Caria
11-17-2011, 12:09 PM
It seems very sad to me that you make the new upgrades possible from both the non-upgraded and the upgraded version, especially since they will reach the same potency eventually. Can you give us some reasoning on this?
When I heard that relic armor was going to be upgraded further, I thought it was a great idea. By making this armor more useful, it would push people back to dynamis, hopefully revitalizing the groups that have been struggling to hold together. The recent dynamis changes have been very hard on groups that were stable for years.
A great deal of the work involved with relic armor is getting that upgrade to +1. It has never been terribly difficult to obtain the base gear(save for a few glacier and xarcabard items that are now far too easy to get, in my opinion); one simply joined a dynamis linkshell, worked with them for a few months, and generally had all the gear they wanted. Getting the +1 version was significantly more work. It not only involved getting the -1 to drop, but also collecting some currency and paying craftsman to make a specific item. By bypassing this step, people will spend less time in dynamis, which seems to be odd after all the talk of "revitalizing" dynamis. I would push that the upgrades should only be possible from the +1 version, not from the base version.
Beyond that, can you give us any clue as to what items are required? I hope that at least some of these these are high-level craftable items that don't drop from any mobs or chests, and hopefully not just synergy items.
When I heard that relic armor was going to be upgraded further, I thought it was a great idea. By making this armor more useful, it would push people back to dynamis, hopefully revitalizing the groups that have been struggling to hold together. The recent dynamis changes have been very hard on groups that were stable for years.
A great deal of the work involved with relic armor is getting that upgrade to +1. It has never been terribly difficult to obtain the base gear(save for a few glacier and xarcabard items that are now far too easy to get, in my opinion); one simply joined a dynamis linkshell, worked with them for a few months, and generally had all the gear they wanted. Getting the +1 version was significantly more work. It not only involved getting the -1 to drop, but also collecting some currency and paying craftsman to make a specific item. By bypassing this step, people will spend less time in dynamis, which seems to be odd after all the talk of "revitalizing" dynamis. I would push that the upgrades should only be possible from the +1 version, not from the base version.
Beyond that, can you give us any clue as to what items are required? I hope that at least some of these these are high-level craftable items that don't drop from any mobs or chests, and hopefully not just synergy items.