Regarding Adjustments to Exploratory Missions

[umbralcadenza]

Here's another great example of poor logic and reasoning (though not featured in this post: )

The amount of Allagan tomestones rewarded for completing objectives in the Easy/Normal mode has been adjusted to be more balanced with the amount of time needed and the mode selected to complete the objectives.

I'll do some basic arithmetic here with information before this change:

* Diadem can be queued for every 2 hours, and you can complete objectives to obtain 40 Esoterics.
* An EX dungeon can be completed on a safe average of once every 40 minutes to obtain 40 Esoterics.
* Which of these grant more Esoterics per hour?

This isn't a riddle. Why are you nerfing Esoterics in Diadem? You can't even argue about work vs. reward because Esoterics already grossly over-rewards you with some of the best gear available for doing some of the most trivial content available. Running EX once per day barely takes any time and is not even close to difficult.

The devs need to spend a lot less time trying to make content "balanced" (since clearly they are terrible at it) and figure out what they need to do instead to make content fun, which I can only hope would be a modestly more successful endeavor.

Seriously, put some of your long-term MMO players in a debate with these people.

[Colorful]

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How much Esoterics does it give now? I'm sick and tired of running dungeons day in and day out, and this gave me a method of making them while not even trying to, and they nerfed it? That on top of the measly 20 Esoterics from a Void Ark run which is far longer than your average dungeon run...

[Alistaire]

Here's another great example of poor logic and reasoning (though not featured in this post: )



I'll do some basic arithmetic here with information before this change:

* Diadem can be queued for every 2 hours, and you can complete objectives to obtain 40 Esoterics.
* An EX dungeon can be completed on a safe average of once every 40 minutes to obtain 40 Esoterics.
* Which of these grant more Esoterics per hour?

To be fair, if people want to farm esoterics in diadem, it was more like 10-15 minutes for 40 eso, ditch, repeat 10 times whenever through the week, and not need to do anything else at all. And since people ditching makes other people upset; SE wanted to nerf that. I did a run in normal for eso before the maintenance, with 3 people, and got it done in 15 minutes.

Also normal is 30 eso now. (edit: and that makes it still more efficient than dungeons if you can do it in 10 minutes)