Important Community Poll: Full Stigma System Implementation

Dear community,
We have carefully reviewed your feedback and listened to what most of you are asking for. We believe, and genuinely hope that we have reached a solution that satisfies everyone, or at least most of you.

When we reintroduced the Stigma system, we promised to rotate it at the beginning of each new season. However, further analysis showed that this would lead to significant class imbalance and require ongoing manual intervention from us to adjust and rebalance classes. To avoid this unnecessary interference, we have decided to move away from the rotation concept and instead enable the full Stigma system exclusively in Gamez exclusive battlegrounds such as 1v1's, Auto Groups, Premade Group, Guardian, Two Gods, God's Throne 12v12, Mixfight and FFA.

• Runatorium, Kamar, Jormungand, Dredgion, Arenas, and open world PvP will continue to use the Stigma system, allowing you to still fully experience it.

We have decided to conduct this poll on the forum, as it allows us to more easily track whether votes are being cast by active players, helping us reach a more accurate and meaningful result.
Cast your vote for the option you prefer. Your feedback will directly influence how the Stigma system is implemented going forward.
Please ensure all replies remain constructive and respectful. Any disrespectful behavior will be handled accordingly.

Thank you for your cooperation and support.

 

i think just implement the full stigma. As much as i want the stigma system now. I think we can agree to just open full stigma. If just opening it to pvp maps or gamez exclusive battlegrounds,.players might have a hard time re arranging the skills if everything just pops up and be available to use. The confusion might be overwhelming. Have a good one XD

 

Let's wait for the players to vote on which they would choose. After all, we all know which one to go. Though, I must say, the options are really good.

 

It will be change after the vote or next season?

 

I guess if u will allowed full stigma system, most people will comeback playing gamez.. since most people left because of stigma system.. #MakeGamezGreatAgain

 

IMO you have to commit fully to one way or the other. Either leave it the way its been lately(normal retail stigma system) or have full stigmas unlocked for open world, battlegrounds and everything else but also commit to having to constantly making class balancing tweaks. It's too weird to try to have it both ways, it'd be especially confusing for new players and in my opinion we should make it as less confusing as possible for new players, because we really need new players right now.

 

Full stigma is gamez trademark. Lezgo!

 

full stigma its a trademark of Gamezaion since birth AHAHHAHAH !

 

As soon as possible, theres no point in waiting until next season.

 

i love this

 

That't more like it, MAKE THE GAMEZ ALIVE AGAIN!

 

Thank you for creating the poll,
I hope that with this poll, the players will be satisfied, at least most of them...

 

The reason why the stigma was implimented because of the class balance. If you changed it, these SW and Gunner will dominate the game again.
So what ever the result is, please don't cry about the balance if the full stigma will be implimented.

 

Full Stigma in my Opinion, This Server is known for that alone, and even though some players may cry cause some classes are OP or whatever, we need to keep in mind every class has its own strength and weakness, it is just the way this game was created, just make this full stigma so hopefuly ppl come back!

 

People need variety in life. Vanilla could be your favorite flavor but if you're asked to vote for chocolate or vanilla after having vanilla for 3 months straight most people would vote for chocolate if only for the sake of variety. Just as the majority voted for the normal stigma system when we had full stigmas for a long time I believe this poll will have the opposite result and most will vote for full stigmas because we had normal stigmas for a while.

That being said, I think the seasonal rotation system was the best compromise. It would be confusing to have both at the same time. It would be confusing for different modes to have different stigma systems and it would be annoying to constantly switch skillbars.

And yes it's true that the classes are significantly imbalanced under the full stigma system. For example, rangers get the short end of the stick while bards get mega boosted. We all know what class everyone is worried about with this system, so I propose an alternative solution: full stigmas for every class except bard. Just throwing it out there.

Another point to consider on the balance issue is that the majority of players don't really care about game balance. Just look how many bards there have been on this server. I've played Aion for a long time and this server has had more bards than any server I have ever seen before. It's a very abnormal amount of bards; usually bard is a very underplayed class compared to other classes but this has not been the case on GamezAion. This is because playing bard on this patch is the easy path to victory. Look how many players rerolled to bard right before they expected the full stigma system to come back. A lot of players just want to mash buttons and have the game validate them and tell them they won. That's not necessarily a bad thing - sometimes the chaos is fun.

 

This is a good start, thank you for considering what many players are thinking.
To be honest, I believe your original though of doing one season stigma system and the next full stigma, and back and forth was the best and simplest solution.

Follow-up....If you implement the full stigma on "PvP Map and Gamez Battlegrounds" and in 2 weeks see that nobody is applying to "Runatorium, Kamar, Jormungand, Dredgion, Arenas" would you consider doing the original idea of season to season cycling? That was the best idea.

We know it's not 100% balanced and that's mostly NCsoft's fault with their decisions of developing certain classes the way they did. Gamez is unique and has a beloved following because of its full stigma system to begin with. I really think season to season cycling was the best idea so far.

 

I'm one of those who prefer the game's original stigma system to maintain proper balance, but if they're going to implement all the stigmas, the Bard has to be nerfed. A full stigma build evolves from a god to a cosmic god, with pure burst damage, sustained burst damage, massive healing, removal of negative and positive effects, mana recharge and drain, and perfect crowd control (two Penguins and two Silences). And what do we get? More than half the server playing Bard, and we lose class diversity; everyone plays the most powerful and easiest class to play.

My suggestion? A base reduction to magic enhancement (-500) and healing enhancement (-300), and even with these nerfs, it will still be overpowered.

 

it need to have the option to vote for pve area if you do not want to make it open world at least allow it in pve maps because for players like me ( and new players ) who can not even fight back in pvp yet it will make no difference at all if the fss is applied or not in pvp at least let us use it for pve and enjoy it in maps like underground katalam for example

 

You focus too much in bard, when there are other class that are op in full stigma especially templar, sm, gunner and clerics

 

I don't like the full stigma system at all; I prefer the original stigma system. But if they were going to implement it, I'd prefer the original idea of one season with full stigma and the next with classic. Because what's the point of doing it this way? It means that 99% of the PvP I do is forced into full stigma, because PvP in Gamez is always PvP maps or events.
So the classic system would only be used for duels and PvE? xD