Rafting Renewal - KR Update. |:

Just read the first post and discuss here. .____."

*RAGEQUITTABLEFLIP*

After venting anger on g1 finale Glas all I got to say is...what in the world is devcat thinking? This is probably a bad renewal...though at least they threw in some nice rewards...becky witch dress...yum

Yeah, the Becky dress and the elephant seems decent enough. I dislike how the stars expire, but hell. You lose them anyway if you leave the area. What makes me wonder though, an elephant is 54 stars, and it gives 2920 Exploration Exp. When I could get 6 big stars (30 small stars?) and get over 3000 Exp. Am I correct? It's been a while since I went rafting. So what, are we getting ripped off in that respect? |:
However, the Becky dress is a plus, then they would drop in price even more I guess, depending on a person's desire towards the dress. Everything else seems like crap. And I know a few of my friends who do rafting for money, as in, rafting for gold, or production items to sell, they're going to be super pissed at this. :<

almost 2x work for a 200~ exp decrease...

Yeah, that's the disappointing part. Rafting was one of the main ways I would get exploration exp after rebirth. |:

This would only be a bad update if stars are still divided, otherwise it would make it more abusable... Either it'd be abusable or not worth it. Although, this is the one bad update in a streak of good updates. They'll probably adjust this again after they adjust hot air ballooning.

I don't know, I cannot solo rafting. I need to go with a mage and windmill in the center, otherwise, I wouldn't get very many stars on my own. |:

So in this case, if my theory is correct, you should advantage from this (outside of expl exp). Because then instead of getting half a star per monster you'd get a whole item star. However, this depends on how the stars are distributed. Do you get the items immediately after killing the monster or do you redeem them from the NPCs?

*wyvernhuntsasanalternative* qq

Apparently, the stars are in your inventory as gold. And you go and open an NPC shop with the Native NPC standing by the docks, and you buy the items from the shop with these stars. As far as how the stars are split or distributed, I have no idea. |:

3 day expiration </3

and it will probably 1 star a kill, untradable means.

Lamesauce. |:<

But now the monsters actually give exploration exp for being killed so you get more exploration experience, apparently.

orly...? That...changes everything? qq no levels for me if that's the case D:

Why? This is actually more expl exp per run... (And there's always the elephant statue reward.)

but I cap exploration too easily....e-e;; (still has a ton of statues from various gacha's...) qq

Just how much Expl EXP do dead hobgoblins give?

Not much per but enough to always give more exp than it would now.

wait...do they only give Exploration? or is Normal exp given too?

Probably both. Metus inhabitants and Iria field bosses give both normal and Expl EXP for killing them.

If the stars takes form of a sort of gold items, then does that mean you can stack them from repeated rafting now? Or do they still all vanish if you enter another raft?

Yes, they stack up to 100 per slot and expire after 3 days (if they're like book pages, expiration time is extended by mixing stacks of older stars with more recent stars). If they didn't stack and disappeared after reentering rafting (which they do not), there would be no point to this update.

I dunno..but right now I'm killing off sundials (currently capped...again...D:< Why 180 sundials so hard to get rid of D:!)