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Vivified Relic Armor Locked Away Behind FBI = HAMSTER Move
lance1967
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The one good thing with the River District, is a solo CASUAL player has the ability to grind away and unlock the new Ascended Weapon Sets. They (currently) seem on par with the SoMI Relic Set.
The problem is the Vivified (best PVE armor set) is locked away behind FBI runs. Forcing a casual player to have to RELY ON OTHERS to help him/her to obtain them. What I'm finding is:
1) If you are in a guild, most guild members will have already obtained them from countless FBI runs already and don't want to do FBI anymore.
2) Some guild members hate FBI, and won't run it at all and are just settling for the older armor sets.
3) When attempting to join a PUG to run FBI, and you can't even make it up to the first boss without 30+ wipes and an hour of trying (to just the first boss) is very discouraging. They usually give up after about 2 hours as they have other things in life to attend to, hence the casual player.
4) Then if they do complete an FBI in full, there is still only a SMALL chance that you will get a Relic Armor Piece to drop.
I just find it in bad form to literally make the BiS Relic Armor unattainable for a casual player and forcing a person to rely on others to get it. And to not at least make it so SOME piece of the relic armor is obtained from each FBI run after finally finding a decent group to help you get through it is pretty disheartening.
Bottom Line: All that work to find a decent group and all the time (in many cases) spent to get thru FBI, and still leave empty handed sucks. I'd rather have 5 pairs of the same vivified boots in my inventory (bound to character) than nothing at all to show for running FBI...
The problem is the Vivified (best PVE armor set) is locked away behind FBI runs. Forcing a casual player to have to RELY ON OTHERS to help him/her to obtain them. What I'm finding is:
1) If you are in a guild, most guild members will have already obtained them from countless FBI runs already and don't want to do FBI anymore.
2) Some guild members hate FBI, and won't run it at all and are just settling for the older armor sets.
3) When attempting to join a PUG to run FBI, and you can't even make it up to the first boss without 30+ wipes and an hour of trying (to just the first boss) is very discouraging. They usually give up after about 2 hours as they have other things in life to attend to, hence the casual player.
4) Then if they do complete an FBI in full, there is still only a SMALL chance that you will get a Relic Armor Piece to drop.
I just find it in bad form to literally make the BiS Relic Armor unattainable for a casual player and forcing a person to rely on others to get it. And to not at least make it so SOME piece of the relic armor is obtained from each FBI run after finally finding a decent group to help you get through it is pretty disheartening.
Bottom Line: All that work to find a decent group and all the time (in many cases) spent to get thru FBI, and still leave empty handed sucks. I'd rather have 5 pairs of the same vivified boots in my inventory (bound to character) than nothing at all to show for running FBI...
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Not everyone could get Dragonflight when that was the new hotness either.
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and also the featured satirical comedic adventure "A Call for Heroes".
>:) Life is like a train journey. Someone gets in, someone gets off and someone switches the wagon>There has been no real incentive, to run it before and there is less now. Jarls gaze and other gear are similar or even better and the loot/'time spent in the dungeon' ratio is on of the worst in this game. I did run it once, to know, that I can master it and some times, to help friends. Otherwise I stay clear of it. While my friends farmed FBI, I ran POM, Edemo and CN. They have their vivified gear, some R8s and maybe some BTC +5 rings. I have tons of AD from daily dungeons and salvageable items, a BTA +5 rising crit ring und more R8s for my effort.
You missed the "Clear the most difficult content MANY, MANY, MANY times" part.
Until Cryptic comes up with a guaranteed (Seals of some form would be nice) way to get the desired gear it becomes a boring grind with nothing to look forward at the end of dungeon runs.....
One last thought about this relic gear... I am not a fan of the empowerment.... just more grind.......such a bad idea imho, i do have some armor pieces restored but I do not empower it...
To make things worse it came Mod 11. I really hate TCA, the River District seems like full of bad dummies waiting to be killed in groups. It's terribly fake and grindy. Playing Mod 11 contents seems like playing a very old stile game with no AI. Mod 11 made things worse for FBI because after about a month of (awful) grinding people are able to unlock Spell Plague and avoid FBI grinding to get SKT gear. Wait... SKT gear coming from TCA? That gear has bonuses which are good for SKT only, what does it have to do with TCA? On PC SpellPlague just lowered the chance to find someone to play FBI with, and it's getting lower as more people keep unlocking it. What's the sense of all this?
What I would really like to see:
An intermediate loot would probably double or triple the people running. How many times have I been in a group stuck at Turtle???
Why is Relic Gear's bonus only good for SKT, when it is still BIS for the whole game?
People are now talking about the MC armor, but that hasn't dropped yet and will likely take some more time before it becomes reasonably available. Nice if you have the dinero to buy it, another paywall if not. I'm ~BIS and rarely have more than 1 mill AD to float on an item, myself.
The issue I have is that you still only have a chance at it .
Another thing that irks me is getting the wrong piece
Like running 500 skirmishes to finally get a +5 ring and its rising defense for a TR !
At least in WoW you knew something would drop and it was rolled on by usable classes.
I think it burns everyone in the group when I get that ring and the GF gets a precision ring .
The thing that disgusts me is mod 10 relic weapons..
After all the work to acquire them ,to upgrade you need stuff from master skirmish. That is whack as hell as you have to put in 45 days of 500 hours of grinding to obtain them then spend millions in refining to be even further limited and forced to grind even more for marks.