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Suggestion: Add Rings to the Acererak Heroic Encounter
macjae
Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 2,415 Arc User
In brief, I think it would be a good idea to add a chance of getting Shadowstriker rings (and possibly a smaller chance of getting Gravestriker rings) off of the Acererak heroic encounter. This should help with a few different things.
First, as one dev stated, you shouldn't feel like you're forced to use multiple characters to farm. That was in relation to Cradle of the Death God. Yet that is what the design for Shadowstriker (from Fane) and Gravestriker (from patrol quests) rings does; the more characters you have to grind for them, the more chances at good drops. These rings are different from most items in that you're restricted to a certain number of attempts at getting them per week, which limits farming for them.
The second issue is that the Acererak Heroic Encounter isn't seeing much play at all. It is much more expedient to switch between different zones to get Tyrant Heroic Encounters instead, rather than getting a larger group together to empower the whole map and then doing the HE. There's also the additional requirement of farming and spending trickster amulets. Thus, there is a higher opportunity cost involved in getting to the Acererak HE to begin with. At the same time, the rewards seem to be worse -- the Tyrant HE gives some additional loot like T-Rex Fangs and dinosaur hides, which, while not high in value, is at least *something*.
By giving the Acererak HE a small chance of awarding the Shadowstriker (and Gravestriker) rings, that would give players a much stronger incentive to farm that. It would be an additional opportunity to get those rings for players who only have one character, it would in general give players a way to farm the rings outside of the weekly restrictions, it would mean that content would see more play, and it would help increase the use of content which otherwise is pretty dead and give slightly more variety of general play in Omu.
First, as one dev stated, you shouldn't feel like you're forced to use multiple characters to farm. That was in relation to Cradle of the Death God. Yet that is what the design for Shadowstriker (from Fane) and Gravestriker (from patrol quests) rings does; the more characters you have to grind for them, the more chances at good drops. These rings are different from most items in that you're restricted to a certain number of attempts at getting them per week, which limits farming for them.
The second issue is that the Acererak Heroic Encounter isn't seeing much play at all. It is much more expedient to switch between different zones to get Tyrant Heroic Encounters instead, rather than getting a larger group together to empower the whole map and then doing the HE. There's also the additional requirement of farming and spending trickster amulets. Thus, there is a higher opportunity cost involved in getting to the Acererak HE to begin with. At the same time, the rewards seem to be worse -- the Tyrant HE gives some additional loot like T-Rex Fangs and dinosaur hides, which, while not high in value, is at least *something*.
By giving the Acererak HE a small chance of awarding the Shadowstriker (and Gravestriker) rings, that would give players a much stronger incentive to farm that. It would be an additional opportunity to get those rings for players who only have one character, it would in general give players a way to farm the rings outside of the weekly restrictions, it would mean that content would see more play, and it would help increase the use of content which otherwise is pretty dead and give slightly more variety of general play in Omu.
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