Yoshi P / Dev Team: FAVOR System - Please Fix This BROKEN System

[falberto]

I am just buying miner stuff with mine. Also buying favour materials from the MB when I see them cheap. They have not set a date for adjustments yet

hope its is comming
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[Alexiell]

thats great news

from the last letter of the producer:

Favor Adjustments

We’re planning to make adjustments in Patch 3.07. Additionally, we’re looking over the effect duration as well. You’ll be able to do these in a shorter amount of time.

[seorin]

I wouldn't get my hopes up just yet. I'm sure it will be an improvement, but it remains to be seen how much of an impact it will really have. I don't have a ton of faith myself, but I hope to be pleasantly surprised.

[Keldion]

According to today's patch notes, favors now last 5m (down from 15) and cause concealed nodes to spawn at 300% of their original rate.

This looks less like a buff and more of a QOL adjustment, meaning we can spend our favors faster without any net change to their average yield. However, will this change do anything to take the sting out of bad RNG streaks?

[blueruckus]

According to today's patch notes, favors now last 5m (down from 15) and cause concealed nodes to spawn at 300% of their original rate.

This looks less like a buff and more of a QOL adjustment, meaning we can spend our favors faster without any net change to their average yield. However, will this change do anything to take the sting out of bad RNG streaks?

Well, the official notes say "The rate at which concealed gathering points appear has been increased by 300%." not necessarily 300% of their original rate. If it is a +300% increase then the yield does become a bit better... but, I get the feeling that it's a translation issue and that in reality it will be as you say it is, 300% of original rate. Still, 5 mins is much nicer than 15 mins.

[Jade-Nephrite]

Just tried my first batch of new Favors - got 17 Bladeleaf + 2 Swordleaf in 5 Favors, unless I can make up 3 on my next attempt of 5 they need to adjust the proc-rate. Hopefully more players will do favors and the mats will drop in price on the MB

[Alysrea]

Honestly it takes less time, but feels worse at the moment for me :\, it doesn't feel like the increased proc rate actually compensates efficiently for the amount of time (attempts) lost.

[Alexiell]

Just tried my first batch of new Favors - got 17 Bladeleaf + 2 Swordleaf in 5 Favors, unless I can make up 3 on my next attempt of 5 they need to adjust the proc-rate. Hopefully more players will do favors and the mats will drop in price on the MB

The mats you got from 5 favors look pretty normal to me, same as before, just in less time. I didnt expect them to change the item/favor rate, i believe they did this on purpose so we have to use the rare favor mats too if we want to cap our crafting each week. Its fine as it is imo, if they buffed the rate it would screw anyone who spent days of farming favors before the patch. They should stick with this now but maybe make crafting less restrictive in the next big content patch.

[Alysrea]

The mats you got from 5 favors look pretty normal to me, same as before, just in less time. I didnt expect them to change the item/favor rate, i believe they did this on purpose so we have to use the rare favor mats too if we want to cap our crafting each week. Its fine as it is imo, if they buffed the rate it would screw anyone who spent days of farming favors before the patch.

The mentality that they should be afraid to improve things because people had it bad before isn't a good way going forward, the way you need to look at it is, the people that did it when it was bad will have a better time in the future.
Better later than never when trying to make things better

[Thrustie]

The mentality that they should be afraid to improve things because people had it bad before isn't a good way going forward, the way you need to look at it is, the people that did it when it was bad will have a better time in the future.
Better later than never when trying to make things better

What he's saying is it would have been unfair to buff the yield rate since you would be rewarding those who hoarded tokens in anticipation of a change and punishing those who participated in the previous system.