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stephooon
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So I loot a lot of skill nodes and i've noticed since the patch that after an unconfirmed amount of looting for a short while all the skill nodes will give "treasure" items such as Bent fork, 50" of rope, similar to flawed sapphire.
Did this patch introduce some kind of sneaky Skill node looting limit?
Was this to counteract the oncoming 2x Enchantment event or is it a perm feature now? (i check the patch notes i couldn't find info about it but maybe i missed it)
An explanation would be nice.
Did this patch introduce some kind of sneaky Skill node looting limit?
Was this to counteract the oncoming 2x Enchantment event or is it a perm feature now? (i check the patch notes i couldn't find info about it but maybe i missed it)
An explanation would be nice.
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I hope the Devs realize that this will make Resources sky-high in price. I have also checked the patch notes for any kind of anti-botting feature, no luck.
If it keeps up, might as well forget the crafting and go for 100% Leadership, grab all the AD we can, instead of making useful things for the playerbase. Just keep stomping on the fingers of players supporting the economy, Cryptic.
hehe...I can see it now, someone loads up NW and launches his bot program for 2 days then comes back to check on the massive loots he can sell on the AH just to find a bunch of garbage. The scene from Home Alone comes to mind when he applies the aftershave LOL
darklodus
That makes a lot of sense, it's just frustrating that it effects me in a negative way as well.
Why did they do this? To stop botters and exploiters.
The problem?
Not everyone is abusing this behavior, so a blanket nerf affects legitimate players.
Personally, there is only one good spot to farm nodes that is not instanced (Rothe Valley) and it is usually so picked through that it is hard to get a good profitable path going. Not to mention that I really don't like having to contend with people griefing and stealing my nodes, so I opt for clearing my favorite instances instead.
However, I can't do this anymore or I end up with 50" rope, Bent Fork, Shiny Glass (all not even worth selling).
What's the deal?
Now after a few times running thru the instance all I get is trash items. They have made it impossible to farm enchants now legit.
i wont speak for everyone but in my opinion this is a large disservice to the players who are doing things legitimately and with the way profession nodes do not guarantee any actual profession items, a harsh downside to the unique profession system in this game.
That way, people doing that area in the level range would benefit from getting nodes, instead of checking a node only to find out some of lesser rewards that people claim are being showing, being left there, since a lv 60 would not get a 75copper lesser resource, and the node dont reset unless its cleared.
for example in wow each expansion has its own level of cloth, 3 levels of ore, etc. so when you go to farm those high level items you can only do it in the zones where you are an appropriate level, however profession items in wow are much easier and much more exclusive (you cant buy kits to loot some other skill node, only what skill nodes you are trained in).
now im not saying having ranked brackets for profession items will stop farming in lower areas, because it wont unless all the requirements for using rank 1 items as a base item for the next rank are removed and you just make everything from scratch with that ranks profession item. and currently without doing a LARGE amount of mob farming you cant just run around in a max level area and get enough rank 1 profession items to cover the full range of items you have to make to get some gear or get your profession to max.
I looked for patch documentation too and came up empty, other than the one about removing nodes.
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What an asinine thing to say. If you're going to say that, you may as well say that there are no legitimate players.
Ultimately, what this amounts to is that Cryptic wants us to idle around in town doing nothing but dungeons because there's nothing else to do in this game. I used to be able to farm some enchantments while waiting for a dungeon but now it's just a waste of time. It's bad enough that enchantments have a chance of failure but now it goes even further to limit our ability to get them to begin with. If their purpose was to stop botters, the only thing this will do is slow them down but they will still continue to farm more efficiently than legitimate players because we, as legitimate players, are limited by the amount of time/energy we have to farm at any given time whereas bots can farm 24/7 but now all they have to do is add in a wait time or make multiple accounts. If I didn't want to support bots before, I had the choice not to because I can go out and farm things myself but now, I'm pretty much stuck buying it from bots. I think Cryptic failed to understand that this attempt at getting rid of bots only hurts legitimate farmers and not really bots at all, in fact, it helped them.
Look if you go to disney land, find a stand of wild berries you can pick and eat instead of buying food at the concession stands, what do you think they are going to do ?
1. Leave them there
2. Prevent you from picking them
3. Charge you for the privilege
Every mmo out there there has some form of farming for people to do in their 'down time' which is usually associated with crafting. Here that equates to the skill nodes. Its totally crazy and really really annoying that they have decided to do this....and that they did it with stealth too.
1. Cryptic did
2. Cryptic put a limit on them
3. Cryptic did (skill kits)
I see waht you did here Cryptic.
They'll say "Hey what are you doing ?! Those are poisonous! Lemme call 9-1-1.".
p.s. The reasons to keep playing this game keep dwindling and it's only been 5 weeks.
There's really only so much that I'm willing to put up with before I quit wasting my time playing a game that have clueless devs about the going-ons of the game.