[Time Updated] Maintenance on Thursday to fix Shura Realm / 10 Magic Stones for Compensation
GungHo realized that there are certain situations where you can clear Shura Realm easily, so now they’re going to fix it, for the sake of game balance.
(So many cheese teams out there)
Featured image: @zntg2
Updated 7/7: Official Announcement
5 Hour Maintenance – TIME CHANGED
Instead of tomorrow, maintenance will be on 7/9 (Thu) 1pm ~ 6pm JST.
* Note that with the changes below, you don’t have to rush to complete the dungeon now.
The Changes
Shura Realm: Dungeon Adjustments
After maintenance this will be live:
- Shura Realm WILL NOT have Gem invades. (as per Version 18.4 update)
- EXP from clearing Shura Realm will be LOWERED.
- The dungeon will give only one Latent Tamadra (Extra Slot), previously you get 2.
- If you cleared before maintenance starts, you get 85 Magic Stones.
- First clear of Shura Realm (after maintenance) will reward 85 Magic Stones. (If you cleared before maintenance, you don’t get this)
New Dungeon Added: Alt. Shura Realm (No Continue)
- Gem invades will happen here.
- This “new dungeon” will give equal EXP and dungeon drops (including the 2 Latent Tamadra (Extra Slot) plus the gem invade) as the current Shura Realm.
Compensations
Finalized list of compensation from this nightmare:
- All users will receive 10 Magic Stones, doesn’t matter if you didn’t complete the dungeon.
- Distribution will happen during maintenance. (and of course, complete the current Shura Realm for 85 Magic Stones.)
Updated 7/7: YamaP Talking
A long apology from the producer himself on his Twitter account.
Summary
- Sorry for the adjustments to Shura Realm. The concept was to have a dungeon that requires having enough firepower, instead of gimmick-filled like Grotesques Beings etc.
- And because of that, grind teams can be made (and he welcomes it, it’s a PAD play style)
- What was unexpected (really?) was clears with grind teams that uses EXP boost leaders like Saline. The crazy Rank EXP was not intended.
- For the sake of balancing the game (which can be hard if it’s not fixed now), they decided on going forward with this fix. Again he is really sorry about it, and well he and the dev team gains EXP from this (lol unintended pun), and learning from this failure.
- Please continue to support PAD despite the failure.
On top of this…
- To not invalidate cheese teams, we can also consider reducing drops (and xp) of the current version and leave it there
- They may make the 85 Magic Stone compensation as a semi-permanent reward for first clear. This is still in consideration, more discussion about this tomorrow in GungHo.
Below is initial announcement on 7/6 (no longer applies)
The maintenance
5 hours long, happening during 7/8 (Wed), 1pm ~ 6pm JST.
Gems in Shura Realm will be delayed
Supposedly with Version 18.4 update you get rare Gems that invade, which are delayed. They will appear after maintenance on 7/8 (Wed), 1pm ~ 6pm JST.
Compensation
All of below will be distributed with the maintenance.
10 Magic Stone compensation for everyone
Doesn’t matter if you cleared Shura Realm or not.
85 Magic Stones for those who cleared Shura Realm
For those who clear it by the start of the 7/8 (Wed) maintenance.
Example of the cheese
You know it’s a problem when me, the laziest person on the site, ranked up 85 times…
Thoughts
It’s for a good cause, and good to see they admit and fix their errors. Some people will definitely be upset, but really… it’s better for the game.
Go cheese Shura Realm if you haven’t
You say “certain situations,” or does that just mean every color-change cheese team (e.g. Kiri) can clear Shura Realm?
*with 100% consistency
Need to really check YouTube for Kiri, I know people are cheesing for EXP using Saline and/or Shigeshige though.
the key is to change the color of the bosses to wood?
You tried with Kiri?
I was giving an example of a color change team, since that seems to be the strategy used in the video. Dunno if all the color change teams work or only this one.
Kiri works as well. If u managed to get the right subs with the Zeus tama inherit thingy on the team, does take awhile but it works! I saw a person run it with a Kiri team and took over an hour to clear.
A chance for compensation we will never get here in NA. Can’t blame GH for that though
omg 85 stones for clearning first time for NA please lol. I can blame them that JP gets all the good mistakes first 😀
Laziest person because your probably too busy looing good. And when your not doing those two your making PAD page look almost as good