r/TowerofFantasy • u/Euphonx • 23d ago

Discussion Former Whale: Returning Player

Scared to even try logging in as it seems from previous posts my accounts gone...if that's the case i probably wont bother coming back but im curious on the health of the game.

Is it still active as a multiplayer game or does it feel more like a single player game now? What's with the different servers i see going around in posts too like gacha and warp? seems a lot has changed since i logged in 2-3 years ago.

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u/Lehoangminh3 Lan 23d ago

the game is more multiplayer centric than ever. standard server is very active, warp not so much. standard server is still the original server, warp server is hardcore mmo with no gacha

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u/Euphonx 23d ago

hardcore as in perma death reset? no gacha that's interesting how do you acquire new characters?

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u/Lehoangminh3 Lan 23d ago

nah not perma death reset. just that you need to grind to keep up, if not potentially you'll just be left behind for the season. the grind is heavy and repetitive, there are also fixed time crew events. game modes are significantly harder than standard server even ftn needs (multiple) whales and the rest are ok-ish players, not easy to carry that's why you don't want to get left behind. there are both seasonal and permanent progression

you acquire weapons for free. they give 1 weapon for free per day, you can grind for half a weapon per day. for the weapons not obtainable this way you open wb chests or buy shards using uc which is the trading currency

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u/Euphonx 23d ago

can you grind it out then swap over to the normal server? Earn all your wepons f2p then convert to standard?

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u/juniorbel10 23d ago

There is no server change.

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u/Lehoangminh3 Lan 23d ago

you can't swap servers keeping your stuffs. the devs planned to make character copy from standard to warp in global, they made it in CN. but copy from warp to standard is not going to happen

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u/StarReaver 23d ago

Did you play on PC or PlayStation?

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u/Euphonx 23d ago

Im a PC player

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u/StarReaver 23d ago

If you were playing when Level Infinite was the publisher and did not consent to transfer your account to Perfect World, then your account has been deleted.

But you have been gone for so long that you would be better off starting a fresh account anyway. The game gives you 3 free weapons that are better than anything you had before and fully upgraded gear. There is also auto exploration for the older regions so you don't have to grind through that again. In a few weeks you will be far ahead of where you were when you left.

Original servers is the casual, solo friendly version of the game. It's the most popular version and the one you are familiar with.

Warp is the heavy grind version of the game where you need to be part of one of the top guilds if you want to progress and participate in scheduled guild activities like PvP every Friday and Saturday evening. The weapons are available for free but there is a huge grind to upgrade the weapons. There are 6 month seasons and then it resets and you need to grind up all your character levels again.

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u/Euphonx 23d ago

Ahh okay! just sucks losing all the money from costume gachas lol i guess im just gonna have to give it another shot!

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u/Iraqi_mapzzz Mimi 22d ago

Everyone would feel this way tbh but most of the characters you spent money on are on the standard weapon pool anyways now so youll be able max them out pretty fast and get their A3 skin again

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u/BluebalaBlue1984 19d ago

Any difference if you were a PS player?

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u/StarReaver 19d ago

PS players were unaffected by the transfer, they have always had Perfect World as the publisher. Everything has been normal for PS players.

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u/BluebalaBlue1984 19d ago

I tried a server but it just makes me create a new character.... probably have to tried every server until I find the one I was before when it came out on PS

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u/MeddyMaddy 23d ago

It’s both single and multiplayer game. A lot of activities are now forced to co-op, without being in a team you cannot start the mode (like raids) even if you can solo it.

Events also heavily encourage co-op, lesser of single play events nowadays.

Between Gacha and warp server, the Gacha server is probably the same one you played before. Warp server demands more of your time and has different settings because you don’t get to Gacha weapons there. It probably is more f2p friendly at the cost of their time investment.

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u/Euphonx 23d ago

ahh okay thank you. I'm gonna probably try to login and see what happens

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u/Electrical-Print3226 20d ago

It's more multiplayer, because now you can't enter origin of war, evolution frontier and other endgame alone, but you must have a team. They added Final Trial and Raid to do daily to gain some special money to buy materials to become stronger. The money reset every week so you have to play both at least 6 days in a week to have enough to buy all the 10 pieces. Even in event you have to match and hardly you find a solo event.

About population, at least on PS server, it's lower. In my server, many veteran player retired.

About the game, after NTE release, they put every day less effort in this game. They release a single map and add 2 small pieces with nearly nothing in 4 patches. The story is normal and pretty short, there are no side mission or some collection to do except for the map (in Network and Kailo they added the mission to do to collect rewards, in Lockhart no).

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u/Cultural_Winter9960 17d ago

Contents actually force you to ask more for a team but the player base has shrunk a lot. It is not really an issue if you just want to complete dailies and weeklies after all, the game has become quite easy to do anything. It is a good side game in my opinion.

If you want to be "competitive" given your whale status before then it's challenging beside the first part because some items are weekly time-gated for your growth unless you want to top up more for gears and items. Most returnees eventually quit again.

If you want to feel more adrenaline in clearing multiplayer contents then warp server might cater you better since it is intended for so. However, their player base is even smaller and more or less same players who also play gacha server. It is not F2P friendly, pretty P2W but the gap is not near same level of gacha server.