Gameplay The New Soul Point System Is Bullshit, Let's Change That.

Even a slight chance of losing a mythic or legendary is bullshit, especially when it is all up to luck. Rather than having RNG-based horsecrap decide the fate of your possessions, simply make the player weaker per missing soul point, let's say 5% extra damage taken and 3% less damage dealt. It might not seem like much, but when going from 15sp to 5sp the player would take 50% more damage and deal only 70% of the damage they should. This punishes players by making it easier to die the liwer they are, making them more cautious but removing the retarded factor of the change.

Thoughts?

Edit: Here's a TL;DR of the comments for everyone:
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-"u must be really unlucky to drop a mythic lol luck is fair and balanced"
-"nuzlocke runs punish you so should wynncraft you fucking noob"
-"let us keep mythics/le/keys pls daddy salted"
-"revert soul point system you autistic fucks"
-"just fucking idle dipshit"
-"fucking idling is stupid you dipshit"
-"peanut butter goes really well with celery"

also lets all salute our fallen soldier, xavierexe, and his lost dungeon key. may it rest in peace in a better place.

 

u have a chance to loose all ur items when 5 SP actually , but u must be really unlucky lol

 

The chance of weapons/armor dropping only takes place at 5 SP, and even at 1 SP, it's still only a 16% chance to drop.

 

To be honest, I don't really see the point of the new Soul Point system either.
Some players like to take risks if it means they get to keep playing on that class, and regenerating Soul Points can take a while.
So by doing this, expect a ton of players that blatantly disregard the warnings and leave complaints that their items disappeared, and spamming the forums with requests for refunds because they can't figure out why their items are gone.

That, and there isn't any added advantage to having more Soul Points, and instead it's just "not having a chance to flat out lose your item".
I get that it's probably a good idea to lower simplicity in favor of making gameplay more unique, but this is kind of a stretch.

Here's an idea to replace the RNG-based item destruction:

• Remove the chance of losing an item at lower Soul Points
• When dying at five Soul Points or less, take away a portion of your current XP, scaled on how little Soul Points you have remaining
• Keep the Inventory Wipe feature to dying with two Soul Points or less

I'm probably gonna get a lot of flak for this because it seems similar to how Zentrela does it, but it's a system that works well.

 

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for you my special snowflakes

at least read the first sentence if you are gonna comment

 

Old soul point system: You lose 15 soul points, you become at risk. If you die, you lose everything.
New soul point system: You lose 10 soul points, you become at risk. If you die, you don't lose everything, you might lose something good, but you don't lose EVERYTHING.

The update basically nerfed the death penalties, but also nerfed the max amount of soul points before risk. Either way you can just stop playing after a certain amount of time and you won't have to worry about anything.

 

But why put a limit on how much a person can play without such a risk that rears itself at complete random, and only makes things more chaotic?
I'm not saying that you shouldn't lose your items if you die over and over again, but the Old System was just fine as is.

 

They really should just buff SP Regen, and keep it at the new system. Then, having those items would be a lot more important.

 

If they raised the max soul limits to 20, would you still be mad? Because then it would be better than the old way, indisputably. The old way, you lose 15 soul points and you lose everything, and the new theoretical way, you lose 15 soul points and you only lose some things. Everyone ever would rather lose a few things than everything, at the same cost of 15 soul points.

But that would be too big of a buff. That's why this is more about them nerfing the max amount of soul points than anything else, because the end goal, the danger, is less scary.

 

Yeah, and then you can lose your items that have SP Regen.
So it wouldn't matter anyway.

I don't care if it's less likely than an XCOM soldier failing a 99% shot on a Sectoid at point-blank range (which they always fucking do), it's still an unnecessary risk that is further prevalent because of how Soul Points have been unnecessarily attached to random features.

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I'd prefer it if your items didn't get lost at complete random, because then there's less to worry about.
It's better to know when you're actually at risk, instead of silently fearing that RNG will punish you.

 

But if we get stuck in a wall we still have to wait till we have 7sp in order to safely play again.
And this is gonna make people afk in towns more to avoid the chance of losing their good items.
I thought this update was meant to give us more options, with powders, and more ways to get xp, but how are we gonna enjoy it if we spend half the time in towns waiting for our sp to regen above 6?

Plus, you're comparing a video game to a living creature.

 

Then there should be a very clear warning for when players dip into the "Danger Zone".

One like this:
"Be careful, adventurer. You are steadily losing Soul Points, and the next time you fall in battle, you will have a chance to lose one of your items. More information about Soul Points can be found by hovering over the Soul Point item in your Inventory. Please note that Wynncraft has a strict no-refund policy, and once you lose an item, there is nothing the staff can do about it."
"If you believe you've encountered a bug, please report it at https://github.com/Wynncraft/Issues/issues. Further questions can be asked on the forums at https://forums.wynncraft.com/forums/questions.89/."
"Click >here< to close this message."

 

I just want to make sure that players are fully aware of this information, so there doesn't have to be much confusion about it later.

 

The difference is that we were able to play for longer, and we only had to wait for 2sp max before /killing when we got stuck in a wall, rather than having to wait for 6sp max.
And, there's going to be so many threads of players who died at 5 sp and lost their weapon or armour and don't know what happened.
I thought the old system was fine, I don't want my items disappearing being left to chance.

This would all change, however, if our items actually dropped instead of despawning upon death.

 

You're forgetting about the beginning of the game, where 5sp is half your total soul points.
And when you leave it up to chance, I can almost guarantee I'll lose my most important stuff. Anything random never goes well for me.

 

That's like saying, in real life, you would rather die than a tiny risk of breaking a bone. Why would you rather lose everything for sure, instead of maybe losing one thing? You KNOW when you're at risk. Before, you know you're GOING TO LOSE IT ALL. After, you know you MIGHT POSSIBLY LOSE ONE THING. Unless you can't see the little 5 in the corner how would you not know you're at risk.

People afk all the time to avoid dying when they're at 1 or 2 soul points. No different.