Remember this was a game that had deliberate Game-Breaker items in the form of World Class Items. And among them they had the Twenty which were so broken they were outright game changers. The developers couldn't even figure out how to program in the usual immunity provided by World Class Items against other World Class Items when it came to the effects of Five Elements Overcoming.
Five Elements Overcoming btw is the WCI that lets make a request to the devs to change the magic system of the game itself. Which is huge.
And it's strongly implied that either this or Ouroboros (which has a similar effect) is what introduced Tier Magic to the New World and weakened Wild Magic.
One Youtube vid theorized that the Six Gods used Ouroboros and Five Elements Overcoming together to enable Translator Microbes and YGGDRASIL abilities when they arrived in the New World. With their powers as level 100 Players made real in the New World, they singlehandedly saved humanity from the brink of extinction.
Edited by M84 on Jun 20th 2020 at 9:55:08 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedYou mean one that doesn't have mad gamebreakery going?
It is actually kind of a small subgenre I think. VRMMO slice of life without getting stuck in it or being megacheaty OP.
I've run into a handful but didn't stick with reading any, so I can't point them out from memory.
Edited by Adannor on Jun 20th 2020 at 7:13:44 PM
Infinite Dendrogram has one of the most ludicrously broken in-story MM Os around (there's stuff in there which would make Ainz sit down and cry)... but everyone is bullshit, and it ends up being a bunch of Puzzle Bosses fighting each other.
Edited by Prime32 on Jun 21st 2020 at 10:26:07 AM
Frankly, the most broken item so far is the hourglass that allows you to quick-cast Super-Tier Magic. An item like that isn't just a huge benefit, it's basically MANDATORY. It'd be impossible to use Super-Tier Magic without using an hourglass every time, because it's so slow.
That's huge. Imagine if there was a cash shop item in World of Warcraft that, I dunno, refreshed all your cooldowns.
"Your words are fire giants, assaulting the Asgard of my mind."Bumping this for the season 4 announcement
Looking forward to this.

Nevertheless, YGGDRASIL still sounds as an increddibly broken game.