Void Ark to drop Esoteric parts for upgrade why?

[SchalaZeal]

and if ppl can roll on tokens then what's to stop them from quitting the run like ppl did in WOD after they got there drop?

Maybe the fact that you need to beat the end boss to roll on it? That was in the live letter.

I guess the arch furniture and the 2 minions in the CT raids were supposed to do this.

[SakuraMidori]

Maybe the fact that you need to beat the end boss to roll on it? That was in the live letter.

Ok that will be fine but they need to keep the RNG less as well or you will have some ppl running it 55 or 60 times with never getting one token and that can be bad iv seen ppl quit over RNG and i can't blame them

[Warlyx]

Gearing guide says that you don't need the pages to get the gobitems, you can roll on them directly.

So yeah, this "I had to wait 3 weeks" is only if you didn't win roll on the item itself. And you had 2 rolls a week (A1S and A2S) on top of your pages, compared to people in Void Ark only getting 1 gobitem per week.

a1s doesnt have any gobitem , AS2 have gobcoat and is 1 item for 8 players....so 1 every 8 weeks .....or burn pages on it (and u need 4? ...so 4 weeks)

[AsahinaMyLove]

Not gonna do this RNG madness again and wasting my precious time by this... crap!

I mean: I did that week around 30 Sycrus Tower for a Fu*beeep*g Sands of time and didnt got 1! I gave up and felt stupid for wasting so much time =.=

1 Most wanted item for 8 people is just *Beeeeep*!! >_>

[Ibi]

Where did this info come from?

Letter from the Producer Live XXV:

Void Ark
It will be possible to purchase enhancement materials with an item known as ancient coins (name pending). While it’s a bit difficult at the moment to confirm this for sure, we are planning to start off by implementing the enhancement items for armor and accessories that can be purchased with Allagan tomestones of esoterics. Weapons will be a bit in the future.

[Colorful]

Not gonna do this RNG madness again and wasting my precious time by this... crap!

I mean: I did that week around 30 Sycrus Tower for a Fu*beeep*g Sands of time and didnt got 1! I gave up and felt stupid for wasting so much time =.=

1 Most wanted item for 8 people is just *Beeeeep*!! >_>

I ran ST something like 120ish times for my relic during 2.5 and only got 5-7 of them, this was after they added more to the raid. Whoever on the development team thinks RNG is a good system should be put on temporary leave until he changes his mind.

[Craiger]

Never mind what I said here...

Alex Savage is a lot harder than the coils, and them starting to hand out some better gear is not suddenly gonna make the raids super easy or something... There are a ton of groups that have hit a wall with either A3S or A4S, and maybe it's best to help them out, before they punch their monitors and quits raiding all-together.

[RocheKat]

Why should people be handed relic weapons now when I had to work for mine back in 2.0?

"Omg you get gear but don't have to work as hard as me!" So uh... work smarter not harder? If you are doing raid content because you want gear and not because you like the challenge then you are certainly doing it wrong. Especially when you know you will get gear that is as good 3 to 6 months later.

[CosmicKirby]

What I am saying is all these sorts of things is never going to stay exclusive based on the game's track record. There's always going to be nerfs and catch up patches because you can't assume that A) everyone WILL do the raids or B) everyone can finish the raids quickly enough before they become irrelevant.

Right. I'm not saying that this shouldn't be done. I'm pointing out that, compared to previous instances of CT giving catch-up loot, a lot of people getting the loot are going to be raiders that have been banging their heads against a wall for months.
If anything it highlights how poorly done AS has been so far.

The counter-argument being that with waaaaaaay more players unable to clear the raid, it's even more important to make the upgrade items available to those players as soon as possible, especially since they should be done with Esoterics already, leaving that as the main route of gear improvement for them.

I wasn't making an argument. I was trying to point out why I think some people, myself among them, are a bit disappointed that the gear is going from ludicrously difficult to obtain, to absurdly easy. I'm more upset that there wasn't a middle ground to be had, not that I'm upset about there being a much easier route.

[MugenMugetsu]

I see everyone complaining that it will be super easy to obtain upgrade items from Void Ark, but who's to say SE haven't taken a different approach with Void Ark and considerably upped the difficulty compared to the CT raids? Maybe we'll actually have to work for our wins, gears, and upgrade items! ( ~.ø)b

Yeah, you're probably right. Void Ark will only be slightly difficult until mechanics are figured out and will then be faceroll easy, but I sincerely hope that doesn't turn out to be the case.