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Leadership profession slow to raise
natrianna
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I'm trying really hard to understand why leadership is so slow to raise. With all 9 slots being used for leadership, it will take many weeks to get it from 20 to 25
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My personal opinion is that leadership is toxic to economy - people with A LOT of alts bringing new AD to market cause slow but steady inflation. This is 1 of reasons leadership AD gain tasks were nerfed and RP gain tasks were introduced. I wouldnt mind if all leadership tasks granted RP (sadly its probably only thing players need in this game to progress), instead of AD or at least to make them WAY more profitable.
I'm working on leveling up Professions on another character, but already have them at Level 25 on three other professions, and really don't have anything else to do with them (can only make so many Unified Elements at the same time).
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You went too deep into my words and took them too personally. I just said that if on whole server there are like 10000 toons (abstract number, I guess nobody except of devs could give a number that is even remotely precise) who generate new 24k AD thats +240kk in economy, day by day and thats unhealthy (thats what I meant by toxic, not that ppl that do that are cheating or abusing). You get the idea, I hope
If Leadership is "toxic" based on your description (I earn about 1.5 Million a week) then what are daily and hourly Astral Diamond events; as in Skirmish Hour and Foundry Daily, etc.? During Skirmish hour I can earn up to 22k AD in a single hour on a good hour on a single toon. In leadership the best I can do in an hour by combining 13 toons together is an average of 7800 AD ((9x1600x13)/24). When I get the last two up to that level the increase will be minimal.
I'm just pointing out that leadership, among all the ways you can earn AD besides the Auction House is the least of all methods considered "good" in terms of earning as much AD as possible. So if you feel Leadership is "toxic" to the economy you need to turn an evil eye toward the hourly and daily AD rewards because that's where the true flood is coming from.
I'm not debunking your comments, I am genuinely curious if you had considered this and what your answer to it may be.
meganubbie covered most issues I wanted to say. I dont think there is anything wrong with rhix dailies done by players, because most of them wont reach the cap on more than 1-2 toons/day and even the most dedicated will have hard time doing that on more than 4-5 toons. If leadership was done like that it would be ok as well, the game has enough sinks to handle that. What I meant were leadership armies, made of dozens, hundreds of toons. Very dedicated player can manually control like 50 toons (I have a friend who did that for quite some time, until he got wealthy enough to get bored) per day and then bot armies, invisible, so people dont actually imagine how much AD is generated this way - I can only estimate that looking at ZAX traffic and speculating about possible AD sinks they use. Its even worse when you imagine how exploitable leadership through Gateway can be (and is, but I dont want to give people ideas). That is why I think leadership is toxic. I dont think there is any good solution, because Im against ones that say:"Its ok to hurt players, as long as bots are hurt more", however I think swapping AD with RP would be choosing the lesser evil
/ed: unbound RP, of course
From level 20 to 25 is not that bad comparing with just from level 19 to level 20. You need to choose the tasks that give you max leadership experience which is a lot higher than the best from 19 to 20. My characters finished 20 to 25 before one characters level from 19 to 20.
At the meta level, currencies are exploited by third parties all the time and no one has solved it. Tightening the grip has only ever hurt the legitimate players, it rarely even phases the 3rd party sellers - they just find another avenue or focus business in other areas - while the honest players plod through endless restrictions, nerfs, and gruesome grinds to make ends meet.
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Not true. You can actually make more AD using your alts on other professions processing low to mid level professional resources, or endgame BiS gear like level 70 gemmed shirts/pants and rings.
The reason many people hard sell leadership as the most profitable way to make AD through alts is because bots are mostly programmed to do leadership but not on the other more profitable ways.
I should be able to make whatever color dye I want, as an alchemist. That's basically my only gripe.
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You can still sell items you find, but reselling items again won't work.