A few answers on Hamlet Defense Battles

[Req]

The biggest things that need to happen is, make it worth doing. The droprates suck, and if you dont have a certain point score you are basically just going to be doing it for fireworks. Give us a goal to work for and not just put us at the mercy of the rng.

They also need to fix the lockouts for when you win. An efficient team will be locked out of the fight for about 50% of each battle phase because the fights are so short.

[Kona4me]

On my server... rarely see ppl do hamlet defense.. hope this is fixed soon... what Gidonoidon_Sur said will be good to help hamlet defense not fail .

[Biggs]

Absolutely. I still cannot comprehend how they haven't noticed it. Reducing the requirements by 1/3 will do little to nothing, the whole top 20/loot distribution needs to be fixed or this type of content is going to fail horribly. There's just no incentive to do it unless you plan to get top 20 and gather/caravan for 50 hours straight.

If this system is going to tie in directlly to how everyone gets there Artifact Weapon, won't that automatically increase how many people will then begin to participate in supply missions? I think we need to consider that this system is designed for more people on each server than what we have now. Just a thought though, I could be wayyyy off. They still haven't really confirmed if the AF weapons will be tied to hamlet or not.

[Reinheart]

If this system is going to tie in directlly to how everyone gets there Artifact Weapon, won't that automatically increase how many people will then begin to participate in supply missions? I think we need to consider that this system is designed for more people on each server than what we have now. Just a thought though, I could be wayyyy off. They still haven't really confirmed if the AF weapons will be tied to hamlet or not.

And once everyone has AF weapons it's going to go to crap status again where least amount of ppl will participate and people who join the game late will get shafted from getting there weapons since it's outdated content.... NICE!!

[Fusionx]

They still haven't really confirmed if the AF weapons will be tied to hamlet or not.

They don't need too, enough information has already been found in game.

[TheVedis]

And once everyone has AF weapons it's going to go to crap status again where least amount of ppl will participate and people who join the game late will get shafted from getting there weapons since it's outdated content.... NICE!!

thats why you dont pug stuff, the older stuff gets, the more itl become more of a linkshell thing
or something people join just for the hell of it

of course only the newest content is taken the most serious

this is of course, how mmos work

[Alhanelem]

Honestly, for pick up groups hamlet defnese is hard as hell and you probably wont get anything out of it. The battles are fun to be sure, but to have even the slightest chance of a drop you have to have a bunch of crafters grinding like crazy, then you have to recruit 8 people and probably take several tries to win, and then you get nothing. In order to get people coming back, you've got to give them something worthwhile. Why does every single event have to have super duper rare drop rates? If you're just trying to stretch things out til 2.0 I could understand, but if that's the case, the drop rates better get better after that.

[ArkNova]

And once everyone has AF weapons it's going to go to crap status again where least amount of ppl will participate and people who join the game late will get shafted from getting there weapons since it's outdated content.... NICE!!

I asked this in a different thread but yes Reinheart I feel the same way you do. Before I asked would hamlet be obsolete 2-4 years from now preventing players of that time from getting Artifact Weapons but I really think that time could approach in a couple of months. This same situation is going on with Garuda last time I went out there we were the only party there.

[ArkNova]

thats why you dont pug stuff, the older stuff gets, the more itl become more of a linkshell thing
or something people join just for the hell of it

of course only the newest content is taken the most serious

this is of course, how mmos work

I see where your coming from and respect your post but I look at what gets us to Rank 2 hamlet. This is my own opinion but I cant see people that have their artifact weapons putting effort into the supply phase to get us to rank 2.

[Wevlum]

Hamlets remain simultaneously one of the biggest things I was looking forward to and one of the biggest disappointments. =/