Why is EU classic so nerfed compared to NA?

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Drops are not something we can change on our own. I can't give the details but things have been done already, although they might not have been enough

Vendor price nerf is not a EU thing. Prices were reduced by the time KR was in 2.4 and since we're using this patch with gated content for our custom version, we have the official prices for 2.4

What you guys always forget to mention is that KR is optimized for pay2win.
That stuff was removed from the game only in OUR version - so please don't play the game "We can't change anything - it's korea that does everything" when you clearly have an influence.

Even not-so-smart people should come to the conclusion that when you remove the pay2win items, you should revert any changes that were made solely to incentivize pay2win purchases.

You're mistaking translation for localization.

Gameforge only translates and hosts the game. They don't localize it.

In fact, Aion doesn't have proper localization at all. Only some minor attempts at it.

TBH GF would as a rule say what changes they want on each patch before its given to them for them to do what needs to be done before its released, so in my eyes its something GF asked for.

It doesn't matter who changed it and it doesnt matter who we blame KR or GF it doesnt matter...

What matters is GF has no desire to fix this issue because they don't consider it an issue because "but KR did it!". Despite players complaining about it since day 0. That should tell you enough about this company.

So glad to do the most difficult instance in game (BT HM) and see only 1 (ONE) weapon for 25+ runs, and even not from last boss, but Flarestorm. Not talking that I do BT HM almost all runs as only plate and got only 2 plate parts for all runs, but both of them from last 4 runs. Previous ~20 nothing. Imagine doing instance 3 weeks non-stop and not get rewarded.
In general it's 0 ET items for one run with about 50% chance from my experience.

The mini-boss rewards in Taloc is what I really noticed.

They are between 100k to around 300k XP on the EU servers, where as they are in the 10's of millions XP on the NA servers, which makes them an important sources of solo leveling XP.

Like Desperation, doing the 7 allocated BTHM per week with my premade and so far, no weapons or wings in 20+ runs. From the top of my head, 3 Runs didn't have an eternal. It's cool to get the gear but the weapon being close to non existant freaking sucks. It's not like we can craft the Drenium/Balic weapons since either the plans or mats are unavailable despise the number of bots farming for all of us lazy people who should farm 10 hours a day to reach the 2kk daily limit... /S

Manastone prices are going to the moon, Plans are close to non existant, Balic Mats drop once every full moon and once you hit Ingisson / Gelkmaros, white & blue world loot drop will make you feel like you just found gold

All these problems and more have been the same for weeks and so far, nothing has been done.

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The mini-boss rewards in Taloc is what I really noticed.

They are between 100k to around 300k XP on the EU servers, where as they are in the 10's of millions XP on the NA servers, which makes them an important sources of solo leveling XP.

That's a change that happened in 2.5 or 2.7 that increased exp from taloc mobs by alot

Looks like things aren´t running very good anyways for Gameforge. Normal Daeva pass seems not to bring enough profit, thats why they bring event pass after event pass for every which you shall buy currency in cash shop.......

Well we all know GF saying you have to work at it to get something that's there saying so its GF who done this and yes i also played NA Classic so do know there is a big Diff

Wondering why there are tons of bots and despite everything nobody deals with them? Well I guess they are GF's bots, making extra cash off you. You ever saw a ridiculous item and thought, who the hell will buy this? Well if that item is on the market there are people buying it. As long as players keep buying their garbage nothing will change. I don't know whether I should cry or laugh because of the miserable level of this server and despite doing everything the "reward" I get in return is nothing close to what it was before.

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Well we all know GF saying you have to work at it to get something that's there saying so its GF who done this and yes i also played NA Classic so do know there is a big Diff

Absolutely true.

When GF release 2.0 patch I bought a 30day Siels Energy and was only able to get my L50 cleric to L54 in 30 days of solo playing a few hours each day.

On the NA server it would take me 3-4days max.

I would say that leveling on NA Aion classic is 10x faster then GF Aion Classic.

I presume the slow progress is to force players to pay more money.

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I presume the slow progress is to force players to pay more money.

Paying money gives you exactly 0 exp.

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I presume the slow progress is to force players to pay more money.

Paying money gives you exactly 0 exp.

Well that is certainly not true. Look at your Siels Energy icon when it's grey compared to when you have paid, there is a vast XP rate difference. Also there are a whole bunch of quests for XP you can't do without Siels Energy because they require you to loot quest items, even simple things like keys in KT or Theo labs. Also you can't roll on drops in a group. So paying money gives you access to a lot more XP.

That said, I am going back to playing only 1 hr per day until they fix the horrific XP rate here, I have renewed my sub on the NA servers in the meantime.

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i remember discussions on the board and discord vividly where players asked/begged gameforge to not make leveling and ap gain too easy to more resemble the classic experience.

while the shitty drop rate and the npc prices are a different topic, for me the 150% ap gain on na which also included relics, dredgion and tiark was a mistake.

there is making it hard and making it very hard, the EU is not and never will be Korean players. there are no drops there is nothing for players who work there ass for for 0 drops.

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Even Russia Classic 1.9 is a lot more generous, look at all you get at level 1 to help you get started. We always get the worst out of all the publishers in every aspect, droprates, servers, events, price, boosts..

All i see in that screenshot is broken items that shouldn't be given for free especially not at first few days of a server.... this is private server mentality right there