This is why Hardcore Content SUCKS.

[SilvertearRen]

Yes, because we should be able to get any piece of rare equipment in an hour or less.... /sarcasm

Sorry dude, I don't normally do this but you deserve it: Go back to WoW

Ha. WoW? I played that for two weeks, and threw the game disc into a bonfire. It was garbage.

Honestly? I'm not asking for handouts. I'm asking for enjoyable content where I don't have to deal with the heckling, the insults and the competition that just adds needlessly to my stress...

You should be aware: I'm one of the most disliked people on my server, and I have to live with it.

[Evangela]

Ha. WoW? I played that for two weeks, and threw the game disc into a bonfire. It was garbage.

Honestly? I'm not asking for handouts. I'm asking for enjoyable content where I don't have to deal with the heckling, the insults and the competition that just adds needlessly to my stress...

You should be aware: I'm one of the most disliked people on my server, and I have to live with it.

LOL, I love what you did to WoW disc

[Kaedan]

Ha. WoW? I played that for two weeks, and threw the game disc into a bonfire. It was garbage.

Honestly? I'm not asking for handouts. I'm asking for enjoyable content where I don't have to deal with the heckling, the insults and the competition that just adds needlessly to my stress...

You should be aware: I'm one of the most disliked people on my server, and I have to live with it.

No, that's exactly what you are asking for.

So let me ask you this: Would you complain if they made NMs instanced and then made drop rate low enough that it would take an average of 2 hours killing it non-stop (on a 3-5 min timer... that's 30 kills... making it a 3% chance drop)?

If your answer is yes... then you are asking for handouts. Rare equipment is supposed to rare. It's supposed to take time/effort to get.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

op not to be mean but...
just because you didn't get claim makes it less casual. Access to conteny = a chance at it. You wree able to hunt it and try to claim it. That is called access. They could easily make it where you couldn't eveb try to fight the nm at all. You just gotta deal with the competition which will happen regaurdless. Thats not making it hardcore. Hardcore is making it so you couldn't even dream of even seeing it.

[SilvertearRen]

No, that's exactly what you are asking for.

So let me ask you this: Would you complain if they made NMs instanced and then made drop rate low enough that it would take an average of 2 hours killing it non-stop (on a 3-5 min timer... that's 30 kills... making it a 3% chance drop)?

If your answer is yes... then you are asking for handouts. Rare equipment is supposed to rare. It's supposed to take time/effort to get.

I wouldn't complain if it took me two hours to get if it was a guaranteed drop within that time frame, because then I'd be able to arrange my schedule around it! But this didn't happen in today's example, and that was what really irked me.

If I'm going to invest a substantial amount of my time into a game in a single sitting, it has to pay off in some form or another. Either in substantial amounts of SP or a good item drop.

The point is that this game is badly balanced in terms of time investment-to-payout ratio. Make the NMs instanced, or at least build instanced dungeons for the NMs to reside within, so that a party can bash their way through a horde of monsters before reaching the boss...that would make it more engaging, more interesting, more fun, and ultimately for a person like me, a great expenditure of my time.

[Phrozen]

behest is our life source

[Kaedan]

To be honest, I think you need to realize that being the first day of the patch, you're going to have competition. Instead of "wasting your time" trying to claim the NMs, do something else. Then after a couple of days when things have calmed down, then go back and get them.

You're treating this as if it's always going to be this way, and it's not.

[Holy_Dragoon]

No offense, but these NMs have like a 5 minute spawn time.

[Corrderio]

If I'm going to invest a substantial amount of my time into a game in a single sitting, it has to pay off in some form or another. Either in substantial amounts of SP or a good item drop.

You're in for a big surprise then

[Aion]

wait,in other thread ppl complaining about FAST RESPAWN TIME NM, and here ppl rant about how NM is difficult to claim??? General section sure is amusing....