Bounty Profession Bag

draconislupus

Currently we are having a 2x Profession Resources weekend on console. And I just noticed something in the Partisan Packs that you get from the bounties in the various maps. The bug is actually in Bounty Profession Bag inside the Bounty Assortment Pack.

With it being a 2x Profession Resources event this bag should be giving double the profession resources but they are not doing this.

And since these are geared more towards lower level players this needs to be fixed.

zephyriah

draconislupus said:

Currently we are having a 2x Profession Resources weekend on console. And I just noticed something in the Partisan Packs that you get from the bounties in the various maps. The bug is actually in Bounty Profession Bag inside the Bounty Assortment Pack.

With it being a 2x Profession Resources event this bag should be giving double the profession resources but they are not doing this.

And since these are geared more towards lower level players this needs to be fixed.

It is not broken and is not a bug. The event description clearly lists the things that give double. If an item is not listed, it does not double. We may wish everything related to professions doubled, but it doesn't say that. It only lists the specific and general profession tasks and skill nodes as items impacted by the event.

draconislupus

That is dumb. The enchantments in the other 2 bags do.

zephyriah

draconislupus said:

That is dumb. The enchantments in the other 2 bags do.

Not so dumb, really. If everything related to professions doubled, that would mean packs like the blessed pack from invoking would double and the ones that give equipment and workers from the Zen store or lockboxes would also double. They need to draw the line somewhere. There are a lot of things with professions in the name/description. So, they decided which items would have more stuff (Skill kits), which would have reduced costs(Black Ice forge upgrades) and the different ways professions would be affected (alchemy is different from all the others). Sure, it would be nice if everything related to professions doubled, had reduced costs or whatever applied, but I can also see why they made the distinctions that they do.

You can't really compare a 2X enchant event to a 2X profession event. Totally different and with the coming changes to refinement, the next 2X enchant/runes or the one to follow may be very different from what we have seen in the past to adjust for the new currencies and how they will drop or be crafted. For the first 2X Enchant/runes after mod 12b drops, it will be prudent to read the event description for changes.

draconislupus

These just give resources and not assets. I absolutely agree that assets should not be doubled but I see no harm in resources being doubled in all cases. Even the name of the event differentiates the 2 "2x Professions XP & Resources." Not everything relating to Professions.