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Why nerfing of IWD, is the worst thing they have done.
vteasy
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when we have a bug list longer than "a tale of two cities" The devs prioritze nerfing IWD RP rewards.
So disappointed
So disappointed
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So maybe the big HE's might be worth something again instead of people just going to the small ones for great success easy aqua's?
the effect is significantly longer time to get RP. Also havent' tested the majors. The patch notes didn't say they nerfed only the minors...
Considering people only went to the minors, the the big HEs don't really take significantly longer. Hell the totem of Auril can take as long if not longer sometimes, than the big HEs because of all the people that start the fight then run off dragging the mobs you need to kill with them. It's a clarificationt hing and I for one would rather the big HEs actually be more meaningful than a bunch of bots and people on autopilot getting big rewards for half the content (since most left the HE before it was finished anyways).
the big ones take wwwaaayyy longer, hench why everyone was running the minors. Also they spawn a lot less
remember it takes ~4.5 million to rank up one piece. good luck getting that with major he
Wasn't it kinda obvious this would come to an end eventually, and sooner rather than later?
And for the bright side: Hey, they at least announced it! Waaaaaayyyy better than last time, IMHO.
They are going to take far more time when IWD is a ghost town and you have to shout in zone for groups like the Dragon harolds.
Look at it this way: how many other HE's or, heck anything for that matter, drops a peridot? If they just added a peridot drop, without the aqua, people would still be clamoring IWD. Look at it as a temporary gift, one that some took full advantage of, and go buy them on the AH while they are cheaper than dirt and they skyrocket back up to 1.5 million per stack...
those horses are screwed
I would tend to agree but I really don't see that happening either. One thing you can depend on - NW will always be in a state of flux. I just hope this (slight) nerf means that IWD will be a bit less laggy now.
when have you ever known the devs to do something equally good when it comes to rp?
Right now with one great success you get one aquamarine and one peridot.
Thats a total of 2k RP.
One stack of aquamarines = 148,500 rp
One stack of Peridot = 49500 rp
Total of 198,000.
It takes approx 1.5 hours to get a stack (+/-) depending on the day.
4,074,000 / 198,000 = approx 20 hours for one item x 4 = approx 80 or more hours to grind items to legendary FROM epic.
THE NEW change of all removal of aquamarines, will make this grind go from 80 hours to APPROX 329 hours of grinding to get 4 items to legendary.
DO YOU SEE that # APPROX over 320 hours!
That is not a acceptable grind rate, not at all.
Cryptic is no dummies, they created a fire storm of the CW changes on the same week, so this wouldnt be talked about at the rate it should be. I have a CW, and ya double nerfing same feat, is a little over the top.
BUT it is NOWHERE over the game reaching issue this RP is.
THEY shouldnt NERF minor HES, THEY SHOULDVE buffed Major ones, make Majors drop Black Opals and people wouldve run them.
THE shear and vast amount of RP needed in game is just ridicilous, they finally put a REASONABLE way to gain it and they remove it.
Frankly we are nearly back to square one.
IN addition my old standby of running dread ring lairs is now nearly worthless, as they do not drop peridots and aquamarines anymore.
Dilemma A... WHERE the heck to we get RP now and
Dilemma B... What do we play in game, there WAS almost no other rewarding thing to do other then IWD. It was literally the only thing I had left in game. Running DDS is not rewarding, running Tiamat isnt rewarding.
You have totally gimped rewards to the point of the game isnt even worth playing.
You need to fix this, its still the #1 issue in game, or maybe #2 right behind the bugs. But its HAS to be a top issue.
Running the zerg for peridots ISNT enough, it gets too boring to quickly if you are looking at over 300 hours of grind time.
For the love of everything.. dont destroy your own game, we HAVE to have real ways of earning REAL rp value.
Guys, your literally running out of time to keep players.
A little tip here: Lesser Thaumaturge Stones. Way cheaper to get enchantments up
Which is better then the peridot lol.
ps. i know i know not into artifact equipment.
I enjoy diversity, individuality.. I don't mind if they bring in more artifact gear at all, as long as they give us the means to farm the rp for them and not at a ludicrously low rate. I thought the current farming rate was pretty good. I would have preferred the rewards to be bound than to be nerfed. I sat there and worked out how many hours it would take to farm rp to get all my gear to legendary and it wasn't that daunting.. but now with the uncertainty of the nerf, well.
It could take many months at the rate I can play the game. With no real way of being able to get ad the option of buying the rp I need is limited to purchases of zen. Which I do not agree with.
I would rather put money in when I want to, not because I feel I need to just to remain current.
you can get them from epics and majors in pass also. but its a rare drop for both. maybe not anymore though.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Who were the ones complaining? The whales that bought RP to get 8 artifacts up to orange on every character they play. So some bone-headed bean counter at Cryptic figures they need to nerf the HE drops to get everyone else to buy RP. That the rest of us weren't buying RP before was lost on them.
I used to put money into this game when we were actually getting decent drops from dungeons and quests and it was rewarding to play. But the stingier this game gets, the stingier I get.
This nerf really makes me mad. VERY mad.
Funny thing, I was just contemplating spending more money on this game (after I stopped buying Zen after Mod 6). I'm not sure now. . .
myles08807 said, "Back in my day, we didn't have any of this fancy Mulhorand gear while we were leveling . . . we walked uphill both ways while dying once every five seconds while leveling, and we liked it fine!" . . . Now, get off my lawn, you kids!"
pointsman said, "I don't rue the game. In fact I don't feel any regret for the game at all."
looomis said, "I don't like people changing to alts and then bragging about their mains like schizophrenic role players."
Can it be something like: if you don't finish the HE (i.e. leave early or way too early), you get a peridot instead of aquamarine?