Balancing the Ergon Quests

[Jeanna]

Not sure how they justify HPB at the moment. Does SE really not realize that the people with hundreds constantly in their bazaars are the reive botters, and generally not the average player? Reive botting is the new Alex glitch, and unfortunately it's the only thing keeping a decent supply in circulation.

Not sure they need to lower the requirements, but they could do other things to make obtaining it easier. Make bayld easier to obtain, add other sources to obtain bayld (possibly delve/incursion). The problem with bayld atm is that the methods to obtain them just aren't part of average daily endgame activities. People generally only do enough skirmish to get what they need and stop. There's almost zero incentive to do colo reives anymore as Incursion drops better capes. WKR cap out at 25k and unless you have fame it can cost near as much to buy the KI.

Make pouches a drop and more of a common drop.

Over time they did do several things to ease the mythic process (reduced from 50 to 30k, changed ein to 24 hours instead of 3 days, allowed salvage and assaults to be entered solo, etc), hopefully the Ergon process gets a little bit of an overhaul.

[Lyncath]

Not sure how they justify HPB at the moment. Does SE really not realize that the people with hundreds constantly in their bazaars are the reive botters, and generally not the average player? Reive botting is the new Alex glitch, and unfortunately it's the only thing keeping a decent supply in circulation.

Yes, absolutely yes. I must have filed five or six reports to the Special Task Force about groups of mules clearly botting the Lair Reives in certain areas and then to find the same characters with 500+ HPBs in their bazaars a few weeks later. If the best way to farm HPBs is to literally cheat and defy the in-game mechanics then it seriously needs addressing.