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drkbodhi
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Seriously... how many of us have close to 100 or over 100 r5s?
Isn't it time to start dropping r6s and r7s in the new 70 ONLY zones? Getting one r5 from killing 2 Beholders, 2 Pit Fiends or 1 million orcs is sheer BS.
Isn't it time to start dropping r6s and r7s in the new 70 ONLY zones? Getting one r5 from killing 2 Beholders, 2 Pit Fiends or 1 million orcs is sheer BS.
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...but if any rewards became better then it follows excessive farming and rewards are then nerfed again, human nature...
Anyway. I do agree that they should bump up to R6s, at least for HE rewards. Maybe R7s for 'big' HEs.
Team of 2-3 good players can do each one of these within 1-2 min (I personaly can do 3/5 alone and there are much stronger players). As result 2 teams - one north and one south can farm big HEs quite efficiently - new one spawns almost immediately after finishing current one, but in most of the time - on opposite side of map.
Cryptic doesn't like us to farm anything, we have to buy it if we need it.
There is a bug in ECC dungeon and bosses sometimes don't drop seals, even if kill them in dumb brute-force way, instead of using some tactics
There are 3 ranks of HEs in SH. I do not mind r5's dropping from the simple solo HE's but the other should go up one ranking per level of difficulty.
Beholder's and Pit Fiends... 1 or 2 r7's should drop... minimum.
The Crises and Kidnappings... 1 or 2 r6's minimum.
all other a couple of r5's... minimum.
No refinement stones drop from these HE's but drop from every other HE.
Then we get to the newly 70 ONLY areas...
Shar and DR... r5's all the way.
WoD and IWD... r6's to r7's.
Ideally the sort of person making those decisions shouldn't be the type that needs a crowbar to open their wallet. That said, they shouldn't be too generous either.
1. Coalenscene Wards
2. Greater Mark of Potency
3. Companion Tokens
also "universal" artifact fragments to level up your choice of any artifacts. waiting or looking for specific mark of union or mark of stability is getting on my patience.
these salvage bags that dropped were often yield lower tier items that i already outgrowned or cant use older health repair kits.
they need to redo health kits as universal instead of tiers, and update the potions.
with VIP, they should had given us few more bounded health kits, at least 3-5 per VIP tiers.
(edited to add), Oh yeah, please add a new adventurer kits as tier 2 only for epic zones and those dungeon/nature boxes should be tier 2 kit, with better loots.
and we need few "rarer" access tools for crafters, with better chance of finding green (iron) or blue (steel) blackice crafting gauntlet for example.
those tier 2 kit keys are only lootable in epic zones if devs decide.
I know why they wont change things because that would mean that people could farm the r6s and 7s... sell them and make a ton of AD. But here is the issue... when everyone has access to r6s and 7s... the prices in the AH will drop to those that currently reside with the r5s.
This is an issue where the right hand is not talking to the left hand and the brain is not managing anything it seems.
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Also getting a better drop rate from my dragons hoard lately, more frequent and plentiful, seemingly above the usual daily cap. I wonder if it got rigged or something. Got an opal plus a bunch of shinies and loaded with peridots.
Would also make the price on mark of potency tank and they'd be pretty useless at that point. I got rank 5s
(and a power point ;p )
I personally wouldn't be too pleased to see Rank 9 and Rank 10, and Transcendent level items selling for two tiers below the price I had purchased them. I can be happy for you seeing that you finally get the same stuff few people have. But I would lose faith in the company and just stop the stream of money I'm feeding it.
Would the satisfaction be met for the lower end at the sacrifice of the higher end who has already had that large amount of satisfaction?
When the bottom of the boat rises, does not the top of the boat rise as well?
I'm also inclined to think that the current RP prices (rank 5s) are at achievable margins for casual players. 10K per stack of R5 from (insert legit) farmers. It's only more expensive now due to the encroaching 2x RP. What I would have appreciated more is a one tier improvement on refinement stone drops, as this is currently the biggest hurdle in terms of mass-quantity value.
Losing some "gamevalue" items value is really "no BIG deal" and soon rank9´s to rank10´s became really cheaper, armor/weapon enchants price seems to stay but I don mind if they drop 2x more.
It is still "bits in internet/ingame only",
Has it?
People also freaked out about PvErs getting the PvP gear during the NCL. Comments that it would ruin PvP. The truth... it would have made it harder for those who were geared. It did in fact... but it raised the bar and everyone rose with the bottom. PvP is a mess for other reasons... and not because the gear-gap closed there.
Change is a scary thing. It is not scary because of the work needed it is scary because of this notion... how would that influence my current game. Love you rustlord... but 'gear-gaps' and 'fear of change' will never end.
Empirical data is good... but it is based on personal experiences which is subjective and not an honest report unscathed by a POV. Again we will use Economical terms for this... right now there is a serious depression of gear. We have our 1%ers and we have our 99%ers. Many of the people in the middle believe that they are in the 1% group... but they are not even close. Because the 99% are very wide-spread and would include anyone under 3.8k iL. Still they feel that they work hard for their gear and worry that the increase in gear for the lower levels will mess with their lives. When in fact it does nothing to their lives, but raise them up.
When you bolster the lower levels you make the economy stronger because now these players are contributing a lot more instead of "living hand to mouth", waiting for a 2xRP day and luck to get by.
As I said... when the bottom of the boat rises, the entire boat rises. This also increases competition, the economy, success in DD runs, the number of people willing to spend money in-game... and it creates more players who share the game.
Those are ALL verified truths.
For a perfect example of this... look at Costco's business model. The lowest paid employee makes $40K USD, a year. They have full benefits and sick leave. They have lower employee turn-over and greater customer/employee satisfaction.
Raise the bottom and everything rises... that is a fact.
It would help the SH coffer
It seems the only way to get more than green is to run DDs
Please consider
Urlord
1. The strugglers, the free crowd, they look down on others for spending real money on a free game without understanding that video games take huge amounts of money to develop. See number two. The free crowd practices their liberty to express opinion, and sometimes abusively so, and demands every single QoL issue to be fixed in their favor. All without spending a dime.
2. The P2W crowd, because, let's not sugarcoat it. We, who spend cash, do it for the advantage and to offset the lack of time we can waste away chipping at the keyboard playing video games. We have work. That is money we earn and we absolutely expect "value" from it, otherwise this feels like a scam. Of course, idiots will be idiots and will still pay thousands from a single paycheck for the marginal difference in stats, that BiS sh*t above 4K, but that's not what keep the game alive.
Don't be surprised that most of the players at that level now did not get 4K within a single purchase. It's gradual. It happens over time. I should be twice BiS by now if I didn't spend on the worst possible items and took breaks at the worst possible months. Those wasted respec tokens from trying to find a "stable non-fotm build" that wouldn't be nerfed one week later, or BoP artifacts and enchantments like a 13 Million trans Elven that has been bugged forever.
You accumulate one BiS item each month or each week from all kinds of sources and later get to trade them because they retain relative value! Take that away, and good luck finding more gullible players. I know I'm buying digital whatnots here; but I'm not scr*wing around buying fireworks to blow up within a span of two minutes.
All this invalidates the running theory that whales will keep a disloyal company from crumbling to pieces. Whoever choose to believe something else, be my guest. I will be long gone before you have no more devs to complain to because there are no more people who actually PAYS them.
Nothing personal to any of you. But while I can acquiesce to a slight change of pace, it's pure BS that new players should get to buy rank 9s and 10s for the price of rank 7s. For all the work and money we invested in our characters, you can't expect the Powers That Be to slingshot you across the moon beyond that gear gap just because you say so.
I spend money... but when I like to. I wont, usually, buy things that don't make my characters better. I would usually spend about $80 to $100 a month... but not since I was not given the account wide Priestess of Sune that I was promised when I bought XX amount of Zen. Since then I may spend $20 a month... and still not convinced on VIP.
Prices should more or less stay at a relative range because a stable economy attracts buyers. It's not fair to people with rank 12s now if tomorrow I can get those at the price of rank 10, and its not fair to me if others should get it at the price of rank 8. The previous base-level drop update from 4 to 5 was only justified by raising the level cap, and I knew people who quit spending full stop because their hard-earned rank 10s are now on sale for the price of rank 9s.
With the AD changes, prices will already be on decline. Players will be out of money, and soon sellers would begin to underbid each other more competitively. They can meet this halfway for free and casual players by increasing the daily refinement cap now if it fits the target model.