Voidwatch Final Chapter

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Originally Posted by Asymptotic

Stop holding out for the ticket system, the way they have described it to be implemented is a waste of everyone's time, including theirs.

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Also this. Apparently the decided upon system would be:

You have to have 6 Tickets specific to the Item you want to get the item. Only way to Obtain Tickets is by buying them, Or getting said Item a second time.

So instead of going the Logical route, and making 1 Ticket per NM, With Different Values of how many tickets needed for what item, They went the "PANTS ON HEAD" route.

Then again, Captain Mekira here has gotten 3, So i guess He'd be 1/3rd of the way to another body in the ticket system.

Edit: Well Shoot, This was suppose to be an edit.

I can't even wear it. I got a Phasmida Belt on my first run, so the only reason I was doing Kaggen at all was for cruor + a mantis eye.

Also I'd be 1/3 of the way to another Mekira Mekiogai, since getting Mekira a 2nd time would get me a Mekira ticket, etc.

I'm not holding out much hope for the ticket system personally, but if my current luck with Heka body holds, i'd probably be able to redeem one with tickets long before I get one in a chest.

Rak ;; well, once the ticket system gets implemented, I'll do what I said for you: Fill the Akvan ally entirely with people in LS who either have Heka's or need Heka's, so at least we can maximize our chances and make progression.

That's one of the major problems with the ticket system. If I already have all the drops from a NM, why would I do it again when there are other NMs on which I could be using my voidstones/voiddust that drop things that I can either need/want, or drop items that I can sell for profit?

Well one of the reasons they thought this system was a compromise is what you just outlined in your post of 11:26AM above. You would have gotten tickets in that scenario. But yeah, it's a flawed system. It assumes people will use stones in repeat runs. I'd use some stones to help out LS mates in repeat runs since I accrue a lot more stones than I end up using in a week. I have gotten such items like Mekira Meikogai and Ace's Mail even though I have no use for them, but I saved them so I could get tickets for LS mates in the future. But yeah, your random PUG won't operate by the same benevolent principles, since you usually wouldn't join a PUG unless you needed the item to begin with.

EDIT: I think they also assume you would use stones for one of the other rationales you said, to sell the tickets for profit. Of course, that's like playing the 1% RNG lottery.

The thing is, I could spam Mellonia or Cherufe or something for a much better chance at a payout.

Oh I'm not saying it's a great stone:gil ratio, but I can see people with stones coming out of their asses doing it. I know some people in my LS with 200+ stones. I still think the ticket system is flawed for the reasons you said, but either way, tickets WILL enter the system. They'll just be rare.

Problem is, how much would you be willing to pay for a Toci's Harness? Or Mekira Body? needing 6 Tickets, of which one will be entering the system about as often as a Sagasinger, their prices won't be cheap.

Would you pay 60mil for a Toci's? 30mil? The Rarity of a Ticket for a high-end Item... Its going to make any of these items incredibly hard to come by, and again. needing 6 is absolutely dumb. theres no reason for the number to be so high, Sure, Maybe for Mantis Eyes, But for a Mekira/Toci's/Coruscanti/etc to need 6 Duplicates drop to someone who already has it? Its asinine to even think thats reasonable.

At most it should be 2. I can't see why something so rare can't go on a 1 to 1 Trade basis... I don't even know. :|

Thinking about the ticket system again and its glorious fail is making me upset.

It's even worse that people keep asking about it. Everytime someone asks about the bloody ticket system and when it's going to be implemented, i just want to reach into the computer and slap them.