A comment from a veteran

[macrowave]

Hello everyone this is MacroWave, i do run the largest international discord server for Atlantica Online. (https://discord.gg/Aqc2tgN)

This is an eleven year old game with its strengths and weaknesses, so what can you expect when you try it?

Hundrets of quests connected by a good story.

Nearly unlimited possiblities on how to set up your formation with 13 different main characters and 78 mercenaries. the super high end game only leaves about 20 of those mercenaries and 8 main characters to be viable, but as a new player on a new server you will not have to worry about this anytime soon.

one completely free, one pretty much free, one pay to win pvp mode and one pay to win capture the flag mode.


Atlantica Online is a grinding game, if you do not like grinding do not play this.



You can ruin this game for yourself by rushing lvls. Rushing for highlvls will mean you run into monsters that are way too strong for your gear and you will not know how to handle them since you never learned the game mechanics. If you are looking for a grinding game please do not kill it for you this way.

Valofe will add a lvl up event which gives you temporary rewards based on how far you make it. Which is an absolutely terrible idea. Please do not feel like you are missing out by not hitting certain lvls. The rewards you are gaining will all be temporary and will not make up for you screwing yourself over.

If anything i write here is not clear please ask questions.

[ArcanicVoid]

Well said, game is over a decade old with a very exploitable game engine, so there's bound to be a bunch of problems there. Valofe has plenty of issues that I could gripe about, but that's not important. The upside is the game is getting a new server for people to play around with, and a refreshed player-base to come with it. We could also argue all the potential ways they could've done Global, instead of through NA, but it's too late now, so let's accept it as is, I guess.

[Tirendill]

I agree with the Macro. This game is really great and there are no other games similar with this one. Sadly game deva just making people push hard for those lvls missing all the content we came through within those 11 years. There are many mercs that used to be great but they did add the new p2w ones and if you want to suceed you have to either grind hardcore or invest real money. Lots of content which is still fun for some people but mostly outdated. PvP is really interesting here but rewards are not that good for a long time which made most people ignore it. 7-8 years ago most ppl were pvping, now there are really few who still care mostpy cause of rewards and requirements to gear and other stuff which makes it p2w. Well at least those devs been trying lately and we got a few really nice pvp balance changes. If they keep it up, we might have great pvp again some day.

[G.Yito]

Spot on!. Tho you can enjoy the game by taking your time with your progress, some people likes to have most things instantly. Thus, power leveling fast and falling behind their capacity with mobs.

now with the game been delayed, many ppl are gonna be dissapointed as heck. Me included.

[Leyaa]

Yep, agree mostly with Macro. It is very grindy, but can also be heavily pay2win in PvE mode. Depends on a point of view.

Taking things slower in Atlantica, especially the leveling aint't possible anymore, right? Would love to experience a slower pace to get equipment, gold earning rate and mercs on spot with leveling, but I guess its futile?!

Oh by the way: your discord link is blocked by steam (app and website).

[macrowave]

Originally posted by Leyaa:

Oh by the way: your discord link is blocked by steam (app and website).

wtf steam

[Beomet]

Well, I came back to the game about 1 year ago and I am "only" lvl 134 now. Doing daylies and being more active on weekends and mostly solo in PvE.
One guy in the guild made his twink 142 within one weekend, so both ways are possible. But the fast pace levelling only works well on older servers, because there are many experienced crafters. Rushing the levels on a new server is a stupid idea.

[Leyaa]

Thanks for your reply Beomet. Well I guess, at least theoretically, its possible to not focus on leveling fast and do other things like crafting first.

[Sas3bg]

I am veteran player that quit the game little after Valofe take over. I will play this server i hope there wont be lag,becouse i stopped played from hell lag in NA server. All other it is nice in the game. crafting, grinding all is good. I just want to see better pvp rewards and more interesting dungeons compared to Avalon. Thanks and cya ingame =)

[macrowave]

Originally posted by Takzuke:

will i be able to masturbate while playing or do i have to play with 2 hands?

yes its a one hand game :)

[MCMoon]

well said +1

[Skymare]

Im veteran too, and give 300% more exp, free items, free mercenary orbs, free wings, free mont, free suits; all of that is a veryyy veryyyyyyyyy bad idea. New people will be boring rapidly :/

[Hamsta]

What 8 mains are these? Can you tell us?

[maw123456789]

hamsta....i´d say check item mall, add maby arthus and you are good to go.....and several hundrets of euro gone

[maw123456789]

but honestly, no need in that...you will level more than 8 mercs and the main, you will level ....~ 15 mercs, just to have something usefull for every situation....groundmobs, flying mobs, magic high resistance......simply start, check, what the game "offers" you, grab all the gear you can....focus on one, maby two crafting skills at one time, in low levels they are easy, but 100+ equip gets expensive and takes longer --> team up in a working guild...and hey, even when I don´t need it I still make the leion-storage-quest-daily...why, because I will do them :))))
and one other thing....there are "quite often" events, so look out for them, always something nice for low and mid-range-chars

[Phunfun]

Originally posted by maw123456789:

but honestly, no need in that...you will level more than 8 mercs and the main, you will level ....~ 15 mercs, just to have something usefull for every situation....groundmobs, flying mobs, magic high resistance......simply start, check, what the game "offers" you, grab all the gear you can....focus on one, maby two crafting skills at one time, in low levels they are easy, but 100+ equip gets expensive and takes longer --> team up in a working guild...and hey, even when I don´t need it I still make the leion-storage-quest-daily...why, because I will do them :))))
and one other thing....there are "quite often" events, so look out for them, always something nice for low and mid-range-chars

I think Hamsta is asking about the 8 main characters, not the mercs, that Macro says are the only viable ones late-game. I was wondering this as well as I played briefly years ago (got into teen levels) and am wanting to try the game out again.

So which main characters and mercs are the only viable ones for high-level mentioned in the OP?