Hello! The Vindictus subreddit hasn’t migrated over yet, and isn’t listed in sub.rehab. They have an official discord, but I thought if anything, it could be helpful to reference it here as well - with intent to spread more awareness about Lemmy / Fediverse
In June 2021, I wrote a massive returning player breakdown guide for the MMO, Vindictus. Sadly, I retired (for good) in Jan 2022, so I was not able or willing to maintain the guide. I mentioned this in the discord, but got no bites. It’s a pretty small community, but the ones still there are pretty active afaik
So, since it’s outdated but still useful in some ways, I decided to throw it in google docs so that I can eventually transfer ownership, and then they could possibly update & post it in the best location for their community (which I hope won’t be reddit, but might stay with google docs)
Anyway, here is the guide in view-only. I will post in the official discord about this and bulk-rewrite all my comments once all my useful posts/comments are migrated. Let me know if you guys think I should do anything else for this transfer :)
Is it still possible to even return to that game? I vaguely remember some kind of giant level disparity issue, where recent raids just had undodgable damage sources all over the place; then when they rebalanced some old missions for reentering novices, a lot of them were just near-instant victory with no actual adventuring.
Sorry for the wall - Honestly, in my opinion and experience, it certainly can be. And considering how flawless the action combat is, I think just the pure enjoyment from that is more worth it than people give credit for. I originally played from 2013-2016 and then returned again from 2020-2022. The catch up was extremely easy (as in handed out gear packages for the “base new content”, but I was already level 80 so the tedious leveling was already done (on my main)
When I came back, I had actually played some of the new characters as alts for fun, so I started from level 0. I think I did Sylas, Belle, Grimden, and Kael, but mostly played Belle and Kael. I think I had gotten them all to 70-80, and maybe Belle and Kael to 85-90
It’s actually written in detail in the guide (leveling tips) but there is quite a lot you can do that adds up to help leveling go pretty damn quick. It’s very brainless though and extremely easy, no challenge - so I understand how it could be difficult for anyone to go through that. I don’t remember much more than this, but I didn’t find it to be particularly horrendous, maybe took like 10 hours max to get to 80? Completely guessing
I learned that basically from 0-60 (or 70 or 80?) became the new “tutorial”. I think this was case ever since the big RISE update
To answer your other question, I’m not sure I understand what you mean about undodgable damage sources all over the place. I don’t recall anything being super difficult except for Redeemers, which are already more forgiving than mechs in Lost Ark raids. I had a lot of fun in and don’t particularly remember current raids being bullshit, except for the tiny ass hitbox bitches for my xgun Kai lol (complete and utter aids, need really fine tuned aim and partially luck)
