TOP 5 CHANGES WE NEED!!! [AFK Journey]

[@VolkinAFKJourney]

Let me know what you guys would like to see in the game 👍

[@penpenpenpenpen]

make rowan stop moving around, god it's annoying

[@penpenpenpenpen]

fix for honor duel: 4 losses or 6 wins / let us refresh the inital buff / one free refresh of the store per turn

[@flavia3205]

I would like to add: better reactions from characters when choosing to talk to them. For an example: I called Lorsan bunny ears several times, he should be mad or flustered about it. I feel the answers are too neutral. There is no reason for the actors to dubbed it, but it is just to feel that our choices in the story matter. Otherwise it would be best to not give choices at all. Hairstyle colors: the fact that the hairstyles that you win don’t have color swatches irks me a lot. Why only in the base hairs we have swatches but the others don’t? It doesn’t make sense. World plants: why the plants we got from the missions and exploring the world can only be picked once? We should be at least to be able to go around the world and find them again.

[@Eric21994]

better targeted rng for honor duel imo. if i get a mauler item at start i shouldnt have to reroll 4 times before seeing any mauler related things in shop

[@jessiewebb754]

I NEED MORE ESSENCE 😢😢😢

[@glovebox421]

200 billion books and 4 essence. seems balanced

[@yeiderjadidarizamunoz8240]

they should at least add a book to esence exchange

[@markistador5491]

@@yeiderjadidarizamunoz8240it exists, just only at level 240

[@KVNdrawsYT]

@@yeiderjadidarizamunoz8240 they do have it, at resonance 240 lol

[@WoozloWoofers]

@@KVNdrawsYTbruh they really need to lower that level cap wth 😭😭😭

[@EZ_BLOODSTRIKE]

ON EVERYTHING ​@@WoozloWoofers

[@Voxsmith]

Big one is world exploration completion reward equipment. It's sooo under levelled for what equipment you'd actually need and have to beat the content to unlock it in the first place. May as well just be a couple equipment materials at this point.

[@Drewtendo]

Just made this comment myself.

[@chriswheeler8143]

@@Drewtendo Yeah, was going to say that too. Mountains 4, I'm level 130, getting level 150 in chests, and fighting level 161 to get them, reward for completion is level 95!

[@farli]

Agreed, they’ve scaled it completely wrong and the items you get don’t even recycle into enough materials to be worth it

[@TheKillerMB1]

They should make the replay panel display formations, it’s a pain to go into a replay and remember how people placed the units. It’s making pushing annoying.

[@carlosmoret2675]

Ever heard of a screenshot?

[@BlueBeBlue]

@@carlosmoret2675 Yess, lets fill up my gallery with 50+ screenshots of afk stages, that seems a good idea

[@dootoroot3599]

@@carlosmoret2675 screenshots are definitely fine, but having thousands of them in your photos because of harder levels as you progress will be a pain.

[@arleendo]

@@carlosmoret2675you must have pretty quick fingers to enter a battle and screenshot at the right moment on 2x when units haven’t moved that much to not make their positioning ambiguous.

[@zeer7676]

nothing is more worse than looking at a replay and none of the models load. I had to guess based on units attacks or skills.

[@Voxsmith]

I think the best solution to the cross server issue is a gradual merger. Start by merging the social and leaderboards of servers in groups of ten. So S1 through S10 are together. And 11-20 etc. then. After a few months merge maybe five of those conglomerates together. Then. Eventually. Say 6 months down the line. It's been done in a mostly fair way that even server 200 people can be competitive against server 10

[@erbunuz158]

Dream realm and PvP would be overly competitive

[@Voxsmith]

@@erbunuz158 then they just broaden the reward windows

[@cartman7570]

Ye I've been saying this, but I don't want it now, wait two months or 1 then merge...no need to merge so quickly

[@Voxsmith]

@@cartman7570 I agree with you fully on that yeah

[@gorosei777]

AFK Arena never merged servers, guess it won't happen here. We will probably have cross server pvp/events sooner or later, so don't worry. Cross-server friends is a must tho.

[@markmyshark]

Honor Duel is one of my favorite parts about the game. Its just a nice change of pace whenever your stuck and want to sink in more time. I hope they put in a system where the rewards could be weekly but are pretty minor or really easy to obtain so people dont feel like they need to play it though.

[@kneebonetv]

Trial mode for Dream Real and Lone Wolf (and variants) I dont want to spend my attempts while testing comps Let me trial first. Once I feel like im ready, I go for a real run, which then consumes an attempt

[@XenithShadow]

For lone wolf i agree somewhat, for dream realm you get 15ish attempts a day already (does start cost a bunch of gold though). Still having a practice mode for them would be neat.

[@Drewtendo]

I feel like not having the practice is part of the challenge: You have to make your attempts count.

[@Lansssss]

skill issue fr, you already have 15attempts and you still want some trials? 💀

[@kneebonetv]

​@@Lansssss Im doing fine myself. I just think is a good QoL change and its something more ppl can spend time on it. Look at @VolkinAFKJourney video about Lone Wolf as an exemple. He could not show comp variants OR test around because it would waste someones limited attemps at the mode. To and extent, its limiting gameplay, just like the afk limit attempts. People could test positioning, different units and have some fun time limit testing with a trial mode In the end, if you just want to do your 3 attemps and be done (no trials), thats up to you. But I see adding trials as just a positive thing, no downside

[@EZ_BLOODSTRIKE]

@@kneebonetv Agreed 💯. If there were trial modes in game I would be there tying to see what team works the best for me instead of in the yt comment section rn

[@kel8165]

Regarding on cross server guild - If the rankings is one of the problem. Maybe they can add additional rankings like server ranking, global ranking. In that way, they will retain their ranking

[@Nobunaga4]

We should have the ability to hide other players in the open world to help with optimization or just more options in general.

[@fatbolado]

There is an affinity mechanic with heroes that almost no one knows about, and that gives some rewards, but it is very hidden in the hero menu and there is no warning about it.

[@VolkinAFKJourney]

yeah it doesnt even get the red dot when there are rewards to claim which is strange

[@TabaLowga]

@@VolkinAFKJourney you can get +6 Affinity/day per hero if you click on their ingame model repeatedly. HF farming 🤣

[@notting2640]

@@TabaLowgait’s more economical to farm proxy/synergy/corrupted battles for hearts and buying gifts than clicking lol. Also past a certain affinity you get no more affinity by clicking a character.

[@nathanhenry8537]

Does the affinity improve the champion or is it just a way to get bonus diamonds

[@dariosubara6521]

​@@nathanhenry8537 Just bonus diamonds, tickets and Titles

[@SimpleKookie]

All I want is "Copy Formation" like in AFK Arena. I can probably progress a good amount more, but it is so time consuming to have to click on records (Which btw after you beat a level and click the "i" button, it doesn't show records, you have to go out and back in to see), then replay to see positioning, then if you forgot something, you can't just click play again, you have to go back and re-open that persons record. Also would be nice if the stats page showed artifact being used.

[@RagsTattoo]

The "replay" button not working after you exit a replay is driving me crazy...

[@chriswheeler8143]

Would like to see the records show, maybe, the lowest six formations/artifacts that succeeded. Seeing a bunch of identical formations doesn't help as much if you lack pieces. Seeing artifact along with the team would be good, as usually I am watching the replay just to see the artifact.

[@RagsTattoo]

@@chriswheeler8143 Yeah, this screen could have a much better layout that it has right now.

[@Xoulium]

I honestly agree with your take on the hero essence, but the thing that makes it so weird to me how little we get of it is how completely arbitrary exp books become once the Primal Lord opens up. Books became a non-issue way too quick imo.

[@embode3747]

I played a lot of Honor Duel and I think its really fun, but the first 1-5 Matches are to cheeseable with 5 Graveborn which makes playing anything else pointless, less rewarding and the game overall less fun. The mode is about trying out diffrent and new things, unterstanding them and finding a way of playing that you enjoy, so if you only ever play the same stuff or against the same sh*t it becomes repetitive and not interesting enough to spent so much time on. Also when you want a specific initial combo, but dont get to choose the one you want, it forces you to play in a way you might not enjoy or with the Characters you dont like which I think can prevent players from getting into it as well as coming back. What i found a bit annoying is that when you buy random Characters you can get the ones that you already have maxed out AGAIN so the Badges just end up for nothing (happens way to often, Im just to unlucky i guess lol)

[@TrollstormLO]

I noticed labirinth stop giving essences as a completion reward after level 3... this could mitigate the feeling of essences being scarce while not really breaking and making the progression too fast

[@chrisfrog9463]

You didn't suggest a solution...Give more essence for later lab levels?

[@TrollstormLO]

Well, the solution is keep giving essence as a completion reward. It is a one time thing and it helps as effort and reward without breaking the speed of the game.

[@greenteasunferncello]

With Hero Essence, I think they should spread the requirement to level throughout every level instead of every 10 levels and requiring a lump sum of essence to break through. There are areas that requires my resonance level to be lvl 132 and that would require me to wait multiple days for all of the members to level to that point. By then I will be swimming in exp book and will be able to level characters to 140 in one go. Idk, it just feels weird. Having nothing to do in the game does discourage me from logging on even after spending few hundred bucks on the game, maybe its the honeymoon phase being over.

[@cemalceylan3648]

the monsters on the map should not disappear after first time killing them, they should renew in certain times, otherwise there will be no point of the map after completing the story, or something should be added to make the map useful.

[@KholdStare54]

There are suggestions for the battle records system 1) allow us to copy other people's formation exactly (if you have the characters) 2) disregard comps without 5 members except for crucible (EDIT: this doesn't matter if the 3rd change is made) 3) when sorting by lowest power, skip same comps. For example, if I see the exact comp listed all throughout records and you're missing one character from that comp, then it becomes a useless feature. I understand that sometimes ascension matters, like if you don't have mythic cecia. But overall, i want to see different comps, not the same comp in different formations.

[@Chewie-]

As someone who enjoys honor duels, I think it shouldn't be a rewarding gamemode since each game takes like 30 minutes which is just too big of a time sink, especially for an idle game However, I would like to see it be the first gamemode to merge servers since it doesn't depend on account progression and I think it would be nice to have global rankings and matchmaking

[@johnmarcdizon4305]

I like the idea of corrupt creatures and having your friends help you out. I want to see more of that stuff where you and a friend or two go maybe into an arena and build a team together to win against others or pve.

[@darksagus]

Honor Duel is fine as it is. There are weekly rewards, and it's a fun mode that is equal for p2w and f2p.

[@lukebruton4110]

Not being able to cross server guild and friend is the worst it’s the closest reason I’ve come to quitting so far otherwise the game is great

[@flavia3205]

I would like to add: better reactions from characters when choosing to talk to them. For an example: I called Lorsan bunny ears several times, he should be mad or flustered about it. I feel the answers are too neutral. There is no reason for the actors to dubbed it, but it is just to feel that our choices in the story matter. Otherwise it would be best to not give choices at all. Hairstyle colors: the fact that the hairstyles that you win don’t have color swatches irks me a lot. Why only in the base hairs we have swatches but the others don’t? It doesn’t make sense. World plants: why the plants we got from the missions and exploring the world can only be picked once? We should be at least to be able to go around the world and find them again.

[@nawe1514]

I would like there to be a real system of buffs and nerfs for champions during certain updates because I find it a shame that a lot of characters are forgotten and others are omnipresent

[@QuackQuackBang]

Maybe seasonal buffs or events that boost certain characters like in Arcane Labyrinth. Temporary buffs where skills are augmented :) I agree, I like games with multiple metas but this game has only just come out and it’s also a money making scheme it seems…

[@cartman7570]

Nerf koko,damian, cecia ult early game scaling, odie, smokie. buff assasins mechanic , salazer ,temesia, niru early game, fae, khafra , lumont ,rhys, berial and walker.

[@BeyondTrash-xe1vs]

​@@cartman7570That's a bit too much imo. It's worth noting that it's okay for units to be powerful, they don't all have to be totally equal. There just has to be solid alternatives.

[@cartman7570]

@@BeyondTrash-xe1vs idk i just think the game would be more fun if ppl tries out different teams instead of mauler cecia comp.

[@thedancingphantoms4004]

We need more cosmetics, friend gestures, things to do with friends and guild. More puzzle and fun missions instead of fighting all of the time. Please tell them this Volkin

[@MrBDTF]

tell them to add more fighting volkin, i wanna use my team more!

[@TheNrat]

Tell them in survey it’s should be in. The mail

[@zookeykneetv]

The idea of auto battle continuing to repeat after a failure sounds so nice. The limited attempts for the AFK stages just feels awkward. If we could get that repeating auto battle feature that would be huge. Many times I've been hard stuck and just repeating the same formation a couple extra times is enough to get some lucky crits and clear, then proceed to snowball a couple more stages. I'm all for it. It would add another way of progression through being AFK.

[@isilien]

We really NEED the QOL feature where you can copy formation in the recommendations of the Afk stages. It's SO annoying to watch replay every time and try to place same characters at the same places... Why it couldn't be done in one button, like in Omniheroes?

[@-MCMLXXII-]

I agree with you regarding hero essence - it's the only bottleneck in the game for a reason. I would like it if we could auto the faction towers like we can our afk level battles. They're essentially the same thing, so there's no reason we shouldn't be able to.

[@VolkinAFKJourney]

true auto there would be great

[@Jartist234]

I think the Corrupted Creatures that you have to challenge in order to get into new areas need to be scaled down. I am seeing way too many players, especially whales, asking for help against a lot of them and seeing higher level players struggling does not bode confidence in a casual player such as myself.

[@IXeu1]

Just something to note, once you max your level of resonance (240), you start converting your exp books to dust, and unlock another source of leveling, costs dust only and it raises all characters level by 1. Its the same system as afk arena where the more supreme heroes the higher your level cap, and you level 1 by 1 levels. You also unlock a new tower after finishing afk stages (1125 cap) which gives a ton of dust

[@aeriyah2769]

Realistically, the reason people are upset about Hero Essence is because of the exp books they have piling up. I think if they were to generate a store that allows you to trade in XP books for other resources (even if it's expensive) this would eliminate a lot of the pain points regarding Hero Essence.

[@JJ-mn3nd]

What? I’m struggling to get both💀

[@aeriyah2769]

@@JJ-mn3nd I'm still not completely out of the woods yet either, but I can see it starting to tip toward XP books.

[@tarencemollock7629]

When you unlock primal lord, you’ll understand

[@Taz-111]

yeah when you reach level 110 it piles up because lack of essences.

[@JJ-mn3nd]

@aeriyah2769 yeah nvm I just got 2mil exp books but I have 71 essence

[@skyedryv3959]

i hate being throttled on retrying stages too but it's the easiest way to solve botting or macros. it does help maintain the servers from getting overloaded too.

[@poleru]

I'd love to see an easier way to get to the rankings as well as a way to see what team we used when hit like our highest damage on bosses or whatever stage

[@ImNewF2]

Put the purple artifact on and you’ll push stages so far, almost certain that change alone would clear the stage you are stuck on here 🤙🏼 great video my friend

[@VolkinAFKJourney]

Dont have it yet :( get it in the next zone

[@BltzZ]

The gear boxes and resonance level being tied to each other is silly. Gear gets trashed quick once you reach it

[@hypereia7371]

Agreed about Honor Duel. As an AFK game, I don't like the idea about having to commit so much time or else I'm losing rewards.

[@drbanemortem4155]

Proficiency is a shit stat it’s a way to artificially handicap good strats and team comps with low numbers.

[@MrBDTF]

real! i can’t hit afk stage 445 bc i’ve pushed way too far for my power level 😂

[@zeer7676]

it's used as a way to prevent lower spenders and dolphins from progressing any faster. if your team's lvl is within 10 lvls of enemies, you won't die in like 2 hits. Seeing how my units who have 5k-30k more than those replays and not to be able to copy the same strat because my proficiency is lower than theirs sucks.

[@awakehopps]

yeah the stages making you wait before trying them again if spam retrying is so so bad like man i can have the same team as people who cleared a stage have 30k more power then them have save artifact and just not get the right rng and keep on losing on and on like its RNG based man let us spam retry it or make the battles more consistent outcomes because it makes no sense that we get punished for not hitting the right rng at the right time...

[@PtiitEnriick]

I'd say maybe for the hero essence part, replacing the manuals in Keith's store with said hero essence could fix some of the issues, they might be good early on but you get to a point where you're just buying them to get access to the next items, and it could give you a better reason to push one or two more battles in the overworld to get those resources

[@aetrn-official]

After watching the fist 5 Minutes I need to write my top change I want to see :P Please let me properly inspect other peoples formation on tries and maybe also directly copy them into the current battle. But also I need to say that im pretty happy with the game atm. As F2P I m stuck around ~450 after few days and am now waiting for the Essences. I agree on your point with those essences and if they would bump it up you would instantly push those levels through the roof because of the millions of EXP im sitting on. Everytime I get enough essences to break through with 1 char I can instantly level him up to the next point. I also hate this restriction on stage tries and dont really understand the reasoning from lilith. Please give us an Auto Retry! What I also would love to see is because I am trying around in the dream realm pretty frequently I would love to see all my last attack listed so I dont have to manually write down where I did the most.

[@meanseason3056]

Yeah, can say that the main pain point at the moment (afk stage 725 currently etc )hero essense is severely limited. Resonance level 150 ; exp is about 50 million; gold is a plenty; however essense is less than 100. The balance is a bit off with essense .

[@dogpom001]

100% Agree with u. Sometimes, I just want to try multiple character and artifact combination (also RNG thing). Then just have to wait for 30-40 mins to do it again.

[@Voxsmith]

*UPDATE* patch coming tomorrow to add cross server friends and multiplayer matchmaking

[@theguywholeavesacomment4698]

Suggestion: Various Speed Levels: Walking, Running, Speedy. Walking: Slow pace allowing players to stroll and appreciate the game's scenery and style. Running: The current speed, though it may feel slow to some players and me, even when applying the "Speedy". Suggest making the "Speedy" pace the new default speed. Speedy: 2x or 1.5x the current "Speedy" speed, and extends the duration of this increased pace. For me, I like running faster instead of always teleporting. Like I said I want to see the world-building experience and style.

[@michaelsreturn]

On your guild take, if someone joins a guild with all achievements from earlier servers, they'd straight up get a Reiner copy from guild coins so i'm not sure if that's a good take. Once more servers age they can add cross-server guild battles and arena battles but in brackets of power rating, so you don't get much disparity, because u started playing X amount of days later. As for honor duel to shave some time whenever u go into a new battle it should automatically place the units u placed last round, then u can manually adjust positioning or swap something out.

[@rafalkudrel6924]

They could option to see what formations were used for bosses etc. you see someone getting 20 times more damage than you but you can’t see what heroes they used etc.

[@mazhermehdi8793]

When u clear a land area, they give you like level 65 equipment when im at level 100 + and the requirements for that area was very high like they should give either higher level weapon or mats to upgrade them instead

[@BeyondTrash-xe1vs]

I'd love the cross server guild fix you mentioned. I have this exact problem, friends who are interested but can't join our guild because there servers are already hundreds apart.

[@crimsonrenix]

I would like to expand the function where we can look at other players teams and their loadout during challenges. I would like if we can also get a button next to the player who has beaten the sage with which we can copy the loadout of that player on our team party and if we are missing some units in that loadout, our ascension of the used units is not on the same level or we don’t have the used summoner spell, we get a game notification that lists up what we are exactly missing on and ask if we still want to copy the loadout as far as possible. It's tiring that every time when I fail an AFK stage, I want to look up how other players have managed to beat the stage by exiting the battle screen and then clicking on the information button who looks like a scroll with an exclamation mark in the middle which you can see on the left side to look at other players' teams. Plus, it's annoying at the moment, at least for me on the Hany and PC version, you first have to go back out of a replay to the records default page and then click on the player again so that I can watch his fight again. Just as I was talking about this, the idea came to me to also display the information button during battle preparation because you can use it more there and above all you would be able to see it better. I wouldn't be surprised if some players still don't know this feature at all, because it's not always immediately visible and to my knowledge, it's never been explained. For example in normal overworld battles you can't see the information button at all, you have to enter a fight first and then leave the fight so that you can then see the symbol next to the fight symbol on the right side. PS sorry I wrote such a long text but I think this topic is important to discuss and I wanted to make sure that everyone understands what exactly I wanted to convey in the text.

[@Wiwi32]

So, for hero essence, the problem isn't the amount, to me the issue with it is the fact we need it every 10 lvl instead of every time a lvl up unlock a new lvl on a spell ( like most of iddle). Also we have bearly no 1/2/6/12/24h gold or essence/exp pack , also something we have in most of iddle. Something i would like to see is a restart option, a real one so when i press it, the fight instant restart without any change on my team. Another QoL : when i change my caracter lvl on dream world, plz, i don't want to go out, then go in again to actually have thoose change done. Finally about summon, a daily free summon cool be cool, especially on epic summon, considering how big is wishlist on the regular banner, that would help f2p and finally my biggest issue is the Acorn system, man this system is so bad, we need to much of thoose .... At less we need to be able to buy some with gold or something, no being able to upgrade a caracter even if i have the dupe is such a bad thing.

[@kroncles]

Guild vs guild pvp would be amazing.

[@Klippies89]

Coming from raid, I like to see presets, where you can speed tune your alts and also give guids on the bosses what to bring and what not to bring in the fight. I know it's all RNG based but it would be nice if they can give you the option to speed tune your team with the presets for different battles like the flipen chicken, you need to delay him and to keep all units alive koko alt can prok just as the chicken hits you making it easier to survive.

[@leobenavi9034]

I think the rewards for Honor Duel are appropriate just because it can be such a time consuming mode in a game that you’re supposed to be more AFK on. Plus, you could ultimately buy up to 10 more chances to play the mode which, if you’re doing well with the matches, can take up hours. I feel if there were rewards too good not to have in this mode it would become more tedious than anything for the casual player.

[@bado284]

Hey Volkin, I want to talk about Honor Duel mode a bit. I am currently the rank 5 player in my server, and this game is honestly a completely different game in itself. Its almost like an easy to digest version of TeamFight Tactics from Rİot games. This game mode has to take a bit longer, it involves more strategy. So I would say the time that it consumes for 1 run is perfectly fine (keep in mind you can pause it and continue whenever you want, you dont have to complete a run in one sitting). What I would love personally for this game mode is more balancing on the artifacts and more rewards for being on the leaderboard. The game loop itself in my opinion is amazing and does not need any change. I would also love it if the leaderboards were cross-server. I personaly paly the real game until I hit a wall and need materials to update, while waiting for that I only play Honor Duel

[@shinsuyasenpai738]

There is also a bug where u can't see the replay of the other who complete afk stage twice without going back, you can't watch it twice but u can if u go back and watch again

[@Fahmiismaill]

If AFKJourney has hero that can increase team attack speed like "Pumpkin Duke" on Castle Clash will be awesome

[@sya2711]

0:14 a weekly boss that drops the purple flasks for rank ups.

[@MadRavenOo]

Feel the same about the Essence, and dont feel that is where the problem is. Seems there is little horizontal progression, which is the main issue. The gear would be great for this, but they just give it to you for leveling, instead of having a separate dungeon to run for better gear, or stat rolls, which can be a co-op/guild thing too (quick dungeon run of mobs to mini-bosses, final boss thing, where you can 'barrow' chrs, etc...) just some thoughts, and feel this would solve the other issues too, ie we need something we can repeat run for other gains *not lvling directly glhf

[@GautamRajput-wz3mf]

The hero essence is a major setback. You are correct about the progress but its just holding back at this point on the level of 110. Other than that the guild loot is way too low. Around 70 chests and only 5 recruitment letters & no stargazer token at all.

[@zoss6410]

I d like a server without paying shop. Total f2p for everyone on it

[@0demon0]

I agree with you but i think we should still have a little bit more essence. Not nearly as much as some people are saying they want but just have the sources like town quests give a more respectable amount. Getting 150 for a town quest that you have to wait 2 days to unlock the next set of when you need over 2000 to level up a single hero is a bit too low i feel. Basically my main issue with hero essence is that town quests don't scale the reward almost at all and that makes me not want to bother with them even when i have nothing better to do and i don't think that is how they should feel.

[@Hedgehog-df6ws]

I know there are gonna be bottlenecks, but essence needs a slight increase

[@Hedgehog-df6ws]

Actually, your reasoning makes sense

[@Dorfess]

I think it would be cool to have an option to PVP people on your friendslist infinite amount of times without contributing to any leaderboards or anything. That opens up the ability to truly try out team comps without losing ranking in PVP and think it would be cool.

[@RemurrMLT]

Agreed with everything apart from equipping gear. I like to equip new gear every time. Feeling of a progression ^_^

[@milo2049]

The game needs like a panel for live dmg dealt/received/healed feed-chart like TFT. Idk it looks so satisfying when you see your units deal damage

[@AdamsgainsLore]

For me the only two Things i really want maybe one way more to Grind Hero Essence and more important for me that we get maybe some Infos about next Banners, Future Updates. Im still Not Sure to pull for Vala because of this.

[@mainyyt6360]

If you have the artifact and characters, you should outright be able to apply the teams you can view to help clear afk stages instead of changing them manually. Also a mini thing outside of the game which I love is roadmaps that outline the direction the game will go in. Roadmaps are always the best to view, especially as the game has just released.

[@aces2242]

I 100% understand your point about essence i think they should just put more essence as rewards to primal lord thats it because you easily get millions of exp a day from it but no essence to do anything with it

[@michaelcooper1558]

Agree with basically everything... even the hero essence, though it pains me to say it lol. One little qol thing I would like to see is for the chat to stick to whatever tab I was last on, and not just auto revert back to world chat. I really don't wanna see some of those oddball conversations that go on lol.

[@aetrn-official]

One of the biggest changes they need to make on PC is to remove the requiered elevated permission to run the application. Why would they force you to run the game as admin...

[@phoenixfire8226]

agree completely about honor duel and labyrinth they're pretty bad time:reward ratio. feels like the daily boss fight and arena are the only things worth doing if you don't have a lot of time

[@alexanders6670]

they need to add more things to do when you get stuck, maybe a really slow but fun way to grind essence like honor duel

[@firefox7061]

In the past team completions for the afk stages would like a "view team placement" button.

[@benjaminroe311ify]

I don't know if hero essence is a problem or not. I am just reaching level 100 with my character and has seemed like an appropriate bottleneck to be fair. Perhaps when you I need A LOT more for a character level up at like 140 or something I will feel more pain.

[@markkiroro5433]

Nah if you're not spending money, you will have the problem of essence starting from lvl 101.. unless your progress is so slow.

[@uzshanka1676]

I'd like to see in a game an option to level Chippi. Imagine the level of flex if someone got soloed by him

[@TimRoed]

Hero essence feels bad as the gating level up material because with XP books at least we could progress a level or two more often. With hero essence, we have longer periods without progressing and then once we get enough essence for that hero, they’re able to level up 10 levels with all the XP books we have stockpiled. I think XP books being the gating material feels better for more incremental progression.

[@GetClientsWithMio]

I think the rewards overall are quite small. For labyrinth, for normal campaign tasks too, honor duel and so on (just some diamonds and gold usually). Also, I feel like there aren't enough pulls and getting heroes, we just get diamonds, and even that in limited quantity. It feels like that could easily 3x the rewards, and it would still feel like not enough.

[@The.QuasiOG]

I'd love an option to transfer servers, but not for leader board reasons, which I know is why they don't allow them. I started my account on Server 42, thinking that all my choices were based around the US, and that other countries had a separate server list. But nope, my server is apparently the dedicated server for France or something. I'm in a top 3 guild, and happy that everyone is active so I can get all the guild rewards. But there's no social aspect for me since I don't speak French. I really wanted to be part of a guild with an active Discord, but I'm too invested in my account now to start over on a new server.

[@AjaniGoldmaneFFXIV]

Better skill descriptions in the game. Sometimes I don't always want to go to the wiki to get the full details. More little AFK rank rewards. Nothing crazy but maybe the occasional 1-5 extra something whether its a thing to help me rank up my hero equipment, or ingots for actual equipment. Just something.

[@WishMish15]

Make sure you collect your honor duel rewards in the top left! i didnt know that was there the whole first week

[@zendroidy]

I was baffled to not find a "equip all classes" sort of button. I also find it too easy to not use the gear from locked chests because they're likely too low by the time you can open them.

[@carlosmoret2675]

Afk levels give chests you cant open yet and map completion gives gear that is already useless. They need to rebalance gear levels and where what drops

[@TheBroCouch]

For Honor Duel, I would add a PvE mode that comes with challenges similar to labyrinth challenges.

[@EricSp33r]

Speaking of stuff like Honor Duel and the Labyrinth: they just feel like half-baked modes. They don’t give good rewards and take up lots of time and it takes a slot where a better mode should be.

[@elk1llo]

depending on the game's character release schedule once it's all settled, i feel like stellar crystals should be made more accessible because it's just not fun to be conservative with them even if it's the smartest play right now.

[@Jeriks]

I want a personal replay log for Dream Realm. Maybe I’m blind but I can’t seem to find a way to see which formations I have already tried on a dream realm boss

[@Popkornz]

As someone who has never played an afk game before, a "selling point" of the game was that afk existed to prevent the need to grind however the problem with the grind was never that it requires time but that it was uninteractive/interesting and slowed progression. Sure afking can be interesting when you can literally do anything else, but it seems like the problem is the progression as you said. It feels like eventually it will lead to players to stop playing due to lack of content, not because there is a lack of content, but because their is not a way to access that content without waiting which is a shame since the content exists.

[@croix759]

it is weird that gear doesn't auto equip since there isn't any rng stats or anything that would cause you to want to use a lower level gear (unless you were purposely trying to lower a stat for some kind of cheese or something i guess, but that situation is rare enough that you could just manually change gear in that case).

[@MJMCode]

I understand that they likely need a progression gating mechanic. However the current way hero essence works is so simple and obvious that the player is being blocked that it creates a bad player experience. Compared to the high quality of many other parts of the game the weakness of the hero essence implementation stands out as something you would expect to find in a lower quality gacha game.

[@luckyblackat]

Hi Volkin I have played afk arena for 3 years and been following you for a long time haha, I feel out of love for afk arena but Im really enjoying journey, here are my biggest complains - Campaign Rewards are poop, in the way that, weapons you get makes zero sense. - No auto repeat/true auto on stages (clicking replay is fine but it will get very annoying for hardcore pushers when 2+ teams start getting introduced). - Multiple attempts limit is dumb. - Scamgazer rewards are eh, would rather have other resources in the mix, feels like we only get nuts - Replay/Retry on Legend Trial - Arena new free tries to be added, and not this weird buy for 0x diamonds - Honor Duel missions being more friendly/better rewards, I think it's fine but sucks to go 9-1, 9-2 and get nothing - Dream realm comp view, similar to how we had in afk arena, but I guess I do enjoy the secrecy as well for variety - More coop content, playing with friends on corrupted enemies is kinda fun, wish we had way more stuff like this - More cross-server content, be it guilds or content/events, server is one week old and feels soo dead! Even server chat barely has anyone - Global chat is a pos that needs moderation - Display the artifact used on replay/statistics tab - Improve rewards for proxy battles, it's soo hard and takes time for no rewards other then helping friends, which is okay but at least we could get some more pal coins - Allow us to pvp each other freely to test comps/fun - Trials for dream realm soo we can test comps and such without losing tries - Allow to copy and paste a formation from replay, or overall prep quick comps like we had in afk arena - Daily missions around the map, we got a huge map, that feels omega empty, no reason to go around! Wish we had daily things similar to town quests to make us go around places! - Repeatable daily farmable enemies, I would love if we had enemies around the map/old locations that respawn every x/y, could adjust to your resonance and rewards could be affection, this way you could test new comps and niche/less used heroes to farm affection on them while using them in-game for battles, sounds very fun

[@sneaky9073]

I don't make enough hero essence in 24h of afk to level up ONE SINGLE HERO. I have 57M exp but not enough hero dust for ONE SINGLE hero. Yeah I get it, if we leveled up too fast there would be no more content, but the fact that I am at almost 800 afk stage and don't make enough hero dust in 24h of afk for ONE HERO does not make sense at all...

[@AnthonyMuro]

A friend and I started on a server day 1 and were really enjoying the game, and we decided "lets get the noble pass to get a bit ahead and try to do really good in rankings." Well, we did, and sure enough there is a couple heavy whale guilds. Now we are sort of stuck in this server with our purchases where we don't really see any results from it. Now I knew there was always going to be spenders in the game, but didn't really expect am entire guild full of them on the server we chose. We've been considering restarting on a new server where hopefully no spenders are setting up, but then we'd lose our purchases. It'd be nice if we could transfer the pass to a new server. I've played AFK Arena and I know how the servers work, so I know why it is designed the way it is. Add the farlight pass to PC? I know it's on mobile and not PC but I'm not sure why. I've recently learned I've been missing out on daily rewards because I've been playing on PC and not seeing the rewards. We need to see our past boss records for that day. They have it in AFK Arena so I don't see why we can't have it here so we can tweak our teams and see what works. I totally agree with the auto battle. Sometimes a stage seems so close to a win, why not let auto just attempt it for us. Also, maybe just a quick "Use Formation" button when looking at replays of how others beat a stage so it can assign it for you. I'm honestly not a fan of Honor Duel at all. The number of times I'll get worse starting artifacts/heroes than the enemies and get wiped 3/0 is quite frustrating, especially when there is an event going on to encourage you to do it.

[@TheMrg59]

I have one: There should be a timed cooldown on how long you can fight the same person in the arena, maybe 5-10 minutes. Today, in the last five minutes before reward time, I was hit by the same exact guy 3 times, all about 1.5-2 minutes apart, and it knocked me down a rank for reward. Shouldn't be possible.

[@jeffbankss]

What I dont like is how my formation changes when I'm pushing AFK then I go do arena and it messes up the AFK formation. 😤😤😤

[@VolkinAFKJourney]

Trueeeee! formation should be saved to the stage u do not to the overall map

[@notsopro6953]

I agree that more essence would allow you to progress faster, but right now its pretty abysmal just how much essence we get. Essence is still the biggest problem even if the primal boss didn't exist, so it magnifies the feeling/issue. The Essence you get from other sources outside of afk rewards does matter, but it is still abysmal. Basically closing the gap for your last character to hit the new breakpoint. The other frustrating side of Essence is not being able to push further in afk levels due to you not having 1 or 2 units, namely Brutus or Smokey. Not having these units dwarfs your ability to push afk levels which then makes the leveling process of your account take weeks, or months longer. I personally love how arcane labyrinth is right now for a couple reasons. 1. im not forced to do X weekly runs like every other mobile game, where its just a time sink and nothing more. and 2. Theyve done 1 event with it already that allowed you rewards for gaining points just by playing it, and you could do it all in 1 day if you wanted. The way it's set up now feels great and when systems like the labyrinth are forced to be played each week for valuable rewards, it always leads me to burnout because of how much time you have to sink into it. ( examples would be nikke, or eversoul) Honor duel I feel is in the same place as the Labyrinth. Not forced to do unless theres an event. These activities, I feel, makes the game a lot less time demanding for an afk game, and the events theyve done for them so far are all great without drastically increasing the amount of time each day the game is required to take from you. For me, afk games are best enjoyed when youre not forced to participate in 12 different game modes a day to obtain however many different resources. So far, afk journey has done this incredibly well, and I hope this remains the case in the future. Hero essence is the only thing that has me wanting to complain.

[@PseudoStanLee]

So I agree with mostly everything said. I think that there needs to be some sort of gate for progression, however I disagree that it should be through resources. I think progression curve should be less of an uphill curve, and more of a staircase. This would lean into them removing the parenting cooldown timer on telling you to stop playing. I think in everything other than maybe PVP there should be a hard wall that you're like oh shit, I don't think I can out formation this battle to squeak out a victory anymore. I should just wait for tomorrow's reset. Also I'm a firm believer of variety of options is always better than limited option in just about every aspect, but those options should never be mandatory or feel mandatory(I.E. Honor Duel). I think the game could add more daily quest that involve exploring the map, doing dungeons Etc. Which could supplement the lack of Gold/Hero Essence. Oh and the gap between P2W and F2P needs to be dropped significantly. If you get bad RNG with character pulls and or are late to starting the game, there is almost 0 hope for you to ever be in the rankings of anything. I know I'm not the greatest at the game, but I don't think I'm horrible and to be out damaged by 10x the amount on just released content is crazy. Also since PVP is ranked there should be brackets that have Power Limits per bracket. It's more or less fine for now but 6 months to a year from now and people will forever be stuck in certain brackets do to P2W and having better RNG will character pulls.

[@malificajones7674]

I started playing a few days ago and I'm up to resonance level 134. Hero essence hasn't been a problem so far, but I've been spending money on the game. They're not using hero essence to slow down progress to make the content last longer. It's to slow down F2P players, and encourage them to buy the Secret Travelogue (which gives you lots of hero essence).

[@pufferhated2712]

They need to fix the chat sensor it blocks when I say what stage I'm on but I can put fucking and it doesn't sensor it

[@s.6875]

They should make the first chars u use in a fight ur highest char resonance level. Its so pointless to make u always back out to switch them in the char menu manually to the higher levels. And then switch them back to make sure ur arena defense is not screwed.

[@hakugei-_-5800]

After afk stages, trial of the Abyss begins and will give you 600 essence each level

[@erikjacobson8125]

I think winning all of your PVP games each day should maybe give you 200-500 extra depending on rank, might help push that one character you need that day but also dont know how high the ess cost is past 101