Zoidac Weapon 2.28

[ispano]

I know. The weights are higher on the physical damage. But secondary stats are important too. And t9 is a long way off for everyone unless you're in OotBG. And that's 8 people out of the 2mil subscribers. Gae Bolg has the best secondary stats out of any of them. And when it gets its upgrade in 2.28 I'd wager to say it will STILL have the best secondary stats and have the same weapon damage as liberator. That's why its better all around.

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.

[Mcshiggs]

I know, but this sort of laziness is what causes people to unsubscribe - especially when the content is considered frustrating (Which would hold true if the forums are any indication).

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.

[Airal]

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.

[KingOfAbyss]

btw, people who spend 3 hours a day everyday on the game is not casual. that's 1/3rd of a full time job.

Or a third of a full time sleep

Perspective.

And yes, if you play with your friends.. by all means stick to it! I prefer the fun factor, overlooking grind in MMOs, bec everyone knows grind - MMO - a Myth

[Legacy_Wolfwood]

2-3 hours every day to not play with my friends, no thanks.

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.

btw, people who spend 3 hours a day everyday on the game is not casual. that's 1/3rd of a full time job.

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.

[Moheeheeko]

yeah, i'm QQing because i don't see the end of it, not because i want it right now,

how is that not the exact same thing? O.o

[KingOfAbyss]

yeah, i'm QQing because i don't see the end of it, not because i want it right now,

What would you say if your boss was telling you that you have to work for 6 month before your first paycheck????

Yup that's what i thought

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! ^^

[Purrfectstorm]

Here's the thing though. It's not that the people complaining about atma's want a free weapon. I have been logging my playtime when I start and stop atma farming. I am currently at 76 hours farming and only have two atmas. Two. Atma of the scorpion, and Atma of the ram. I'm in a second coil static and I consider myself to be part of the "hardcore" crowd. Unupgraded liberator is TRASH compared to Gae Bolg Animus for dragoons. And the upgraded one is only slightly better due to weapon damage. I have the time to put into the grind. And I have been. Most of the people arguing for the RNG gated atmas are people that already have atma. And I guarantee none of you have put near as much time as I have into it only to receive 2 atmas. They should not gate the best weapon for a class behind RNG. They should gate it behind content. They should have had a Gerolts Masterwork questline that involved RNG and made the relics take the item that drops from t8 instead. It would be gated behind HARD content that almost NO ONE has completed yet. Why should any player in my position have to suffer taking ludicrous amounts of time away from our raiding just to get a weapon to make sure dps is up to par? I was fine with the atma grind until about hour 40 with only 2 atmas. If they do not change the atma drop rate (The book part is fine where its at) I will be sorely disappointed. Anyone that tells me that I'm wrong here that has atma and didn't spend at least as much time getting it as I have to only be 1/6th the way there is honestly just being a dick.

It's all RNG. Coil drops are RNG.

[Tyce_Rousel]

Do you people understand that for players like me that can only get the time to grind atma 5 hours a week, i will obtain my atma in like a month. THEN I have to geth 13500 myth. The rate I accumulate them now is something like 700-800 per week. This mean i'm gonna get Animus in like 6 month ++. This mean patch 2.3 and surely patch 2.4. This mean more quests about relic.

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.

[Moheeheeko]

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.