MUST BE IMPLEMENTED 2.28 OR 2.3

**Alavastre** · 05-01-2014 03:25 AM

Originally Posted by Reynhart

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Hate to be the bearer of bad news. But MMO's use RNG for a reason. That reason is rather simple. People will play the game more if there is a random chance of getting something. They'll do the same thing over and over again just for the attempt to get something they want. Not the case when it's not RNG.

So, RNG is there for a real psychological reason.

**faris** · 05-01-2014 04:10 AM

Originally Posted by Nadrojj

It would be nice to have a system to upgrade your gear like you can your weapon, however the RNG would have to be replaced with an actual system. Maybe something like ffxi had, trails, I remember updating my evasion katana for my ninja I had to kill 500 of a certain monster during a wind weather effect in a certain zone. Gave you reasons to revisit zones and kill mobs there. I enjoyed it.

GOD NO.
No trial of the magians style "Yeah we're not giving you any content this patch, go kill 500 of these. While it's raining." ever.

**Velthice** · 05-01-2014 04:12 AM

Already having two atma weapons and kinda sad I don't have another zenithed relic to upgrade, I approve of this idea.

**Reynhart** · 05-01-2014 04:32 AM

Originally Posted by Alavastre

Hate to be the bearer of bad news. But MMO's use RNG for a reason. That reason is rather simple. People will play the game more if there is a random chance of getting something. They'll do the same thing over and over again just for the attempt to get something they want. Not the case when it's not RNG.

So, RNG is there for a real psychological reason.

Not really. People will play as long as they have something to seek. RNG is just the easiest way to make sure that it will take a long time and fooling people so that they'll hope to be lucky.

**Alavastre** · 05-01-2014 05:24 AM

Originally Posted by Reynhart

Not really. People will play as long as they have something to seek. RNG is just the easiest way to make sure that it will take a long time and fooling people so that they'll hope to be lucky.

It's been studied. Go check it out.

**Reynhart** · 05-01-2014 06:42 AM

Yeah, I know about the Skinner Box.
But nowhere does it say it's the only way to make people play for long period of time.

**Gormogon** · 05-01-2014 07:33 AM

Originally Posted by Alavastre

Hate to be the bearer of bad news. But MMO's use RNG for a reason. That reason is rather simple. People will play the game more if there is a random chance of getting something.

Ever heard of Runescape and Minecraft?

RNG exists as a barrier to deny items, gears, weapons, etc and force people to try again. Like gambling but less fun.

**Sapphic** · 05-01-2014 07:57 AM

Well we don't have the new AF2 which was shown as concept art in one of the live letters (loved the MNK AF2!). Adding drops to upgrade Myth set to AF2 in Crystal Tower (2.3 version not LotA :P). But ive a sneaky feeling ilvl110 gear obtainable outside coil 2 will be the AF2. How we obtain it... Maybe CT, maybe something else. Doubt it would be with soldiery.

So to not invalidate Soldiery it would have to be limited on how it is obtained to probably 1 item per week.AKA, 2.3 Crystal Tower. Putting Ilvl 110 as ATMA style drops would totally invalidate the present gear from soldiery and from Coil 2 as, with luck, you could farm a full set in a day.

Now adding RNG drops to buy zero stat gear to glamor with would be a pretty awesome idea. Without breaking anything that I mentioned how it would before.

(All conjecture of course ^_^ )

Just had a thought to expand a bit on it:

Adding a form of currency that has a chance to drop from all content. from Leve mobs, from harvesting nodes, from dungeons, treasure chests. ventures etc. that can be spent to buy things like crafting recipes, appearance armor and weapons for glamor, mounts and minions. By adding to all will give everyone a chance to obtain them to buy these "fluff" items.

**Duuude007** · 05-01-2014 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by Gormogon

Like gambling but less fun.

Indeed, that's why D&D never became popular.

**OmniEx** · 05-01-2014 03:16 PM

People like to complain, they complained about the Atma having no additional stats from the Zenith so they'll complain if the armor was glamor only. So maybe make it 105 then. So it's not stronger than gear that takes skill to acquire (High Allagan/Non Withered Soldiery) but stronger than gear that anyone can get by farming a dungeon once a day (Withered). Makes for a good middle ground I guess.

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