Needlessly Excessive Time Sink - Please Stop

Crap like having to level all your vampiric powers, on each character, 25 xp at a time. I have 20,000 experience to spend - just let me do them all at once. One click, all leveled.

How did you not foresee this being wildly tedious and ridiculously destructive to the immersion / experience?

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Yup - i only had a few thousand to burn through , but it was purely obnoxious. Terribad Seasonal gimmick imo.

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Agreed, I have enough exp to level them all twice over. Literally sitting here spam clicking not even reading which one I am leveling - quite obnoxious and quite the opposite of what you’d expect from an ARPG type of concept.

Perhaps they did, perhaps its their way of maintaining player population for a few extra minutes, before most uninstall / rage quit.

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It’s systems like this that will prevent people from playing future content.

Once again, utter failure to respect player time.

Further to, it’s a massive deterrent to making alternate characters. I just made this druid because I wanted to try it, completely forgot about all the tedious systems that I finished on my Sorc weeks ago. Highly doubt I will be making anymore characters.

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Seems about right, but yet they still have the horrible lag/rubber-banding each time you start a NMD after logging into the game.

You’re not kidding. got my necro to 88 but getting bored with nmd’s so decided to go make an alt. started the seasonal quest and saw what I still had to unlock, but that’s fine as I can just grind out blood tides. then I opened the map and all the waypoints I don’t have, dungeons I won’t have access to until I clear strongholds yet again and the paragon glyphs I’d have to level. Think that’s it for me this season.

They probably thought players would upgrade their powers gradually while leveling, so that they wouldn’t pile up to such an extent. I mean it’s just lol, really – I can’t believe how poorly they seem to understand how people actually play the games they make.

It isn´t so bad when you do it gradualy, you know after every two mobs you just pause open the menu and upgrade it.

/s

what where they thinking?

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Exactly this.

Someone above mentioned it was to ‘retain player attention’ but the thing is, I am so much less likely to pay for a battle pass or cosmetics in a game that has these stupid chores. I want to log in smash zombies, maybe do a uber / world boss then log off. That is what is fun, that is what I will pay for. I feel like that is more a general consensus than not.

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I did, but it was completely sarcastic bs. lol. this company.

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And if u use AHK or something, u risk being detected for botting and banned.

As if the clicking for 25 blood/each upgrade wasn’t bad enough, with the constant confirmation windows, doing the seasonal quest chain on alts is a massive slog. The vampiric powers should just be unlocked on account.
No more clicking each one and having to grind out a bunch of acclaim to get one and going through the quest chain each time.

It’s fine just the way it is. You have rounds to build what you want and choose something in each

They could PERHAPS add a “upgrade double” button so you spend 50 and get double upg, or have an indicator notifying you that you have “accumulated” 200 so you don’t end up doing 1000 at once, but in terms of implementation it’s fine

Just feel that there should be some kind of an indicator of whether or not the you’re about to upgrade power you have already equipped :thinking:

I have a bug with mine.
Just got around to reporting it.

https://imgur.com/a/fpkdWLe

I was doing this for awhile and noticed no equipped ones were coming up… Because they were at 3 already… Stopped. Whoops.

while i agree it could have done more efficient it doesnt really take that long to spend them. i think if i sum up the time i spend on that interface id say it was like 5 min in total. (tho i only payed attentions to the 5 im using)

Not the point. The point is they clearly put very little thought in to the system and likely did not have the same person test it on multiple characters. Even doing one character is tedious enough - having to do it on alts is just ridiculous.

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Honestly I have over 52K in inventory. Wasnt really much of a time sink. Got a huge pile then just spend-esc-spend-esc and 5 min later all were maxed with lots left over. And doing the BH is soooooooooo good for XP and loots.

Just click allocate and escape, it’s actually not that bad. Yes it needs to be fixed but it’s not the end of the world.

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