Hello dear Devs,
i have made the journey from RunesScape to Runes of Magic, Neverwinter, from there to multiple other MMORPGS that were popular for a short time and filled with “buy me” content and “money progression”, over to more relevant games like “The Elder Scrolls Online”, “Black Desert”
I have read multiple VRMMORPG - Light Novels. Sword Art Online, Legendary Moonlightsculpter, Overgeared, Zhang Long and quite a few more that i dropped because the style was literally unbearable.
I had dreams for this game. And this is why i am here… to speak with you about the dreams.
I fell in love with the crafting system because you were able to handcraft to your needs.
Now i am old enough in game time to know… what matters most to damage is the armor class…
I enjoyed the Invasions and the placement of siege weapons in war. But the servers struggle a lot with bandwith causing delay and the game itself with the display of damage and the application of said damage.
Forget wearing light… even if your damage depends on it. Because two handed weapons made the devs nerf the armor. Shirking fort… now the only thing buffing that armor… also getting weakened… because two handed players are too strong.
I have fullfilled me a dream today, actually working on an assassins gauntlet. It works PVE… but pvp wise most of it doesnt work with all types of regular gauntlet combinations.
Not giving up yet. I at least can try playing 3v3. But the bandwith makes me suffer.
.> For some reason i get punished.
Evade in medium? Yeah that swing just then and there is still applied to you.
Evade while slowed? Yeah… you can’t because now you have animation delay … which also reduces your casting speed.
Gravity well on you? Don’t matter if the enemy is 10 meters away…
Shockwaves? You are lucky they don’t go through walls… but the "range and width " is insane
You could throw a full team off.
I… want so say i see hope. But your balancing… is off… as you don’t seem to have the same bandwith issues.
I can see how a 10k server never will happen… because the servers we play on… actually are so slow its hard to even excell at 2500 players.
The game still needs a way to reduce its “lag” and input delay… mages suffer even more thanks to the animation delay of some “casts”
Go heavy, go shirk, go greatsword, great hammer, great axe… and kill everyone. Because crit, bleed and other aspects of typically light geared weapons… is just… not relevant to you.
This may not reflect whats actually happening to other players. But… i feel sick playing pvp.
I will try again when i have grinded the necessary 200k to improof my gear. For the chances that i won’t even be able to afford the pieces i would need to make me viable… because any player wants them…
The fact you can’t escape a greatsword in medium gear… that you can’t survive one in light… and that you just die in heavy because you do no damage.
… My dreams changed. I thought i could play pvp. But now i just want more Land.
I want more dungeons. I want raids. I wan mysteries. I want dozens of stories, a deeper insight into the mythics of the game, I want hidden chest and crafted keys to open them, they should spawn randomly… just somewhere… and change location every hour, but hold some treasures… and i don’t mean like an alchemy stockpile where you run past… because theres a dragonglory.
Shards seem interesting… but if your goal ain’t to use these shards to make players able to jump between realms… Like serious beautiful heaven and hell realms or i dunno…
I appreciate the leaderboards… they give us self made content.
IF shirking fort gets nerved… i hope the damage scaling and utility of double handed melee weapons gets nerved too… because one can’t go without the other.
Just the horror of the “high elemental” block armor… which is NEVER used to defend against mage players… and rarely found or you actually need to craft it… i mean…
precasting and dodging is all i can do… but it doesnt help me surive in pvp. Not with that delay.
Or picture book frames, everything close… and only game running fullscreen and everything updated. Eureka. My processor being the worst of my hardware with a Ryzen 5 1600
.> But is it that? Do i need a new processor/motherboard to more efficiently play the game?
I don’t think that processor is too old… But with even more intense mechanics and all… i really wonder if theres something somewher that can be adjusted to make everything smoother.
Mainly… to be able to play in instances like Arena or OPR… a mode or something
I don’t quite get why you can’t use your shard system in another way to make us enter into realms… but i acknowledge that physics eat a lot.
And i really wonder if there are no more efficient servers out there.
I also wonder what i would need to pay in a month to make that happen 
I would love to be a premium member of some sort.
TESO already giving you ideas how to apply something without it needing to be too… much item shop… and when looking at Black Desert… theres certainly ideas if you take those into account.
Like… Lets assume you implement transmutes. Make them premium content. Everyone can unlock them… but to use them you need to pay a small fee in a month. I dunno. There are multiple ways to use that.
Add a small carrying buff…
Maybe a reduction of Azoth traveling costs
Increased chance of finding Azoth…
sometimes i wish… animals would roam more. Like routes for npcs… so that the world ain’t looking so… predictable. I wish there was something like traveling merchants… where you could exchange things for “buffs” that give you a temporary advantage in pve… just like bosses or elites…
its really hard to have a game with such fascinating world building not being able to have more instances… like solo dungeons… corruption breaches that turn into dungeons… with rewards… other mystic things.
Also looking forward to a pet system. Although i wish fo rmore combat type pets. No one remembers runes of magic with its pet card system. And i imagine pets being able to wear armor and accompany you into the wild. Taming “travel” pets to reach your destination faster as long as you don’t get hit you stay on your travel pet.
Don’t get me wrong… i am just dreaming here. Nothing Beats the stories of TESO. Or all the dungeons in similar games… which are currently just not possible here.
I am still a sucker for the crafting system and just wished it had more relevance day to day.
Wish mages could enchant their armor to sustain certain damage types better… because its insane to expect a mage to defend against a greatsword, a greataxe, a warhammer, a spear, and a mage at the same time… while melee classes are more resistant overall against Anything
Why shouldn’t there be perks that benefit 300 int only? and scale from 150 onwards?
What else could one make use off to give survival to those that need it…
sight though… i am okay to forever play PVE. But … i can only play it for long, if theres a lot to play. And repetitive content like mutations gets sickening after a while. Just running for chests gets hard after a while. Everything being static gets boring after a while.
Only reason i still enjoy mutations after a few months… because theres some… “change”
Special conditions, special/hidden monsters, hidden treasures (that do not necessarily spawn/visible), weird conditions for encounters, roaming npcs, tamable monsters/pets, equipment crafting thats class specific or opens up to make weapons more synergetic, of course the scaling can be different or specific conditions need to be met like not only level, but crafting skill or mastery, or a certain amount of attributes… or specific abilities to be selected…
Everything should not go together… but some things need support… and if its not about creating new weapons… how about new restrictions?
… well today thats all on my dream board. I set out to fight my dragons in TESO soon. And tame my and breed my horses in black desert, or continue to hone my weapon skills in some wuxia themed games, explore dungeons in WOW, or discover mysterious mechanics like in Dungeons and Dragons Eberron Unlimited, to arcane crafts that make me sustain the brutality of war…
Special ressources that spawn at day or at night… only visible to those wearing their farming jewelry… that got crafte with field boss materials like the horn of a unicorn which you grind to dust so you can see.
I just dream. >.> Sorry if you found this a bother. Fellow dreamers are welcome to leave a note. I respect it if you find this impossible… but please just scroll through if you feel insulted by my ideas 
If we can’t XD Also it may show something about certain metas… and people can actually ask advised of skilled people.