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A Couple of Suggestions
khimera906
Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 898 Arc User
First thing I wanna suggest is a "fix" for the Coffer of Wondrous Augmentations.
The Coffer used to be a great way to keep people interested and playing daily. Not so much anymore. Everything in this chest, except for the wards, are not fit to be a weekly reward, not even as a consolation prize. The Preservation Ward was an ideal consolation prize. Peridots and Aquamarines are nothing more than a bad joke. I've said it before and I will say it again - I find tens of Peridots daily. When I get one Peridot as a weekly prize it feel like I've got big middle finger from PW. I'm pretty sure the majority of the community agrees with that. Aquamarines are not that much better either.
This is why I think the odds and even the prizes need to be rethought. The "fix" I suggest is to give different odds for the Coal Wards depending on the number of the character. For example: your first and second character get a 10%-15% chance to get a Coal Ward, the third and fourth under 5%-10%, the fifth and sixth under 5%, and 0% starting with seventh character. Contents of the Coffer can vary for each tier, and for the love of Gods, no more Peridots.
Second suggestion I want to make is to add one or more Lockboxes in the Wadrous Bazaar that you don't need a Zen Market Key to open. This will serve as an AD sink and it should have decent prizes for decent prices. Before this thing goes live PW should make a poll on the forums, which they should advertise on Facebook and Tweeter, and see what the players are willing to spend their AD on, and how much AD they are willing to spend. We already have failed AD sinks - we don't need more. These Lockboxes can have a small chance at a big prize, but also they should give a chance at smaller prizes that the players will want/need again and again. Everything should be bound to account, and AD should not be a prize in any of the the Lockboxes.
These are just rough ideas. I'm sure that the developers can refine these ideas and make them work for the benefit of the community.
The Coffer used to be a great way to keep people interested and playing daily. Not so much anymore. Everything in this chest, except for the wards, are not fit to be a weekly reward, not even as a consolation prize. The Preservation Ward was an ideal consolation prize. Peridots and Aquamarines are nothing more than a bad joke. I've said it before and I will say it again - I find tens of Peridots daily. When I get one Peridot as a weekly prize it feel like I've got big middle finger from PW. I'm pretty sure the majority of the community agrees with that. Aquamarines are not that much better either.
This is why I think the odds and even the prizes need to be rethought. The "fix" I suggest is to give different odds for the Coal Wards depending on the number of the character. For example: your first and second character get a 10%-15% chance to get a Coal Ward, the third and fourth under 5%-10%, the fifth and sixth under 5%, and 0% starting with seventh character. Contents of the Coffer can vary for each tier, and for the love of Gods, no more Peridots.
Second suggestion I want to make is to add one or more Lockboxes in the Wadrous Bazaar that you don't need a Zen Market Key to open. This will serve as an AD sink and it should have decent prizes for decent prices. Before this thing goes live PW should make a poll on the forums, which they should advertise on Facebook and Tweeter, and see what the players are willing to spend their AD on, and how much AD they are willing to spend. We already have failed AD sinks - we don't need more. These Lockboxes can have a small chance at a big prize, but also they should give a chance at smaller prizes that the players will want/need again and again. Everything should be bound to account, and AD should not be a prize in any of the the Lockboxes.
These are just rough ideas. I'm sure that the developers can refine these ideas and make them work for the benefit of the community.
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I really would love to see better rewards chance from them. Having only played this game for a few months, it's pretty darn tough to be "fresh" 60 especially with a recent AH price hike. Everything has become even more out of reach. While I paid out on the AH to buy my weapon and body enchant, having a coalescent ward would of helped immensely.
I understand that PW needs to make money some how and that this game is also technically free, but as mentioned by the OP, a peridot isn't even worth a consolation prize.
I agree peridots are the death of me, but until they can fix the multi-account, or mass leadership spamming, I don't think increasing rewards would be the right decision.
You're missing a few points. The Wards are Bound to account, so no selling or trading with other people. What I'm suggesting is to get diminishing odds, starting with the 3rd character, so that's just 2 characters per account you could have a decent chance at a C. Ward. It wouldn't be impossible to turn them into AD, but it wouldn't be very reliable, and with people actually getting some C. Wards every now and then, the prices would drop.
Hindering our ability to to progress in the game is not the way to combat the gold spammers, if that's what you're talking about.