Vagary Woes - Increasingly More Difficult To Run. Lack Of Incentive.

Wow, after many months of nothing but Codex, today we finally saw a double Platemail drop during the campaign! A fellow DRK friend of mine got one. And the other? My dad, Quilly. He's been doing Vagary with my LS for over a year, so to finally get him it is huge for us. We had to be persistent to get it, and I've done extra Vagary events the past two weeks. I'm really tired of leading the event, but it was worth it to see his reaction, and Vellens.

The linkshell has been running for over a year, and so far we've had 7 platemails drop to the following players: Overlordandy & Calabria, Rituck, Rusch, Nekdal, Vellen and Quilly.

It has never dropped from Plouton. It has never dropped outside a Vagary Campaign. All 7 platemails dropped during a Vagary Campaign. Tidis and I continue to wait patiently. Hopefully it doesn't take another year for one of us to get.

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Grats on the drops! Sorry you're still waiting for yours.

just my thrupence half penny, it would, kind of made more sense to introduce ambuscade as a more difficult event and weaken vagary, but it all depends on resources and how many new events they intend to introduce in the future

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Originally Posted by Stuzey

...as a more difficult event and weaken vagary, but it all depends on resources and how many new events they intend to introduce in the future

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Well I was gifted when a very awesome player from Fenrir server took pity on my character and invited me to be "carried" through all 5 NMs wins... I was amazed at how "3" star master nukers perform--cause there were only 9 of us total... and we breezed through vagary... I say breezed... don't take it lightly. Vagary is vicious and unrelenting content. It took 8 mastered jobs, all nukers and plds, to breeze through this content. I would dare say that 5 of them had REM.

This allowed me to upgrade my empy gears on SMN and PUP to max... however it also showed me, how gated this content really is. Without their help, I would not have my maxed out empy gear. So I feel your concerns about this--this is content that casuals will NEVER enjoy, unless they are carried through, by a group who had run this to the point they could do it with their eyes closed, nukes going as high as 85k... 65k.... 55k repeatedly... I was floored.

I can't imagine all things being equal, any other "type of job" non-nuker would be capable...

See? Vagary is easy !

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Originally Posted by Zeldar

See? Vagary is easy !

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Uh, no that wasn't the point of his post - his post basically said "thank god this super geared team carried me" - which is not something most players have access to and it is a really crummy way to gate basic content that should be open to anyone. Reforged Empy +1 is macro gear for the most part and gating it this way is just ultra frustrating for NQ players who would otherwise have a fun goal to work on to gear their characters a bit better.

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Vagary is vicious and unrelenting content. It took 8 mastered jobs, all nukers and plds, to breeze through this content. I would dare say that 5 of them had REM.

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What part of that says "easy?"

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Originally Posted by Olor

Uh, no that wasn't the point of his post - his post basically said "thank god this super geared team carried me" - which is not something most players have access to and it is a really crummy way to gate basic content that should be open to anyone.

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Fairly sure he was being (Sarcastic +1) :3

Aye, sarcasm, you can have this......

Wow, der... sorry about missing the point there.

:)

New crafts require vagary mats.
I guess there's incentive for people to run vagary now.

Well... for the statics that continue to run vagary to keep running vagary. 8D