I mean Gold drift's away fast running professions; than what you earn collecting drops alone. That's if you had Artisan's even with -75% commission, unlike the +125% you can get. Yet Adventurer's at best they give -25% if your lucky, yet getting those is very hard and takes a LONG time. Now this I've accepted, a long time ago!
I rarely find earning 1-2 gold playing all day, from drops alone, yet this isn't a criticism either! It was designed that way, just wished (sometimes) we'd see Heroic's drop a bit more Silver! It also be nice if:
♦ Minor Heroic's give 125 Rough Astral Diamonds, and maybe 2-3 Silver.
♦ Major Heroic's give 250 Rough Astral Diamonds, and maybe 3-5 Silver.
Still you're likely to do better from Chests found around the area's, or a skill node; at least on the Silver front. Yet the Rough Astral Diamonds, might encourage more do to do them!
It's often VERY
hard to find just 1-4 people to do Major Heroic's with you; I often find after Monday it's almost impossible if you find just 1-2... ...this is very poor design by DEVs, especially when you need Help to do Heroic's! They really should encourage better rewards for Heroic's, at least to encourage more to Help fellow Adventurer's! Still you not going to see people doing 200 BHE, or 400 Minor HE's; that still only earn 50% your .
I think the challenge since the reduction from Level 80 to 20, that also see's Enemy dropping far less Gold, Silver, or Copper that drops from defeated Enemy. At 75-80 you'd even see Giants in Sea of Moving Ice or Cold run sometimes rarely drop a Gold, now you at best see maybe 15-25 Copper and maybe 50-75 if you really lucky. It be nice if some more Heroic's offered some Silver, maybe a few Gem's too to all area's.
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For example, you can sell Copper ring to get 34.18 silver. The material cost should be less than 2 silvers.
They really still should boost drops of Copper by 2.5x and sometimes actually drop Silver. And during Heroic's it should be 5x for most enemy, 10x for a Boss. I don't even think they have a 2x Gold Event which would INSPIRE many to return!
It's still be only a fraction of the Gold you earn from Gear drops, or that which you'll burn from crafting anything 20 level for sure!
The fact that most guild's have far fewer regular players now is kind of sad, from pre M16 days shows most don't want to adventure!
Even many Old Guild Leader's of Rank 20 Guilds have lost interest, the last year or so! Calling a ♠ a ♠.
It is kind of good that one can sell gold for AD to those who has problem to get enough gold, another form of AD "income". i.e. if you can't farm gold or don't have enough time to farm gold, buy it from AH (like other stuff). It means gold actually worth something instead of worthless in the past.
I'd love to know what your doing... I'm mostly focused on doing Campaigns, Heroic's, and various Weekly quests in several area's.
I thought boosting Silver from Heroic's or Insurgencies, be good to encourage more to do Heroic's in most area's. And most drops of Silver are almost non existent today! Yet this wasn't about Gold, just encourage more to help with Heroic's when calls go out in Zone!
Especially since M16, you can easily spend over 100 or more gold a especially with +125% Commission; if you empty coffer 2-5 times each day. It depends on your artisans for sure, most mine are -75% commission, except adventurers that at best -25% commission.
Just something needs to be boosted to encourage more to do Heroic's in most area's... ...why I think Rough Astral Diamonds might help!
Endless crafting of items to sell doesn't take up much of your active time, it's all passive, work that is being done while you are adventuring or doing something else or not logged in.
Also, if you are farming heroics for gold, at least farm ones that give rewards that you can sell for gold, like the ones in DBV.
Doing all the things in a way that increases the cost to yourself or grinding things that give something that your aren't looking for isn't a reason increase rewards.
TIP: To save some Gold only empty coffer once a day!
As for DBV (Dragonbone Vale) I presume, I'm not able to go there yet. My highest toon is only approaching 44k just barely, then the next is 43.5k, and another is closer to 42.5k. Still the point is valid most Heroic's today don't give any Silver. Yes, I'd agree with this statement. That's what I wanted to focus this discussion on, crafting is expensive I can accept that. Just wish we'd earn a little more Silver & Gold thru our Adventure's, it's really been cut drastically back later from drops, yet I'm starting to perhaps see why! (see below)
Some gear (Picaroon's tricorn, prosperity insignia), guild treasure hunter boon, a leprechaun and another companion bonus.... gets me to >150%, where some stronghold quests give me more than 1 gold each.
Right now all I ever see Enemy drop, is just copper; though they do sometimes drop gear.
I guess they addressed this just a different way, like keep doing missions in Vallenhas, Avernus, etc as each pays 20 silver at least! Many area's will offer missions.
Still it just be nice to see, a bit doing Heroic's, like see 1-4 Silver & 5-50 Copper (sometimes) from Enemies. Be nice to also see the boss maybe drop 2.5x that. Today several Heroic bosses only drop 1 - 75 Copper at best. Today doing Ape cause of the 2x Event, me and a friend saw him each drop 1 Copper twice doing it.
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So I just think it would still encourage more to doing Heroic's in many area's, don't think it needs to be much either... As most of what they give is from Missions mostly. I think it's a bit sad, seeing just so many enemies only dropping copper, your extrmely lucky when they drop a piece of uncommon or rare gear. And today even the amount of Very Rare that is sellable is quite limited. Most can only be refined. Still no complains, just wish they'd lighten up on seeing a bit more Silver especially from Heroics!
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I'll be excited to get to Dragonbone Vale, mostly cause I'm not upgrading any Artifact anymore, if they at least purple. There's NO POINT especially when the new ones go to 1,200 not 600.
I know Chest sometimes can award 1-7 Silver, perhaps even more very rarely; still I think this encourage more to do Heroic's.
I don't think a little silver be that great incentive, but at least it's something!
Finding people to join you is like pulling teeth, which it shouldn't be:
♦ Dragonbone Vale
♦ Sharandar
♦ Avernus
♦ Storm Kings Thunder
♦ Well of Dragons
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♥ Minor Heroic's giving 2 Silver, and 125 Rough Astral Diamonds.
♥ Major Heroic's giving 2-3 Silver, and 250 Rough Astral Diamonds.
╘ You won't see people running to do 800 Minor's or 400 Majors to make 100k.
Yet it might be enough, to encourage more to help far more often, simply as a slight boost.