Tornsoul
05-31-2012, 05:19 PM
I've been playing this game for a very, very, very long time. I've completed almost everything in it story wise with the exception of the final battle for WotG, VNMs, and assaults. The WotG battle will be done soon hopefully when D3 mania dies out. I'm not interested in VNMs since the storyline for it is lackluster and it's more for gear than story. However the one thing I've been obsessing with forever now is assaults. I got to the rank of First Lieutenant back before WotG came out. I've needed four or five assaults to progress to Captain rank for years now and it seems impossible to do. I've shouted for years trying to get it done and only succeeded in getting a couple of them done.
The whole assault system was understandable back when ToAU was still the thing to do, and loads of people did missions, quests, and assaults. It's has however been several years since it's release and barely anyone does them. I've joined several different statics over that time, all ending in the same way. People either quit, go on vacations, join other statics, or just decide not to do them. Couple that with the fact that people who are lower ranks can't do assaults from higher ranks. It means I've gone through the assaults a dozen times with nothing to show for my efforts.
This simple fact frustrates me to no end.
I've recently started another static with some linkshell members, however they were all PSC with the exception of one of them, so this means I'll have to once again go through all the assaults again. Couple that with the one tag a day limitation and four tags max, it will add even more time to my quest. Especially since we usually only do two to three assaults at a time since their rank-ups are two to three assaults apart.
Than there's the three person requirement for assaults. Most of these assaults can be solo'ed now with the increased level cap of 99. Yet we're forced to find two other people who are willing to help us and hold that they are the same rank or higher.
I understand the principal behind this, hoping to force people to work together to accomplish a goal. However, when there's no one doing them, how can you force people to work together for it?
I understand the the time limits also instil a balance between mythic weapon acquirement and nyzul point earnage, but that should not be an excuse to not work on the system. There are ways to resolve these problems without upsetting the balance of things.
Like people earning additonal tags at higher ranks. Seperating Nyzul and assaults onto different tickets to allow faster assault tag procurement while still keeping the pace the same on Nyzul token gathering. Though assault points would be aquired faster, it would not allow people to gain alexandirte faster since they'd still be limited to the daily limit on Salvage.
Forgive me for ranting, but I'm really just fed up with this especially with all the time invested into this game. Gear isn't a motivator for me in this game. The only purpose for gear for me was to help me complete missions and quests for story, but when there isn't anymore story to complete the new armor is really pointless to get besides being able to say "Look what I got!"
The whole assault system was understandable back when ToAU was still the thing to do, and loads of people did missions, quests, and assaults. It's has however been several years since it's release and barely anyone does them. I've joined several different statics over that time, all ending in the same way. People either quit, go on vacations, join other statics, or just decide not to do them. Couple that with the fact that people who are lower ranks can't do assaults from higher ranks. It means I've gone through the assaults a dozen times with nothing to show for my efforts.
This simple fact frustrates me to no end.
I've recently started another static with some linkshell members, however they were all PSC with the exception of one of them, so this means I'll have to once again go through all the assaults again. Couple that with the one tag a day limitation and four tags max, it will add even more time to my quest. Especially since we usually only do two to three assaults at a time since their rank-ups are two to three assaults apart.
Than there's the three person requirement for assaults. Most of these assaults can be solo'ed now with the increased level cap of 99. Yet we're forced to find two other people who are willing to help us and hold that they are the same rank or higher.
I understand the principal behind this, hoping to force people to work together to accomplish a goal. However, when there's no one doing them, how can you force people to work together for it?
I understand the the time limits also instil a balance between mythic weapon acquirement and nyzul point earnage, but that should not be an excuse to not work on the system. There are ways to resolve these problems without upsetting the balance of things.
Like people earning additonal tags at higher ranks. Seperating Nyzul and assaults onto different tickets to allow faster assault tag procurement while still keeping the pace the same on Nyzul token gathering. Though assault points would be aquired faster, it would not allow people to gain alexandirte faster since they'd still be limited to the daily limit on Salvage.
Forgive me for ranting, but I'm really just fed up with this especially with all the time invested into this game. Gear isn't a motivator for me in this game. The only purpose for gear for me was to help me complete missions and quests for story, but when there isn't anymore story to complete the new armor is really pointless to get besides being able to say "Look what I got!"