare mob which will always drop something, instead of grinding mobs hoping to get a rare drop.

It ended up being the best solution so we replicated it on a larger scale. That way, people can explore, grind, do quests and yet still get rewarded with a guardian every so often. Knowing that, it might make more sense to you as to why they can spawn pretty much anywhere close to their level range. Lore-wise, it can be a little weird, but I think it's worth it.
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The issue with them being able to spawn everywhere is now we players are forced to go all over the map just to get one key. The Nii guardians have a very high spawn rate and the key guardians have a super low spawn rate making just the key component alone worth 2-3le. Dungeons do complement the game play but I find myself wanting to do corrupted dungeons, unfortunately I am not rich enough nor do I have the time to run around and get a SINGLE key per approximately 30 minutes. One of the most dreadful things is when I finally find a guardian and some other player takes the kill, its like rip now I have to wait another 30 minutes to find one. Please make the key a rare chance from doing high level boss altars or something because it is very irritating task to walk around for so long, just for one key.

Morgan83 · Sep 25, 2016

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So when I was working on dungeons, even though I wasn't certain about everything just yet, I knew something for sure: Dungeons need to complement the gameplay, and not replace it. If we were to make it so the guardians only spawn in one specific area, we'd be punishing the player for exploring instead of camping that one spot. As for corrupted keys, the first idea was to make it require Runes + Normal key, but we quickly realised that we'd be forcing level 70s to grind in level 10 areas.

And funny story, I got the guardian idea from watching my SO play Wynncraft. For some odd reasons, she spent all of her time in the sheep pen in front of Detlas, waiting for the pink sheep to spawn and killing it for its wool. I realised that it's much more fun to hunt one specific relatively rare mob which will always drop something, instead of grinding mobs hoping to get a rare drop.

It ended up being the best solution so we replicated it on a larger scale. That way, people can explore, grind, do quests and yet still get rewarded with a guardian every so often. Knowing that, it might make more sense to you as to why they can spawn pretty much anywhere close to their level range. Lore-wise, it can be a little weird, but I think it's worth it.
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Hehehe... Just be glad you have a SO...

#ForeverAlone

PillowPet · Sep 25, 2016

Solution:

Decayed Key Gaurdian.

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