Void Ark to drop Esoteric parts for upgrade why?

[SakuraMidori]

So i hear they will be dropping the upgrades but what's the point if we get a weekly lock out? i mean why add gear drops when everyone will be gunning for parts. Why not add the parts in the raid quest make ppl beat all the raids to get a part a week? that seem better then ppl can just run the Ark it self for alt gear

[Phireblast]

Re-read the slide. It says it gives tokens that let you EXCHANGE for the parts.

[SakuraMidori]

Re-read the slide. It says it gives tokens that let you EXCHANGE for the parts.

Awww ty i did not see that part and did it say if it was a per week?

[Phireblast]

Awww ty i did not see that part and did it say if it was a per week?

I'm as clueless as you are on that part, but i'd imagine that to be the case.

[Dree-Elle]

It gives tokens that let you EXCHANGE for the parts.

Bet it won't be 1:1 for left side, either (belt notwithstanding).

[Colorful]

Re-read the slide. It says it gives tokens that let you EXCHANGE for the parts.

Did they say anything about these tokens being rolled for, or like Bismarck and Ravana? I'm hoping it's for the latter, I really don't want to have to grind for not only the weekly Void Ark piece, but the token too.

[SakuraMidori]

Did they say anything about these tokens being rolled for, or like Bismarck and Ravana? I'm hoping it's for the latter, I really don't want to have to grind for not only the weekly Void Ark piece, but the token too.

Yess i agree the rng will kill me lol

[Selli]

Did they say anything about these tokens being rolled for, or like Bismarck and Ravana? I'm hoping it's for the latter, I really don't want to have to grind for not only the weekly Void Ark piece, but the token too.

I'm pretty sure they learned from ST. I'm thinking these tokens they are mentioning are auto-drops for gear (kind of like Alexander Savage pages), as grinding for gear in 24-man raids can require a lot of work if you're trying to get a specific item. I'm hoping these tokens, however, are not for i200->i210 upgrades and they stick with the weekly quest reward like they did with the i120->i130 upgrades.

I'd very much like to see the return of the weekly quest reward, however I think asking players to run 4 24-man raids a week is troublesome. I think the smartest idea would be to have the quest be Void Ark + one of the level 50 24-man raids. This will keep the quest from being too grindy as we get more Void Arks (I assume it'll be a little series similar to the CT series) and also bring back some life into the current 24-mans... which are incredibly dead.

[Colorful]

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Regarding gear, Yoshida said that Void Ark was going to be using the same loot system as all previous 24 mans but that was awhile back, hope they've reconsidered in this time. The fact that they haven't brought it up again leads me to believe that isn't the case and tokens won't have anything to do with the gear.

[Selli]

Regarding gear, Yoshida said that Void Ark was going to be using the same loot system as all previous 24 mans but that was awhile back, hope they've reconsidered in this time. The fact that they haven't brought it up again leads me to believe that isn't the case and tokens won't have anything to do with the gear.

Esoterics armor is only useable by one class, with 3 new jobs in HW we're looking at 13 jobs now. To get just a weapon, hat, chest, hand, leg, and boot pieces for one job is 4,125 per job, 53,625 for all 13 (and that is not including accessories and belts either), so 119.2 weeks of Eso capping. Myth gear was also class restricted, but with weapons only being from t5 or the Relic quests at the time, it was only 3,135 for one character (again, not including belt + accessories here), 31,350 for all 10, which was only 69.7 weeks of Myth capping. That's a pretty significant difference. Alexander Savage is definitely not as popular as the Coils were and with quite a few statics still hitting the A3S wall, so those people are only getting accessories (and belts) + boots & gloves for mains and alts.

Unlike the Coils, if you want weekly armor from a 24-man (especially a specific item, be it for stats or glamor). It's not like "oh you ran it once this week, it didn't drop, try again next week", people had to grind for it. It took me well over 40 runs to get that stupid BiS Bard chest from WoD and I usually had 1-3 other Bards in the party fighting me for the chest. BisEXual and RavEX are both farmable (ie. no weekly/loot lockout) and they still drop tokens, so it's not like they can say the tokens are specific to non-grindable content.

Locking the coats/twines behind a token system instead of a weekly quest would be back tracking, especially when it worked out really well for the i120 to i130 upgrade. A token system for armor in a 24-man raid might be too easy, but I think right now it might be a necessary evil to combat the amount of Eso needed for upgrades (especially on alt classes) and the A3S wall (iirc one of the jobs has an accuracy issue with i200 + i210 available from A1S and A2S? I remember hearing a lot of accuracy complaining in my old static. So some of the new i200 gear from VA might actually be BiS for some people).