Chapter 107 - The Malice of Game Producers (1/2)

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Roland was currently level four and soon to be level five. He had a great understanding of how every attribute worked, so he had some ideas of his own.

“Intelligence determines the maximum amount of mana and the power of spells; it’s the most important core attribute of Mages, so adding all points to it is the right thing to do. But this game is different, and other attributes are also quite important. Resistance determines your mana’s base regeneration speed, ability to control magical elements, and good resistance to magic recoil. Const.i.tution, as everyone knows, represents your maximum health and your base strength value.

“Along with the increase in level, a mage’s resistance to magic recoil increases, but only as a result of the increase in strength and willpower. Since that’s the case, why don’t we reduce the upper limit of intelligence growth a little bit, reduce it from 10 to 9, and distribute the extra 3 attribute points to resistance and const.i.tution, so as to form the allocation method of 9 points in intelligence, 7 points in resistance, and 7 points in const.i.tution—a trade-off: lower spell damage for better magic control and survivability. This way one wouldn’t easily end up in a head explosion from magic recoil.

“The other 7 points in const.i.tution growth—after learning melee combat enhancement spells, one should be able to subst.i.tute out as Gandalf to deal with situations where the magic environment is unfavorable.”

The above was the core of Roland’s post.

At the start of account creation, the attribute growth for players was five, with ten freely a.s.signable attributes.

When attribute growth increased, the cost of the number of freely a.s.signable points would increase gradually. When attribute growth was at six to seven, it would only cost one freely a.s.signable point. At eight to nine attribute growth, two freely a.s.signable points were required, and to increase to ten, it would cost three points.

The player’s growth upper limit was ten.

If an attribute’s growth was maxed, it would use up nine freely a.s.signable attribute points, the remaining point would be added elsewhere; Roland added it to resistance.

His attribute growth was 5 const.i.tution, 5 agility, 10 intelligence, 6 resistance, and 5 charm.

Roland was much better at magic control than the average player because of his unique specialty of Magic Power Control. He also had 6 points of resistance growth, so the effect was very obvious: he was quite strong in the operation and control of magic.

However, if the other players wanted to do this, it would almost be impossible, so they could only find ways from an attribute perspective—higher resistance and higher const.i.tution to fight against the damage of magic recoil.

This was Roland’s strategy in response to the current version of the game.

After the thread was published, there were immediately many mages who left comments.

“I’m going to enter the game first and see how much the activeness of magical elements will affect us this time. If the casting difficulty really increased significantly again, I will have to delete my account and try the attribute allocation method mentioned by Roland.”

“I am too lazy to struggle any more. Today, after going online, I’m immediately deleting my account to go be a Warrior.”

“Brother, weren’t Warriors nerfed today?”

“It’s still more pleasurable than playing the mage.”

Roland sighed lightly at this exchange. He’d tried his best.

He had been uploading spell models and trying to find an easier way for mages to get started.

This was the limit of what he could do at present. After all, he was only an ordinary guy, not some genius, not some amazing person—he couldn’t do something as exaggerated as turning the tides.

Turning off the computer, Roland rode a public bike to the saber arts club.

Because he wasn’t in a good mood, his motivation to study was lacking, and he was constantly making mistakes in training. Qi Shaoqiu shook his head and didn’t say anything.

Everyone had days where they were unhappy.

On the other hand, Night Tide Sands, who was always at a close distance, appeared to want something but hesitated.

However, Roland didn’t seem to notice this.

On the way home from the saber arts club, Roland took a detour, deliberately going in the opposite direction, and then circling into an alley, going back home slowly.

This was mainly to prevent being entangled by Jin Wenwen.

In the evening, Roland entered the game world right at the usual time.