For the current ease of getting relics and upgrading them, while it could still happen, I doubt they will get to that level so easily.
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The people that visit the forums, and actually post is a pretty small fraction of those that actually play the game, so if you read that 20 are quitting that doesn't mean much in the big picture. If you think about their subscription models, you get discounts for paying in 3,6 or 12 month increments, and a lot of people do that, guess what gets released in 3 month increments, that's right content patches lots of MMO's have done this because people are usually willing to pay just one more time to see if this content is redeeming, if not I'm gone kind of thing but by the time it comes to drop their sub, another patch if just around the corner. I say if you don't like it, then unsub, loosing money means more to them than negative forum posts, but I seriously doubt a single questline will cause enough loss in subscriptions to make anyone take notice.
Working as intended? Who can tell but the developers?
Working as expected? Seems more accurate to their previous statement regarding how many players would be prepared for the Novus quests come patch time.
And for those of you saying that the Animus/Novus quest weapons are only for the "grinders" and "no lifers", consider it a commitment rather than a requirement. I for one will be incredibly happy I was committed to keeping up with the quests for the (hopefully) wonderful reward at the end of the line.
then get your friends and speed Brayflox hm? it takes what, 10 mins for one run? So 1 hr nets you about 300 myth and you are about on par with my estimation, got it done faster, and got to play with friends.... hell 2 hrs of that is 600 and that is more than what I estimated. 3 runs of CT with your friends is 300.
There is no excuse. There are many ways to get myth in a timely and reasonable fashion.
I'm just saying, for most casual players I know they use the roulette. Here are some numbers:
you can earn: 290-315 myth a day assuming youve unlocked all roulettes and capped solidary. or its 340-365 if you didnt cap solidary and doing expert roulette. +15-46 extra myth a day if you are doing your daily beast tribe quest as well (46 is only if you do 1 low 3 mid and 2 top dailys and ignore going 3 mid and 3 top as 1 top gives 7? solidary). 2-4 hrs max depending on all your teams speed and success.
So after running all of your dailys, if you do 2-4 speed runs of bray then youd be ~500ish a day. So a book in 3 days which is faster than originally stated. 4-5 days if you dont run Bray afterwards or do 3ish dailys a day.
Still can farm the same amount faster in bray. but these are options.
Also, that being said, I dont feel that animus books need a change on price. Atma is the only thing that needs a drop chance increase, and that is only slight increase not a game breaking one.
then what is a 3 hr gamer? hard core? I feel this is average. To me, I believe that 3 hrs a day is a good average for a casual player to work on gear progression and learning/downing content at a reasonable rate.
May I suggest to try to put all of your chances on your side, like using the Zenith Shield instead of the Allagan that you are wearing now? I've had luck with the Japanese theory, others didn't. You do 5 fates in one map, not working? move to another one. (I got all of them soloing (except one) and sometimes with my Choco.)
It's not for everyone. Those who want it, will put time to it, just like your time you got into Coil, for that Allagan gear.
I knew I couldnt make it to the EM primals, getting T4 for now. So for me it was a viable option. And it gave my FC incentive to do it, as they saw for themselves that if I did it, anyone can! :) /cheer
My GF gave up on it, for now ^^
Side note: Happy to see that Montrealers are on other servers, let's spread the love! ^^
You can get at a minimum 425 Myth per day doing DF roulettes and beastmen dailies. Assuming you can only manage to get that done, that's 4 days to get a book (with tomes left over.) You can easily bang out a book a week if you put a small amount of effort in.
Yea, Animus is an investment in time. Sorry it cannot simply be handed to you for doing a short questline, which sounds like that is what you want. There is Titan and Coil for you then to upgrade your weapon.
Yoshi spelled this out very carefuly before people, he said the options were either weekly lockouts, or an absurdly low drop rate, and people still whined about weekly lockouts.
So guess what Yoshi had the devs do?
I saw this coming miles away, good thing I made enough popcorn.