Well, let me start with the positives. I really like that the Novice set is a vanity set and I think the idea is cute. Ragnarok is pretty well-known for its designs and I am quite happy to see Ragnarok clothes in game--they're pretty adorable (I can't stop staring at my adorable Prillipy in that Novice set). And that brings me to complaint number one: the Ragnarok cash shop gacha. For three dollars a pop, a random shot at one piece of a random set out of many, some gender locked, sets. This is arguably more ridiculous than the Big Wheel and Mix Board.
As for the rest of the cash shop items: the gems being in the cash shop and being a reward for staying logged in for 15 minutes is outrageous. One gem gets you one run of Glast Heim--and a chance at maybe one or two Elenium. A Hero piece of the Valkyrie set will cost you 80 Elenium. Consider how much log-in time that is, or how much cash that is. Why can't the gems be a drop or a repeatable quest (Not a daily--God, no) from Orc Field? Orc Field becomes a gigantic waste of time after you finish your quests there. This is hardly what I'd expect out of the "next big update" for Dragon Saga.
Back to the Elenium and Valkyrie sets-- the Valkyrie sets are garbage. They may have some tiny remote use to PvP players, if not for the fact that they lack individual piece stats like every single other late game set has, and that the last option is the Dimension Release stat. What good is this stat without any further content beyond Glast Heim? You'd already have everything from Glast Heim in your posession by that point. I sure hope some more content is planned beyond this, but the bottom line is that the Valkyrie set is by no means worth it for the rather extreme cost of each piece.
And to go back to the dungeons--what a gigantic disappointment! They are a whole two straight lines of mediocre mobs, zero challenge, and garbage for rewards. Granted, I do like the boss pieces (The helmets from Orc Field and Glast Heim, and I do like Glast Heim's tacky cape, regardless of what anyone else thinks) and the level scaling. But these two places wear themselves thin very quickly, and the Valkyrie set is not a reward that makes this repetition worthwhile. And again, I stress that Glast Heim has an entry standard that is too cash-based/takes too long.
Further, we've all been looking at pictures of this great big Rangarok city in-game and all we get is a little cross-shaped walkway. It's pretty disappointing. I feel like I'm playing half-finished content, or otherwise that the content is very underwhelming.
Which brings me to the elephant in the room: something about this little walkway and inside of the dungeons causes some kind of unbearable lag. I have lost two temp. inventories containing cash items due to constant 15 second to 1 minute long freezes, happening every ten seconds or so. I don't know if this is just me, but every player I play with in these areas crashes consistently. It could be overcrowding, but this wouldn't be the first area in game that has such problems.
Well, there you have mine. Anyone can comment, post, argue, et cetera. All in all, I like this update much more than the Legendary one, but it's not living up to its expectation.
Edited by Kazu731, 12 September 2012 - 01:24 PM.
