Did you know Maintenances actually do something? Excuse my terrible grammar as I'm half asleep writing this, but I must emphasize after studying the pattern of maintenances, I believe Nexon is actually doing something.
So, in my everlasting hopeless, pathetic, depressing, chase to recover my +13 weapons, I've noticed a very interesting pattern seen in the economy of vindictus, as well as the botting season for hackers. I'd like to share this information with everyone so that many of you will keep in mind of when it is the
best time to buy/sell items at the proper time, and why botting is a waste of time.
As you all know, botting is what supports the economy of vindictus and allows cheap players like us, to get that 1 maelstrom ES. Back when maelstroms were only dropped by Weeping Queen Hero, the scroll would be literally sold for 8-10mil, which could have bought you an entire Black Hammer Set. However, bots had allowed cheap players to buy maelstroms at 2mil, which would be junk gold for the latter half of the community. Now, most of you probably already know this, but Botting is entirely Pub. Meaning that these "hacks" are so easy to develop, that even Pubs can manipulate Source Engine in order to bypass Nexon's weak hackshields, inject a DLL and force console to run certain commands clientside e.g player_damage_base 9999.
(This would give you 1 Hit KO). However, it is not easy to develop a user-friendly HUD for these pubs. Somewhere out there, is that 1 genius who decided to release this "botting" to players in Vindictus. And yes, he is pretty infamous among botters and hackers (Will not mention name), but he collects money for making hacks.
I must digress from the main point again to destroy your temptations to bot.
And before anyone goes inb4Zbots, botting requires a very powerful computer (Textures and AIs will be looped at tremendous levels that even 1GB DDR5 Cards will have frame lag), as well as constant button pushing (! HKING a Boss requires the user to execute bind commands, which are used by the Keyboard), and hours of personal maintenance(After finishing a mission, your vindictus will often crash, then you have to restart the hacks, and repeat the whole process). Despite this being a HUGE pain in the donkey's behind, the process does yield a hefty sum of gold. So only those out there who are desperate enough to skip school/work will probably have to spend a good 8-10 hours a day of constant watch. Don't bot, it's not worth it. You're better off working at minimum wage and buying NX.
Now that I've cleared that up, Botting hacks are distributed to about 50% of the vindictus community. See those GMs and random pugs that have +15 weapons/dyes/gear? If you think about it yourself, back when patch 4 would only allow the level cap of 44 with laghodessa, NOBODY would even DARE to go +1 on any equipment. And the numbers lie, as I recall it was about a .0006251% chance for someone to get a +15. Those odds are extremely hard to achieve. In Vindictus EU, many players already have +15 Ivory weapons, boasting to be the best players in the game. Luck? Heck to the no, otherwise they'd be at Vegas instead of sitting at their comps full of gamer pride.
1. Pay2win, buy gold, but spend about $1000 in the process to get that +15. Some are even unsuccessful and can manage to only get a +14.
2. Botting, this is where botting comes into play as why they have those 15s. Botting, with multiple computers can yield almost 100-200m a week depending on the user's speed.
3. Masters of Source Console. Recently, many know that Item Creation was patched because it would allow the command ma_give_player_weapon titan_spearsenhancelevel10 and produce a +10 braid tassel. Yes, this was patched and it is currently impossible to reuse such a command. However, the loops around this are not ENTIRELY patched. There are commands out there, which I don't even know after spending countless hours of skimming source engine, that maybe or somehow tells the user if an enhance will be successful or not. If not successful, they wait another day in order for the RNG system to reset. Data packet hacking is entirely illegal, so nobody would dare to touch that unless they're not familiar with it being a Federal offense that could lead to time in prison. Recently, some "ignorant" teenager leaked his method to achieving +15 braid tassels, +15 passionate gear. However, this was done by clientside. He used commands in order to overwrite his current damage, tell the console to give him these weapons as a skin, not the real thing. In other words, his stats would show he had a +15 weapon, but the real weapon would not be there, and instead after every mission it would reset. The user would have to constantly punch in commands to re-achieve his +15 status.
This method again, is entirely useless because it is clientside, something only for show and yourself. This would not be viewable to others. This brings me to another story, in east, somebody was able to achieve +15 swords/spears in a day. He claims it was based on decryption codes, a subject I cannot decipher for I am slightly illiterate in decryption.
Also, to digress from the subject, Enhancing is not RNG, I have confirmed this myself as from my grand 1.2bil loss streak, I would have hit the mega lottery 3x in a row. Enhancing is based on small factors such as the fountain, but is mainly affected by a certain time when the character is designated to fail items. This is not entirely 100% true, but for the most part and based on my experience from gold, nx, time, there is a secret out there.
All of this information leads to the one question, how would it affect me? How can I manipulate this information to better myself in the economic turmoil of Vindictus? In the end, it's up to you to be creative. In other words, I can only open the door for you with this information, and it's your duty to walk through it.
This brings me to my final information piece, which is the maintenance. Out there in some secret forums, is a hack that is constantly being patched. That single hack is what nearly 90% of botters rely on in order to gain those ESs and empowered stones. A new version of that hack was released about a week ago. Yesterday, Nexon implemented a patch with the maintenance. That hack was patched, as well as the entire console injection. In other words, the hacking devs would have to start entirely from scratch again. But! This does not stop them for they make money out of it. Every maintenance, unscheduled or not had the history of patching the hacking devs hacks constantly. There is an entire list of his hacks that were patched, and as a result botting would come to a complete stop. I realized how devastating this could affect the entire vindictus economy, as if you look on the forums, not ONE Maelstrom is even being sold. Only after the hacking dev releases his hacks to the community, do we see flooded pages of S>Maelstrom 2m, force 2m, berserker es 1m, etc.
E.g- Take advantage of this stumped period where botters are no longer able to bot. Meaning that your Scrolls are worth TWICE it's price, as well as taking the time to sell your equips. These are only few methods I could think of in this short span of time.
The rest is up to you.
TL:DR- None. :D
