Guys I’m new on tibia, just started playing like 1 and 1/2 week ago +/-, I’m sorcerer, currently lv 33 ML 30. Any tips that can really help me? 😄

All I see is doomer comments and I know most gamers tend to be really critical of changes.

I would love a balanced view of a sorcerer who tested last changes. Specifically on solo play (because that's all I do).

Thanks 🙏🏻

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Silly question, but why isn't there a low level elemental club weapon? Sword and axe get fire weapons at lvl 30 while clubs get practically nothing until lvl 200. Is there any reason for this?

Hello, I’m currently 347 Royal Paladin
Which places do you recommend to lvl up to 400?
I’m currently just doing werehyenas south
I’m making around 2.4k - 2.6k per hour
I tried going to werelions -2 but I’m bearly hitting 2k
Also tried asura palace and same, bearly hitting 2k
Any advise or thoughts?

Hi, I play since 2003 ( 36M). For those who share the memories, we had MSN and sending private messages through the VIP list felt like high-tech at the time. Nonetheless, I chatted a lot while training skills on a summoned monk while my friend lvl 45 druid crafted Uh's to sell to the top levels.
In RL I am social like everybody else but not the biggest extrovert.

Nowadays people barely chat through the game windows because that would waste their precious exp an hour, I get that.

I will get to the point of the topic now which is when I join a channel and there are like 8 people talking I have no idea what to say. In the end I just end up hunting and 'listening to people talk', this feels weird to me because why on earth would I want to listen to people talk? I feel like there isn't anything I can add to the conversation as I don't multi-task well when hunting and I don't want to look at a screen while 'talking' to people on a microphone. Is there any 'RPG immersion to that'?

There's the fact that if you are on a PVP context the microphone is useful, I see myself needing to communicate on that scenario.

I just find it harder to 'connect' to people when I don't even see them on my screen, is just people that I don't know nor hunt with on a channel. It feels forced to me and I always feel like I am not participating in anything, just listening to people.

Does anyone else feel this way too? I feel bad for not loving discord and TS talks.

I remember back in the day Tibia was very different and I'm not just talking about game itself but the people.

People used to be social. This was back when there were no wiki so people asked eachother for information, directions and had to trade in chat which sparked conversations. Making friends was easy.

Nowadays, you should consider yourself lucky if you find someone who speaks English. And even then, they most likely won't even respond to you because they're busy min-maxing. The game honestly feels like a single player game with players behaving like NPCs. There's barely any conversations anymore. No roleplay. Just the pursuit of hitting bigger numbers.

Do you agree?

I make this post so there can be some discussion around balance. Not necessarily specific balancing decisions that are coming but the idea behind balance. For whom should balancing be for? Skill floor, vs skill ceiling.

Skill floor, skill ceiling

Ideally, at least for me, a good mmo or game has stages of enjoyment. There's the entry/very casual stage, the intermediate hey I'm getting pretty good stage, and the tryhards who really care about getting that extra 1% better.

If you're not familiar with the terms skill floor and skill ceiling let me explain. Skill floor means there's a low barrier to entry. You can be serviceable at the game without that much effort or time. Skill ceiling means there are a lot of ways to express skill, nearly always there's small minute details that you can improve on to do that just little bit extra performance.

Tibia in general in my opinion has been for at least about a decade been a fairly high skill floor and a high skill ceiling. In other words I mean I think it has a lot of room to improve and get better and you'll see those differences in skill all the way to the top. While the skill floor being too high means it's too punishing and difficult for new players.

Changes I like to see in general lower the skill floor, allowing newer players greater margin of error to play the game without sacrificing the skill ceiling. This does not mean every single change to the skill ceiling is bad, just that it's something you should keep in mind when making changes for the lower skill/new players.

If there is a change that can be made that solves an issue that doesnt impact one of the other categories of players much that's the best result.

Who should balancing be for?

As unfortunate as it is not everyone can get everything they want. You can't balance for everyone in every stage of the game. So who should you listen to when deciding to balance a game? Should you listen to your casual fanbase that makes up the majority of your playerbase or should you listen to your dedicated players who spend much more time playing?

Each are going to have different opinions on where they think the game ought to go. In my opinion I think cipsoft should "cater" more to the mid levels more so than either the low levels or even very high levels.

That doesn't mean they should not listen to newer players it's valid. For example mages have always been the most difficult vocs for new players because of the low health pool. For twenty five years it's been that way and everyone will just tell you to get good or play a different voc.

For very high levels often times they are playing the game the most, they have experienced all or nearly all of the content of the game. They have valuable insight to give regarding the end game and how vocs interact at the absurd levels. Where I would caution listening to very high levels is that past a certain point in tibia it's actually better for you if everyone got nerfed across the board. Let's take a lvl 3k team for example. Let's say everyone gets massive nerfs, spawns get nerfed ect... That lvl 3k team is going to do the exact same thing they're doing now with worse numbers yes, but the gap betweem them and everyone else increases.

Sorry for the long tangent. My main point is that mid level range players are the backbone of the game, it's where most players reside. They're firmly in the hey I'm getting better at the game and I'm trying out new stuff category. They may not know all the details about the game but theyre who you should be balancing for. If there's a massive voc Imbalance at lvl 3k but everythings perfectly balanced at 500-1500 I would argue no change is better than a change that would destroy that.

What are your thoughts on balancing design?