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bige03
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When a boss drops an epic piece of loot why does it bind to character when for example i am a GWF and the piece is for CW?
I kinda understand the chest loot is for my current type i am playing but the random boss loot in my opinion should be binds on equip...Once in a while i get a nice set piece with bonus stats and i cant use it or give it to one of my other alts or even sell it on the AH and have no choice but to salvage it for AD...they might as well have AD drop instead or gear if its going to be bound to character.
I kinda understand the chest loot is for my current type i am playing but the random boss loot in my opinion should be binds on equip...Once in a while i get a nice set piece with bonus stats and i cant use it or give it to one of my other alts or even sell it on the AH and have no choice but to salvage it for AD...they might as well have AD drop instead or gear if its going to be bound to character.
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In some cases it may bind, but AFAIK, that isn't intended - you should file a bug report for that exact instance. Is this happening in all areas, or only certain bosses/dungeons?
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Considering that it's happened since mod 1 and then followed it up with mod 2 and 3, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that it's intended and pretty stupidly designed. BoP is one thing that's killing the game.
But this is another voice yelling into the wind.
Fallen Dragon and Fomorian off-hand items are intentionally BoP, for good or for awful. Yes, this amounts to a lot of incredibly wasteful salvage.
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Because of how the loot from castle neverwinter constantly found its way onto the auction house for people to make astral diamonds. People would run this dungeon constantly and put the treasure up for sale. We are talking about people running this dungeon 6 + times a day, so that excessive amounts of this gear would end up for sale. The intention of bind on pick up is not meant to irritate you. It is meant to force you to work for the best gear in the game rather then just picking it up from the store. Before you go and say - but those rings are only going for 20,000 diamonds right now, well, before they were going for a lot more than that.
This was also before salvage was implemented. I have never seen salvage as wasteful - i see it as the dev's saying congrats - you did well, have some rough diamonds.
to repeat the important part: if you want the best gear in the game, then you have to work for it - you can not just level up a character, slap down some diamonds and say, there - now i am a top tier adventurer.
But you can heh. so idk what thats about.
PS agree I dont mind the salvager, it was a good idea after the bop change. but that quoted part just isnt true. except weapons those are all worked for unless CN is your goal for a weapon, and if you count "work" as lvlin profession for fomorion/vt
also yes the hardened scale is the one that always comes to mind bop
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That's great. I got pretty much BiS stuff. What now? Increase my salvage backlog? Continue playing just to not be rewarded or progress, which is kind of an important part of an mmorpg. More time for me was spent doing dailies, than was needed playing dungeons. Even for LoL I'd be better off using my AD to buy them gem, I can ignore the other loot and I'd waste less of my time. If I wanted to play a single player game, I'd pick something that didn't rip me off and was designed better anyway.
Gratz u have beaten the game, and yes you are the top 0,1 %(or you exploited the hell out of it), unfortunately Cryptic aint making the game for you tbh. So basicly if you are done making alts, and gotten all your boons, then the only thing left is either to play foundry mission(because its fun, not for shiny loot) or well you know go do something els with your time, and then come back to this in half a year(where you will still be top 2-3%...) and see what new stuff you can do...
dungeons were easy because they had extreme exploits.
When this game was released it was a mess.
and getting worse
Can't understand it either. They should trash whole Character BoP concept and make everything account bound instead and as much not bound at all as possible, so you could sell items you don't need and buy items you need from AH.
I have gotten plenty of BoP wrong class purple items in Icewind Dale, probably already for all other classes, but for some reason HR items, especially bows seem to be common finds for my CW...
Uhmmm this is not the same game I've been playing for a while. Best armor sets... T2 (proven time and time again and not much work), best weapon... artifact weapon (simple dailys until it unlocks then you can buy refinements for it and get it to epic for best-in-slot), artifacts... (again, you can buy them and their refinement materials as many wallet-warriors have just done), etc... basically enough AD will fast-track you to the annuls of the WWHOF (Wallet Warrior Hall of Fame). Also, the irrelevancy of crafting for weapons now has made the grind that much less.
So yes, you can buy all of it and rather quickly. I remember when artifact belts where introduced... the next day I see people running around with them at legendary :P. Or even artifact weapons... once they got enough sigils and coins to unlock it, they just bought all the refinement mats :P.
I agree, it should take some effort, but for you to say that's how it is definitely.... well.... no its not unfortunately and there are lots of people running around that can prove you wrong
As for BoP... who cares to be honest. If VT equipment was made BoE, then the market would be flooded with those items instead of CN items :P.... and we would still be faced with the same problem. I think most weapons and armours in the game should be BoP with the CHANCE to to drop a rare BoE version at the boss (across all dungeons). Just my opinion though xD.
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It's an MMO, there shouldn't be a clear "you're done" part, rather only when you want to move on rather being almost forced to. And most of my time should be spent doing stuff with other players, not spent doing dailies by myself. Foundries may be good for some people, but they're easy, unrewarding, don't allow a lot of scripting of adds, don't allow true boss fights and could do with more customisation. From beta-release there was a lot of content to enjoy. From mod1-4 there was little content to enjoy. They could've easily made it more fun, but no they focused on player restrictions and user unfriendly interfaces. They had a change in direction and it frankly sucks.
If your done lvl another char... that's what i do when i get bored or just feel like moving on (as i have yet to hit the "you're done" mark on any char). Then you get to experience all that pre mod 1 content you love so much, over and over and over again.
The offhands that drop from 1st boss and and Dread Legion armor that drops from Valindra are BoP. All other drops (mostly T1 gear from Valindra) are BoE.
You are totally wrong. The T2 dungeons (specially ToS and Karr) were actually too hard for the large majority of players. The reason AH was flooded is because there were several exploits that allowed people to complete the dungeons fast and with parties that wouldn't be able to complete them otherwise.
have gotten wrong-class bop gear forever.
there were exploits that allowed people to skip straight to the boss in less than 5 minutes, and in some cases "reset" the boss and kill it again, over and over back to back...
That's due to the 24K AD per day limit. Some would rather sacrifice a bit of AD and get the rest as refined versus salvaging and having a huge refinement backlog (I am in that position now). However, if they raised the refining limit, the AH would suffer for the "average" items which means lower level and new 60's would have a tougher time getting certain gear.
At the very least, I'd like to get a character-appropriate transmute piece of gear in skirmishes (I'm looking at you Dread Legion skirmish).
The main thing I enjoyed was running CN that always dropped 4 epic BoE items. It was always worth doing no matter how many times you ran it. Anyway, I already have 8 characters, one of each class plus a 2nd gwf that was meant to be aimed for pvp so there's not really any need to create any more unless another class came out. Months ago all I needed would be an updated version of CN to keep me interested. Now I'm kind of torn. Progressing in AD through crafting and the AH is some sort of goal and the only one I have left, though would have been more fulfilling if I could get that progression from actual playing. There's not much to keep be playing, however it'd be nice to see what tiamat brings, and mod 6 promises 'big things'. However I'm unsure whether another round of dailies will be worth it, and should just ignore the marketing over mod 6 since marketing especially here is not really something to have good faith in.
Admittedly I probably spent too much time on too many toons which allows me to get fed up of repetitive and unrewarding stuff much easily and had too much free time to do so. I just think it's a shame that the new direction made an otherwise compelling game feel more isolating to me and unrewarding, as well as neglect through fixes.