[2021] A Kingdom Divided: Your Feedback and Our Changes

Hey guys, thanks for such a great response to AKD! It was great looking over your feedback and hearing how you found it. :)

We've discused some of your initial feedback this morning and updated the Newspost with some of the most relevant changes and issues. Take a look and let us know what you think, it's in the table at the top of the Newspost.

We'd like to invite you to give us further feedback, particularly around the Harmonsied Staff and Arceuus Spells, so that we can improve accordingly. Please let us know your suggestions in this post and we will review as a team.

Yeah. Although most players I've seen feel it is absolutely fine, we admit we didn't make it clear enough in the blog and so we would feel more comfortable re-polling it to preserve the integrity of the polling system.

We'll do better in future to communicate XP rates when they interact with other items ingame.

<3

Could you offer a bit more detail as to why the attack range makes it less viable? What would you suggest we change?

Interesting idea and one that we have briefly considered when it came to discussing feedback today. We came to the agreement that adding a cooldown for Prayer XP feels a little bit strange - it's not something we've really done before, feels a little forced. Plus the benefits of the Ash Sanctifier have already received feedback that it might be too strong. We're open to what the community thinks, and we'll use this post to review further player feedback on it.

That's strange I'll pass it on to QA when we review. Thanks for the info!

So I probably simplified it too much in the Newspost, I have a better way of explaining the issue here from the wonderful Mod Arcane:

In certain pieces of PvM content like Nightmare, the Harmonised Staff is worth using because other spellbooks were not as useful. Sang staff is a one of our best staves, lets pretend its damage is 10 . Harmonised staff is even better damage, lets say its 11. But now Thralls offer quite a lot of damage at most pieces of content now, lets say damage is 2.

Because you can use sang and thralls together, and you can't use harm + thralls together, that means generally now its better to just use sang + thralls (12) instead of using harm at 11. Although the Harmonised Staff is still technically a better magic weapon, because you can't use thralls with them it suffers in viability and some players feel it's dead content at Nightmare where it was used a lot.

We'd like to invite players to consider what we should change to preserve the utility of the Harmonised Staff whilst also preserving a good balance within the game and not affecting metas too much.

We've seen reports of this happening in Nightmare. I'll edit this reply with some more exact numbers, just getting them now.

So I probably simplified it too much in the Newspost, I have a better way of explaining the issue here from the wonderful Mod Arcane:

In certain pieces of PvM content like Nightmare, the Harmonised Staff is worth using because other spellbooks were not as useful. Sang staff is a one of our best staves, lets pretend its damage is 10. Harmonised staff is even better damage, lets say its 11. But now Thralls offer quite a lot of damage at most pieces of content now, lets say damage is 2.

Because you can use sang and thralls together, and you can't use harm + thralls together , that means generally now its better to just use sang + thralls (12) instead of using the Harmonised Staff at 11. Although the Harmonised Staff is still technically a better magic weapon , because you can't use thralls with them it suffers in viability and some players feel it's dead content at Nightmare where it was used a lot.

We'd like to invite players to consider what we should change to preserve the utility of the Harmonised Staff whilst also preserving a good balance within the game and not affecting metas too much.

Tyvm for spotting, it has been fixed.

Thank you so much for the kind feedback. This was a bug, we noticed this just as the changes went live and put out a hotfix for it.

So I probably simplified it too much in the Newspost, I have a better way of explaining the issue here from the wonderful Mod Arcane:

In certain pieces of PvM content like Nightmare, the Harmonised Staff is worth using because other spellbooks were not as useful. Sang staff is a one of our best staves, lets pretend its damage is 10 . Harmonised staff is even better damage, lets say its 11. But now Thralls offer quite a lot of damage at most pieces of content now, lets say damage is 2.

Because you can use sang and thralls together, and you can't use harm + thralls together, that means generally now its better to just use sang + thralls (12) instead of using harm at 11. Although the Harmonised Staff is still technically a better magic weapon, because you can't use thralls with them it suffers in viability and some players feel it's dead content at Nightmare where it was used a lot.

We'd like to invite players to consider what we should change to preserve the utility of the Harmonised Staff whilst also preserving a good balance within the game and not affecting metas too much.

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So I probably simplified it too much in the Newspost, I have a better way of explaining the issue here from the wonderful Mod Arcane:

In certain pieces of PvM content like Nightmare, the Harmonised Staff is worth using because other spellbooks were not as useful. Sang staff is a one of our best staves, lets pretend its damage is 10. Harmonised staff is even better damage, lets say its 11. But now Thralls offer quite a lot of damage at most pieces of content now, lets say damage is 2.

Because you can use sang and thralls together, and you can't use harm + thralls together , that means generally now its better to just use sang + thralls (12) instead of using the Harmonisd Staff at 11. Although the Harmonised Staff is still technically a better magic weapon, because you can't use thralls with them it suffers in viability and some players feel it's dead content at Nightmare where it was used a lot.

We'd like to invite players to consider what we should change to preserve the utility of the Harmonised Staff whilst also preserving a good balance within the game and not affecting metas too much.

It's important that was action feedback changes following the release of larger content updates to ensure the quality matches player expectations. If we did nothing, then players may feel forced into waiting until the changes have been made before experiencing the content, and that's never fun when something new and exciting has been released.

We've been continuing to revisit old content and make changes where possible, this can be seen in our larger polls such as the recent Poll 75. We will always listen to player feedback, sorry if some changes come slower than you would like to see them.

Thank you for your feedback. We'll make a quick update to clarify in the blog this is only for the MVP.

If you guys have any suggestions for the team, let us know! Could really use your expertise.

Ah yea I've seen that pop up, I'll put a note in as feedback. Thanks. :)

Nah it was definitely me being ignorant. The bonecrusher's XP perk comes from the Morytania Diary so it's a typo from me. Will get that corrected asap. Sorry.

That's really valuable feedback, thank you. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Noted, thanks.

Added as feedback. :)

I'll bring this to the team. <3

I would assume it's limited and would not be able to follow into instances however I'll double check on that when I talk to the development team. I've seen reports from other players saying it feels a little buggy sometimes, so will continue to monitor it and see. Good ideas though! Thanks

Thanks so much! Yeah I certainly hope so, perhaps we can discuss this further with the art team on a stream sometime and get their take on it. I'm sure they'd love to talk about it <3

Much appreciated, I'll bring this up tomorrow to see if we can improve.

I can confirm that any changes we make to the Harmonised Staff would be polled. We're hoping to find a suggestion or solution that most players are happy with. If most players don't want us to make changes then we don't have to.