Make Augmented Hellhound obtainable through Trophy Crystals

[Towa-Musa]

I see the point from the rest of the post and generally don't disagree with it, however I've seen the 50:50 coinflip term used a lot and it starts to irk me.

What exactly drives people to call things a "coinflip"? Who uses it and how much experience do they have? From my personal experience at least, not only do I not care about the so-called "coinflip" of "oh no they got X and I didn't" (fill the variable as you like) because that would just take away focus from me just playing the game to the best of my ability, I also think the coinflip rhetoric gets repeated possibly by a large group of players who are under the illusion that their impact doesn't matter and therefore don't invest well into improving their own skillsets. Learning matchups, learning survival rotations, gaining gamesense about when it is time to leave a fight or when you should go deep to punish someone or waste a lot of time for them. Shoot, knowing when to 1v1 or 1v2 on a flank is a skillset you could learn and use your matchup knowledge for.

If HALF the people complaining about coinflips put as much energy into improving themselves actively striving to not be the weak link in a match as they do for hyperfocusing on "oh no I lose coinflip I lose, nice RNG" the quality of the matches would improve tremendously.

The only thing that might actually be coinflip-y is how jobs get distributed, which primarily gets funky if WAR + DRK get put together or WHM + AST. WAR-DRK cover for each other with different strengths and WHM-AST has an absolutely stupid amount of sustain on top of still having respectable burst damage.

I put my best foot forward and get to plat easily but while i DO understand where you are coming from dude... it is a rng pisshole, you can do everything right and still lose because your team would rather spam 'Good game!' out of anger because they ran ahead and died.

[Reimmi]

As if ranked didn't have few enough incentives for people to play it already.

Doesn't need to be in the crystal shop. Weapons look ugly, can already obtain the ugly non particle effect versions.

Ugly is subjective, i think some of them are pretty cool. the magic classes look horrible though

[Archeron]

Ugly is subjective, i think some of them are pretty cool. the magic classes look horrible though

The particle effects overwhelm a lot of the weapons, It doesn't look good on any of them, I personally don't even like how the majority of the non particle effect weapons look. It's not an award worthy of people who farmed out some of the highest ranks CC has to offer, especially when you can just spend crystals to get the non particle effect versions.

Imagine Ultimate weapons being released with a variant thats almost identical, just without particle/lighting effects. Hardly motivation to make you want to grind for the "enhanced" version.

[Aravell]

Imagine Ultimate weapons being released with a variant thats almost identical, just without particle/lighting effects.

This already exists though. UCoB weapons are weapons from T13 with particles on them, UWU weapons are ARR relics, TEA weapons are HW relics, DSR weapons are Thordan EX weapons and TOP weapons are O12S weapons.

[Archeron]

This already exists though. UCoB weapons are weapons from T13 with particles on them, UWU weapons are ARR relics, TEA weapons are HW relics, DSR weapons are Thordan EX weapons and TOP weapons are O12S weapons.

The difference with those is that they're not Almost Identical. Augmented hellhound is literally just the Exact same weapon with glowy aura. Again, Why farm them out?

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

I put my best foot forward and get to plat easily but while i DO understand where you are coming from dude... it is a rng pisshole, you can do everything right and still lose because your team would rather spam 'Good game!' out of anger because they ran ahead and died.

It is indeed an RNG pisshole because quite frankly players make it one and demands for minimal or no deranking will continue to let people reach plat+ by having their face grind on rails and be like "nailed it".

It's a compounded issue consisting of multiple factors and the only tip I can give is for every individual to work on themselves, review their mistakes or alternative options to both minimize becoming the weak link in a match and perhaps have what extra mile you can pull off be able to cover someone ending up short.

[RyanCousland]

I know: "Oh, but what about Ranked?" Well, guess what: There's an easy way to solve this.

People already are making a fuss about exclusive rewards for PvP, but having an alternative to essentially dead queues in some DCs should be a route that even casual players can take.

Considering you would need the normal base weapon, you're running essentially for 10,000 Trophy Crystals.

As for Augmenting it, make it cost 50,000 Trophy Crystals. You could simply make something other than Comm. Crystals - Trophy Clusters. It'd cost quite a lot of Trophy Crystals, and it'd provide a SINK we desperately need considering there's naught of value except very few items that are tradable with Trophy Crystals.

Thoughts?

There's a post with a resolution utilizing the feast method which I think would serve better rather than removing rank rewards but I do agree crystal cap needs to increased or better stuff added, however I think these particular/specific rewards are underwhelming to be elevated to diamond or higher. Rank rewards I think would also be better if they were tied with achievements e.g 50 (or whatever amount)k'os or wins in whatever rank
Or place top 10 in whatever in any any season as you rank the rewards would get better, to incentivize people to climb but also rewarding the time and effort, with all this said idc about rewards but I do care if others need the incentive to participate in a mode I enjoy to further extend the lifespan

[Towa-Musa]

It is indeed an RNG pisshole because quite frankly players make it one and demands for minimal or no deranking will continue to let people reach plat+ by having their face grind on rails and be like "nailed it".

It's a compounded issue consisting of multiple factors and the only tip I can give is for every individual to work on themselves, review their mistakes or alternative options to both minimize becoming the weak link in a match and perhaps have what extra mile you can pull off be able to cover someone ending up short.

Yup, just get as good as you can so you are not part of the problem, thats what i did.
which even then the odds will still be stacked against you, good luck!

[Towa-Musa]

I know: "Oh, but what about Ranked?" Well, guess what: There's an easy way to solve this.

People already are making a fuss about exclusive rewards for PvP, but having an alternative to essentially dead queues in some DCs should be a route that even casual players can take.

Considering you would need the normal base weapon, you're running essentially for 10,000 Trophy Crystals.

As for Augmenting it, make it cost 50,000 Trophy Crystals. You could simply make something other than Comm. Crystals - Trophy Clusters. It'd cost quite a lot of Trophy Crystals, and it'd provide a SINK we desperately need considering there's naught of value except very few items that are tradable with Trophy Crystals.

Thoughts?

This actually sounds good, not gonna lie.

[4clubbedace]

we have to do soemthign with the crystals, i hav enear 60 wolf collars that i dont use since theres nothing really "worth" spending that equivalent of wolf marks on

Imagine Ultimate weapons being released with a variant thats almost identical, just without particle/lighting effects. Hardly motivation to make you want to grind for the "enhanced" version.

youre

joking right

the only "unique" ultimate weapons are the uwu rdm and sam weapons

ultimate weaponsare already reskins