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why is it so damn hard to aquire alabaster weapon set
bluewof
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i have eun mor ME than i can ciunt at this point... Why is it so hard to aquire the alabaster weapon set
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Seriously, that's pretty much what it comes down to. I got two sets in about the first week of running MEs, and 3 more OH since. Others have numerous OH or MH, but not the other piece.
Of course, I also didn't see a +5 ring from Omu until I took an alt there a few months ago. Some days RNG gives, some days it takes.
I cannot get main or offhand on cleric or wizard
tr has 2 x offhands and the other 5 classes got the sets ..
it seemed to me the chances got a little better after that big owlbear patch..
cleric and wizard tho doing ME every day.. and it's always the odd epic armor or ebony weapon but majority is rare.. rng, mileage is always going to vary.. the loot table has at least 10 rare armor and weapon items(say), where that bites is, that item you just got that is for your class.. next ME hand in you have a chance to get that item again or items for other classes is making the chance of getting those blue item even more likely, it seemed to me after the patch on some of the classes that got better .. while on others might of mistakenly missed a tweak.. like an adjustment of how much of a chance you get ; blue items for other classes or possibly it was a ratio of blackened jaw /red feather tribe gear.. either way it's a clusterhamster.
suddenly, a masked person, gender well hidden, and voice also masked. "welcome, Pardon my masking my idenity", as it paused. "i know all of you had suffer by that RNG, that must end soon" as it laid sharpest daggers on table, offering to players.
"It's is time to kill RNG!"
and a pair of pants that i was looking for took like 100 runs to get (once i realized i needed it even more not counting that )
every item is rare and hard to get if that is what you are looking for / whats left that you are missing
I agree that it'd be nice for players to eventually be able to get at least *a* set of new weapons - the Mountaineer aren't in the t-bar store yet, Watcher are even worse to try and get, and many players are still working on getting the ilevel to go to LoMM (Burnished)....
Bad enough to have mini bosses in the daily ME runs that are simply out of balance for this kind of content, but getting rare junk in the reward chest after turning every daily ME upside down to gather all relics is just another kick in the nether regions the players really don't need...
Dear Devs or persons in charge here, you can wall the Alabaster weapon set behind an insane RNG drop rate, you can hold back other similar weapon sets from being released into the Trade Bars store, but all that won't motivate me into buying the crappy Delver's Expedition Pack even at half price, and i'm pretty sure other players think the same.
So here's an crazy idea, if you want to sell more DLCs/packs, start producing DLCs/packs that are worth buying again.
Believe it or not, its not really that fun not to get what you need after x # of runs.. they have stated in the past, its becaues players leave when they get what they want. (I guess, but if your that type of player, I hate you, because of that)
There should always be a end to the RNG madness, but they never thought so.
There is some "not in collections" gear that drops from zok and runic HEs. Super rare though.
My Cleric alt got his MH today, completing his set 3 weeks after being ME ready, but he is only played during weekends.
My Wizard main has gotten his MH, but no OH despite running 3 MEs every day since Mod 16 launch.
Bleh. There should be a streak breaker on this.
Yes, I am getting sick of MEs
we all know and signed EULA because the rules said this game was subjected to be changed without any noticed or any reasons.
yes, but this really hurts! many no longer feel happy or relaxed while playing for fun. now we are seeing boring longer fights, skills are mostly cookie cutters. we have no unique idenity, considered the players as 'numbers' only to be fit in sardine cans.
we lost sense of character growth and creativity.
RNG is still the bane and most cursed format and no one likes it. reason why some players dont want to give up, they played for years and only to see it flushed away, they were hoping to see "glory days" coming back. Others see no hope or redeem, some already left for better and more enjoyable entertaining games and might spend when they see something they like the best.
this lack personal housing theme
this lack personal unique class contructions
this lack color theme, mostly locked in restricted color sets
this locked behind layers of RNG in RNG.
why do we need 18 runs for runics to get Watcher that take a week? that RNG decided to flip off players and get nothing or reward trashes, or end up on wrong players that doesnt need or able to use when it bind.
i think that i am sure you are so proud of it as players getting upset, that isnt fun anymore.
Trust is already on thin ice that about to be breaking point, once shattered, there no going back, crack lines are growing.
I do agree that the rng was taken to far and low drop rates and the ME gets old fast.
However I also can understand and see the reason they did this.
Look at what is given.
If we got our weapon set first day and if we got the artifacts and the 1K gear from the chest the first week or 2 of the mod going live then what would be the real reason to do ME any longer?
This was away for them to make things take longer.
They want it to take longer so they have time to get the new mod whatever that might be ready.
However the rng can be harsh on many people.
This is something they did not really think about.
I can not say rng should be removed but I can say they should increase the drop rate because really even though other sets are better the set that comes from ME most people may need to get into LOMM and do good dmg and with out the set they will be held back and that is a issue.
For me I have never seen 1K gear drop at all but have got the weapon set to drop many times.
Rng sucks and we all hate it but we must live with it.
However, the Alabaster weapons are special. They are crucially needed to have a working level 80 build. For the other items you can have a good build without them(or buy on AH), for level 80 weapons you have no other real options but Alabaster.
They could easily have made a streak breaker, like letting Zok sell them like the Lost chest, just significantly more expensive.
The starter level 80 weapons set need to have better and more reliable accessability.
Making level 80 weapons available in the tradebar store(supposedly on June 20th) won't really make it much better, as big amounts of tradebars is not something everyone have.
Blood Magic (RELEASED) - NW-DUU2P7HCO
Children of the Fey (RELEASED) - NW-DKSSAPFPF
Buried Under Blacklake (WIP) - NW-DEDV2PAEP
The Redcap Rebels (WIP) - NW-DO23AFHFH
My Foundry playthrough channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Ruskaga/featured
And unless the next new module does actually improve the game without bringing even more bugs and issues to it, i doubt that those players will return to the game again anytime soon.
If the goal really was to keep the players longer in game through this HAMSTER, i'd dare say they failed rather spectacular here. It's one thing to make something hard to obtain, it's another thing to wall it behind RNG so that some players may never reach it.
The Devs should have placed the Alabaster weapon set in a decent quest line or directly into the Undermountain campaign rewards where it belongs, and made the other level 80 weapon sets a bit better, so that the veteran players have something to go after when they got their Alabaster together.
And i'm not going to waste my Trade Bars on another weapon set that will either be obsolete within a few weeks/months tops, or that will be dumped into the seals vendor at some point anyway.
Last but not least, i'm really curious to see what changes the patches after Undermountain is being released on console will bring to the game... there better be some good changes ready, or this will become an interesting week.
I especially like the comment about GGG using an account seed. GGG did acknowledge the issue and corrected it. I don't know if Cryptic employs a similar setup but it does appear, anecdotally, that some folks have a larger "pool" of luck than others.
isnt that random enough? seem like same rolls repeated.
On a related note, what does "high chance" mean for that Gond package that has mounts in it? I tried 8 times and that high chance never happened. That's not "high chance" at all - that phrase suggests higher than 50% and this was, obviously, far less (more like lockboxes). Won't be tricked by the Gond event again.